The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-11
INDIVIDUAL OPINION
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as q coyote and as lurking And, lik> me
coyote, he never faces danger. AS Tar
and as fast as he may. he flies. II over
taken or eornered, he will snap. And ms
jaws cut like razors. But even this snap
ping is defensive and ceases the moment
the pressure is removed
German has no profession, no trade,
ana some education. His calling is poll
ties, his purpose 10
GORMAN hold office, his OBJ
HAS ject to be rich he
MADE IT PAY. has had success. lie
was Senator from
Maryland, and he is worth two millions
of dollars. German made politics pay
The achievements of German since his
coming to the Senate are then enumer-
ated:
He passed the Wilson German tarin Dill
by majority of one, in the teeth OF
the House and the White House. rms
victory. won without noise. or fury, or
the disclosure Of his own convictions on
that point of cardinal politics, Mr. Lewis
thinks shows German master Of wool
foot cunning" He adds that no one knows
nor does his record show, whether Cor
man is for protection, tariff for revenue
o. free trade.
German defeated the Malone Conkling-
Cameron combination for reorganization
Of the Senate when Garfield became Pres
idont. and gained fame from the~fight
lie made Cleveland President but was
promptly turned away from the White
House for his pains
PLANNING German craved three
FOR THE things. They were
WHITE HOUSE. denied. German made
no more requests
At once he began to construct Hill-not
fer the good of He'll, but for Germans lie
proposed to take New York from CleVe-
land with Hill. German privately pro-
posed himself for the White House, Hill
was to be his stalking horse.
Germans part ~ the defeat of the Force
Bill gave him another lift in that direc-
tiCn, and ''he went in with Hill more
deeply he double moored New York to
his ambitions, bow and stern; he did not
leave Cleveland so much as cobwef
of influence with the party in his own
State.
Next he helped Hill into the Senate,
TO have him more at his whisper and be-
meath his eye. From 1888 to 1892 it was
German not Hill nor Cleveland, who
was potent with the New York city De
mocracy. 1t was German who invented
'snapperism: not Hill. There was the
Richelieul 'Snapperism' would defeat
Cleveland of his States delegation, while
it destroyed Hill with the country at
large Two birds, one stoEe!
German made Crisp Speaker in 1891
over Mills, Cleveland's selection.
'Is it not strange that German can sc
triumph for others and so fail for him
self? 1t is because
WHEREIN German has perfect
GORMAN courage where an
EVER FAILS. other takes the risk
1t is when he must
hazard personally the pain and shock OF
downfall that German waivers. It is wher
he must go in person with the rush, AND
chance lance thrust and saber- work, that
his lips whiten. his, eye falters, and his
heart faints.
'TIe has done wonders of politics ant
legislation of the fog and spun glass kind
How does German work these marvels
By craft like unto that of Mephisto-
pheles: by a talent of dagonalisnl-a
genius of the Indirect: by a faultess ca
pacity for making one believe that ones
own best interest lies the German way.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, President.
The last portrait is that of Presiden
l.