The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-15

| lfthere was anyone who doubted in
| 1895 that the ticket of that year was
\ the output of the finn in question,
| there can be no doubt of the simon
pure genuiness OF the firms product
this year
First, there is Mr.. Edwin Warfeld,
the Gubernatorial nominee of Mr..
| German. Mr.. Warfield is par excel
lence the candidate of the machine.
Beneath the borrowed plumage of''in-
dependence" under which he is now
strutting are the vivid stripes and
colors' of the Old Gang. He has new
! er regarded, never served anything
but the German Rasin Ring. In the
State SenaGe back in the eighties he
was its chosen representative and
mouthpiece, and at Germans behest,
voted against the confirmation of all
he appointees of that great Independ
ent Democratic Governor, WILLIAM
| Il. HAMILTON.
During the palmy days of the Ring
preceding 1892, when fraud, violence
and outrage werenotoriOusly its main
stay, the record-the open, certain.
undeniable record, staring every man
in Maryland in the face-shows Mr..
Wartield as the willing servant, the
unfailing ally, the constant officehold-
er of its long and odious regime. Dur
ing the uprising of 1895 Mr.. Warfield
was the open apologist of the German
Rasin gang, and the defender of the
scandalous practices which LED to the
great revolution of that year
But there is even more than this to
be said abo ut the candidacy of Mr..
w artield. In nominating him the
firm yielded entirely to the personal
wishes and interests of its senior mem
Der, Mr.. German. Mr.. Rasin, it is
understood, was not enthusiastically
in favor of Mr.. Warfield's nomination.
1t was Mr. German who preferred Mr..
Wartield to Mr.. Baughman or Mr..
Jones,or anyone else, andinsisted per-
emptorily upon his nomination. This
decision of Mr.. Germans was more
offensive than such an act of personal
dictatorship ordinarily is. 1t furnishes
the worst example of nepotism in
American history. Mr.. Germans SON
in-law enjoys, by Mr.. Warfield's APP
pointment position paying $4,000
per annum in the service of the Trust
Company of which Mr.. Warfield is
president. I'm do the service for so
good a gift said Gloster to Warwick.
Nor was this all Mr. Germans son
Arthur P. Jr., was a candidate in
Howard county for the Democratic
nomination for the State Senate, ard
had Mr.. German turned Mr.. Warfield
down his sons chances for that nom
ination would have gone glimmer-
ing. To maintain the position of his
son in-law and to secure his sons
nomination for the Senate Mr.. Cor
man had to crafty Mr.. Warfelds de-
mand for the Gubernatorial nominal
ton, and he had to do it in the very
teeth of the opposition of all his lieu
tenants saving one-in the whole
State. A more execrable act of nepo-
tism is not to be found in history.
Mr.. German haying had his way,
Mr. Rasin, too had to be gratifed, so
his private counsel, Mr.. Bryan, to
whom ne had promised the nominal
ton for Acknowledgement months be-
fore the primaries was named for
that office. Everybody knows Mr..
Bryan's record rs an ultra machine
man. For years he has been one of
the legal advisers of the Ring, and
was the counsel for Captain Bians,
Mr.. Holland and the Ring election
officials during the campaign of 1895.
He, too, like Mr.. Warfield, was on
the stump for German and Rasin
during the whole of that campaign.
DR.. Atkinson in 1895, was defeated
as the Ring candidate for the State
Senate from Somerset county. He is
| the personal selection of the bombast-
ers furioso of Somerset, the windy,
wordy, bullying, swashbluckling
henchman of Gorman-Mr. Joshua
w. Miles-whom The Sun covered with
derision and ridicule in 1895 for rub
bling pepper into the wounds of Mr..
Hurst" by declaring that 1.-The meth
Cd of his nomination was a mark of
| honor'l
The issue. then, OF this campaign is
whether the old firm shall go on rul-
ing this State; whether German and
Rasin shall continue supreme or be
shaken off; whether their methods
shall be continued or trampled under
| foot; whether their long and corrupt
reign shall at last be ended and a
new era of reform and progress shall
| be opened to the State.
DEMOCRAT.