New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-02
A NEW DOSE FOR GORMAN.
ONE OF HIS WORKERS TELLS WHY HE
QUITS A DEN OF THIEVES
The MARYLAND BOSS RAISES THE ANT1oUATED
CRY ABOUT THE NEGRo-THE PEOPLE
NOT LIKELY TO BE FOOLED.


CRY ABOUT THE NEcRo-THE PEOPLE
NOT LIKELY TO BE FOOLED.
,aY TELEGRAPH TO TUE TkIBCSkl
p.,,,more Nov I.-Senator Germans feeble at
nmpts 10 defend himself and HIS party against the
scathnc exposure Of his political sins made by Lawyer
Cowen and the Reform League have only served TO
show tha, no can make no denial that viii hold. Said
ons q, Germans former lieutenants to-day.
arhe boss has met his match in John X. Cowen,
who Is going TO smash the machine In spite of the
frauds now contemplated
German in his reply TO Cowen utterly fails to ex
nlan the accusations made against him and proven by
the statement of the roads employees, appended to
Cowen's letter. Realizing that he has been beaten
NJ his own game In bringing corporation influence into
the campaign as an Esue he now turns to the race
op,stion and McIape Hodges, Latrobe and the other
nemocratic speakers are raising a negro scare. In
a speech tonight German said:
That corporation lawyer Is trying to divert your
.,,ent,on from the real issue, which sShal we have
a white mans government in Maryland There are
N 600 more negroes than white Republicans here.
r,s negroes must be recognized they must be placed
an the notice force In the Fire Department and in the
city Hall II this so-called fusion ticket succeeds
Your children will be required associate with negroes
in the schools. Do you want this? DO you want
the negroes supplant the white man in governing
your city and Statel" The Southern cry against the
the speakers being Instructed by German TO work for
all its worth. 1t is the only campaign cry they
have The bitter feeling thus stirred up is likely
TO cause trouble on election day, as al
ready many Of the ignorant. blind followers
OF the German ring threatening drive the colorcd
voters from the polls. II is known that the names OF
hundreds OF negroes have been stricken from tho
registration lists, and the who have exposed past
election frauds In which they participated state that
the same practices contemplated next Tuesday.
The stirring up of the race question by the Demo
has shown the feeling against the negro to be as
strong Baltimore as In airy city Of the far South
and the remark Is often heard
"We would rather have higher taxes, corrupt poll
tics. anything than the negro.'
OF course the sensible element In the community
look al the matter in diTefeat light. and thousands
OF Democratic citizens will not be deferred from voting
the reform ticket bv the German cry of "Nigeer.'
The attempt of the ring managers 10 Offset the effect
Of the confessions CT Germans former fraud workers
by publishing their police records has been boone
rang Goodman, the man who led the gang Of re-
peaters Germans county to elect him TO the State
senate. in card sa,s in HIS own peculiar way OF
talking:
l an surprised the action in showing up my record
Not denying the facts record far assaults
arc concerned, ana they ALL nnetcnths OF them
political assaults the Lord knows record is bad enough
assaults and nobody ready to speak freely
about It than am; but there is IN lying about
follow after he has been faithful servant. 1
that when Mr.. Gorman's lieutenants wanted forty
they didn't 90 10 Catholic church. Protestant church.
nor rabbi either, them 10 furnish them. but
they came-to Charley Goodman and wish they had
gone somebody else. have not beon preaching any
repentance, just san L tired OF being made a
dupe o. and Of taking chances for my life and liberty for
Of cowadly that amt 1T TO black my boots
got money that ought 70 have got. II anybody
to get money for such work That Is all the re-
pentanCe 1 talking about am tired of the kind OF
wcrk that Mr.. German and Mr. Rasn and the business
men have to DO would be good deal better OF
! hal heard OF any Of them. IL am mad have
right be mad These people have used me for years,
and made risks that foolish to take. They
never paid and IL told OF them that they had TO
give me something they back from Mr. German and
said that Mr.. German told them that If they appointed
ne Cowen would look up my record and rip hhn
up the back ike shad and so was to get nothing
because Arthur German afraid he would be ripped up
the back like sha1.
All this talk about my being bad man is very new
Up last Saturday night they were all afer me ana
got plenty OF tary My esteemed friend, " Hack
Quinn and Colonel scharf goodnatured landlord and
Squire Duval Charley Keys have all been after me
and told noe / running my chances, after being a
Democrat long and doing work for the party twenty
two years. II didn't have weight with me enough 10
drown ny because l had given the ring ten years
chances They have had my whole life. was quick
tempered and ready resent injury and enjoyed the
fun taking risks and the ring made use OF me- but IL
them and they thought IL was un Tor me-
Nearly all Of the they put in the arc
true and they mostly political assaults. and that Is
the reason they not convictions, because while
they would do anything else for me. could always
make them get of because they were afraid would
sQueal In committing these assaults and getting ar
rested been hurt and wounded worse than ever
hurt wounded any else and when 1t was sifted
In court that proven.
get back tomorrow IL 1 want to. for can go
whore they plenty Of for this year The
fellows that do the afraid 10 take the risks and
that the that pesered 20 death with the
prominent in the party coming after me. The only
difference between and Arthur German and Rlsn and
Hack" Quinn is that am tired of the business and am
going and they have got TO feel disguised before
they reform they can't feel Disguised until they
poor-not long they making the money they
making. Finally, l Just want TO say that there are
thousands OF in the party. like myself who have
worked for the party az don't matter whether did
what Oughtn't to DoO, who have done good work
toi the party tired OF being led by Mr. German
and MI Rasn. who amt Democrats They too heavy
load cany and we amt going cauy them any
longer and Mr. German thinks he can get people to do
this work for him this time. he Is mistaken They won't
do IT. Us fellows that have done this work amt all
ignorant people We read what is going on and see
that this business has got TO stop later and 10
looks IL IL was sooner
The familiar manner In which this former rounder
refers TO Maryland's senior representative In the
United States Senate Is more CALLING to him than
TO the respectable citizens who have blindly obeyed
the boss at the ballotbox