The Jersey City news., 1906-06-08

Mr.. German fe1t.toward him WAS brought
into the opne. 1t took the form Of the
senfasetlatien or tiTes4s iilsen=- tariff hill
into virtually Republican. measure The
Laodicean hodge-podge of law was
elected from the respect of the people.
1t aroused the contempt of President
Cleveland, who let it become a law with
out his signature, when he could far bet,
ter have vetoed it.
When Mr.. German in the Senate made
an attack upon the President, whom SEN
ator Hill defended and justified with a
gallantry that should never be forgotten
We hope that convinced Mr.. Cleveland
of Mr.. Hills manliness and magnanimity
in national Democratic politics. We know
it should have done so. Both German
and Hill in State politics had accounts
with State opponents to settle, bu the
New Workers rating in Democratic nat
ional politics should be recalled to' his
credit. That of the Maryland man can
not be, as toward Grover Cleveland, nor
can Mr.. Cleveland a steward Mr.. Cor
man be credited with any measure of
confidence or policy of liberation. The
two, We're congenially hosile. The Mary
lander had the art of self-control to dis
semble his anthipathy for a long while.
= .Fhe former President had not. His
tory will have no difficulty in settling
whether honesty proved the best policy
or policy the best honesty.
One can further contrast the course
of German and Hill toward Cleveland;
in 1892, and afterward, with profit, In
1892 both German and Hill were as
pirants for the Democratic nomination
for. President Atss the National Con
vention. Mr. Hill was Overwhelmingly
beaten, but he made the fight and
though utterly discomftted, he accepted
his lot, and worked with all his might
for Mr.. Cleveland's reelection. Mr.
Gorman retreated from even. the test of
a ballotas His efforts for Mr.. Cleveland,
that year, may have escaped criticism.
+ They certainly escaped observation The
rest is on record, including the emascu-
lation of the Wilson law and the gross
assault on Mr.. Cleveland in the Senatei
where Mr.. Hill defended the latter and
assailed the Marylander, with. vigor
and versatility that added to the asperity
of Democracy and to the gayety of ma
tions.
We know that Senator German by
strategy and indefatigability beat the
Force bill. But he committed the Dem
ocracy to an alliance with the Free Sill
Iver Democrats and Free Silver RepubIi-
cans in S96, which entailed on Democ-
sracy Bryanism and its consequences. The
consequences were seen in the national
elections of 1868, of 1900 and of 1901
They have not all been reaped yet. Mr..
Roosevelt has bent Republicanism to not
a few courses to which Mr.. Bryan urged
Democracy. A singular result is the
suggestion of Mr.. Bryan himself in sew
eral quarters as a conservative force, to
sundry Republicans and Democrats as
against Messrs. Roosevelt and Hearst,
the terrible infant sof contemporary poll
ties. The price paid for beating the
Force bilP' has not yet been fully collect
ed, but the shifts toswl1ieh parties 1iave
|,resorted are manifest, though not easily
de6nable. Mr.. Roosevelt ha syet to deal
with the Republican Germans, who are
not few, but he seems to have them on
the hip more effectively than Mr.. Cleve-
land had streir & p DemoeMp Mpatic-antetypes.
The national political consideration of
Mr. German is all that outsiders can
well consider. His account with and
within his party in his state belongs to
t Maryland Democrats-and they put 9th
ers of their number over and beyond him
in consideration and control. Contempo-
rary Maryland Democracy became anti
German, before mortal Illness struck the