Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-20
GORMAN NOT THE MAN
To Occupy the Highest Place in the
Gift of a Free People.
FORTY YEARS AN OFFICE HOLDER
From Page to Promoter as Well as q
Wrecker of Schemes
HIS GRIP on SUFFERING MARYLAND
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT J

that cleveland VIII 1all TO secure the neceS
bary two-thirds majority to nominate him
on the first ballot at Chicago, that this will
defeat him, that the choice will fall on 9
isrk horse, and that that dark horse will be
Senator Arthur p. German, causes much
uneasiness among the best Democrats OF
the non-politician sort in Congress and in
this city.
There has never been "'Gorman move.
ment" in Congress. What there has been Of
a German movement originated with the
smallest class of Maryland politicians who
are in office about the Capitol and Others
who have been in Office and who still linger
about earning livelihood in one way OF
another, and not always a reputable way,
and, more important than these, the Mary.
land Democratic politicians who acknowl-
edge the bosship of German, and who assist
and feed upon his management and authority.
These have been shouting for German ever
since the Hill-Cleveland fight in New York
made another than Cleveland possible. They
have thrust German into the faces of every
BODY, have kept his name in the air, and
their vocal efforts have led Democratic and
other correspondents to take up the cry and
teach the people in every part of the coun-
try that German is the most likely dark
horse in the Democratic stable.
German and His Bad Gangs Grip.
The fact that he is Senator of the
United States means to outsiders that Cor
man is man in every way worthy of the
pffice of President. If they ever knew of
his acts political boss. and the desper-
ate attempts made to cast him out by the
very best element of the party in Maryland,
they have probably forgotten the facts. Re-
peatedly a grand and enthusiastic move
ment to dislodge him and his gang has been
initiated by the most prominent business
and professional men in Baltimore, whose
Democratic belief is of that old fashioned
kind which frowns upon dishonesty and
crime either in the getting or the holding of
office. But Baltimore is Maryland and
Golman's gang of Baltimore hcelers was al
ways strong enough to hold the fort against
any assault, by the foul methods in which
they are schooled and the two men, Eugene
Higgins and Freeman Rosin, who have been
denounced by the respectable Democrats of
Baltimore as only fit for the penitentia tiary,
are at Chicago handling Senator Gorman's
boom.
The records of the crimes committed to
make good Gorman's tenure as boss, to keep
his grip on the municipal offices OF Balti-
more and on the Legislature of Maryland
are-wU: ten there indelibly by men OF
his own party, whose unblemished reputa-
tions and unalloyed desire for pure politics
must give the grave charges made against
nomination at Chicago should fall upon the
Maryland Senator.
He Has a Record That's Unenviable.
In Maryland the majority of the people do
not seem to object TO that sort of thing, but
with other States of the Union, and with the
chief office OF the Government as the prize, it
is possible the case would be different. Let
me predict that il German be the candidate a
very dark political, and, l may add "busi-
ness record will loom mountain high
against Mr.. German, and it will be little less
than miraculous if he, with all his ability
for schcming and with lieu.enants yersed in
all the deviltry of ward politics, and with
the committee and leaders OF the party to
assist them, will be able TO surmount the
obstacle.
When saws 'ebusiness'' record, 1 do not
mean it in the ordinary sense. Mr.. German
has never had any business except politics.
His name has been connected with various
business enterprises. but all came to him
through his ability to manipulate State and
municipal Legislatures, and he is roundlv
accused by business associates us having
been more Of a wrecker than promoter of
business. For instance, after having been a
director ana for n time the President of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, he attempted
TO wreck that valuable waterway, reaching
from Cumberland to the navigable Potomac
at Washington and to turn over its bed to
railroad with which he is connected. The
but offered 1t in their need to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway Company, which, to pre-
vent the construction OF Mr.. German rail-
road. stepped in and guaranteed the unpaid
bonds, saved the canal and its placid bosom
is now thicklY dotted with freighted boats,
and the bray of canal mules takes the place
of the shrek of the engines of Mr.. Gormans
iron road.
One of Germ ans Mean Revenges.
Mr.. Gorman's action against the Chesa-
pea1e and Ohio canal was peculiarly brutal
and dishonorable on account of his connec-
tion with the company. Since his failure
he has had his revenge on the Baltimore and
Ohio company by preventing them from
reaching Washington, otherwise ancient
Georgetown, with a branch from the main
line. He baffied the road with legal OBJ
stacles until it failed to have the cars rum
ming before the limit of time expired, and
then prevented anv renewal of the agree
ment with the State. The grading was
nearly done, and long line of trestle work
built for a mile ON the rivers edge to the
Georgetown bridge spanning the Potomac,
and this abandoned work pays tribute to the
wrecking powers of Mr.. German.
1t would require volume to give his
tory of such transactions in which the
Maryland senator has been engaged, to say
nothing of the sinister record OF his career
in political management. lie is a million
alre. 1t is not easy in State like Mary
{,
TO gather together 81. 900, 600 -or So 900 600 1t
may be entertaining to see what is neces-
sarv, Judging from the career of Senator
German.
Forty Years an Oficeholdrr
The Senator WIS SO years old last March.
At the age of l3 he WAS appointed q page in
the Senate. and since his time as page he
has been Postmaster of the Senate Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth dis
rric
thing o: a Republican in that day); was for
several terms member and Speaker OF the
Maryland House of Delegates; was elected
to the State Senate for four years in 1875 re-
elected in 1873, but was immediately there
alter elected to theU United States Senate, and
has since been twice reelected to that
body. His coming term in the Senate will
not expire until March of the last year of
this century.
Here is a man who has been holding office
for 40 years ever since he was l3 years old.
The highest salary tnat ever attached to any
office held by him is that of United States
Senator which is not sufficient to paw his
grocery bill 1t Is by such means that men
become miliionaires in Maryland, and DOS
sibly in some other States.
Depew Can Have Blaine's Place.
Whether or not Dr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew
has been rendered the office of Secretary of
State is as yet one of the mysteries. One
gentleman, a high official, who processes to
know all about the matter, declares that Mr.
Depew would not have the Office and that it
las not been rendered him. The general
theory among those who are accustomed to
make shIewd guesses from slender premises
is that if Mr.. Depew had not been rendered
the appointment some pody in the neighbor-
hood of the White House would have found
IL advisable to say so. The coseness
of everybody's mouth on the subject and
also an occasional hint from one or two of
the Senators who called at the White House
yesterday, leads to the conclusion that Mr..