, 1879-07-17
FILING AWAY AMBITION"

Tie Bri8adiers Of the late Congress safd
they would noyor-no, never-pass tho
necessary appropriations without the Demo-
cratic cancus riders. If TINT was revolution,
tho Republican party and tho country might
make tho most Of it. Thoy would nit in
Washington not only through tho dog-days
Of 1870, but tho dog-daya of 1880, down to
the 18th Of March, 1881 But they didn't.
rhoy pnssed the appropriations without cau-
Gus riders, and-wont homo wiser If not bat
ter mon. Alr. OAnrEn II. HARRISON, tho
man who proclaimed that he would mako
"tho best Mayor that Chicago ever had"
| ought to have loarned Lesson from bis
friends, the Congressional Drigadiers. hut
he didn't; md the result Is, that, 1neta-
phorically speaking, la lies fiat Oh his back,
not the great Mayor. but Tho great defoatodl
Mr. HAnntsoN was chosen 31ayor by very
large majority. A creator political mtsfor.
tune could hardly have happened to him.
Alr. HAnnrsoN docs not need "puf1ng";
he is so constituted, indeed, that
pulling" throws him quite off his
mental balance. Riding popular
wave is a difficult feat; it requires steadi-
| noss which roosnt evouts show to bo entirely
! lncking in Mr.. HAnnrHov's intellectual md
moral composition. ue seeIns 10 hayo u.s.
sumed on tho strongh Of his popular tna-
jorlty that the people OF Chicago, roposiug
implicit confidence in him, would trust him
to manage NIL departments Of tho Municipal
Government without regard to lilo instru-
meuts used. Straightwny he became dictn-
torial and dogmatic.Iw With wayo Of his
hand he ailonced advisors, saying, II nm
rosponsbls!" He took olEenso at Marshal
BESsEn because that official did not lay bis
resignation Mt his feot. Ho booamo cool
towards tho Aarshnl, mud seiz,d tie frat pre-
| text for quarrel. Shouting 1nsrbortsina-
| toni" ho cut OF BENNnn's Official head a.
coolly rs he would havo discharg ID porter.
Tie net produced deop disgust, thoro was
universal protest, and tho Council roiustated
tho decapitatel official. But this !. is
not aA. Slr. uAnn1soN has rudely
shalen tho confidence repased in
him. lie lns shown fatal
want Of Judgment. The removal Of DESxEn
WIGS hugo political b1under, sincu it shows
that tho Mayor was ignorant Of the Marshalg
strong hold upon popular esteem, or TINT lo
was himself iudiGrrent to popular sympathy
and support, But 1t was moro than polit-
ical bluntlor. II was trillug with thu tear-
ost interests Of tho city at The dictation of
nero oaprica, and this was q violation Of his
oath Of Office. Suppose Con. GRANT had
suspended Gen. SHERMAN in the midst of his
triumphant march to tho soa, replacing him
with M untried man? Tho oxact parallel Of
such supposed absurd act IL found in tho
removal Of the Marshal by tho Alayor. Mr..
HAnR1soN has paid dearly for hiH temerity.
by single false stop ho las dissipatcd the
general confidence in Lis practical common
aouso ability rs man. destroyed his pres
tigo rs politician, alouated tho Re-
pnblfcans who yotad for him,-antl
they numbered thousands,-placed him.
SELF in violent antagonistn to boti,
political parties III tho Council, and
divided tho Democratic party into factions.
Tic danger is TINT tho desperate condition
Of Mr.. HAanIsos'a fortunes as Mayor will
reuder him the pliant too1 Of tho Democratic
manngora Of looal polite. At tho outset he
undertook to aot inaependently,--that IL to
say, to conduct tho Democratic political ma
chino for his own exclusive benefit, without
regard to his associate ah1ofs, In imagtna-
tion he saw himself stepping from tho May
orally into tho Guberuatorial Office, alone
md unaidod. He Las stepped, tnstsad, Into Il
hornets neat, aud Il Is q question whethor ho
Ia not already stung to death politically. At
this coniuncture, Mr., GoupY, Judges TnuM-
NULL anl oT1s, Mr. Fu1LEn, Mr. KEnN, Afr.
uYNzs, md the rest OF the Democratic
managers Of Chicago, appear to stako
the errlng A1ayor In oharge. Doubtless the
ruu,or Is true that they advise him 10 rc-
nominate pEssEa. Il Is quite plain that this
ia the most honorable way out Of tho dli11-
Guilty. But 1t Is nevertheless as pronounool
rotreat rs the Drigadiers wero compelled to
beat lately in Washington. The proposed
rosreat may help the Democratic party out
Of tho morasa into which 1t has been plunged
by Mr. HARRISON; hut it won't help Mr.
HARRISON to the Govoraorship Of Illinots |!
TLsro's the rub In admitting that he has
bluntlered ogregiousiy aa the representative
Of the local Democracy, Mr. HAan1soX ad.
mits, in effect, that he ia not best fitted
to lead the Democracy Of tha State to victo.
~ In 1880. ;
In renominating BRNKKn AIs. HARn1soN can
scarcely help bong painfully conscious that
llo aurrondors to his associate party managers.
i'll which event thoy, not be. will dictate tho
State Convention delegation OF 1880. 4
humorous fellow oncs qusrled whetl,or any.
body was ever known to die In thirty days.
lie did not refer to political death. Political
fortunes arc aasily wrecked. 4 little more
than ninety days ago Mr, H4Ra1soN was
chosen MaYor BY all oYerwA- lining majority