The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-02
Senator German.
From Philadelphia Ledger, June IS

From Philadelphia Ledger June IS.
Among the United States Senators in the
last year of their service at Washington Is
Senator German, of Maryland, and now that
he is about to retire the fact is recognized
that although politician, Senator German
is also statesman. On several important
occasions he has risen above party ties and
acted with broad intelligence for the best in.
terests of his country. Maryland and the
country will suffer Il distinct loss when de
prived of his services, which have been guided
by both experience and wisdom.
He has always been influential, whether the
Senate was Republican or Democratic, for
the reason that he has been thoroughly famil-
lar with the details and methods of legislatiOn,
and able to discuss broad propositions not
involving party politics with cool Judgment
and the wisdom gained by long association
with statesmen.
The Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer writes of Senator German
"FideIity is the word which has ever been
emblazoned on the German banner in the
brightest letters. His party has usually been
the proudest III its performance when his ad-
vice has been taken-when he has been at
the elbow and ear of the helmsman--but he
has never been found sulking. He has al
ways found the abiding place of his party as
sociates pleasanter than the camp of the
enemy. He has been loyal to his party and
loyal to his friends. His promise has been
an act, and his friendship an enduring obi
cation. The country needs broad, able, eX
perienced and faithful men like Arthur 2.
German, and Maryland's mistake, now so
generally recognized and admitted, cannot
more than make short hiatus in his public
life, though he eau we'll afford to retire at a
hon ba iS tba biorbaSt N +
of the confidence of his countrymen. What
ever may be his future, there is now no one
who is more actively in public harness than
he, setting q pace which his successor, though
an excellent gentleman, cannot hope to main
tain.
1t is noted as a matter of distinction that
Senator German was once page i'll the
chamber he afterwards entered as Senator,
but there was no necessary relation between
that occupation of his boyhood and his sub.
sequent career, except possibly through the
acquaintance with public men which his en-
ployment as page gave him. Senator Cor
man is now in his Goth year. He became a
page when 13 years of age, and had fourteen
years of training i'll the Senate, covering one
of the greatest decades III American history,
before he left that employment to become a
collector of internal revenue in the Fifth
Maryland District. While in that Office he
was active in politics and business, and in
1869 was elected to the Maryland Legislature
He served in House and Senate of the State
until 1880, when he was elected to the United
States Senate, in which he will soon ROUND
out eighteen years ofservice. During all tina
time he has been conspicuous figure both il
the Senate and in party councils. 1t is only
as politician that he has been the subject Q
adverse criticism; but he has al all times beer
something more than politician, and in hi
retirement, which may not be for long, for h'
is still in the prime of life, he will be remem
bered as statesman, who, in the closln'
days of his service, gave loyal and valued sup
port to the war policy of Republican ad
| ministration.