Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-02
Dissensions I'm the Republican

Everything is by no means lovely in
the Republican Camp in California
While the ridiculous pretense is being
made that the State will go for Harrison
and Morton, there is, nevertheless, a
deep undercurrent of dissension and
,heartburning. We do not pretend to rest
this statement upon the unsupported au-
thority of the HERALD. The Sacramento
Record Union of the 30th ultimo contained
q very racy and instructive article from
which we propose to quote freely. Most
Californians of any length of residence
know that this journal is one of the rep
resentative Republican dailies of the Pa
cific Coast. The article is all the more
suggestive because the paper is sup
posed to reflect, in very particular man.
ner, the most maturely considered views
of the magnates who control the South
ern Pacific Railway.
Under the head, "Obstr ucting Side Is
Sues" the Record Union tells a great
many plain truths. 1t first reproduces
the interview had by reporter of the
Chronicle With Col. Creed Raymond, in
which that gentleman said that if Harri-
son is elected President, Morris M. Estee
will have position in the Cabinet, and
John F. Swift will be sent as Minister to
China. A Republican, high in the con-
fidence of the party leaders, who resides
in San Francisco, also placed himself on
record to the effect that James G.. Blaine,
in the same unlikely event, is to be Sec
retary of State. Commenting upon these
authoritative outgivings, the Record
Union says:
"The men whose names are thus hawked
abou. in connection with high official
position, dependent upon the success of
the party whose cause they espouse, are
forestalled in public estimation. When
James G. Blaine enters upon a canvass
of the country in favor of the Republican
cause, he will not be recei we'd as the dis
interested advocate of Republican prin-
ciples and convictions, but will be re-
reduced to James G. Blaine. the canGi-
date for Secretary of State. Bringing the
matter nearer home, when Messrs. Estee
and Swift appear before the California
public, their zeal and enthusiasm will be
divested of all color of disinterested-
ness. They will stand before their au-
dience, not as exponents of principles, but
as interested candidates for cabinet and
diplomatic positions. We presume
the gentleman who claims to
know Mr.. Harrison's mind on
the subject of the appointment of Secre-
tary of State, and the other gentleman,
who with so much confidence asserts that
Mr. Estee is to have cabinet position
and Mr.. Swift the appointment of Minis
ter to China, know whereof they speak.
Such statements should not be, and we
presume are not, lightly made. There
muut be assurances from very high
sources to justify these more than pre-
dictions. They indicate degree of
frankness on the part of the Republican
candidate, however, quite unfortunate in
an aspirant for any Office, from the high
est to the lowest. In the higher schools
of politics silence is golden virtue in a
candidate for President, and is equally
valuable in those who pretend to know
the inward intention of the candidate in
all it's breadth and depth. In fact the
more completely Mr.. Harrison may have
given his confidence to any man or set OF
men, the more binding becomes the
obligation of silence"
This is very undisguised intimation
from an influential Republican source
that inspirant Harrison is victim of the
sstoo muchee talkee" vice, and that his
intimates on this Coast are in the same
category. Very few unprejudiced OBJ
servers will be disposed to differ with the
Sacramento editor. General Harrison,
judging from his frequent speeches, be-
longs to the giddy gusher order of men.
But it is when it comes to the frank
utterances of Mr.. M. HI. De Young, of
the Chronicle, who has been made the
manager on the Pacific Coast of the Re-
publican campaign, that our Republican
contemporary becomes satirical and dis
gusted to degree. Unlike our Los An
geles contemporary, the Tribune, the
Record Union does not treat as fictions