The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18
DEMOCRACY DOOMED.
Germans Candidacy HopeIessIy Divides
His Party.

Germans Candidacy HOpelessly Divides
His Party.
From the Baltimore News.
Senator Germans silence in regard
to his position in the coming cam
paign is causing considerable adverse
criticism among Democrats, not only
among those who are opposed to his
further supremacy, but also among
many of his friends and heretofore
loyal supporters. Indeed, ever since
the election last fall many of Senator
Germans friends have been waiting
patiently for some word from him as
to his future course, but he has said
nothing. Reports of various sorts
have from time to time been spread
abroad that the senior Senator in
tended to issue statement with
drawing from the contest for re-elec-
ton and thus clear the way for a re
Cancellation between the German and
anti-Gorman factions, preparatory to
the work of the coming campaign.
But no such statement has appeared
and the fact that the county papers
whose editors are closest to the Sena-
tor, and whose columns are generally
used to indicate his future plans and
intentions, are all, without exception,
advocating his reelection as the issue
for this years campaign, is cOnsid-
cred by most people to indicate
that he intends to place himself boldly
forward and ask for an endorsement
in the shape Of fourth term i'll the
Senate.
\ leading county Democrat, who
has for years been noted for his 10y
atty to Senator German and his polit
zeal fortunes, said to-day.
Il should, Of course, like to see Sen
ator German reelected to the Senate,
and will support him should he de
eide to become candidate, notwith-
standing the fact that | am convinced
that his candidacy will result in the
defeat of the Democratic party this
! SCttl' anu lIo NiNlSSlb Sp lcliSS
as he is an issue in our elections. Mr..
! German should retire permanently
and definitely, and should let it be
known III unmistakable terms, for
the good of the party, and | belive he
would do so if he realized the true
situation in the State.
! L.
of the hostility to him. He believes
that the opposition is narrow in its
extent and comparatively few as re-
CARDS numbers. When told by those
who have the courage to give him the
facts, he does not believe it. He pre-
| fers to take the word of few flatter-
ers who are very close to him rather
than to listen to what may be said by
some of his friends who are disinter-
ested in what they have to say and
.teu nlIn the truth.
in the present situation, German
is the victim of the same bad advis-
ers, who have been causing him to
make mistakes for several years, and
notably during the past three cam
paigns. Many Democrats, who are
neither office holders nor of1ice-seek-
ers, and whose only interest is in the
success Of the party, have advised
him as to the situation in times past,
and are doing the same this year, but
| he nave no ottantinr, tn than,
He has around him a small clique
of Of1ice-hOlders, who tell him that he
can win-who do all in their power
successfully, too, to convince him
that he alone can save and redeem
the party. These men, whom he sees
oftener than any others, never tell
him what they think; they only say
what is agreeable and pleasant to
him, and their constant swinging of
censers before him has made him be-
lieve all they may say.
THE truth is, if Collector Shaw,
Internal Revenue Collector Murray
Vandiver, Naval Offer Barnes Comp
ton, Colonel Louis Victor Baughman,
Colonel John Walter Smith and the
set to which they belong would tell
German what they know and what
they think, he would get out of the
way at once. But they have filled
him with the idea that he can win,
and it is largely due to their bad adj
vice that he is placing the Democrats
in this State in their present danger
Gus position. These men are respon-
sible for the situation. They know
as well as anybody else that there is
no hope for the party with German
as the issue, and yet they are either
afraid to tell him so or else they pre-
fer to have another overwhelming de
feat, to success with some one else in
the lead. Three out of every four
old-time regulars whom | meet think
as | do on the subject and believe
that Vandiver, Shaw, Compton and
their coterie are responsible for the
fact that German has not announced
his retirement before this.
1.-THE only hope we have is that the