The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-10-15

of credit for his conduct at the end. with
out solitary dissenting voice. Not
| Gladstone nor Parnell, in Great Britain;
not even Randall, in the great conflict Of
the Forty-third Congress, and certainly
not any one of the Democratic leaders
since in the House of Representatives has
contributed a page so fair and undisputcd
as this to the annals of English-spcaking
! fIccmcn. 1t need not be said that none
but Nh German could have accomplish
| this. 1t requires only to be repeated that
Mr.. German did accomplish it, and that
us Il mere personal achievement, ii is with
out example in the parliamentary history :
of our race.
1T Is POSSIBLE THAT IN TINE,
AT SOME DEGENERATE PERIOD
NOT NOW ANTICIPATED, TIL DEN
OCRATIC PARTY, TO WHICH HAS
OF FREE INSTITUTIONS IN THIS
! COUNTRY, MAY FORGET THE
MATCHLESS SERVICE PERFORMED
IN THIS INSTANCE BY ARTHUR P.
GORMAN AND HIS KNIGHTL1 AS
SOCRATES IN THE SENATE, WHO,
THOUGH EQUAL, CHIVALROUSLY
ACCEPTED, AND OBEYED, HIS
LEADERSHIP FOR THE COMMON
GOOD. BUT 1T Is NOT LIKELY. 1T
IS A SERVICE WHICH WILL GROW
| IN THE PUBLIC ESTIMATION AS
| THE YEARS ROLL ON, AND AS THE
| BLESSINGS OF SELF GONERNMENT,
| THUS SAVED, SHALL BECOME MORE
AND MORE APPARENT"
Bis-Evcry feature of the senator seems
to start from this, the Old Suns canvass;
eternal justice seems to preside over NOR
tails, eternal justice enforced by some
Almighty power. have constantly before
me that lofty image of Senator German.
Mug-"No more of that, Hal, an thou
lowest me-"
Bis-Now, then, Mug, how could you
say, on September "A, 1897:
Mr.. Germans famous boast of having
defeated the force bill, during Mr.. Harri-
sons administration, rested entirely upon
the theory of bargain which he was sup
posed to have negotiated with certain sill
yer Republicans from the mining states
| that they should vote against the bill, in
consideration of his promise of Democrat
ic support for silver
Mug-I don't know.
Bis-Mug, instead of 'lifting' you
should have left the fog alone, on Sep
TENDER "a, 1897. Recent papers showed
YOU up as the heavy villain" in that ''po-
litical comedy" You have written one
thousand such comedies, in charging Sen
ator German with ''intriguing' to defeat
the Wilson bill, when the Old Sun, Sep
TENDER %, 1898, pronounced such mag
nificcnt eulogium upon the senator's
course, in which even the afternoon Punch
| and Judy show knight of the Mystic r.
following in the illustrious procession Of
the nation clipped in, and chmed and
| chanted hosannas to Proud Marylands
noble son. Even Sherman backed Senator
German with his tributes, on thai Occa-
sion, and Senator Germans speech, pub
lished recently in the American and Her
aid, speaks for himself, trumpet tounged.
Think, Mug, of the scoIching power of
public opinion; the universal burst of in
| dignation at this revelation of the New
| Suns falsity; in plain truth, Mug, your
| Lifting the Fog" editorial is a notable
| testimony of the unmanliness ana utter
imbecility of political lying, the most hate
| full and accursed of all vices, because it
| poisons, instead of purifying the fount
which is for the healing of the nation.
The Old Sun, of '93, Mug, pays Il majestic
tribute to the potency of German for sup
porting the President; whom you charge,
on September "a, 1897, with intriguing to
defeat the President.
Mug-It was dreadful mistake. | did
not think they would find me out, but the
people would forget it.
Bis--If this system of political lying
against German is to be kept up, Mug, |
warn you that the public will shortly say
that, by your thus attempting to cnshrine
the Jacobin carcass-of the New Sun-yOu
have forced them to gibbct it, and, from
the eminence of infamy on which they
may place 1.-THE New Sun-it will not be
easy to take it down"
Mug faints as the curtain falls)
| Emblazoned everywhere it read well,
that noble old motto of the Old Sun,
FLIGHT FOR ALL" but the new device
of the New Sun, VIRTUE IN DEFEAT