The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-10-18
Mr.. German Talks.
DOES NOT MINCE WORDS IN
ANY WAY.
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Is What He Terms the Comblna-
ton of Newspapers, Gree dy
Capital and Black Republioanism
Some Pointed Facts About the
Sun" Paper and the B. & o.

At Upper Marlborough last Monday Sem
ator German was given great ovation as
he arose to address the crowd in the court
room. After saying that the people OF
Prince Georges county and the state had
held their public servants to strict account
ability, he continued
''0ur press has been critical. hypercriti-
cal at times, hut as long as it gave the truth
to The people 10 read. no man in pab,ic life,
so far rs l know has ever complained. As
time has gone. interests have grown I'm that
have reached the party, until now we have
not single daily paper in Baltimore. en-
cept The Herald and the German Cores
pendent, that will do justice even to Dem
ocrat. The county press that is Democratic
still gives the people the light, hut it is our
misfortune that great daily paper that has
been considered Democratic has misled you
by its false and malicious statements, by
its venomous statements, made by hired
hessians, to destroy public men and the
party to which you and belong"
For this reason" continued the Senator,
public meetings were necessary in the
state. 1t was time for honorable men to
look each other in the eye and speak the
truth. Let this be campaign of truth, "
exclaimed the Senator, ''but," he added,
you will not get in the Baltimore Sun. I"
Then he added, with considerable feeling
Recent occurrences ought to satisfy you of
that fact. Senator Butler, who today made
clear and emphatic statements in regard to
associations respecting Senator Gibson and
myself; Senator Gray, the close friend,
and, If there be such thing, the spokes-
man of the President upon the floor of the
Senate, who made practically the same
statement, and Senator Faulkner, of West
Virginia, who held still another view, did
what the American people always like-the
manly and fair thing. When they saw
that their colleagues who represented Mary
land were being traduced and slandered
and mlsrepresented when my mouth was
closed as to the facts which they were at
liberty to give you, they came from South
Carolina, Delaware and West Virginia to
give their testimony.
Yes, this sheet, which matches lies and
circulates ISLANDERS, comes out thisSmorning
ana says these men cannot whitewash me.
Why, it is infamous have never seen
the time yet when l thought l needed
whitewashing or gliding of any kind l
entered public life as boy and l was by
your Partially promoted from place to place
until reached the only place / ever desire
and the one which fills the measure of nv
ambition to overlooking have pursued
what l believed to be right | have tried
to have courage enough to stand up to my
convictions. If you expected infallibility
from me or any other member of Congress.
you have been disappointed. There is no
such thing in political life | want to say
now to you, and once for all to these SIAN
derers that stand by every letter of my
record. am proud of it, because believe
that | have rendered my party some SER
vice, and, in rendering it service, promoted
the welfare of the people of the entire coun-
try, would not change it. 1 would not
apologize for it for any place in your gift or
IN the gift OF any people on the face of the
Senator German uttered this defiance in
ringing tones, while the courtroom re-
echoed with cheers.
Il am not in this contest" continued the
Senator. Il have no more interest in it
than any other man in the state. Do you
think that all this talk about this being
Germans campaign is honest? Why, not
at all 1t is only the means these people
have adopted for breaking up the Demo-
cratic party and preventing the consumma-
ton OF legislation to which the Democratic
party is pledged"
They will have hi of a job ~ inter-
rupted one of the crowd.
Won't they have job ~ echoed Sena-
tor German, amid laughter. eff they sup
pose that these lying Baltimore newspapers
can demoralize the country they are might
lily mistaken. 1t will be for them Just that
sort OF time you describe"
Mr.. German charged with great emphasis
that the opposition to the Democratic party
came from the combination of interests
banded together to prevent the enactment
OF reassessment law. The elder Abel,. he
said, had with the Baltimore Sun stood
with the people in opposition to the inter-
ests that were against assessment of the
property of the state, but the sons had COM
blned with the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, which was exempt from taxation,
with Lowndes and with the black Republi-
cans to defeat the Democratic party. 1t
was an unholy alliance to escape a lust share
OF taxation. They objected to Mr. Hurst
because they knew he would carry out the
pledge of the party. Mr.. Lowndes. on the
contrary, he asserted, would not say he was
IN favor OF assessing any of this property
that is improperly escaping taxation.
HOW Mr.. LowNDEs WAS NOMINATED.
Then Mr.. German made this statement
'Mr. Lowndes is the banker, the attorney
and the ally of Mr. Mayer and the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad. His nomination
was suggested, was agreed to, was provided
for, by the people representing the Sun and
the railroad months before the Republican
convention met, upon one condition. That
was that if the San and the railroad could
control the Democratic party's nominee.
then Lowndes was not to run. but if thew
Jailed to nominate their man for Governor.
then Lowndes was to run, and they were to
help to elect him.
Mr.. Lowndes is too honorable man to
deny that assertion. / make this specific
charge, and If you open these courthouse
doors think | can prove it to the satisfac-
ton of anybody by sworn testimony
This declaration by Mr.. German created
decided sensation. Every word was de-
liberately uttered, as if the speaker knew
and meant what he was saying. After Mr.
German had ridiculed the idea that if the
state went Republican this year, the Re-
publicans would allow il to be returned TO
the Democrats next year, he gave Lowndes'
partisan record In Congress and showed
how the spirit actuated him would be up
perinost with him in controlling the cleo
ton machinery in 1896. They would steal
the state as they had stolen the Presidency
IN 1876, when they counted out Mr.. Til