The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-19
Germans Latest Scheme.


Having been defeated in his aspirations
for future Senatorial honors, German is
laying plans to come out next year as
candidate for the lower House and if
elected make a contest for Speaker
Reeds place, Chairman of the next
House, for it is as certain as anything
can be that the next House will be anti
Republican. What manner of platform
Mr.. German proposes to get onto has not
yet been given out His love of the strad-
| die style of political architecture would
naturally incline him to one of that kind,
full of angles, turrets, 'cubby holes" and
dark passages, like his last one, but that
proved such disastrous failure that he
will, it is likely, be cautious about using
one of similar build for 1898. We hope
that the honest, true friends of silver, the
Chicago platform, antitrust, anti-monop-
oily and anti-bank domination of nation
and people, will have aroused sufficiently
from the German hypnotism to cut loose
from boss slavery, whose chains they have
worn so long they are persuaded are
silken ribbons which ornament rather
than bind.
This last is the second plan of the fruit
full schetner to place himself in a favorable
position for the Presidential lightning to
strike. 1t were as sensible to think of
nominating in 1900, the Grand Lama as
one of the old school tricky politicians,
and one so widely known as German of
Maryland. So Gorman's schemes will al
come to naught Nevertheless, this
scheming may injure the cause of
national reform and the delivery of the
country from its donetic and foreign
enemies. German will never depart from
his straddling policy. His whole polit-
ical life is ingrained by it. He is now
too old to be honest and the people
wouldn't believe him if he made the
effort, which is all impossiblity.
His machinery i'll every county i'll the
State will be held intact for this latest con-
ceived purpose, and when the mum policy
for the primaries and counties is sent out
from headquarters, as was done this year,
his ever faithful patriotic office seeking
lieutenants will proceed to execute the
order, and the congressional conventions
will give the State another straddle-look-
every-way platform.
Such course means Republican con
gressional delegation from MARYLAND in
1898. as it meant and achieved a goldbug
U. S. Senator from this State this year |
The German party stands for the Demo
cratic party of the State. 1t has the
organization in its hands. His ever
faithful followers move the machinery as
he directs. They are oblivious of, care
little for and know little of the peril that
is silently but steadily weaving its web
over the nation and its institutions. Self
is Germans god, self is the god of his
followers, so careful has he been in their
selection.
If this impending calamity, known in
Maryland as Gormanisnl. but by other
names i'll other sections of the country, is
not to prevail in future, and especially
next year, the unorganized patriotic SEN
timent and people of the State must be
crystalized and organized at an early day.
If no effort is made to relieve the State
from the body of this death it will be
compelled to carry it while the goldbugs
Triumphant chariot drags Maryland
chained at its wheels.
Kentucky threw off the gold Demo-
cratic yoke and boldly took its stand on
the Chicago platform, its march on the
highway of progress, and came out of the
battle triunphantly, while Maryland
with its German machine, run by Cor
man tactics, failed miserably, ignomin-
iously, with victory within its grasp and
only honesty needed to secure the prize.