The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-11

with his eyes turned away from the tar
| get, hitting the bullseye us often as the
! best of them. III addition to the rifle
he is handy in the tenpin alley, and at
| Saratoga, where he spends his summers
as rule, as.onishes the sharps with his
| skill.
| His Moral Courage.
I; Mr.. German used to be known at Bal
4, timore as leader of the machine politi-
clans. On somewhat higher scale he
is still the boss of the machine. But if
any one imagines that this sort of work
means, in his case. anything like royster
! ing, late hours, careless habits or bad
company he is very much mistaken.
German was never built that way, and
the chief complaint the boys used to
have against him was that he wouldn't
smoke or drink or sit up late nights. If
they wanted to see German. they had TO
see him before II o'clock at night. To
| this day he uses neither tobncco nor
spirits, and except on rare occasions, like
the one at Chicago, is always in bed be-
fore midnight He is too we'll balanced
a man to be cranky about many things.
| but this matter of going early to bed is
| one of his few hobbies. His friends say
of him that it would take something like
cataclysm or an earthquake to keep
him out of bed later than his regulation
hour of midnight, and the cataclysm or
earthquake even then would have to be
in his immediate neighborhood. For
some reason or other. though it is
practice entirely foreign to my own hab-
its, have a heap of respect for the man
who has enough moral courage in these
days and particularly in this city to go
to bed always at an early hour.
Fit of BypIay.
If Mr.. German were not a great poli-
tician. he would be or at least might be
great actor. He is n splendid mimic,
to begin with, and has face full of
expressiveness and versatility. In the
privacy of his own delightful home,
where there are always host of young
people. Mr.. German is happiest. He
joins the games and sports and often re-
cites poetry and gives character sketches
in n style that would be sure to make q
hit on the stage. Mr.. German some
times carries his ability as a natural
actor into the senate chamber. There is
no man in that body who can assume a
feeling of severity or anger and at the
same time keep perfectly cool better
than the senator from Maryland.
We had an instance of this few days
ago when Mr.. German rose to chastise
young Senator Wolcott for some re-
marks which the latter had made reflect
ing rather unpleasantly upon German.
Spectators i'll the galleries thought Cor
man was white with rage They thought
they had never seen man more pos
sessed by Indignation. To them he
seemed to be burning with the fire of
pass on and contempt. But in the press
gallery. looking down at the senator
from Maryland, were number of Mr..
Gormans intimate friends-men who
know how next to impossible it is for
him to lose his temper or his perfect
equanimity During the bitterese pas
sage of his attack on Wolcott, Mr.. Cor
man caught the eyes of these newspaper
friends of his and winked at them in a
most significant manner. as much as to
say: Don't you think am doing this in
good style? Is not this good imitation
Of Indignation
Though the wink was very plain and
unmistakable, not muscle of his face
lCioACQ, anu VIC CWO Vi lIIet IleIl IOr
whom the sign was intended were the
only ones that caught it or who had the
slightest idea that Mr.. German was not
feeling every thought which he express
ed with all the earnestness of which man
is capable. After the somewhat excit-
ing incident was over Mr.. German met
a friend in the marble room, who con-
graduated him upon the success with
which he had skinned" Wolcott and
thought to please the senator by saving
something unkind of the young Colora-
doan.
please don't say that" expostulated
German. ED Wolcott is one of the
best fellows i'll the world. He is man
who would scorn to do dishonorable
act. l am very fond of him."
"Then-then why did you go for him
so hard few minutes ago." stammered
the astonished friend.
"Oh, that was nothing" replied Cor
man. That was Il little byplay. VOL
colt has been rather too sassy of late.
and love him so we'll wanted to teach
him caution for his own good"
His Signal Success.
From page in the senate to leader of
that body is a career possible only in
America, and this single fact speaks
volumes for Mr.. Gorman's ability. He
is the acknowledged and undisputed
leader in that body, now that the Dem
ocrats are i'll power there, and he has
been ever since his signal success as
manager of the antiforce bill fight ~
years ago. Ability alone would not
push man to leadership in body like
the senate. He must have many other
qualities, among these fidelity to friends