The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-01-17
iBR. GORMAN RETURNED TO THE
SENATE.

BR. GORMAN RETURNED TO THE
SENATE.
On Tuesday at noon, the Maryland
StaIe Legislature, by vote ofseven-
teen to seven in the Senate, and fifty
one to forty-three in the House, re-
turned ex-senator Arthur P. German
to the United States Senate as the
successor of George L. Wellington,
whose term will expire the fourth
dav of March 1908. Treasurer
Murray Vandiver was reelected at
the same time, receiving sixty-nine
votes in both Houses on the joint
ballot. AS delegate Isaac Lobe
Straus of Baltimore City cast his
ballot for Douglas H. Thomas and
Mr.. Vandiver received one vote more
than Senator German, it would indi-
cate that he not only polled the full
vote of his party, but two Republ-
can votes in addition.
Thus has the will of the majority
of the people of Maryland been graft
fed. 1t required time, patience and
perseverance, but backed with ability
and integrity of character, both in
public and private life, Mr.. German
is at last where the people desire
that he should be. Since his retire
ment from the United States Senate
his loss to the country has been re-
GREETED both by those of his own
political faith as we'll as his adver-
saries. He has been recognized
throughout the United States as one
of the ablest men that the toga Of
S>.nator has ever adorned, and, since
his retirement to private life, his adj
vice has been frequently sought on
u.any important matters of state.
Hestands today in rather an unique
pAsition in the eyes of his country.
Since the disruption of the Democratic
farty in 1896 there has been no one
TO assume the delicate position of re-
organizing and bringing together the
discordant elements. On the money
question many Democrats honestly
differed some going SO far as to sup
port the opposition candidate for
President, rather than endorse the
radical views of Mr.. Bryan. The
party seems to have about run its
race in this direction and Democrats
without regard to recent utilization
have signifed their intentions to re-
turn again to the fold should the
proper leader assume the position of
acting as nucleus around which the
party could rally. The Ii ht ofrecent
events would seem to indicate that |
Mr.. German is the man on whom |
this responsibility should rest. The
question that is occupying the minds
of the leaders throughout the country
is whether or not he will be able to
rise to the responsibility of the occa-
sion. Should he prove himself equal
to this task he will be the natural
and logical candidate of the Demo-
cratic party for President in 1904.
No one can assert with more than
the positiveness of his own convic-
lions that Mr.. German will be the
proper man to bring about what we
all desire-a reunited Democratic
party. We can only judge the future
by the past and if we take his record
while in public life it can bese that
he has always proven himself equal
to any duty that has fallen to his lot
to perform. Easily the leader in the
United State Senate, he was several
times called upon to steer the party
throughout dangerous passages, and
success always crowned his efforts.
Tn only defeat with which he has
ever met was the treachery of those
who professed to be his own people.
w On the State of Maryland re-
r. 'ated him and turned to the
W ship of strange gods it was
re- grade movement, that has taken
$ ral years to efface. With Mr..
G.. an safely at the helm it is not
t. luch to say that the Democratic ,
p - would never have undergone I
t., ecent disasterous defeats that {
Sic has encountered. I
is to he hoped that now that his ,
SEA in the United States Senate is ,
assured, his petty traducers will t
abandon picayune politics and recog- {
nizc that MARYLAND has within her I
Dor icrs man who is above the ordi- +
nary level Impractical politics, andis 5
what the rest ofthe country has seen
for some years pasta statesman of t
which we all might we'll be proud. t
EXIT RICHARD CROKER. II
On Saturday, Richard Croker, who c
has been at the head of Tam t
II any Hall, New York, since o
1886, announced his formal re- a