Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-10-26
SENATOR GoRMAN'S WORK IN The
COMPROMISE SCHEME.

Rivalry etwee Senators Hill and Cor
man - President C~leveland's CompI-
ments-Uow the Maryland Senator In
creased His Prestige.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 26.-lSpecial.l-
Senator German was the hero of the com
promise scheme. From first to last during
the silver struggle Mr.. German has been
quietly working for a compromise solution
Of the difficulty. His shibboleth has been
party unity and he has never wavered
in his belief that a result should and could
be reached that would secure harmony in
the Democratic party. While classed with
the out and out repealers, and ready at all
times to vote for unconditional repeal IL a
vote could be reached, he never had any
faith that the roll would be called on that
question and has all the time been conf
dent that some sort Of compromise would
inevitably be the result. During the latter
stages of the contest he was often criticised
for not taking a more decided step.
Mr.. Germans methods are quiet, more
or less secretive, under the surface. He
does not show his hand except when this
quiet work has progressed far enough to
make success absolutely sure. His critics
were often saying he was wasting golden
opportunities, and that by delaying week
after week he was permitting fractional pas
sions to run to such a bitter stage that har-
mony could not be secured.
The Divine Quality OF Patience.
But Mr.. German knew better what he
was about than those who criticised him.
He has not only a strong hand, but a pa
tient one. He waited and waited until the
situation had reached a point of develop
ment in which it seemed absolutely neces-
sary for the Democrats TO get together.
The famous speech of John Sherman and
the resulting effort of the Republicans to
take some action on their own account
brought on the very opportunity Mr.. Cor
man had been waiting for. Then for the
first time he determined to show his hand
and to work in earnest for the result which
he set his heart upon a long time ago.
How to Understand Mr.. German.
Mr.. German is one of those men who are
understood only by people who o not know
them. This statement seems an anomaly,
but it is accurate and justifiable. The men
who most clearly perceived what Mr.. Cor
man was trying to do and how he was do
ing it in his ~tactful, shrewd, cautious man
ner were men who had no personal &C
quaintance with him and who carefully
avoided coming in contact with him.
Mr.. German in this is like a few other
great statesmen and leaders we have had in
Washington, notable among them being
the late James G.. Blaine. Mr.. Blaine near
ly always fooled the men who were closest
to him. There was something in his tenn
permanent or character which induced him
to throw more or less dust into the eyes of
his immediate friends. In the first place, he
charmed them with his genial personality
or overcame them with his magnetism.
They had constantly a glamour before
their eyes, through which they could not
see his real motives or purposes.
So it is to a great extent with Mr.. Cor
man. Senators and others who have been
honored with his apparent confidence have
little understood his motives or his aims.
Men who stood aloof, who looked upon him
from q birdseye point of view, have much
more clearly seen the true inwardness OF
his operations. Your correspondent lays nc
special claim to credit for himself in this
matter, but the dispatches which he has
sent you during the past six weeks will
show that he was among the first to detect
the nature of Mr.. Germans influence and
to predict the outcome of his more or less
secretive efforts.