The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-09
MARYLAND POLITICS A xAM0NAL
OBJECT LESSON.

Maj. Sterrett, the Washington cor
respondent of the Galveston-Dallas
News, has been paying attention for
some time to Maryland local politics. The
general reader may conclude that he is
| hard ND for news matter and has gone off
column by column in regard TO matters OF
very little interest TO the southern read
crs of the News. but such men are super
fetal thinkers. Sterrett knows what he
| is about. He has descended into de-
! tailed report of the fight of Senator Well
ington of Maryland to maintain the CON
| troll of the republican party IN that
state and dictate the appointments to ma
ti0nal positions. He then opens up the
opposing tactics of Senator German to re-
gain democratic ascendancy in thai state.
He says when he first went to Washing
ron he was attracted towards Senator
German. and after having watched nm
closely he has concluded that he is the
most accomplished politician in this coun-
try. His estimate of Mr.. German ~
correct There is no man in this country
equal to Arthur F. German as general
Of great political army in nailollhl
campaign, and today he has more lhhu-
encp mon the course Of the democratic
party than any half dozen leading demo-
Gratis Of the country.
Mai. Stcrrett says that before Mr. Cor
man wrote the Maryland democratic
platform that he consulted Jones, Nesi
and Cockrell. He would not do any
thing to injre the national democrac!
even to realign Maryland in the democrat
ic ranks of states but after consulting
these leading democrats and developing
his Maryland plan of campaign ana nav
ing obtained their consent he wrote what
we all know was Il milk and water plat
form and had it adopted by the democratic
state convention of Maryland. The plat
form referred to the money of the constl-
tuition, but it had no word of free COIN
age Mt 10 to !, noT did it adopt the other
sections of the Chicago democratic ma
tional platform-not one word about "goS-
eminent by Injunction or any other labor
claptraps This Maj Sterrett regards as
significant, and that was his object in go
ing into Maryland politics so deliberately.
He concludes by predicting thai the
democracy of New York City will adopt
similar platform. and he predicts the de-
feat of the democracy in Ohio on the Chi
cago platform az well as the defeat OF the
free silver democrats Of Kentucky, ana
intimates that elsewhere the democracy
will be defeated if it adopts free silver
platform.
But the ultimate object of Maj. Ster-
rett is TO show that the fine Italian hand |
of Arthur =. German will control the Ut
terances of the democratic platform ana
nominations for the national campaign III
1900. Maj Sterrctt admits that Mr.. Tor
man is not nor never has been free Sill
Yer man. but no human being ever heard
him say So He is such thorough party
man that he would go with his party
organization if it denounced the dcca-
logue and nominated Old Nick himself Tor
tbe presidency of the United States, al
though Mr.. Stcrrett does not say llai !
Inf we do who know Mr.. German even
better than Sterrett does. Mr.. Cor
mans private opinion, therefore, cuts no
figure in his work for his party. Ii he
believed free silver or the ID would win
he would inscribe either on the banners OF
democracy and 90 forth to fight its battles
with the same serene ardor and courage as
If its nominee was saint. Now TOR
man doubtless has very decided political
opinions, but they are as chat before 'h'
wind rs compared to the success OF the
democracy. Mai. Sterretts whole arGu-
mont is that German thinks that Tree
coinage at the ratio Of IL to will not WIN
for the democracy in 1900, and that he
has after consultation with other leading
democrats begun to- sheer off from the
Chicago platform, and of course the re-
suit will be an old kind of democratic love
feost. Mt which it will be discovered that
the factions in the party always did love
each other, and that they will be falllhg
upon each other in tears of joy at reunion
of democrats that will sweep everything
before the grand old democracy OF the |
country in 1900,