Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-11-28
FOR PRESIDENT:
Hon. A.P. German
Of Maryland.
SMITH VS.. RAYNER.

D MA
The Baltimore San of Wednesday con-
tanned an editorial under the caption of
"Mr. German and the Senatorship, in
which that paper pronounces well
merited eulogy on Senator German. and
no doubt truly diagnosis his position
with reference to the kind of man he
would like for colleague in the Senate.
But it does not follow because Senator
German desires something more than
"me too" colleague, that Mr.. Isadore
Rayner shall be that man. Mr.. German
would naturally wish man who can
help him carry out the great work now
cut out for the Democratic party in the
Senate.
The foreign relations of this country
to-day are in most critical condition.
Gradually. but surely, have we been
drifting away from the fundamental
political principles upon which our safe
ty and independence was based by the
founders of the Republic. Expansion.
the survival of the old plratical spirit of
our Norseman and Norman ancestry,
has brought us to the very verge of war
with more. than one nation with whom
we have no quarrel or right to quarrel.
Already the sound Of the fife and beat
of the drum is playing the long roll and
our squadrons are being assembled for
war against our sister republics in South
America, in case any of them refuse to
submit to our turbulence and arrogance.
We have apparently assumed the roll
of the national swashbuckler, and Eu.
rope as well as South America is alarm
ed. Millions are being spent by the
to keep us in order. At.home the great
est of all our problems are left unsolved
the negro question, the trust abomina-
tions, the tariff, subsidies. the guard to
be thrown around our public offices to
secure them from being made the mere
agencies of private theft by their officers
and employees, as recent developments
show they have been by Republican Off
Gals, and many other matters of grav-
est moment will crowd upon the atten-
ton of Congress, and must be settled.
or the country will cease to be "the land
of the free and home of the brave"
Of all these domestic problems per-
haps none are so difficult and delicate,
and forecast greater danger than the
ro1ofinnc hofxr MI u1 nd 1ol kl,o
struggle of capital to reduce the laborer
to serfdom-and the sturdy resistance
of the freemen who earn their bread by
the sweat of their brow from being de-
prived by the great corporations of their
right to ''life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness
> Now, with all.these questions the SEN
ators will have to ,grapple. Mr.. German
will be in the thick of the fight,
and he rauts, as well as mishes,
a man thoroughly informed ON them
all, not theoretically. as no doubt
Mr.. Rayner as. lawyer may be,
but practically. man of affairs-a
man who has all his life been engaged
in business requiring his attention and
study to be turned to the practical and
not the theoretical side of the questions
involved. A man whose course has been
steady, a man who does not blow hot
one day and cold the next. A man
whose ambition is to serve his state first
and the whole country next, and not to
be satisfied with making "rattling good
Speech" which, by the way, few men,
bers of the Senate ever listen to, or are
influenced by. But above all, at this
dangerous crisis in the affairs Of the
country. a man is needed who is eau
tious, conservative, thoughtful-notg Civ
en- to inconsiderate remarks, biting and
sarcastic, well calculated to sound a
trope. but equally powerful to make a
foe, whilst having no tendency to make
a friend.
But why shonld we elaborate the dis
cription of the man needed in this con.
tingency? The people know what they
want, and they know if they were to
heed Mr.. Germans advice they would
get such man.
1t does not require us to go far to find
him. Governor John Walter Smith is
such man, and If Mr.. German has set
tied upon him as the colleague he wishes
the people to give him, he has surely
made no mistake, and ought not to be
wheedled out of his desires by the siren
tongue of the Sun. We do not say this be-
cause Gov. Smith is citizen of Worces-
ter county, though we would naturally
lean to one of our own citizens, but be-
cause ace knOW the man, and are able to
speak of him from actual knowledge.
Mr.. German knows him. the people
know him-his life is an open book to
be read of all men-and if it can be said
ne has made errors, no man can charge
they were other than the ordinary err
rors of judgment.
We do not propose to contrast Mr..