Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-23
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Political.

"A uupledSdHl eCHo vi Tue OoI una II
presentation comes to the public ear.
The affair, as everybody knows, was
gotten up in Mr.. Germans exclusive
honor.
Well-after the presentation ex-
ercises were over and the reception
began, Mr.. German enjoyed all that
was designed for him and right
pleasantly did he do the honors of the
occasion.
Mayor Davidson, however, who is a
candidate for reelection, took his
stand at Mr.. Germans right and also
received"
Coy. jackson, who looks like any
thing except governor, and wants to
be U. S. Senator, seeing DAVIDSON
shaking hands with the boys, placed
himself alongside, and he, too ere
ceived."
And now it is with immense regret
that the JOURNAL informs the Frank
Brown clubs Of this vicinage, living
and dead, that their patron saint was
one of duet-but the story is best
told by the Baltimore Herald of last
Sunday:
Not to be outdone by Mayor Davidson and
Governor Jackson, ex-Mayor Latrobe, who is
a candidate for his old office and Frank
Brown, who has big Gubernatorial 'boom"
on hand, also seized the opportunity to do
some electioneering, apparently entirely
oblivious of the improperly then perpetrated
in robbing the occasion of its dignity. But
General Latrobe and Mr. Brown did not
station themselves where they could do their
handshaking after the multitude had grasped
the hand of the guest of the evening, as the
Mayor and Governor had done. They actual
ly took positions "to the windward" of SEN
ator German and thus managed-uninten
tionally, it is hoped-to make themselves
quite as conspicuous, if not more prominent,
than the Senator himself.
1t will be seen that these enthusiasts,
each for No. l, came very near spelling
1.-THE beauty of the brickwork." They
became undeserved and unwelcome
partners with the Senator in an ovation
designed exclusively for the latter.
But the Herald better morallzes as
follows
Whether or not it was becoming and
whether political ambition is a competent
excuse for thus interfering with the arrange
ments of the committee having the reception
in charge is left for every man to answer for
himself. 1t can be imagined what spectacle
would have been presented If every man on the
platform who holds a high official position in
the State or has political ambitions had join
ed in assisting" Mr.. German in the re-
ception rendered exclusively to him. 1t
would have been quite as proper for Con-
grcssmen Stump, Rayner, Rusk and Compton
and ex-Mayor Hodges, who, like Mr.. Brown,
is gubernatorial candidate, and John Wal
ter Smith who, like Governor Jackson, is Il
Senatorial candidate and John P. Poe, who
is possible candidate for Attorney General,
and several other distinguished democrats
who had seats on the stage, to have come
forward and tried to get a little glory out of
the affair. These latter gentlemen, however,
evidently understood what bad taste such a
display would have been, and were satisfied
to remain modestly in the background, where
everyone else except MIR. German rightly
belonged.
The contrast presented goes to show
how good people differ in their con-
ceptions of propriety.
In the one case the want of proper
sense of subsidiary self-importance
was almost gross.
In the other, the accord of honor to
the hero of the occasion was rendered
in common with that of the masses.
Mr.. Hodges nice regard for the
decorum of the occasion is pleasing,
because it stamps him as of the manner
of men who aspire unselfishly-if such
feeling can possibly exist in politics.
1t stands to the credit of Congress
man McKaig, also, that he mingled
with the masses and the JOURNAL out
in the hall, and, standing between two
brawny farmers, shook the Senator's
hand.