Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-12-03
HIS GREATEST FIGHT.
GOrman's Effort to Capture the DEM
Ocratic Nomination Is
Hard One.

German is making the fight of his life
in Maryland His issues are Down
with the niger" and up with the
trusts" German stood in with the trusts
when he made the German Wilson tar
iff, and he has been standing for the
trusts ever since. He wishes to cut out
Cleveland as a friend of the trusts and
he means to do it, and he knows that by
standing for "a white mans govern
ment' he will have the solid south, says
the Boston Journal.
No doubt among the political demo-
Gratis German stands much higher than
Cleveland. Germans recent bitter at
tack upon President Roosevelt, on ac-
count of the colored race, is intended to
make the south solid for German. Cor
man hates Cleveland and is bound to
have the trust builders with him.
Cleveland few months ago was re-
garded as the choice of the speculative
elements in Wall street. German notes
that Cleveland did not say anything
against Roosevelts handling of the coal
strike and the trust question. German
made a bid for the Wall street support.
German remarked that the president
was 'imprudent in interfering with mat
ters which did not properly belong to
his office and that, therefore, he had un-
settled business" He was standing in
with Baer and standing against refer
ence. The ice is pretty thin along there.
This attack of German on Roosevelt
is received with amusement in Wash
ington: for it discloses the hypocrisy of
the antitrust professions of the demo-
Gratis. When Roosevelt ordered that the
law which President Cleveland did not
enforce must be enforced to regulate
trusts to find the leading democratic
candidate for the presidency declaring
that Roosevelt is imprudent and is un-
settling busines ss"-imprudent because
he enforces law enacted for that pur-
pose! The negro-phobia and pro-trust
platform of the democracy, accordingly,
is the high bid which German makes for
the leadership of the democratic party
next year. And four years ago the
democrats claimed to be the only simon
pure antitrust party!
Including Maryland, the old southern
states run by race hatred will have 2S2
votes in the next democratic national
convention. To this vote may be added
the vote of Missouri making 31S in all.
In the north the trust proposition will
be made prominent, but the notification
of the fifteenth amendment is for south
ern votes. German hopes, by opposing
the administration trust regulation
policy, to get the democratic delegates
from the New England states, from New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware. Thus German would have
more than a majority of the votes of the
convention, and that would be a good
start for the necessary two-thirds. But
democratic papers in the north warn
German that he is playing with fire
that the north will resent race war.
But a factor to be reckoned with is
Tom Johnsonism and Organism. While
German has drawn up plan which
seems to him to read well, he must
reckon with those Organized forces in
the democratic party which in 1900 and
In 1896 dominated the party. 1t is not to
be supposed that the forces which were
in majority in two national republican
battles, will be silent or unimportant in
1904.
The republicans do not disguise their
satisfaction with Gormanism as an issue.
In 1896 Gormanism was an issue from
the tariff point of view and the repub-
licans elected Mckinley with a rush. In
1904 if Gormanism is brought forward
again, not only in the matter of tariff,
but in the matters of wind water in
trusts and negrOphobia. the republicans
will unhesitatingiy indorse the part
which the president took in enforcing
the law regulating the great corpora
tions. The republicans will stand solid
ly for the protection of capital against
promoters and of labor against exploit
ers.
What will become of the Bryanite
contingent if such men as German are
nominated? Unquestionably there will
be socialist ticket which will largely
divide the democratic vote.