Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-11-03


merit of Mr.. Goldsborough, Mr.. William II.
Jackson, Mr. VIM. P. Jackson, Mr.. VIM F.
Stone, Mr.. Bill" Stewart and others who are
tied up in the bundle Of Republican sticks.
The Republicans have been able to get off
with comparison between Mr.. German
and mythical Republican angel, between
Democratic outlook blackened by election
frauds and City Hall abuses and a Repub-
lican millennium.
The simple fact is that Mr.. GoldsborOugh
is nice gentleman, Federal job-holder
and Dorchester county politicians eeu-
lar of regulars, a Republican from the
ground up.
Mr.. German won the Democratic nomi-
nation fairly in an open and hOtly con-
tested primary. Nobody believes that there
is cloud on his title. He got the real
votes. He received a popular majority in
the counties as well as in the city. MahOn's
support, while essential to him, concerned
only % votes out of total of 1873 in the
convention which gave him the nomination.
Mr.. Germans warmest supporter today
is his late opponent, Blair Lee. He stands
on platform part of which Lee and his
friends made and all of which they ap-
proved German went further than his
platform in definite pledges to shut the
organization out of the Baltimore boards
upon which so much of its power rests.
No Democratic candidate for Governor
ever gave such satisfactory assurances on
these matters.
Let us admit that German was an Or
ganization man and that he had the pow
erful support of the organization though
not as much as Edwin Warfeld and
Crothers, who were the direct choice Of
the organization leaders, whereas German
had to poll majority in a primary but
let us admit that he was an organization
man, that he had been "reactiOnary" in
his tendencies and that his legislative
record was subject to serious objection.
When man Of this type goes through
primary and after winning by slender
margin comes up frankly with the admis-
sion that he realizes that his attitude in
politics has not been up to date and that
he proposes to profit by experience and
adopt progressive position so as to en-
able him to make for himself a better
record in the public life of his State, ought
such man to be kicked back into the
mire and darkness of Bourbon politics
Where is the cause of good government
to get its recruits from if not from the old
political environment from which Edwin
Warfeld, Crothers and German came?
AS German has said, he is either lying
or he is telling the truth. If he is lying in
what he has said on matters touching his
future relations with practical politics
and he has made his pledges in such de-
| finite form that he cannot help being caught
If he should be lying-he will be the most
thoroughly discredited and despised man
in the public life of Maryland.
The Sun does not believe that he is
either liar or hypocrite. We think he
is bluff, honest young fellow, apt to open
his heart to friendly impulses, brought up
in the old school of spois politics, fond of
public life, ambitious for political career
and willing to learn how to get on in it
from the most enlightened leaders in his
party. By common consent he is fearless.
His mistakes have been those Of a man
overdevoted to friends. Nobody has ever
driven him an inch When Mahons great
est interest at Annapolis was to stop the
anti-gas legislation, two years ago, Cor
man could not be budged from his position
in favor Of the repeater bill and his ser
vices were indispensable in putting that
legislation through.
Believing that no situation exists re-
quiring a dismissal of the Democratic party
from power in the State, trusting Mr.. Cor
man to carry out his pledges, looking to
the primary system as the permanent
solution of the problem of Democratic
emancipation from ring influence, and be-
lieving that Republican success would
leave the city Democratic machine I'M
harmed, The Sun advocates the election
of German. Poe and Harrington.