The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-10-22
PLY--ITS TALENTS As
\ FISH WIFE.

1t does not seem to Us that the Baltimore
Sun-the dear old Sunpapcr which we all
enjoy so much-has covered itself with
fresh glory in the matter of replying to
Senator Germans overture. Mr.. Cor
mans proposition was very simple one,
calling for little or no argument. The
sun had. on October &, made Il formal
declaration of its undiminishcd fidelity to
the Democratic party, and had said i'll so
many words that the cause of its antago
nism to the party ticket and the party or
ganiZation was to be found in Mr.. Cor
man s leadership and Mr.. German, politi-
cal aspirations. To this Mr.. German re-
piled, first discussing few of the Suns
specific accusations against him as Il pub
lie man, and then proposing to retire alb
solutely and finally from the contest, pro-
vided the Sun would, in honor and good
faith, abandon its Republican affiliations
and alliances and devote itself heart and
soul to the triumph of the Democratic
cause in Baltimore and in the state at
large. As we say, the Sun does not APP
pear to have done itself credit by the mat
ter and manner of its rejoinder.
To dismiss Mr.. Germans offer as a
''piece of cheap bluff is not to convince
rational and fair-minded people. The
way to expose a bluff is to call it. How
does the sun know that Mr.. German is
not in earnest: He says he means it, and
why is not his word as good as the Suns:
Why is it not better, in fact, since his
proposition stands, and the Suns only re
ply to it is fresh abuse and new forms of
frantic denunciation? Everybody knows
that the Sun hates Mr.. German. For the
past seven years it has exhausted the re-
sources of the language in villifying him.
There was no need of further imprecation
and anathema The Suns talents as a
fish wife have been sufficiently exploited.
What the public wanted was not a thrash
ing over of the old, malodorous straw, not
a mere parrot-likc reiteration of familiar
and refuted calumnies The public wanted
to know whether the Sun was sincere
when, on October 6, it avowed its devo
ton to the Democratic party, and protest
ed that only Mr.. Germans leadership and
Mr.. Germans candidacy prevented from
expressing that devotion in good works.
Mr. German offered the Sun an opportu-
nifty to re-establish itself in the respect
and confidence of the Maryland Democra-
~, do, cd
it.
We observe that the Sun takes great
credit to itself for having refused to play
fly and walk into the spiders parlor. Our
more or less esteemed contemporary
plumes itself vastly upon its shrewdness
in evading the trap set for it by the willy
German, and calls attention to the fact
that it has avoided Il cunning and cruel
ambush with almost human intelligence.
There is question in our mind, however,
whether the Sun has not, in avoiding an
ina gined pitfall, fallen into real and
very deep and ugly one. 1t seems to us,
in fact, that Mr.. German was in earnest;
that he actually wished to make the ar
rangement he proposed, and that the Sun
has given the lie to its professions of Octo-
Der 6, and virtually confessed that its ell
nifty is not aimed at Mr. German alone,
but at the whole Democratic party of the
state. As we have already said, we think
Mr.. German offered an eXtravagant price
for the Sun allegiance, but we believe he
intended paying it. The Sun, on the 9th
cr hand, admits that ii has 70 allegiance
to deliver Its break is with the party in
general, and it says so plainly enough.
And now it strikes us that the Maryland
Democrats may as well let the Baltimore
Sun 90 on its foolish way, AMI devote
themselves to the legitimate work of the
pending campaign. Mr.. German is an in
tintcly better leader than the Suns beg
carly contingent could have furnished had
the whole lot of them been boiled down
into one. \ single blast upon his loyal
horn is worth a thousand renegades.-
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