The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-11-28
THE DEFEAT or eoRMAN.
His Overthrow IL Benens 10 N,

HIS Overthrow 10 Benefit 20 the
Nation. "a
Senator German had held MARYLAND
in his grasp by the most perfect mo-
chine politics in the United States.
Aaryland's population is divided into
two parts, almost one-half being in Bal.
timore city, and n little more than halt
being distributed in the % counties.
Germans main hold was in the coun-
ties. The city was under the control of
his chief lieutenant, Isaac Freeman
Karin, former know-nothing, prac-
teal politician OF the corrupt sort, and
a second Croker in the absoluteness of
his command over his followers. These
two men reduced to q science the tricks
and venal opportunities of Legislative
and municipal politics. In the conflict
between the counties and the city hitch
is common to every state they worked
shrewdly, German championing the
counties, and Rasin the city, opposing
each other for the advantage OF both,
and working like the blades of a pair
OF scissors. cutting against each other
only to cut that which came between
them. With no business but politics,
and no visible income but salaries never
exceeding $4,000 a year. both lived ex-
pensively and grew fapidly rich. They
intrepched themselves behind nll kinds
of election frauds, and for 20 years
held their power. The forces of reform
stormed them in vain, but while these
forces never won elections, they got
from every fight some kind of gain, the
greatest of which WIS the Australian
Lallot law.
But the two bosses with their many
victories grew holder. They never al
lowed men Of ability to hold Office If
they could help 1t. They built their
greatness on time-serving ward-work-
crs. When it came time to nominate n
candidate for governor they led on. as
they usually did, several candidates,
only to throw them over for the man
they had agreed upon. This year it
was John +. Hurst, reputable and
wealthy merchant, whose name had not
even been mentioned in the primaries,
and who was nominated by the direct
oIdSA VI thC t"o OossCos oAS VI tlC
men whom German had deceived, and
who had almost majority of the dele
gates, told the boss to his face in an
interview which has become memorable
in Maryland, that he was liar and
traitor. Germans action in the ser :.
ate, especially his suspicious services
for the sugar trust, had increased the
feeling against him, and his action in
the nomination Of Hurst brought the
democrats to the edge of revolt. But
they waited until the republicans se-
lected their nominees. Fortunately
the men were the strongest the party
has ever put forward in Maryland,
especially Lloyd Lowndes for governor,
and ut once the better classes Of demo-
Gratis fiocked to the ticket, announcing
that they preferred republican success
with good men to continuance Of
Gormanism. The two democratic daily
papers of Baltimore led the movement,
and German was left without newspa-
per support. From the start the is
sue was Gormanism, and the fight wa.
the bittercst in Maryland's history.
The result gives joy to every friend
of good government. Four years be-
fore, OH vote of 200, 900. the democratic
candidate for governor carried the state
by over 10000, making q difference OF
$4,000 votes in o total of only 100000.
The republicans carried everything. in
GLIDING the legislature, which elects "a
United States senator. 1t Is the first
defeat German has known, but it is 50
crushing that his malign influence will
never again dominate Maryland POLL.
tics. His man Rasin is politically an
initiated. In spite Of the expenditure
of hundreds OF thousands of dollars, in
spite of repeaters and intimidation, the
respectable citizens won the state from
the bosses by the greatest vote Mary.
land has ever known. The victory
means a great deal. 1t is the knell OF
the boss, the triumph of decency. the
further breaking up of thessolid south,
the proof that the increase Of indie
pcndence and self-government Is
spreading throughout the land. 1t is
national in its benefits, for 1t makes
powerless the cunning which has done
SO much mischief in congressional leg
islation. A discredited boss is boss
dethroned. and Maryland has done no.
bly, in giving Gormanism death blow.
--Leslie's Weekly.