Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-20
beats a pound of theory.

believing that those principles were The
true test for democrats, manfully and fear
lessly promulgated them, AMI when he
! enemies of these principles we're lothiaate d
defeated them on the day of election. In
1897 Williams was defeated for mayor be
cause he was a Palmer and Bucknar man,
and Senator German was defeated for the
United States Senate because he had StrGd-
died the money question ia Ibis sIats con-
V5ntiOn.
The writer happens to be one among a
large number of earnest silver men Y ho
were invited to attend conference with
Senator German at the Hotel Rennert in
Baltimore the day before the state couveu-
ton assembled in 1877, and lie remembers
distinctly the attitude of the senator toward
the Chicago platform, and now appare lC
was his always Irresistible impulse 10
compromise everything when the chance
shows itself. I remember the speech ex-
Senator German made and how he left the
impression upon every member in that room
that some trickery was about 10 be pevpe-
trated.
in 1898 Tippett. running for Congress in
the second district was beaten by an over
flow of silver votes against him, because
te accepted a nomination on n silver plat
form and then publicly stated in the Balti-
more Sun that he was absolutely tor the
gold standard In the fourth district
Denny won by a narrow majority, but he
was prodded by silver men so badly that
he was forced to publicly say that he was
not familiar with the money question, but
NOulu Sldllu DN the uStlOCIaIlc caucus IN
Congress, If elected. narrow majority
pushed Denny in. In the first district John
Walter Smith was the regular gold nomi-
Lee, and William Willis. a pro silly CT man.
was placed upon an independent ticket and
rolled a larger vote, and the placing Of
Willis as an Independent brought forth the
statement from Col. Smith, toward the end
OF the campaign, that he also stood on the
Chicago platform and was good a sill
yer man as nybody.
All of this good work was accomplished
by the Maryland Democratic Association
when 1t contained upon its executive COM
nittee good men and true, but presto,
change! in 1899. The secretary Of the
ISOLATION still stood by it's guns, and never
faltered, but new men crcpt in with opin-
ions that any old democrats We're good
enough democrats, and a change came in
the councils of the committee. The best
men began to drop out of the meetings, and
the association dwindled. At public meet
ing held in June, when over LOCO notices
had been sent out. about thirty-five mem
bers assembled, and when the principal
speaker for the evening, who had interested
himself largely in the association affairs.
was questioned by one in the audience
to how he would vote in case German was
nominated for President, hesitated, equivo-
Gated and fumbled the question.
When Rayner was nominated for attorney
general the proposition was so startling
from the fact that he was a vfrulent and
arrogant gold man, and had indecently in
suited every Nemocrat who had voted for
Bryan IN 1876, mat AT lrst IL was agreed 70
make a desperate effort to defeat him,
then some Of the&ew lingering members of
the committee thought it best to stand by
the ticket to prove their stanchness to the
regular democracy. And thus, when cleo
ton day came, they went over into the
camp of the gold bug democratic organiza-
ton, voted the straight regular ticket, and
are now well intrenched within the ranks
of the old democracy. Ard thus cndeth he
last chapter and the curtain falls upon the
obsequies of the Maryland Democratic As
ISOLATION
Let it be understood. however, that he
writer, as secretary of the associa ton
never faltered in his firm adherence TO the