Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-23
FROsTBURG, MD NOVEMBER %, 1901
Commentary.

herland Times very closely nor elaborate
ly, although many opportunities are
afforded for light-not serious comment.
The article referred to appeared i'll
Mondays issue attired i'll the grandll-
oauent rhetoric characteristic of an age
when dictionaries and encyclopedias
were not nccessaries of literary life
when upper air and solar walk diction
had room for play only i'll the sublimated
sphere of apostolic dillettanteism.
The first specimen of the last eNhl-
bition of the Times vaulting lingo re-
fers to the editor hereof as one who
knows or ought to know, for both the
mails and telegraph reach him in his Glib
ratar of orthodoxy, that the great body OF
the democratic party, So far from finding any
fault with Mr.. Cleveland first administra-
ton went into convention and made him
their standard. bearer IN that campaign which
resulted in his second election.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Clevc-
land was nominated three times.
His first campaign was conducted by
Mr.. German with signal ability and
success.
But Mr.. German would not serve i'll
the same capacity i'll lSSS, notwlthStand-
ing "the great body of the democratic
party found no fault with Mr.. Cleve-
lands first administration.
Why:
Again Mr.. Cleveland was nominated
by 1.-The great body of the democratic
party" and again Mr.. CORN IL would not
assist i'll electing him, although "the
great body of the party found no fault
with his first administration
What was the matter with Mr.. Cor
man:
The Times explains. 1t says that -
during the four years intervening be-
tween his two terms of office MIR. Cleveland
went to the great commercial emporium of
New York t" live, and that while there, in
dangerous proximity to Wall street, perhaps
unwittingly, he fell into the deadly habit of
saving the Lords prayer backward and in
stead of using the urthdoX petition of lead
me not into tcmptation,' close by Wall
street, he was saying lead me int" tcmpta
ton.
And, if the Times is to be believed, the
Lord answered the prayer.
But, unfortunately for Mr.. Germans
defence, he had "broken away from
Mr.. Cleveland before 1.-THE great body of
the party including the editor of the
Times, found out that Mr.. Cleveland had
Ia, in Iln of t,n
Oils of temptation.
But the Times goes ON:
Thus it came about that pending his second
administration when his Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. Carlisle, ignored bi-metaism
and redeemed the government bonds III gold,
Mr. Cleveland divided his party.
The trouble with that statement is
no government bonds We're redeemed at
the juncture preceding the division Of
the party, which followed-not the sill
Yer heresy, but Mr. Gormn"'S htroym Of
tariff nform'
Instead, LoudS wcrr isSucd-the same
that had been prepared in February,
1898, by the out going Harrison admins
tration.
The Times next reckons Mr.. German
among the statesmen (0 who
took issue with the Wall street intcrpre-
tation of the democratic platform, etc.
This is not true In June, 1896. speak
ing through the Maryland platform, Mr..
German
-rcsolutcly opposed the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of Ii to l.
One month later, however, the party
''broke away from the Wall street inter
pretation.' Mr.. German, an ebb and
tide-swimmer, tioated with it out into
the warning currents of populism, and
wary alike of chart and compass, he is
not and never will be certain where he
will he on any great issue.
The Force bill, at best a low down
party measure, met Mr.. German Oh Mr..
Germans level. Whether Mr.. German
really earned the praise he got for out
tricking that scheme is not known, for
Quay would never tell, and Teller would
never say how much golden silence on
silver he got for helping German at that
time.
But whatever of democratic gratitude
he obtained for the defeat of that in
famous measure, justly or unjustly, he
forfeited all of it i'll his campaign of
"perfidy and diShonor" against the demo
cratic party i'll 1892 to reform and chris
tianize the tariff laws For this crime
he was relegated to private life in 1898,
and there he should stay "unwept, I'M
hOnored and unsung"
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