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Show Arthur P. Gorman. 'B The greatest Democrat since Samuel B. Thur-man Thur-man passed away when Arthur P. Gorman died. JM He was the greatest organizer In the party; a most accomplished scholar, a thorough patriot through and through, a man who was always-big-ger than his party, who never for an instant for-got for-got his oath of office in all its significance, of the 'M same school of politics with Thurman and Randall and that class of men who believed wholly In Democratic principles, nnd who had visions broad enough, wldo enough to take in their whole coun-try. coun-try. On the tariff question ho stood where Thur-man Thur-man and Randall and Thomas Jefferson stood. Ho eschewed the Calhoun free trade idea, which fl caused him to clash with Mr. Cleveland, who, by jH the way, had never given five minutes thought to the tariff question until ho got his views from Dan Manning. Tho extremo men of 'M his party said that Mr. Gorman betrayed jfl his party when ho forced the amendments to the Wilson bill, but in point of fact ho saved tho party, for had that Wilson bill become a law H it would have put the Democratic party out of ' business for twenty years. Mr. Gorman was not ;H only a high minded statesman and tho ablest dl- H rector of his party, but his privato Hfo was abso- fl lutely clean and his domestic Hfo was a model of purity and peace. Ho was the ablest man that fl Maryland has given to tho country for two gen- fl orations. His grave will bo a sacred place on !fl Maryland's soil forever. fl |