The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-22
The Dual DespotIsm of German I
Rasin.

The Dual DespotIsm of German ard
Rasin.
Baltimore Sun.
Personal relationships are in
compatible with true Democratic
government. One-man power is
absolutism, and when it fastens
itself upon a State or city the sub
stance of political freedom is gone,
though the forms may remain.
1t makes no essential difference
to the mass of people under what
party name personal dictate, ship
is ests blished over them. The
autocrat who cheats them of their
American birthright of self govern
ment may decorate his band wagon
with the Democratic or Republican
colors, but IN either case their po-
lltical liberties are gone and the
autocrat does with them as he
pleases. Party names and party
organizations, once they become the
mere masks and tools Of a personal
dictatorship, have no claim upon
the honest citizens support. The
boss is everywhere the Ishmaelise-
Of American politics-his hand is
against every good citizen, and the
hand of every good citizen is against
him.
Maryland as a State and Balti-
more as a city are to-day under the
CALLING yoke of two personal dicta-
torships. German is the autocrat of
the State and Rasin the autocrat Of
the city, and the Democratic party
under their domination-selfsh,
corruptlng and tyrannical beyond
the tolerance of seif-rcspccting
Democ> ats-is a misnomer. They
have turned its grand old name in.
to cover for exactly the kind
of despotism of which true Demo
cracy is the eternal foe. They have
made the temple of our Democratic
fathers a house of merchandise,
turned it into bargain shop, in
which the honors and rewards of
public life are made the basis Of
trades and dIckers and parceled
out in payment to those who have
bowed their knees lowest to them
and done their bid ding with the
readiest servil!ty and the fewest
scruples. They have brought the
public life of Maryland and Balti-
more-tor the debaslng influence of
their relationships has grown be-
Yond the pale of the Democratic
party and eaten like a cancer into
the life of the entire body polite
to that point where manly men, who
value their own integrity and repu-
tatlons, feel that, as Addison said
of England under the rule of base
men, "jhe post of honor is private
station"
The Gorman-Rasin despotism has
been carried to a point where its
overthrow is not only necessary for
the Democratic party, but indis-
pensable for the restoration of
health and wholesomeness to the
social as well as the political life of
this State and city. The miasmatic
and deadly blight of their evil as
cendancy is felt in the very homes
of all the people. Their sinister
sway is depraving the general CON
science, setting mp false standards
of success before our young men,
and teaching them that they must
not hope for public service, aspire
to public position or seek any sort
Of public employment, except
through the narrow avenue of per.
sonal submission and service to the
bosses and their machines. The
broad highway of merit, character
and competency, except when il
serves the uses Of our bosses, leads
no longer in Maryland or IN Balti-
more to any public distinction o.
employment. There IS no place in
State or city, from the highest to
the humblest, which is not in the
gift 0: Boss German or Boss Rasin.
Without their approving mods there
is no entrance, however small, into
political or official life for any