The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-05-17
dORr1ANISM CAN'T WIN.
This Is the Lesson from the Baltimore
Election.

The result of the election in Baltimore
means that the democratic party cannot
win this fall with ex-senator German as
its candidate for the United States Senate.
Mr.. German was the captain on deck
with Mr.. Rasin at the wheel and the boat
went down. Having recovered from the
sore throat with which he suffered during
the campaign last fall, Mr.. German
openly assumed command of the party,
and personally assumed charge of the
movement for the extra session, and the
passage of the new election law, the de-
feat of the primary election bill, and the
passage of the census bill to distribute
$5, 900 Of the States money among his
faithful followers. He was not "the
power behind the throne" but the power
on the throne, in the whole matter.
After the adjournment of the legisla-
ture his interest i'll the approaching cleo
ton was shown by frequent visits to
Baltimore.
Mr.. William F. Porter, speaking, as is
generally supposed, for Mr. Rasin, and
Mr.. John J. Mahon, one of the foremost
of the German leaders in 1895, had de-
clared in carefully prepared interviews in
the Meas, "that the democratic party
should take its position i'll favor of the
re election of Mr.. German to the United
States Senate" and that "Gorman should
be the ISSUE" and, in the campaign,
democratic orators predicted that demo-
cratic victory this spring would mean a
German victory this fall. Among others,
Mr.. Alonzo L. Miles, the law partner OF
Senator Germans son, declared in ad.
dressing democratic mass-meeting, that
democratic victory would be an indorse-
ment of Mr.. German for the Senate; aud
State Senator Olin Bryan, at another
meeting said that democratic victory
might give Mr.. German a start for the
Presidential nomination in 1904
In the primary contest Mr.. Rasin had
triumphed in every ward except two, and
in those the democrats won. The cleo
ton of the two democrats who had de.
feated Rasin in the primaries, and the
defeat of almost all of the German Rasin
candidates, was the response of the voters
of Baltimore to the invitation 10 indorse
Mr.. German for the Senate and give him
start for the White House.
The lesson Of 1895 and of 1897 was re-
peated in the Baltimore election of May
7, 1901. Following the open leadership
of the party assumed by Mr.. German, III
reference to the extra session, the ap
pointment of Mr.. Schley, '95 Gormar
lieutenant, to have charge of the censu:
in the State, and of Mr.. Fledderman, g
'e5 Rasin lieutenant, to have charge in
Baltimore City, the Temperance of Mr.
Rasin, the chief lieutenant of Mr.. Cor
man in 1895, in the undisguised contro
of the party in this city, and the triumph
of his candidates i'll the primaries; the
democratic defeat unquestionably means
that the people of Baltimore will not, in
1901, vote to re establish the identical
bossisu, in the person of the same indi
vidual leader and sub-leaders which they
voted to overthrow in 1895.
And as goes Baltimore, so goes Mary
land; for there is not in recent years, E
single instance in which the State an6
city have failed 10 vote the same way
Always both have gone democratic, OF
both republican; aud if we want to make
must remove the cause that operated in
1895, i'll 1897, and in the recent election
1t can be done. The democratic party
can win this fall, for there is scarcely 6
doubt that majority of the people o.
Maryland are democrats, and will elecl
the democratic ticket whenever its can
didates receive the loyal support of the
entire party. 1t is just as certain that q
large number of democrats will not sup
port the party when led by Mr.. German
In 1895 he was The sole issue, and he
was beaten by nearly 10000, though he
had control of the election machinery
He was beaten again in 1897, aud in 1896
he himself, or the democratic managers
were so sensible of Mr. Gorman's unpop
ularity, that he did not appear at meet
ing or take any part, openly, either in
the Hayes, or the Smith campaign, fo,
fear that his so doing would defeat the
democratic ticket.
He did not gain any new friends in the
campaign of 1900. 1t was unfortunate
that he should have contracted severe
cold just in time to prevent his appear
ance at the big Music Hall meeting, al
which he had been advertised TO open the
campaign for Bryan and which had beer
gotten up specially for him; and that this
cold should have incapacitated him dur
ing the whole campaign, when he was SC
anxious TO take off his coat and work fol
the nominee, as he had previously, in
several interviews, declared he intended
to do.
And he has been beaten again. There
is fatality in three successive defeats
The most expert swimmer is beyond the
succor of the rescue crew when he ha.
sunk the third time The third stroke o.
paralysis is fatal.