The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22

I F"uAhA VS.
Russian tongue.
-, King Edward has nine motor cars.
Prince Louis Napoleon is a General in the
Russian Army This is not A reminder of Mos
COW, 1912,
In 1000 we sold to Cuba goods to the value
of 81. zoo, 6IS and bought from her SSi ,747, 22S.
Last year our Imports from Cuba amounted to
Ss6, s57 $50, and we exported to Cuba 4A'Sos's i2'
b Rufus Bullock, the only Republican ever
elected Governor OF Georgia aud who played
a,cohspicuons part In. the reconstruction Pc
riod, Is now spending his declining days In the
villa se OF Albion, n. ", his boyhOod home.
Senator Germans seat IN the. United states
Senate was formerly occupied by stephen A.
Douglas OF Illinois. Linooln's great and I'M
successful rival and the early political pre-
ceptor and mentor of German Douglas made
German. when a lad Of 10. a Senate page.
German Is 50 i'll that many of his old friends
do not believe he will return to his seat In the
Senate. Chauncey i, Black In 1890. speaking
OF Gorman's defeat OF the Force bill, said:
1T Is possible that In time. at some degen'
crate period not now anticipated, the Demo.
cratic party, TO which has been committed
the keeping OF free institutions In this country,
may forget the inatchless service performed
in this instance BY Arthur p. German and his
AbtbhNAF v ~ - NfN'
equal. chivalrously accepted and obeyed his
leadership for the common good: but IL Is
not likely. IL is a service which will grow in
the public estimation as the years roll on.
and as the blessings OF self government. thuS
saved. shall become more and more. APP
parent.
MIR. Black also said Of uorman at that time:
Nor is this the first time Mr.. German has
saved the Democratic party from disaster.
when his share in the election OF President
Cleyela nd and In the defeat OF the monopoly
plot TO count him out and defraud the people
of their choice. as In 1877, comes to be fully
written it win be u chapter of extraordinary
revelations. But for his order. issued on his
owl responsibility TO the Democrats to cele-
brate that victory and keep on celebrating 1t
day and might until It should be acknowledged.
the country would not have been aroused
to the machinations of the monopolists until
TOO late, and Cleveland would have been
placed where Tilden was. The real leader
of 80 was the self-same leader OF 80, who
now. upon the higher stage, and in full view
OF an anxious country. has shown, In admira-
BILE development. knowledge sagacity, cour-
tesy and resolution, so commingied as to
make the almost perfect political ohieftain.'
German never liked Cleveland and Cleve-
land couldn't abide German. Yet it was
German who In a personal conversation
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charge Of ingratitude to William C. Whitney
after the OF campaign.
Whitney had nominated Cleveland and
engineered the campaign. After the triumph
q story was circulated that Cleveland had
turned his back on Whitney. Many in the
inner circles of the Democratic party believe
that yarn to this day.
As a matter of fact Cleveland wrote a letter
TO Whitney Offering him any place within his
gift either at home or abroad" Whitney
couldn't speak Of the letter for publication.
but he showed it to German. whose only
reply was: ..
Il didn't think old Pepperpod had it in him
to write such a letter"
Later. on German told the story Of Cleve-
lands offer to Whitney to a few Of his init
mates.
Germans illness recalls another hitherto
imprinted incident. He and the late Dan
Voorhees,, for many years United States
Senator for Indiana and the original Simon
pure Tall Sycamore of the Wabash. were
loppoeed to Cleveland nomination at. Chicago
in 1892. Whitney was Cleveland's manager
In that convention.
Two nights before Cleveland was nomi-
mated Voorhees, and a bunch OF, Indiana
dele gates and several delegates from other
States called on whitney. In q formal speech
10 whitney Voorhees, declared that he. Whit
ney, was the only man who could reconcile
the warning New York State factions and
that he must permit MS name 10 go oeiore
the invention.
TWO pink spots ike tins suns rose WIZ
ney's cheeks as ne ~peremptorhy cut voorhees,
short.
"lhat IL no. 'oorhees. ne sa'u' neIe
for Cleveland, You know It, Let's have
no more of this nonsense.
cleveland didn't know Of this episode
until long afterward.
49,
John j. Cummins OF syracuse ia q candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor on the Democratic
State ticket this fail' ne is 40 ana began liie
selling newspapers and now he is at the
head OF one OF inc 'arees' eorpo[a.'ons III
~ S'a IN ~ Syrsomse and the snr,
Nn,cn euppmuS LEI ,ioht
rou"o'"s
Tan DAYS before President Roosevelt de-
,ivored his sneech, on The Man With the
Muck Rake" Representative Longworth de-
ltvereo q speeeh wiz" u sA'ne 't, Nt'oseo'
but then the ffesluen' . soI-Ir-aM hearu ms
father-ln-ia" denver 'he socn nane speecn
minus the progressive income laH leaouIe al
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