The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-14
MIR. JOHN HENRY KEENE'S
TRIBUTE TO Sen "A
TOR GORN.AN.

On behalf of $4,000 Maryland voters,
some expression of their gratitude for its
timely and manly acknowledgment of the
substantial services rendered in the pro-
lection of the great interests of the state
by its senior senator.
The writer thought that the cat-scor-
pion- ow-ram-warw olf-mdngohrf
warfare against Senator German would
cease when the senatorial candidate OF
Maryland Democracy was defeated, by Il
plurality of but 81 votes.
The Ameritdn's magnanimous recognl-
ton of Senator Germans magnificent
stewardship was very graceful, and is very
grateful to $4,000 Of Mr. Germans lie
voted Maryland followers 1t is only his
tory which teaches public men to hope. 1t
is not until time has Gained the rutf1ed
partisan breast that history does full JUS
ticc to the real character of the great men
of any age The buzz and the ban of the
mere critics of the hour, who criticisc with
fervor and correct with phlegm. and who
may be the personal friends or editorial
enemies of any statesman, cut but a small
figure in the historians account of the in
trepid ones who did not hesitate to take a
responsible and leading part in the great
events of their age.
The msts of pagan darkness may now
and then for time obscure, but they can
not finally impair the real character of
Senator Germans craftsmanship.
Posterity will do it full and impartial
Justice. To write his biography would be
to relate the chief historical events which
have transpired within the past seventeen
wears of Senator Germans senatorial Ca
recr. In the great conflicts of parties and
partisans, and the still greater struggles
of the observation-disclosures
against the classes, other than moneyed,
the Force bill, the repeal of the Sherman
law, and the tariff questions, Senator Cor
man exhibited the great qualities which
inspire confidence and leadership, and, at
ter all, are the highest of earthly qualities
in masculine public man.
1t is a mystical power, which cannot be
described; it must be felt,
Throughout all of these fierce struggles
there was no question so subtle as to e.ude
Senator Germans grasp, nor so complex
as to defy his penetration.
Without possessing that capacity for
windy suspiration of enforced breath upon
which the oratorical sons of thunder so
frequently plume themselves, Senator Cor
man has ever exhibited mastery power
of condensation, and clear, logical ar
ngement of facts and figures, which Sc
cured the strict attention of the Senate,
and always held it with undated interest.
But all this belongs to the future, when
history will assign the Senator the meas
ure of his enduring fame for his triumph
ant defeat of that perfidous assault of the
Republicans upon a republican form of
government, commonly known as the
Force bill. Arthur Pue German has made
in this struggle a picture on our history
tina. hearafter will be looked upon rs the
eliminating splendor of his age. In the
eminent degree he possesses the selfsus-
tanning power of intellect. When all
others are in despair, mental determine
ton sustains Mr. German, and his course
in time of trouble will always carry with
him associations that have reached the
heart of the nation.
In one of the greatest departments of
political science, its finance, the struc-
ture of his mind seems, peculiarly adapted
to the work he has been called to do. He
seems entirely familiar with all its ramiti-
cations. In times of stormy agitation
and bewildcring excitement, under ever
changing circumstances, and in the dark
est hours of political trial. he has never
Responded. He seems to have acquired
that lust estimate of his own powers
which has formed the basis of his selfre
lance This it is which gives him the
leadership of the Senate. His large ex-
perience and broad forecast also furnish
him notice of national dangers which
other do not see, and he therefoe is not
unprepared when the storm comes. In
the dark and doubtful hour of that faith
full servant of the moneyed-interested-
classes. President Cleveland, Mr.. Germans
voice was heard above the storm, encouras-
ing the PROSTATE Democracy, and recall
ing to it the danger to the country itself
if it suffered the defeat of a presidential
election The splendor of his exertions
at this critical juncture in the history of
representatives government, if it does not
now, will certainly hereafter, irradiate
Senator Germans path with splendor. l
care not who it $50 it be not one of his
petty local enemies-no sound-hearted
American can contemplate his noble
career without emotions of pride and
gratitude towards him. What he has
achieved is, indeed marvellous, when the
opposition he encountered is considered,
and it will survive remembrance long
after oblivion has inferred the malicious
works Of the merely emasculate literary
men, who constitute his local defamers.
One by one, so to speaks, our natural
pilots are disappearing. They live now
only in their recorded actions, and in the
respect and gratitude of those who re-
member their public services as they toll
ed slowly upward from the base of tie
political ladder, and when we recall how
from time to time in the hour of the ma
tons dire peril, the shadow of their great
names was the gathering point whittier
we all turned for Guidance or defense