Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1903.
WILL HAVE TO HUNT AGAIN.

prominent Democrat some time ago
said his party was without an issue and
without a leader. That this was true has
been proven by the eager search which
the Democracy has been making for both
or either duung the past twelve months.
They concluded that it was necessary to
renounce the leadership of Bryan and the
issues made by the Chicago platform, on
whom and with which they were enabled
in 1896 and 1900 to fuse all the discOrdant
elements that were counted as Democrats.
As soon as it was determined that Mr..
Bryan would have to be discarded aud the
Chicago platform abandoned the hunt for
new leader and new Issue was COM
menced. Occasionally since the search be-
gan some prominent party man or news
paper declared thai one or both had been
found, and a great shout would be sent up
by The faithful. Hill, Cleveland, Parker
and others were discussed and passed in
review and their respective views on most
questions were debated at much length in
Democratic newspapers. There was so
much in the record Of each of these that
was calculated to repa the masses that
they were each and all placed in the mex
pedient class, and they were cast aside as
possibilities. Then a steady movement
was commenced 10 concentrate and
crystalize party sentiment for Hon. Arthur
Pue German of Maryland. He had long
been considered shrewd, careful poll
tician, one without any particular record
that could be turned against him. 1t
seems, however, that there is a skeleton in
the German closet.
The campaign which has just been
closed in Maryland, with the election for
State officers last Tuesday, assumed such
form that Mr.. German found it necessary
tote,ect some special issue on which to
line up his forces. 1t seems that he was
unwise enough to select the race issue as
the one which would serve his purposes
best, and he began to howl about negro
domination AMI talked of making the race
question an issue in the next National
campaign. This was so ridiculous and I'M
wise that even many Southern newspapers
spoke out and said it would not do. They
declared that while it would be a strong
issue at the South it would not do to make
it in the Northern and Western States,
MIR. German new issue was speedily re-
pudated by his party. That was an IN
fortunate sci back for him, but his mis-
fortunes did not end there. Such ex.
treme views on the race question and his
pronounced hostility to the negroes as
voters caused g search to be made for his
former record on those questions 1t re
suited in tie publication in the Baltimore
Sun of a political biography Of Mr.. Cor.
man. The disclosures made by that
biography destroy all bis chances for tie
Democratic nomination for President in
1904. 1t is charged that he held Office as
a Republican during and after the war,
and that he was in sympathy with the Re-
publican policy Of reconstruction, inciud
ing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution. 1t is also
charged that he assisted in putting upon
Maryland what has been called the odious
Radical Constitution.
Perhaps, Mr.. German thought his
record was wiped out or had been for
gotten. But be has been exposed as a
turncoat, and will lose favor with the
Southern Democracy. So the Democratic
party will haye to resume Its hunt for a
Presidential candidate and for an issue.