The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-26
.G0RMAN Will mot .
RETURN TO SENATE
Active Career Of Maryland Poll
tician Believed Ended by III
durable Disease.
is NOW UNDER TREATMENT
Will Be Rcckoncd With No
Longer As Factor il Ma
tional Politics.

1lrro,n orr. tanr,,lar t.nrrosnondent.l

ORION Our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, y. G., April 2S.--lt is
feared TINT Senator German Will not re-
turn to the Senate. 1lo has been IN his
scat but very little this session. llc mas
not boon in tho Senate chamber for many
weeks.
1t is stated on good authority that the
Senator is far from being a. well mum nun,
lie Is suffering from an obstinate trouble
which has thus far refused TO ylcld 70
treatment. Tho best physicians or thls
city and Baltimore have endeaNored III
vain to afford relief Mr.. German remains
ut his home ut Laurel, midway between
Baltimore and tho national capital, calm
" watching the endcnrors OF me men
of medicine to overcome n trouble whlch
they will probably never cure.
His Long Career
1t Is not Senator Gorlnnn's age that Is
telling on him. lie is stll In the sunny
sixties, and his carriage. and genera
bearing are those OF Il younger man. ilo
has served twenty-five years In the sen
: ute, though not continuously. First elect
ed in 1880, lie served without interruption
until 1899, when he was succeeded by
George l.. Wellington, Republican,, put
In 1909, the 4 Maryland Legislature re-
Gleclcu NIT. aIiOtlllSll, anu i'S tooN 49,
IN 1903 AS soon rs he was returned TO
the Senate, Mr. German was chosen 10
the position or minority loader, posi-
ton which he still holds. although Mr..
Bailey has been dischnrgng the duties
of leader during this session. owing to
the ill-health Of the Maryland Senator.
Mr.. German, Henry G. Davis ana Re-
preventative Thomas b. Davis, or west
Virginia, were neighbors years ago In
Il + tty q I.
man was born there, March H. 1889, ana
tho Davises removed there from Baltl-
more when they were children. The per-
sonal hnd political friendship which has
existed between tho two families since
has had a decided influence on party poll
tics. Mr.. German served as page IN
the United States Senate from 1852 untll
1866 and his recollectons OF the stirring
debates Immediately preceding the great
civil conflict, and during the war, may
be embodied in q volume which, 1t Is un-
dcrstood, Mr.. German has.contenplated
publishing. Mr.. German was In charge
of the Senate ,postofllco when he was
removed in 1866 and was appointed collect
or of internal revenue for the fifth dis
trlct Of Maryland. President Grant re-
moved him, and then he entered the State
Legislature. serving in first one branch
and then the other until his election TO
the Senate in 1880.
Very III Man.
From his entrance into the Senate. Mr..
| German was one OF the most influential
members of the body. His faculty for
| organization, his shrewd Judgment, his
absolute impertubability and equnlmity
of temperament. eminently lifted him for
| the position OF leader Of his associates.
Those who hated him followed him. and
those who followed generally had to adj
nit that his course was the proper one
| to pursue.
Several times 1t has looked as though
| he would be the Democratic nominee to
| tho presidency. It is universally admit
| ted that he could have been the nominee
| in 1892 when Mr.. Cleveland was elected
the second time, but for some reason
still unknown to his most intimate friends
Senator German declined the honor OF
leading his party in what proved VIC
torious contest. In 1904, his friends
claimed, and still claim, he could have
been nominated. but he acted with UNI
wonted indecision in the matter, and on
the eve of the convention declined to
allow his name to be presented.
AS a factor in tho nationl politics, Mr..