The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-11-30


NAtion.
Senator German had held Maryland
In his grasp by the most perfect ma
chine politics In the United States.
Nnryland's population Is divided into
two parts, almost one-half being In Bal
timore city, and little more than half
being distributed ia the % counties.
Germans main hold was in the coun-
ties. The city was under the control OF
his chief Lieutenant, Isaac Freeman
Karin. former hnow-nothing, a prac-
tical politician OF the corrupt sort, and
n second Croker I'm the absoluteness OF
his command over his followers. These
two men reduced to n science the tricks
and venal opportunities of legislative
and municipal politics. In the conflict
between the counties and the city which
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 10 cut that which came between
them. With no business but politics,
and no visible income but salaries never
exceeding $4,000 year. both lived ex-
pensivcly and grew rapidly rich. They
intrenched 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
grentest OF which was the Australian
ballot law.
But the two bosses with their many
victories grew bolder. They never al
lowed men of ability 10 hold Office II
they could help IT, They built their
greatness on time-scrving ward-worl-
crs. When IL came time TO nominate
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 II
was John l.. Hurst, reputable and
wealthy merchant. whose name had not
even been mentioned in the primaries,
and who was nominated by the direct
order OF the two bosses. One of the
men whom German had deceived, and
who had almost q majority OF the dele
gates. told the boss 10 his face In an
interview which has become memorable
in Maryland, that he was liar and
traitor. Germans action In tho sem
ntc. 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 Sc
lected their nominees. Fortunately
the men were the strongest the party
has ever put forward in Maryland,
especially Lloyd Lowndes for governor,
and at once the better classes OF demo-
Gratis hockcd to the ticket, announcing
that they preferred republican success
with good men to n continuance OF
Gormanism. The two democratic daily
papers of baltimore led the movement.
and German was left without ncwspa-
per support. From the start the is
sue was Gormnnism. and the fight was
the bitterest in Maryland's history.
The result gives JOY TO every friend
of good government. Four years be-
fore, ON a vote of 200 900, the democratic
candidate for governor carried the state
by over 10000, making difference of
10000 votes In q total of only $4,000.
The republicans carried everything. In
GLIDING the Legislature. which elects
United States senator. IL is the first
defeat German has known, but IL Is so
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 rcpcaters 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 Ii the ltncll OF
the boss. the triumph of decency, the
further breaking up Of the solid south.
tho proof that the increase of indie
pendence and self-goycrnment ia
spreading throughout the land. II IN
national in its benefits. for it makes
powerlcss the cunning which has done
so much mischief In congressional leg
islation. A discrcditcd boss Is a boss
dethroncd. and Maryland has done no
bly, in giving Gormanism death blow.
---Leslic's Weekly.