The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-10-22
Germans Invocation to the Sun.

Germans Invocation to the Sun.
On last Saturday German published a
letter addressed to Mr.. Abel, proprietor of
the Baltimore San, which ought to make
the Democratic party of Maryland
ashamed to look all honest man in the
face. No man on earth can tell by the
light of this letter where German "is at"
In the course of Germans long political
career he has never been guilty of an
honest act Not one And this letter,
the last shrek of despair, is from caption
10 signature all attempt of Germans old
and only known method, artful lodging.
Is he for gold, silver or what on the
money question ? He does not say directly
but what he avows was his course on
the repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act proves unquestionably that
German is goldite to the core. He says
that majority in the Senate was unques-
tionably opposed to the repeal of that act,
and adds "The man who says that did
not in good faith aid in the repeal-the
genuine repeal-of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act says SO in defiance of
fact and reason, and because he delib-
erately refuses to speak the truth"
In defiance of this plain statement his
friends claim that German is in favor of
the reconciliation of silver The only
straight forward declaration he ever made
on the money question was in June 1896,
when he "resolved" in the democratic
convention the Democrat party of Mary
land (Gorman) was unalterably i'll favor
of "sound money" the fashionable name
among bankers and their followers for
gold.
This last performance of Gorman-the
letter to the .Sun-is the most disgusting
of any of his acts. He bows his mouth in
the dust and begs Mr.. Abel or the Balti-
timore Sun to take the Democratic party
and do as he will with it. In this sack
cloth and ashes supplication German
assumes that he is sole owner in fee
simple of the party in Maryland, and in
order to escape the wrath which is over
shadowing his future, he is willing-nay
anxious-to turn the party over to the
gold ring, of which the SIN is its agent
in the State. Can anything be more
humiliating to party than such an ex-
position as this? Was not the manhood
of the party in Maryland completely
squelched and every instinct of self
respect and independence extinguished
by Germans and Rasin's debauching
methods through long series of years,
every man would rise i'll his wrath and
openly spurn the insulter, who coolly
proposes to sacrifice the whole party as an
atonetnent for his sins against the gold
Moloch if it will spare him. The Sun
spurns the offer with a kick and an
anathema.
Even in the hour of his greatest dis
tress, with the gates of future political
perdition opening before him, Germans
satanic cunning and double dealing in
stinct does not desert him, and the .Sun
does not fail TO see it. Mr.. Germans
proposition is for the Sun to step into his
shoes, take charge of and steer the party
to victory in the present campaign.
German, mind you, has had his ma
chinery, which remains intact in every
county in the State, put up legislative
ticket, that is virtually pledged to his re-
election to the Senate. No other name is
mentioned for Germans successor but
German. They all with one voice claim
he is for free coinage, while German in
his hour of calamity is pleading with the
god of gold for mercy, and offering in
his vindication to appease the wrath of
the tyrant, that he was one of the prn-
cipal workers to change majority against
Cleveland and the repeal of the Sherman
silver law, to majority III favor of the
repeal and Cleveland's devilish con-
spiracy with Wall street.
With the SIM hand and glove with the
!. gold conspirators claiming to be an apps.
tie of Jeffersonian democracy, and Cor
man with his political chicanery, double
dealing, political methods and everlasting
dishonest compromises, claiming to be
not only the sole leader of the Demo-
cratic party of Maryland, but its updis-
puted owner, where shall honest men
seek refuge from the wrath to come
The party that attempts to follow Cor
man and Rasiu longer will find itself too
dead to skin"
The Sun is rallyiug the gold democracy
to take the party organization into its
hands and German tells the SIN he is
more than willing it should do SO, while
he pledges allegiance to the Democratic
party" whether it be black or white,
entirely colorless, silver or gold both or
neither. 1t is all the same to him Ye
gods Are not honest conscientious men
of Maryland in pretty pickles The
gold Democrats proclaim it from the
house tops and tell it in the streets of
Baltimore that they are going to vote
solidly the Republican ticket, and when
German heard this he writes that awful
letter, which as political juggle is only
equaled by his unapproachable straddle
platform.
Gormar scents in this campaign not
only defeat but a rout, and characteristic
of the man he goes to the enemy and
offers to sell in advance the remnants,
his deluded followers and the organiza-
ton. to the gold Democrats who have
nucleus organization in Baltimore which |
they call Honest Money League"