The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
MIR. aoRMAN AND MARv1.ANn

The Birmingham Age-Herald has joined Mir Bankhead and is helping along the German boomlet in this State as much as it can. Yesterday 1t said:
 He lives in a contested State. and he comes back home with the avowed pur- pose 70 Keep his native State in the Dem- Scratc Ss. column The State Convention Governor who he may, MT. German will ne the wheelhorse in the campaign. and the belief is general that he will see that Demoeratic Governor is elected, al- though the State gave William Mckinley plurality of 13.94l.
 IT Maryland goes Democratic in Novem- per, nothing can prevent the nomination or MT. German next June.
 What made Maryland a contested State? It used to be as safe Demo- cratic stronghold as Alabama. MT. Cor man and Gormanism turned 1t into a Re- | publican State. His personality, his oossism Of his Party in Maryland, hls political methods, split the Democrac,. there, and the ticket he dictated was beaten because he dictated it. This is re- cent history and can't be disputed. Ma l tional issues had something to do with the result, but unquestionably it was mainly MT. German and his methods that divided the Party in his State and brought 1t to defeat.
 It is true that the Democrats secured control of the last Legislature and put him back in the Senate. But the ar and the courts have been full ever since of all sorts of charges as to the way in which he triumphed. He is an issue today, not only in Maryland as a whole, but in his own Party there. And if the State falls to go Democratic in this election, it will be mainly due to his personality and the intense mistrust of him by a large por- rion of the Party. It is this dangerous situation that has made him cut short h s European trip. and come home to try to save the day. Maryland would probably be more likely to go Democratic if he had staid away.
 It Is absurd to say. however that if Maryland goes Democratic, Mir. German Is sure to be the nskt presidential non,i- nee Maryland is normally Democratic, and Party leaders all over the country sN' ~ AS AASN hCy tO the political arch. It stands in no such re. lation to the success of Democracy as does New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Indiana. Any nominee who can carry Kentucky. Tennessee, or Alabama, can carry Maryland. And we believe that any Democratic nominee could get more votes in Maryland than MT. German.
 The Maryland Senator is very ambitious and quite foxy. He may hypnotize many Democratic Congressman and Washing ton correspondents, but he can not fool the bulk of the Party. He will not come any nearer being nominated than in 1892 when he had all the same forces organ ized for him as now. During the Chi caso Convention of that year he made A great fight for the nomination. and per- suaded many able Southern men that he had 1t in his grasp. Suddenly one night he disappeared, without notice to Uni, leading supporters, and left them high and dry without leader. He took care of himself, and left them much embar- rassed. Some of his enthusiastic Ala oama contingent should remember that lesson. They are liable to be left some time next year with their fingers in their mouths. Mir. German is foxy, and is. selfish.