Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-05-30

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We have the pitabIe spcc1acle-not az tfe
yacillation Of what Is usually derloninat<d
- The floating vote-hus the vacillation IA
The defenders and the very bone and sinew
Of the Democracy. We know that many
VIII csyii a. The assertion and claim thu
German and bic followers are as true
Democrats as say one else, and SONG .,f
them are as really ., dencunce others d
not beiag Democrats f1- refusing 20 vote =
Gornaan ticket Baf-ean they saos xs.sst
Democracy amounts 70 rifl afarig s5r rsss-
nss only isf our : All Of the obnoxious
laws enforced by the Republican party
have been enacted for the purpose dr.
strengthening their position on the tariff
question Mr.. German. il ID true, has Ell.
fectually opposed some OF their obnoxious
bills; but how i be on the usas issue
Gould Jim Blaine have mnde better Re
publican speech to save his life than did
German when he said he .would sooner
see his ears grow a. long as q sow's than
TO have Nova Scotia coal combines COM
pete with our ironmongers ?" II those are
not his exact words. he said what wss
equally as pusrile, indicating that be would
put up gaps in the very Chinese Wall"
that the Democracy has proposed to pull
down. As we have intimated, he may
be willing 10 lop of few of the branches
of misrule, but he has never laid his axe
to the root Of the evil, nor does he intend
TO DO 30 If we are to believe his own words.
Hence il becomes clear and undisputable
fact that the Democratic policy can never
obtain with Mr.. German in the lead. His
tory, no doubt, will hand his name and
those Of his confreres sounding down the
tomb OF ages as great and glorious states
men along with these Of Clay, Calhoun
and Webster because of their recent stand
in the Senate, but they appear to us more
ike lot Of consummate jacknapes, and
should be denounced as such but for it,
vulgar appearance in print
Unfortunately for our system of politics.
1t seems TO be a normal and unavoidable
evil that the leaders and SUBJ leaders are.
as general thing, men who seek 10 be-
come 50 for what they expect TO get out of
1t rather than from motives of disinterested
patriotism. Hence many OF those who
have for the last ten or twelve years en-
gagged in the educational campaigns on the
hustings relative to the tariff question are
now asserting that German is right. That
being so, how has il ever been with the
Democratic teachings What means their
teachings on the hustingsS And why have
they in all these years persistently turned
the deaf ear to Republican doctrinesg We
all know, If We take time to think, that any
convention refusing TO denounce German
lets German in. For 1t is q well known
fact that whils he was endeavoring to de-
feat the origina Wilson bill, he claimed
that he was carrying out out the principles
as set forth in the Chicago platform. There.
fore, convention, though 1t approves of
the Chicago platform, but refusing TO GEN.
sure German, leaves every man in that
convention the liberty TO place upon the
platform the same construction as did Cor
man. Hence any and all sucA conventions
are German consents0,ls. EITHER WITH OR
WITHOUT HIS PERSONAL rxrERrEREKcE;
vet we are denounced as radicals for wish.
IT, ffEE e aasaaa5 eouf personal knowledge
tariff for revenue only" and ssproscctive
tariff policy" have been the bones III con-
tention respectively Of the two great par
ties. all other points Of difference being but
the little wheels in piece of machinery
driven by the master wheel aprotection.n
And last year, for the first time In all these
years, we were in position, had all been
Democrats that chose to call themselves
so, to accomplish our aims, but Mr.. Cor.
man and few others put themselves al.
rectly in the way and cried Conservation
when they nor any one else can show that
there was anything special on that occas-
ion, that their minds were bent on con-
serving, except the misdoings of the damned
Republicans. OF course, radicalism il the
reflex, and was speedily suggested as be-
ing applicable TO all who differed from
them. Radical:sm, forsoothl II Ia moth.
ing more nor less thar cheap "bugbear"
adopted in our local politics TO deter un-
suspecting delegates in conventions. The
expression became odious to our people
during the late war, who have ever since
associated II with Republican misrule; and
now that Mr.. German stands in the way of
Democratic aims, conventions must pass
him over in silence, because il would be
rddscatisDs 70 denounce him No Demo-
crat can justly be accused by democrat
Of radicaiism by wishing to annul the un-
democratic deeds of the Republican party.
Neither can he justly be accused of radi.
calism for denouncing so called Democrats
who stand in the way of Democratic meas
ures. Ii 30, his radicalism il of the most
orthodox standard. Had Mr. German have
taken his stand on the tariff question with
his party, and after having ascertained the
fact, TO have proclaimed that the mopprcl
Senate bill was the only possible one, we
should have meekly submitted 10 his con-
tinuing TO be our leader, but when we
know that he was an active agent in de-
feating the original bill, and that IL was
impossible mainly through his own exer-
IONS, the case becomes quite different.
MT. Gorman must be denounced in this
campaign or else ID will be a useless one.
We hope what we have written will nor
be construed as q personal offense by anv
one. There are some with whom we are
on the best of terms personally. and we
shall DC pleased TO continue so. We have
simply given our views OF the political sit.
uation OF the times, and IL we have in anv
instance misrepresented an insportant fisct.
our erudition Is at fault, not our heart.
Yours truly,