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Show I THE LATE SENATOR GORMAN. A cool, calculating, shrewd politician has fallen asleop. Although a Demo- j crot, ho never allowed h(s politics to . . staa in tho way of his business inter- ests. - While committed ' To'1 tariff reform, re-form, ho was at heart a protectionist. Ho was an enemy in politics, ol 1 I course of Stephen G. Cleveland, nntl that fact endeared him to many. Gorman Gor-man was n leader becauso of his astuteness and coolness'. Ho never lost his head at any tlmo, but went right along In the oven tenor of his way. If an obstaclo was too great to surmount ho dodged around It. If he couldn't go around It, ho dived un-Ho un-Ho was schooled In politics, having .begun active life In the legislative ' body of which ho was a member at death, as a page, appointed through the efforts of Stcphon A. Douglas. From 1852 until 18CG ho was In tho employ of tho senate tho latter portion of the I tlmo being postmaster. In tho year last mentioned ho was romovod, but was almost Immediately appointed In-ternal In-ternal revenue collector for Maryland. Tho Grant administration supplanted him with another man and ho ran for tho legislature and was elected. Ho was soloctod speaker of tho house In 1871. Later ho becamo president of tho Chosapeako & Ohio canal, went to the stato senate, and In 1880 was selected se-lected to represent his stato In the United States senate. Ho was reelected re-elected In 188G and In 1892, and was then retired to private life until 1902 when ho was sent back. His term of offlco would have expired March 3 1911. His death puts tho Rayner forces In tho saddlo In Maryland Without Gorman as a leader, his fol lowers nro helpless. C. M. Jackson In Stato Journal. |
