The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-02
WEST MINISTER, MD.
Mr.. Wallis on Mr.. German.


Hon. Severn Tackle Wallis, the accom-
plished, the polished, the profound, thu
erudite. utters the following contradictory
sentence in his recent philippe against
Senator German. AS to his connection with
the reorganization of the Democratic party
after the war
ssMr. German was at that time an almost
anknOiCH county politician, regarded oy many
MS a Republican, and having no innuence
whatever outside of his own small baIliwlck.
We don't exactly see how the learned
and caustic critic of Mr.. German can make
the two statements tally, that an almost
Haknown man should be regarded by many
as Republican. There is an incongruity,
an incompatibility between the two state
ments that can scarcely be reconciled even
by the great genius of Mr.. Wallis himself,
master of the vernacular though he may be.
In his interview ON the "Gath inter-
view with Mr.. German, published in the
Baltimore SIM. of March %, 1892, from
which the extract above was taken, Mr..
Wallis says:
"Mr. German has obviously had his head
turned by the association of his name in some
interested quarters with the nomination for
the presidency, and suppOses that he was al
ways great man because some silly people
consider him to be such Just now. ! can only
say for myself-and ] say 1t in all sincerity
and without meaning sneer-that never
heard of his name i'll connection with any such
movement as he reports himself to have made,
and was not aware that he was anything at
that time but an active, Office hunting, small
county politician. As time went on and he
became more and more conspicuous as a cor
rupt boss, he grew more cOnspicuously dan.
perous Ii was in that capacity only that
ever antagonized him, and have always felt,
and shall feel it my duty as a citizen to do so
to the best of my ability, whenever the OPP
portunity presents itself
During the heated canvass Of 1873, Mr.
5. Tackle Wallis was very severe on Hon.
\. p. Germans management of the CheSa-
peake and Ohio Canal, and his political
methods in Maryland. In 1880, as attor-
new of the Canal. he eulogized Mr.. Cor
man. Following is an extract from MIR.
Wallis speech which appeared in the Bal
timore .Sun at that time. In the argument
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal suit for
the appointment Of receiver in the United
States Circuit Court of Baltimore city, Mr..
Wallis, who appeared as one of the counsel
for the Canal Company, said:
"A revelation that was made to me justifes
me in saying what no man will suspect Inc OF
saving insincerely, that in that campaign IN
which was a candidate for attorney general
in 1851 there was no man who more under
rated than did the ability of the president of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Senator A.
p. Gormanl. and say it here now, not be
cause am his counsel or the counsel of the
company, but / say il because II Is due 10
truth. and ask your honors, after you have
read the record in this case and seen the tes- /.
timony upon this point, to judge whether !
am right or wrong. Taking the testimony
which Mr.. German has given himself in this
case, tracing the history of his administration T,
from the beginning to the end, and If your
honors do not find in it the traces OF "a BROAD, I
MANLY and COMPREHENSIVE INTELLECT, IN .
comparison with which NO GENTLEMAN WITHIN .
THE SOUND OF MY VOICE STANDS uroN ;" LOFTY .
4 PLANE as to justify HIM IN looking down on
then | am much mistaken. With thorough
comprehension of his position, able and per
sistent in the defense OF what he thought was
right, with thorough appreciation oil every .
detail of the corporation of which he was the .
presiding officer. and animated by a steady
purpose, do not say 1t for your honors to
adopt 1t as the statement OF counsel 81 READ
hn III, @i,b ,%e so az, of mv voce read il and
come to any other conclusion if he can. And I
when, IN inc Tellee'Gns Una. nave zen NJ ,l S"i
sion sitting down and saving that if this canal .
had been managed IKE inc baltimore anu Wn,o