New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-19
TROUBLES or 4 YOUNG GOVERNoR.

| II is worthy Of note that so soon rs any OF the
tidal wave Governors, who were looked upon
only fortnight ago as full OF all manner oil
promise and OVERLOOKING with Presidential pos
sibilities, begins making appointments or be-
slowing patronage, his promise willis, his large
possibilities suddenly fade and he all at once he
comes the very ordinary person he seemed be-
fore the wave caught him MP and tossed him in Il
dizzy moment on its fonmy crest. Phlosophic
observers of current politics foresaw this weeks
ago, and when the giddy and light-minded
were filling the White House with tidal-wavo
Governors, only smiled at the certainty OF dis
aDpontment and disgust which awaited the
prophets. There was one tidal-wave Governor
he came in as Governor of Newlork in
1s74-perhaps some Of cur readers remember
bim-his name was Tildcn-Samucl J.-who,
rartly by good luck and partly by his
own wit and shrewdness, managed to es-
cape shpNrcck on his own appointments.
and was nominated for President. But even
he was doomed to political death AT last 10y his
unsatisfactory division of the spells of his office.
Aud it is not too much TO say that OF all the
rising young statesmen whom the tidal wave
tossed up last November not one Is blessed
with the brains or can count on the luck OF
the late Mr.. I ildcn. II is getting TO be pretty
generally accepted as political maxim that the
way to kill off Democratic Presidential aspi-
rant is to put him in position where he has
handful of petty Offices TO distribute. Moth
ing so quickly changes his blaze of glory to
the fumes of sulphur.
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, is one of the
rising young Democratic statesmen who rode
gayly to the front on the November wave. He
has not it is true, been so much talked of for
President as hIs fellow wave-riders in New
York and Pennsylvania, for Connecticut is not
usually counted among the States that furnish
Presidential candidates for either party. but his
success in doubtful State raised him into such
prominence that be has been mentioned in
several quarters very promising candidate
for the Vice Presidency. Now there are not
many offices within the gift of n Connec
tlcut Governor, consequently but few snags to
shipwreck one. Few as they are, however, the
rising young Governor seems to have struck one
already. lie has discovered that he may have
views peculiarly his own OH taxation, temper
ance legislation, woman suffrage, tariff, finance
and railroads, and may promulgate them
without creating the least disturbance in the
party or affecting his own standing or future
prospects. But as soon as he begins to divide
up the places,at his disposal, the trouble begins
1t is not what he will do or what ho will recon-
mend to be done with regard to questions OF
National or State importance that agItates the
party that elected him; it is simply what he
will do with his small handful of patronage and
to whom will he give the Offices. The all
absorbing question that stirs the party to its
depths is, Who gets what2"
The best political appointment in Governor
with salary of three or four thousand dollars
and three years tenure IL has been rnmored
that he has offered the place to Mr.. William
Parsons, the Editor of The Aep- Hauon
Register, whereat the party, or "a considerable
portion of it, stands on end and bowls. For it
80 happens that The Register kicked at some of
the nominations of its parry at the last election
and thereby gave serious offence to that large
portion OF the Democratic Reform party who
believe i'll talking reform, but who, when 1t
comes to voting, will not tolerate independent
thought or action, aud can see nothing but rank
treason in the retention of Republican in
Office by Democrat. But Governor Waller rs
is well known in Connecticut, owes his nomina-
ton to The Register, which took him up early,
started a boom" for him, and against the
opposition of the older heads in the party made
O determined aud persistent fight for him till