Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-10-21
The Baltimore Suns RepIy-Its
Talents As A Fish Wife.

paper which we all enjoy so much
has covered itself with fresh glory
in the matter of replying to Senator
Germans overture. Mr.. Germans
proposition was very simple one,
calling for little or no argument.
The Sun had, on October 6, made
formal declaration Of its undimin-
ished fidelity to the Democratic
party, ard had said in so many
words that the cause of its aDtago-
nism to the party ticket and the
party organization was to be found
in Mr.. Germans leadership and
Mr.. Germans political aspirations.
To this Mr.. German replied, first
discussing few of the Suns spe-'
cific accusations against him as a
public man, and then proposing to
retire absolutely and finally from
the contest, provided the Sun would
in honor and good faith, abandon
its Republican affiliations and alli-
ances and devote itself heart and
soul to the triumph Of the Demo
cratic cause in Baltimore and in
the State at large. AS we say, the
Sun docs not appear to have done
itself credit by the matter and man
ner of It's rejoinder.
To dismiss Mr.. Germans offer
as "piece of cheap bluff is not to
convince rational and fair. minded
people. The way to expose 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 Hs good as the
Suns? Why is it not better, in
fact, since his proposition stands,
and the Suns only reply to it is
fresh abuse and new forms of fran
tic denunoiation? Everybody knows
that the Sun hates Mr.. German.
For the past seven years it has ex-
hausted the resources of the langu-
age in villifying him. There was
no need Of further imprecation and
anathema. The Suns talent as
fish wife have been sufficiently ex-
plotted. What the public wanted
was not a thrashing over the old,
malodorous straw, not mere par
rot-like reiteration of familiar and
refute6 calumnies. The public
wanted to know whether the Sun
was sincere when, on October 6, it
avowed its devotion to the Demo.
cratic party, and protested that on
ly Mr.. Germans leadership and
Mr.. Germans candidacy prevented
it from expressing that devotion
ia good works. Mr.. German offer
ed the Sun an opportunity to re.es
tablish itself in the respect and
conf dence of the Maryland Bemoc-
racy, and, as we have seen, the Sun
declined it.
We observe that the Sun takes
great credit to itself for having re-
fused to play fly and walk into the
SPIDERS parlor. Our more or less
esteemed contemporary plumes it.
self vastly upon its shrewdness in
evading the trap set for 1t by The
willy German, and calls attention
to the fact that it has avoided
cunnir g and cruel ambush with al
most human intelligence. There
is a question in our mind, however,
whether the Sun has not, in avoid
ing an imagined pitfall, fallen into
real and very deep and ugly one.
1t seems to us, in fact, that Mr..
German was in earnest that be
actually wished to make the ar
rangement he proposed, and that
the Sun has given the lie to its pro.
LESSONS of October 6, and virtually
confessed that its enmity 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 Suns al
legiance, but We believed he intend
ed paying it. The Sun, on the
other hand, admits that it has no
allegiance to deliver. Its break is
with the party in general, and it
says so plainly enough.
And now il strikes us that the
Maryland Democrats may as well
let the Baltimore Sun go on its
foolish way. and devote themselves
to the legitimate work of the pend
ing campaign. Mr.. German is an
infinitely better leader than the
Suns beggarly contingent could