The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-16
TIRED OF BEING A "B0SS'
SEN4TOH GORMAN OF MARYLAND
 WRITES 4 PECULI4R LETTER.

ship if the Editor of the Baltimore Sun
 Goaded Too Much and Super-Sensitive to
 Attacks Upon His Career.
 Senator German to-day issued an open
 letter to Edwin F. Abell, publisher of
 the Baltimore Sun, in which he offers
 to relinquish the leadership of the dem ocracy in Maryland, provided MT. Abell
 will accept it and support the demo-
 cratic ticket in the coming state and legislative campaign. He also inti-
 mates that he will forego his ambition to succeed himself in the United States senate if it can be shown that such a step is necessary to democratic success. The letter, which is a very long one,
 reviews the course of the Sun in it's op-
 position to Mir German because of his views upon civil service, tariff and bal lot reform measures. To all the charges
 made against him on this score, MT. German pleads guilty, but quotes the Sun as having admitted that such | questions were largely measures of opinion and asserted that every man is fee to think as he pleases regarding them. He defends his course in regard | to all these questions and concludes with the following proposition:
 And now, MT Abell, let us pass to a
 question touching which there can be
 no misunderstanding. These state
 ments and advertisements, argu- | ments and retorts-all this petty clash of protestation and Impeachment amount to very little at the best. You have declared your undying devotion to the democratic party, and have said that my leadership, my personal ambi- tlons my selfish purposes, and these only, prevent you from restoring your paper to the service of the loyal people who originally made it rich and power ful by their patronage, their confidence,
 their support You have given Mary land to understand that but for me and the "bossism' you are pleased to at tribute to me, you would bring back | the Baltimore Sun to it's old moorngs and devote it to the exposition of dem ocratic principles and the confusion and
 overthrow of republican rule in this state.
 You have stated in effect, certainly 1 with the intent of being so understood, | that you still love the democratic party and still wish to see it predominant in 1 Maryland, and you thereby involve , yourself in a pledge to cast off your re- publican affiliations, repudiate your re- publican alliances, and labor heart and soul for the success of the democratic party as it will remain after being purged of me.
 If you be sincere in this the solution | of the difficulty is simple enough. If 1 my aspirations, my leadership my in- | f1uence constitute the only obstacle to your return to the people who made | your paper and founded your fortune | and gave you reality to your position and your power, I stand ready to re-
 move them Office is less to me than | you suppose. Political leadership is
 not so necessary to my happiness as you, in your ignorance of my character and motives, are pleased to say 1 Strange as 1t may seem to you. I am
 willing to surrender every prospect of personal promotion if by so doing l
 can re-unite the democratic party re- store to it's ranks all it's pristine
 strength and harmony, al1ay the dissen- sions and animosities that now exist and efface the humi1Iating spectacle presented by yourself and men of your way of thinking-the spectacle of the democratic party betrayed into the hands of the enemy by those whom
 democrats have in the past exalted and enriched I do not undertake to say how
 much you or any other man may love the democratic party, but I know how much I love it, and l know that I have
 no personal ambitions I will not sacri- flee for it's honor and welfare. l know, too. that I have no affiliations, no en-
 agreements, no plans of any kind that could by any possibility embarrass me in making the proposed arrangements. "You may understand this as an overture of surrender on my part, as an admission that the democratic or ganization cannot hope for further life without your aid and countenance. l am prepared for that I have been misunderstood by you so long and so
 unreasonably that a little more or less will count for nothing. As a matter of fact, I am satisfied that the people
 of Maryland have become disgusted with the two years of republican mal- administration, which you did so much
 to make possible, and that they are in | the humor to make an end of the eX- pertinent. Tt is not only what has been done; | 1t is also the extravaganza and the cor
 ruption which they see awaiting them | in the event of a perpetuation of repub- | lican rule. They feel that every sub stantial interest in the state is jeopar-
 dized and they are determined, with or without your aid, to restore to pow CT the democratic party, which has never hitherto betrayed them, and in whose hands they will feel their honor and their interests to be secure. As | to this I have not the shadow of a doubt. But they want also a restora- ton of the former harmony of the par | ty They want to see the old lines re- stored and the old associations rehab- | ilitated And 1 owe them so much as
 to feel not only willing, but anxious, to consummate any wish of theirs, no I matter at what cost to me.
 Are you ready and willing and free to meet me on this ground in good faith in all loyalty, without proVisos