The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-08-18

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conflict, and the business interests OIL
the people hung trembling in the
balance, marvellous to relate, only
thirteen (I3) Democratic votes were
found in opposition to the ready
acceptance of every one Of the six
hundred and four (6oD Senate
amendments to the Wilson Bill.
The German bill went to the
President on Wednesday, and it is
safe to say, that neither he, nor any
other President in the history of this
country, has ever been confronted
with an act Of Congressional legisla
ton, better calculated to excite the
executive distrust. or to chaIlege the
disfavor of a Presidential veto.
In fact, the President has already
denounced this bill in terms suffi.
GENTLY emphatic to justify prompt
veto of it.
He has boldly branded it as per.
idious and dishonorable.
He has demanded radical changes
in it, and has enforced his demands
for consistent regard OF Democratic
pledges by the use of Fedora
patronage.
He has even gone so far as tc
declare in a letter addressed to Mr..
Wilson, as late as July the second,
that there could be no compromise
in the demands of his administration
for free raw materials.
If the President allows this bill tc
become law, either by his signature
or by the cowardly expedient 0.
declining to act upon it within the
constitutional time limit, he mus
inevitably..sufer the additional humil
iation OF being compelled to accep
a tariff measure from men in hi:
party, who have not hesitatcd tc
denounce him from their seats il
the Senate.
The WING appreciates, and Re
publlcans generally in Maryland will
! later on better appreciate at its full
value the political significance of the
victory Mr.. German has won over
his Presidential chief.
We do not undervalue the passing
personal prestige, which this victory
over the Presidential Goliath of his
party lends the Senator from Laurel
There is pleasing suggestion O
glory, even in the Senatorial residen.
tial name.
The selfish designs of men otter
run parallel with the lines OF great
philanthropic and economic reforms
Mr.. Germans ambitions run presl
dentialwards, and he has turned tc
good individual account, the acci
dental power of his place in the
Senate.
What brains could not accomplish
for Henry Clay, Arthur Pue German
hopes to accomplish by arttul shrewd.
ness. as party leader and manager
He knows the political value o.
colossal corporate clientage, and the
power of the millionaire millions in
the realization Of political aspirations
Arthur Pue German with the
Havemeyer millions behind him is
one thing, Arthur Pue German with
out those millions is quite another
thing as a candidate for the Presi.
dency.
Self, contained, and cool-except
on occasion-heretofore the little
Napoleon Of Maryland Democracy,
for the first time in his phenomena
career as a party leader, Mr.. German
has routed the combined forces of an
administration whose mugwumpery
and lack OF party allegiance have
excited his opposition as well as that
of everv State leader who believes in
and relies upon Machine" methods
and the little State Napoleon has
suddenly evolved into the great Ma.
tional Bonaparte of conservative (?)
Democracy.
Nor will the vanity born OF success
turn his head.
He breads nospolifical St. Helena
as the rock on which his aspirations
may cool.
As a political achievement THE
WING does not belittle Mr.. Germans
personal success.
He has made the name of "cuckoo'
contemplate in contemporaneous
politics.
And done it by his innate indi-
vidual force, not by the power OF
patronage, the prestige OF which was
with his opponent Mr.. Cleveland.