The age-herald., 1902-03-23

g> WAS in Washington several days
 during the past week, and heard much political discussion. was rather surprised at the un- animity of Democratic opinion in favor of Senator Arthur P. German of Mary land for the next Dem ocratic Presidential nomination I believe that without ex- aggeration eighty per cent of the Demo- cratic senators, ninety per cent of the Democratic representatives and ninety nine per cent of all other Democrats in Washington and those who are visitors there are in favor of Senator German. Our representatives in Congress almost without exception have confidence in the wisdom, the judgment the ability and the honesty of German. They believe in him and they believe that the people of this country-especially the business peo- ple-believe in him. German is undoubt- edly the wisest adviser, the most con servative and ablest man who is conspi- cuous in the party today. In his twenty or more years of legislative career he has made few mistakes He belongs to no section. The banker, the importer and the merchant of New York have that same degree of confidence in his states manship which is reposed in him by the farmer as well as the business man of Alabama He defeated the Force bill In the memorable Reed Congress. He is the man who will defeat the infamous Crumpacker resolution by virtue of his advice in the present Congress.
 
 MT. German is not in the Senate at present. His term will not begin until the 4th of next March, yet he is in Wash ihgton much of his time; having a home there and is in constant consultation with the Democratic leaders
 Senator German declined to accept the chairmanship of the Democratic Con- gressional campaign committee. He felt that he had no right to 1t, and his friends who are urging him for the Presidential nomination felt that he would not do ius- tice to himself nor his party to accept a merely political position of this charac- ter.
 Jim Griggs of Georgia, who represents the Second district of that State in Con gross, will be elected chairman of the Congressional committee. MT. Griggs will not, however, actively conduct the Congressional campaign this fall He will appoint campaign committee of nine, who will have actual charge and manage ment of the campaign. The chairman of this campaign committee will be Ben Ca ble of Illinois, an ex-member of Congress
 
 committee. Mr. Cable is considered one of the ablest Democratic politicians in this country. He is a man of consider able wealth as well as ability. He will be able to raise a great campaign fund where Mir Grggs could raise but little. MT. Gable himself is amply able to con- tribute hundred thousand dollars to the his personal wealth.
 Cable is confident that the next House will be Democratic. He is a close friend of Senator German and of all of the old line Democrats. He served in Congress with Mir Bryan and was one of his clos est personal friends, though he disagreed with the Nebraskan in some of his views which tended toward Populism
 By the way. MT. Bryan's apparent eagerness to appear in the public prints and defining himself on all questions which affect the party, got him in rather serious trouble last week when he i'm pulsively expressed himself on the ques- tion of the Crumpacker resolution MT. Bryan, in response to a telegraphic in qulry from the Washington Post ex- | pressed himself in favor of the Crum- | packer resolution, provided, as he ex- pressed it. it would take in the investlga- tion of election methods in Northern states as well as in the South. When he was informed by wire by the Nebraska delegation in Congress that the Crum- packer resolution had nothing to do with the investigation of election methods, but was for the purpose of Investigating whether certain Southern states had dis | franchised any of their voters with view to cutting down their representation