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

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
Mir. 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 aud finally from
the contest, provided the Sun would
in honor and good faith, abandon
its Republican affiliations aud 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 i:s rejoinder.
To dismiss Mr.. Germans offer
as a "piece of cheap bluff" is not to
convince rational and fair.minded
people. The way to expose a bluff
10 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 rs good ms the
Suns? Why lie it rot better, in
fact, since his proposition stands,
and the Suns only reply to it is
fresh abuse and new forms of fran
tic denunciation? 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 tbrashing over the old,
malodorous straw, not a mere par
rot-like reiteration of familiar and
refutec 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
in good works. Mr.. German offer
ed the Sun an opportunity to re-es-
tablish itself in the respect and
conf dence of the Maryland Democ-
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 rlumes it
self vastly upon it's shrewdness in
evading the trap set for 1t by the
Willy German, and calls attention
to the fact that it has avoided a
cuunir & and cruel ambush with al
most human intelligence. There
is 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 rs, in fact, that Mr..
German was in earnest; that he
actually wished to make the ar
rangement he proposed, and that
the Sun has given the lie to its pro-
fessions 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 beliesed he intend
ed paving 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 it strikes as that che
Maryland Democrats NAV as well
let The Baltimore Sun 60 on its
foolish way. and devote themselves
to the legitimate work of the pend |
ing campaign. Mr.. German 10 an
infinitely better leader than the
Suu's beggarly contingent could
have furnished had the whole lot |
of them been boiled down into one. |
A single blast upon his loyal horn |
is worth thousand renegades.-l
Washington Post.
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