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

tOr-ln- chief OF the Old Sun, and Mr.. Mug
wump Croakcr, political editor of the New
Sun.
Mug-Bis, the die is cast. My ponder
Gus theorcm, Virtue of Defeat" is Il
monument to the outgushings of my ge-
MUS: it is an anathcma against German;
its reasoning and its inimitable eloqucnce
will speak to all centuries. My lofty ge-
MUS, Bis, refuses to bend beneath German
leadership, and the insolence of the Demo-
cratic county papers | have hoisted the
New Suns black flag. Henceforth the
raven himself is hoarse that croaks the en-
trance Of a Democrat under my fatal bat
Elements of the New Sun. The subtleties
of newspaper chicanery its crafty forms
of procedure its superabundance of hui
NOR, and the fields of schOlasticism are
well suited to the restleSsnesS of a genius
as sublime, and hatred SO matured, so
malignant and so consecrated as my spirit
of revenge against German. | possess in
cXorabic dialectics, and these unreadable,
unskillful, feeble defenders of Democracy
shall not stand in the way of my long pre-
meditated purpose of assassinating Sena-
tor German. The Capuchin' mentiris i'm
pudentissime shall not equal mine. l
have said in my Virtue of Defeat" ''1f
Mr. German had ever conferred any great
service to the party; if he had reflected
| great lust-e on it by craftsmanship, ora
tory, political wisdom, or special ability of
any sort; if he had originated any beneti
cial policy, or been associated with any
legislation particularly helpful to the
masses and valuable to the country it
would be different" but l defy you to
show me one meritorious action Of Sena-
| tor German.
| Bis-1 am worn out with misery at the
sorrowful predicament of the old Sun.
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, my
| services for your morning Republican Or
gan, the New Sun, shall be yours but for
| give my weakness, it is the weakness of
many Others MY heart forever and forever
shall return to the Democratic faith of the
| Old Sun. Oh. Mug! with what JOY those
screaming political kites, those larcinous
crows, those disreputable draggle-tails,
who lately upset the Mayor, and tried to
loot the city government for offices, will
hail you, Mug as their Messiah. The hiss
ing of a cobra di capello, which is the
whisper of death, will not be more welcome
to them than your Virtue in Defeat"
Mug-My article, Bis, is calculated to
coax the public into my scheme to betray
Senator German. don't care what be-
comes of the Democratic party if | can
smash German.
Bis-No! Oh! no. The Old Sun had
none of the lofty nebula of such intellect
ual felicties us Virtue in Defeat There
is only eternal death to Democracy in de
feat, and you know it, too. Mark my
words-thc public eye will tire of such
nonsense as Virtue in Defeat Mr.. Cor
man will shortly enjoy the distinction of
being prosecuted, and persecution soon be-
comes wearisome. When you say that
German has never conferred any service
upon the party, do you not know that the
Old Sun, in 1891, pronounced the senior
senator's course in the Force bill master
piece of political sagacity: Are you a
mailman: Do you expect to set justice
and common-sense at defiance: Mug
grows alarmed and quickly re:ires) Bis,
pausing, muttering to himself, 'Oh, what
Il mournful and oliy-stricken block head
to say that Senator German had rendered
no services to the nation, or to his state.
Why, what buzzing blue bottle fly he is
The Old Sun has had its day, and perhaps,
and like all things, it begins to moulder
End decay. However, I'll get the Sun of
81 and read an eXtract-only one-from
the Old Suns review of the noble course
of the senior senator. | will read it to
this Phocbus Apollo, who proposes by
Virtue and Defeat" to lead Democracy
to heaven by way of the Ben Andrewism
and the lower regions. | saw him yester-
day reading ''Walpurg's Dance of Politi-
cal Witches and l suspect that to be the
origin of his political empire, 'Virtue in
Defeat" (Re-enter Mug0
Mug--I have sent out PiccomlmHlini
Fordhampshire, Brother Bis, an / each day
he is to work up, with that fine Italian
hand of his, supposititous accounts of
some prominent Democrat who daily vol
untccrs statements which are wholly i'm.
aginary, and the product of the reporter S
brain. The headlines will be in the New
Suns biggest type-something like that of
yesterlay-"R asin, German & Coat the
Old Stand-They Own the Town., etc
These Munchausen stories will stir up
foolish people, many of whom will be idi,
OTIS enough to believe his romantic revela.
tons, and so | will create out of lies the
foundation for an honest expression OF
public opinion.
Bis-Mug here is the Old Sun of Janu
airy 81, 1891. SO great was the public rev
erence for the senator at that time, that
we did what the Old Sun rarely did-we
quoted and at that time, republished from
the New York World the following glow
ing tributes to Senator German from the
son of that old war horse of Democracy
jeremiah Black, of Pennsylvania.
Mug, greatly agitatcd, walks up ant
down, whilst the cdtor-in- chief of the Ole
Sun reads from the Old Sun only an ex
tract from two columns:
MIR. G0RMAN's LEADERSHIP.
Mr.. Blacks Tribute to the Maryland Sen
ators Alcrtness and Ability.
Among those entitled to the unbound
ed gratitude of the American people fo
y the preservation of their institutions from
u this deadly assault stands easily first Ar
: thur P. German.
II AS chairman of the caucus, Senate
German was the official manager on tn,
Democratic side, and the record he ha
. made as such will stand not only to hi
i own immortal honor, but to that of thOs,
who, having first placed him where hi
talents and discretion were given thei
proper scope, followed him with voluntar,
{ steadiness and enlightened discipline
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