Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-12-03

The Beasts.


y e b announced BY Mr.. Blaine's friends
eoat hs win take the secretaryship Of
ueAte II Mr.. Harrison offers it to him.
! They do not say that he has done 30 !; and
y esems TO be generally suspected that be
WiIl not do 90. Under this situation, 1t
b notable that Mr.. BIaine's willingness,
- take what Is not likely to be
o6erod him, II announced; as one
Would mot think, on lrst impression, that
Blaine would care to have IL known that
- he'd been kicked. It looks a. though
- was determined to increase Mr.. Har.
slsons difaculty in dlsposing of him. Heis
hound TO have him face the responsibility
oeejecting his party 8 leader, who signifies
~ willingness to 60 into his cabinet. It
shows that Blaine is belligerent; and that
- = not going to be cut down
without showing his teeth. He may
hope that he can force Harrison
10 appoint him; or ne may care
- TO 90 into the cabinet than TO
Ut oil the advantage that will come from
being cast out. He Is playing for posi-
sion. He says to Harrison, [" "reject IL
you dare the leader OF your party who
ofters you his assistance" II he is taken,
Ae viii run the administration, or
ruin It.; and will step out In
time, In the latter case, to save
himself from damage. II he Is left, he
will run the party from the outside and
make Harrison dance to his music or
pGgt his opposition. He is bound to ad.
minister the party or fight.
And other fellows have this ambition
beside Harrison. whom his party is sup.
posed 10 have elected to administer af-
fhirs. It has came to pass that presi-
dent has more trouble in ruling his party
than in ruling the country, and It takes
. good, strong man to make any head
way at the work +; especially In the Re.
publican party, which has long been
dominated by set Of sharks, who play
politics for its profit and consider them
selves the legitimate beneficiaries of all
ihproduct; and il 1t Is not accorded them
peaceably they propose TO take 1t forcibly.
They have no idea of being left out of
the feast while they have fangs and claws
with which to nght.
And Mr.. Harrison is going to have
lively time with all this ravenous and sell
0sh crowd, against whom it is his fate to
9tand or fall. The two beasts particularly
claiming his attention now,i in the matter
ofselection for seeretaryof state, ARE Blaine
and Sherman. They are natural antago-
nists, being the two Republican leaders
OF chief note and each richly endowed
With the disposition to take care OF himself.
At Chicago Blaine would not permit Sher-
mans nomination, and Sherman, leading
whom was Quay, would not permit
Blaines. Both lost the stake; but Sher.
man, through Quay, was quickest
in renewing his hold upon the
situation. Quay became the Re
publican chairman, with nothing to
lose by defeat and with heavy hand
upon the administration to gain by sue
cess. II was an alert and clever move
ment; and seated in the saddle he made
the mare 60 with the abundant money
which the manufacturers fears caused
ehem to pour into his lap,
8 He won and achieved the first place
ln power In the Republican administra-
Sion. He Is against Blaine and for Sher.
nan, his Chicago candidate for whom
Harrison is said to have friendly feel
Ing, which he does not have for Blaine
whom also he fears to call about him lest
be be said to be his master. It looks
very much as though Blaine would be left
70 do his scheming outside the cabinet.
And 1t will be interesting 10 note during
the coming years the movements and the
in the Kilkenny cat Aght that
ehey surely have in store for the Republi.
can party under Its feline leaders.