The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-03-27
Friday, March ~, 1891.
The Senatorial contestin Maryland.

The Senatorial Contestin Maryland.
The next Maryland legislature will be
one ofthe most importan: in its bearing
upon national affairs Of any in the country.
ii will have two u. S. Senators 10 elect.
One to supply the term Of the late Senator
Wilson of the Eastern Shore, and the other
to succeed Senator German, whose term will
expire march 81, 1898. Already Mr.. Cor
mans frierds are actively at work making
arrangements for his reelection. and every
public interest Of Maryland will be made
secondary 10 this ore object, if need be, and
it is possible, by the corps Of active worker
professional politicians who are enlisted in
the Maryland statesman's service. The
following extract from Washington letter
published last month in the Alliance paper,
The Peninsula Farmer, viii serve to further
eIucidate the political conditions which are
taking shape in this State, and which here
as everywhere, are bound to bring the AL
lance III conflict with the political rings
that have SO long controlled the political
affairs Of every State in The nation. The
Washington letter above referred to says:
"a gentleman prominent in the councils
of the Farmers Alliance, said to-day that
the fight which the Maryland Alliance has
already begun upon German, will be more
aggressive from this time on, and that a
mighty effort would be made to elect ma :
joriiy Of the legislature that will name his
successor. ] will remark in passing thai
German is mighty hard man to beat; but
also was Ingalls,.
eff any doubt remained as to the impor-
lance OF the Formers Alliance movement as
a political factor, it was dissi pated in the
minds of those who have seen the Difference
paid to several ofthe Alliance Representa-
lives elect, including Jerry Simpson, whose
fame has become national, that are now here
locking over the legislative field. Iii said
that two of the most prominent candidates
for Speaker of the next House have, through
friends, made direct overtures for the sup
port Of the Farmers Alliance members.
Their overtures have been, am informed,
respectfully received, and they have been
informed that it was the intention ofthe
Alliance men to support the candidate that
would promise 10 do the most toward meet
ing the demands of the Alliance in national
legislation"
We all know Mr.. Germans political
record has been unsayory. He is able,
far seeing, discriminating, and i. is altogeth-
er possible that his methods were necessity
for keeping his place in politics, on account
of the corruption which has tainted every
branch of legislation these twenty years, and
which the people who do not live by politics
have set abont reforming. The Alliance il
opposed to such methods and is determined
TO defeat and relegate 10 the rear all public
men who have depended on those method:
to keep in place and powei. 1t is only a
question Of thorough organization in Mary.
land by the Alliance, whether :wo Senators
of their naming shall be added to the roll
they have begun TO make in the U. s. SEN
ate, which can at present be numbered on
the fingers, but who two years hence will
require both figures and toes 10 count in
this primitive waysf We now haye PETER
of Kansas, and Plumb will no doubt answer
TO every call in supporting Alliance de-
mands. Palmer of Illinois is man Of
sterling integrity and gave the Alliance
assurance Of his fidelity to their principles
before his election was possible. Kyle Of
Dakota, Gordon OF Ga, has become a MEM
Der OF the Alliance since his election and
the Senator from South Carolina who sue
cseds Wade Hampton. Here are six y. s.
Senators constituting the nuclues of a future
u. S. Senate which is to represent the peo-
of the nation in opposition TO corporate and
financial ring interests which have SO long
controlled the government. These men
will voice the demands OF the Alliance in
future congresses, in the upper house, while
the Alliance as their constituency voice the
industrial classes Of the nation. To add to
this band of Senators, at present small but
ever increasing, is the work which the
Maryland Farmers Alliance has to address
i.selfto. If the Alliance had but another
year TO organize and drill in Maryland be-
fore the Senatorial fight it would be
Kansas walk-over. The Alliance may not
be able to beat German, but il will be wise
for him to make his peace with it, as
Gordon and Palmer did. They ask nothing
but the peoples rights as opposed to class
iayoritism and corporate power. Surely
German, or any other public man, should
be not only willing but anxious to do this,
since the Alliance is able to stand at the
back ofand defend the peoples representa-
tives from the vengeance of the monopoly
class, which has heretofore wrecked and
destroyed every public man who opposed
them. The Alliance is in the field to defend
its representatives ofany party, every party
or no party as the the case may demand.
The Farmers Alliance knows no party and
cares little whether its representatives in
legislative halls array themselves under
democratic, republican or prohibition flags
The candidates who support the Alliances
principles will receive its support.