The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-08-30
Boss German in the Senate.

The following is an extract from
very able and dispassionate commun-
ication in the last issue of the Cecil
Democrat:
'Boss German" has his faults, who
has not. But one of them is not his
failure to make his native State of
Maryland prominent in the councils of
the nation. Our State is small conf
pared with the very great majority of
the States of the Union-in political or
commercial importance or geographic
cally speaking. Yet when the Senator
from Maryland, BOSS Gorman," is an
bounced to speak on the floor of the
National Senate Chamber, every other
Senator is in his seat. The National
House of Representatives is without a
quorum-its membership Instead, are
crowding the Senatorial floor. The
Foreign Legation gallery is crowded.
Officials of high and low degree press
into their places, and the populace
flock in and fill every nook and corner.
The reportorial staff, repr esentlng all
the great papers of the world, is culled
for its keenest minds and when the
Senator from Maryland rises to his
feet to speak, closer attention could not
be paid to human being. Why this
focalization of such an audience? Be-
cause he is from the little State of
Maryland? No! Because his speech
will be rich and sensational with rhe-
torical fireworks? No! Because of
voice or physique? No! What then
is the attraction? Simply to hear
plainly spoken words, denoting the
mature thoughts, arguments, resources
and conclusions of man of brains.
The position and import of his State
weigh not an atom. he has none of the
graces of oratory; metaphor, trope aud
flowers of rhetoric are not at his com.
mand, he is weak of voice and scarcely
medium stature-yet that gathering OF
representatives from the four quarters
of the nation presenting an aggrega-
ton of brainy men unequalled else
where in the world, whose universal
aim is to impress their personality
upon the country at large and become
leaders in the political economy of the
nation, he has won his spurs and
stands easily leader, "boss," if you
please. And does he make use of his
position and influence to advance the
interests of his own little State-I an
swer and the records will prove it.
His influence has directed tens of mil
lions of dollars of National appropra-
tions into our State-supplyiug EN-
ployment for hundreds of thousands
of laborers. Through his influence the
harbor of Baltimore has been made &C.
cessible to the commerce of the world.
That city and others in the State en-
nobled and beautified by the erection
of costly public buildings, and the
whole State indirectly benefited by
this stream of money directed into it's
borders-whilst he has filled the var.
ious departments at the National Cap.
ital with well-paid employees from bis
own State, far beyond its quota, show.
ing in his every action that he has ev-
Ell. held the maternal interests of his
State always in mind, and has succeed
ed in placing Maryland in national af.
fairs, among the great States of the
Union, and as one whose interests are
at all times to be consulted before ac-
ton on any important movement is ta'
ken. Yet the leader, the "boss" who
has brought this about is maligned to
the last degree because he used his
judgment and influence in naming a
candidate for Governor of his own
State.