The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-23
SHOULD WE BE PROUD OF MARTIN
If HE Is REALLY ANOTuER GOA
MAN?

Some weeks back Senator-elect Mar
tins special friend and admirer. Judge
John 7. Harris, was quoted in the press
as saying that when Mr.. Martin got 10
the Senate Virginia would have a Cor
man there. The Times Immediately
calculated, God forbid, for that Cor
man was the head of the most detestable
machine in American politics" There
upon the Dispatch took The Times 10
task for speaking thus of a Democratic
senator occupying a position 50 conspicu-
Gus as that held by Mr.. German. but
The Times held on to its opinion Of him
notwithstanding all that the Dispatch
had to say for him.
The Times is very glad 20 be able now
TO sustain what it had TO say Of Mr..
German, by the testimony of witnesses
at his home. and it produces that testl-
mony for the Dispatches enlightenment
and edifcation. Wednesday Baltimore
sun had an editorial from which we
make the following extracts:
I'll SthiS III NiiS state Senator Cor
man has been a great and controllino
power i'm politics. He has controlled state
conventions and district conventions and
even the Legislature itself. ne has
dictated nominations for all sorts Of Of
noes from one end of the State to tho
other TO oppose those nominations or 10
oppose those measures favored by Sen
ator German was 10 be a 'disorganizer
a 'sorehead' kicker Mr. German
can have no right to complain If the
Democratic party in Maryland. which he
has so long ruled with a rod of iron.
for his own advantage. show him. etc.
etc. etc"
There Is the Maryland opinion Of Mr..
German, according to the leading Demo-
cratic paper Of Maryland.
Mr.. James c. Carter, of New York
city, in a recent address on municipal
reform, spoke of Baltimore as the worst
governed city in the Union, whereupon
Mr.. Latrobe, Mayor of Baltimore. to
whom Mr.. German permits a term as
Mayor OF and ON as 1t suits him. called
on MIR. Carter for statement of the
authority he had for what he said. and
Mr.. Carter gave an address recently de-
livered in Philadelphia, by Mr.. Charles
j. Bonaparte, wealthy and wel-known
citizen Of Baltimore. as his authority.
This has caused some discussion, which
eliminated In Mr. Bonaparte making an
address in Baltimore last Tuesday night
to an immense audience. and we make
some extracts from IL as it Is reported in
the Baltimore sun. Mr. Bonaparte said
in the outset that ne was compelled to
pay the city and State over thirty-three
per cent Of his net income as taxes. lie
thus continued:
"Mr Carter heard first that We had here
potentate whom ! den0minated the
Supreme boss and that the power this
person now wieids had been in the hands
sometimes OF one man, sometimes OF two
or three men. since very few years
after the Democratic party regained con-
troll of the city and State l described
this power in the words OF Mr.. Bernard
Carter. spoken In 1852. | illustrated its
permanence and extent by the legislative
nominations OF last autumn.
mo doubt, had my time been unlimited
and my audience entitled 10 no consilera-
ton, l might have quoted many other
descriptions and furnished many other
illustrations. For example, | might have
shown how our present boss and his pre-
decessors and former colleagues have
dealt with Mayor Latrobe in the past.
and what he has said Of them and their
ways. II Is perfectly true that. as he
says in his letter. he has been mayor
for several terms. not consecutiyely,