The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
 STRONGLY FOR GORMAN

when he has been a member of the min ority. He has been a constant exempli- fication of ihe strong democratic idea that the senate is the conservative and balancing body of our republican system. The men who wove our fabric and whose system is still the wonder of the thought ful world, depend on the coming of such men as Arthur P. German to maintain the senate as the great conservator of a popular or representative form of gov ernment, to carry the ship of state past the sudden ebullitions of the common temper to weather the storms of the un- reasoning popular discomfort, and to throttle the spacious designs of dema- gogues and time servers who would ulti- mately carry us back to monarchical forms to gain prestige or power. The house of representatives, chosen every two years by direct vote of the people, is a necessary feature of the govern ment. The senate chosen for long terms and removed in some degree from the evanescent dangers of irrational clamor, is the steadying machinery of our sys- tenn, which holds things in check till the sober second thought is expressed at the polls; till the final court, the people themselves, pass with delberation on grave disputes.
 Mir German is the ideal senator. In his conception and performance no man runs closer along the lines of what the wise fathers intended. He stood like rock able courageous, diplomatic and strategic against the Force bill, and there is no one living to whom the country owes more from rescuing it from a return to a colonial system under a centralized auto cratic and arlstocratic power. He is the champion to whom the democrats of the United States, who still know why they are democrats. are beholden for keeping alive that bedrock principle which must be newly embraced by the party if it is ever to be successful at another election. He carries aloft by day and makes the beacon by night that marks the rallying and grasping of power by a party that has come to look upon the states, in their relation to the union, puny provincial establishments The course of MT. Cor man against force legislation has been justified by time, and even by the testi- mony of his opponents. He was on ground that every honest man could stand on. If he had been torpid ever since that one grea> achievement would entitle him to the democratic acclaim whenever lie chose to appear asking for an office nr submis- Sive to the common will
 MT. German has been an active partici- pant in the real affairs of the govern 1arof To hoe Ixyo accorded the post of leadership on the democratic side for many years, and has been gladly recognized by the republi- cans as one whose wisdom and patriotism could not be spared from their counsels affecting the general welfare. He has been an accomplished rarty leader, and has been too much devoted to the central idea of democracy to De switched from th9 main purpose by passing party action that may not have met with his full ap- proval He is neither a sycophant, a bolter nor a straddler. He has wonderful recuperation. He was out of the senate for four years, but at moment when the party struggle was the fiercest in Maryland he was triumphantly returned and immediately resumed his leading PCsieiOAi welcomed warmly by the best men on both sides of the chamber.
 He has been in the inner councils of his party when the democrats have been at their best; and the worst disasters have been when he has not been invited to participate in the enunciation of prin- ciples and the strategies of T campaign. He is equal in personal strensth to any man-and perhaps he is the strongest in those states which the democrats must carry to achieve the presidency in 1904 He has redeemed nis own state, and in New York, the storm center" of our quadrennial battles, ae ssancs as high in the affections O. the leaders and the rank and file as any of her disun- guished sons.
 The field is open. The En1uir'r co1n mends those democrats who are already accoutred for the fray under the direc tion of the democratic national conven- tion That body is to lay down the law and name the man. German is mt the only person for its consideration, but he is at least one of those wh jse n9mina ton would not be a mistake.