The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-08
THE MARYLAND SENATOR
N Able Party Leader Who Rose
From. Page to the Front
Rank.
Notable Change Wrought In Mr..
German In tho Past Nine
Years.
liar work Has Made Him by Tacit Con-
sent . Chief Among Parlia-
mentarianA

lar I Work Has Made Him by Tacit Con-
sent Chief Among Parlia-
mentarianA
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. The Washington
of the Philadelphia Record
rites that paper as follows: Cardinal
iorman, s. J..'' l. heard him called in the
|snate gallery the other day. Looking
|own at him sitting there in the middle Of
he democratio side, go straight, 30 serene,
b sanity. looking if possible more like
|ardinal than Gibbons himself, thought
he name fitted better than witty nick
James usually do. German has without
Reception the finest face in the senate. II
we'll rounded, perfectly smooth and en-
rely unwrinkled. His features are 80
|tean-cut and his complexion so clear, his
livery gray hair SO soft, and the whole
feet 30 refined and ascetic as to suggest to
10 most casual observer all tho saints in
he bead-role. No one was ever half 60
|ood as German looks, so that it is not In
|idious to say that German himself is not,
Int German is quite as attractive as be
l,oks. and that is saying a great deal.
(le has a happy disposition. sense
~ humor ~, and ID. a quiet geniality
first glance, even should his gentle smile
% creeping around the corners of his firm
louth. He has simple manners. full of
|burtesy, and 80 makes the veriest stranger
srfectly at home. He is suggestive man,
rawing out his caller without saying much
lmself, impressing You with his reserve Of
nOwledge as we'll as with his reserve of
ower, but without the least pretention or
Recitation. His manner is the manner of
reatness, always characterized by simpli-
| y and modesty. Lis refinement appears
once. You see it in his face; you hear it
his soft, we'll lnodulated voice, and even
ore plainly in what he says. Strictly tenn.
crate in every other direction, he ia strictly
mperate in all that he says. He abstains
ON oaths as from intoxicants-or from
Prsation, like his speeches. is full of
eat. He talks we'll always. and at
mes, as at a Gridiron club dinner, he talks
.illiantly-with both wit and eloquence.
orman is a generous man, always ready to
Zip friend or a foe to the full extent Of
is powers, and giving quietly to good OBJ
cts beyond what could be expected from
bung men, being still yoang man HIM
If, and remembering that ne was even
hunger years ago. He has never forgot
n, for example. that he started out Is a
kge in the senate-indeed he records it in
g Congressional Directory autobiography
us: I'm 1862 was appointed page in the
nate of the United States" and he has
g in the pageship through that memory.
pr ,Aas he ever forgotten his baseball days
hen he played know not what remark
PIE games on the local nine. and can to-
~ discourse most learnedly on all the
ysteries of the diamond. He has kept
3 face unwrinkled by keeping his heart
lwrinkled. He has found the secret of
aims his serenity. He throws off cares
Id troubles like a healthy boy, leaves work
i'd worry behind him when he gets home
night, and sleeps the sleep of the inno-
int, which is even better than the sleep of
10 just. He dresses like young man, al
hys in e1quisits taste, but with youthful
u and finish. He divides with Ingalls, the
cktie honors of the senate. He does wear
eglasses when he is reading, but they are
ndled like the eyeglasses which collegians
metimes sport for the scholarly air thew
We, and have nothing to do with his snow
lifted hair. But his youtnfulness does
4 affect his dignity. which is more marked
an that of any other senator-it is his
entity which makes him seem as tall az
gals, when he is really half head
orter.
Cardinal German" is Presbyterian;
o'clock Sunday morning finds him as
kularly in his pew with his wife and
lighters, at the New York avenue Presby-
Fian church, as II o'clock finds him in the
hate on other mornings in the sweek-ex-
pt in these tariff weeks, when he appears
the senate on the stroke of 10, for he is
e of the few senators who pay sufficient
bpect to the chaplain's prayer to be pres
when it is uttered. He is Interested in
his wife's church and charitable under
kings. He is the only senator whose
use was given last winter for q charitable
tertainment. Ineed hardly say, how
pr, that he does not maintain constant
left hand and his right hand, or in
lge in any parade or pretense. When
nRress is in session he has a comfort
le house on X street near Franklin
mare, nearly opposite Senator Carlisle.
ar Admiral Worden and Justice Batch
n, but his real home ia in Laurel, a
Ptty village (or is it city since the boom
PnO not far from Washington, on the
ltimore and Ohio main road. The Cor
ms do not entertain extravaRantly, but
p give delightful dinners. German is at
best in his own home. German grows
the time. When he came to the senate,
the day Garfield came to the white
nge, now nine years ago, it was thought
It he never would be able to fill the seat
his seat of his predecessor, William
pkney Whyte. He was regarded as a
r. machine boss, accidentally thrown
o this high place. from which he would
by gravitation, if not by Riddiness.
one would have believed that in nine
RS he would be the parliamentary leader
The democrats in both the senate and the
use, unanimously selected by that
il consent which is more signif-
It than ballot. Yet now eyery-
" begins to see that German is more to
party than Whyte could ever have been
say nothing about his outside work in
and in 1888, or at any other time. |
ak only of his parliamentary services in
senate, which have made him admitted
Nv. German did not reach this place at
amp. Nine years of hard and steady
TX, work which was most valuable, per
81. in its educational effects on himself.
eloped his powers. He could not make
beech when he first came here. He hest
3D., halted, cut it short, and sat down.
he kept on speaking, until now he is
of the best debaters in the senate. He
" comparatively little of public qaes-
lie then; he is master OF public affairs
i. If his opinion was sought then it was
as matter of courtesy, but now his
d is the last word in the council and the
adened and deepened in every di-
lion, as the Potomac spreads into the
sapeake, until it is natural enough to
him mentioned for the presidency
gine that in 1881! And his services in
senate have been to his country as well
o his party. He is the Samuel j. Ran
of the senate committee on apprOpria-