The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-03-13
HAS TASK WHICH WILL TAX HIS
ABILITY.
DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITIES
MARYLAND Senator Favorable to Any
Candidate Who Possesses EIe-
ments of Success.

Chicago, March 11.-William T..
Curtis in special from Atlantic City,
N. j., to the Record Herald says: The
prompt selection Of Mr. German as
democratic leader of the senate
proves three things, namely that the
need of general manager was4unan-
imously conceded, that the ability OF
German was unanimously recognized,
that his attitude toward the old ticket
and the Kansas City platform was not
considered worth discussing.
Mr.. German has very difficult task.
Several of his younger colleagues are
not yet broken to harness, others are
wiser in their own conceit, while dur
ing the past two or three years the
lack of leadership and absence Of
party discipline have allowed them to
form habits of independence and self
assertion that will be difficult to cor
rect. Who, for example, will re-
strain the tumultuous Tillman, who
will teach Patterson of Colorado and
Carmack of Tennessee that the peo-
pie of this country do not want the
army abused, and who will dam the
flow of eloquence from the lips of the
venerable senator from Alabama?
do not think M. German will at
tempt any radical measures of re-
thence and cool headed and is accus-
toned to see people make fools Of
themselves. He will, however, ex-
ercise greater influence among the
democratic factors than has been felt
on that side of the chamber since
he left it and the respect and con-
fidence in which he is held will give
his advice great weight.
German is practical man of busi-
ness methods without vanity or love
of display and he understands Ameri-
can people and politics as we'll as
any one living. He knows what will
be approved by the people; there is
no better judge of public sentiment
than he is, and he is purely a party
man "a thorough. partisan for the
democracy, right or wrong. No one
in public life can compete with Sen
ator Aldrich, the republican leader as
successful as he. Mr. German is often
accused of being candidate for presi
dent and there is no doubt whatever
that he would like to reside in the
white house but he has cold common
sense and will sacrifice his own inter
ests and ambition foI the success OF
his party His candidate is Parker
or Olney or Francis, or any Other
man who can be elected.
l have met gentleman from Bos,
ton, distinguished member OF the
bar, who describes ex-Secretary OF
ney as passive but not active can
didate for the presidency" He says
that if Mr.. Olney felt little more
confident of his ability to carry the
country he might show greater in
terest in his own campaign but he is
entirely pessimstic concerning the
chances of his election. He regards
3 his nomination as an impossibility
also, for the reason that he thinks
the democrats will demand candi
date who can carry his own state
and Mr. O,ney realizes that he would
not have the slightest prospect Of
securing an electoral vote in his owr
section of the country.
To he elected the democratic can
didate for president must carry New
York, Indiana, Illinois or Ohio, Con
necticut, New Jersey, Maryland and
West Virginia and Mr.. Olney being 6
practical man without imagination, il
not hopeful of his ability to win these
electoral votes. He thinks that Judge
Parker is the stronger man because
he is certain of carrying the larges
state in the union. and his record OF
the labor question will give him tire
mendous prestige in Chicago, Cleye
land, Cincinnati and other large cities
and especially in the manufacturing
districts of Connecticut, New Jersey
Maryland, Ohio and elsewhere.
Judge Parker's decision from thu
New York court of appeals upholdins
the right of a laborer to strike fo
higher wages and better treatmen
and confirming the legality of thu
union label upon manufactured mer
chandise will give him backing from