Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-23
LANCASTER, fA.. November %. 1873!
IHe President and His Party.

VOe1 I1ttsDurg letyTuIH H"9 W"
studs fling the effect of Harrison's admin
iekfation upon the Republican temper
In the different states, and finds 1t to
have been generally aggravating. The
7tlegroph's researches lead 1t to believe
that Mr.. Harrison Is not held In that
esteem by his party, in which 1t Is be-
coming that its president should be
held and makes 1t clear that he could
not to-day receive its presidential NOM
ination.
In this we do not find any
thing surprising, nor anything that
in itself Is condemnatory of Mr..
Harrison. 1t Is rather creditable to
him that this should be the Republican
feeling towards him for it Is to be noted
that this feeling is that Of the Republi-
can politicians, and that the rank and
file of the party are quite quiescent on
the subject of their president and wiling
TO give him q longer trial before they
shrive and hang him. With the politi-
clans the period Of trial has passed ana
that of condemnation come.
The presidential offices have not been
shelled out to them as they would have
them come. The president has devel-
oped disposition to make selections Tor
Office in some cases to suit himself and
this they regard as unallowable. To the
senators of the party and the working
politicians whom they are supposed
to represent, the spoils belong, In the
opinion of the fellows who demand them.
1t Is an idea which is 80 ground into
the politicians mind that it Is quite i'm
possible to deny 1t and expect him to ce
amiable under the contradiction. 1t Is
true that it reduces the presidential
Office TO be mere recording machine OF
the politicians purpose but that is just
as II should be, In the opinion Of these
men, who hold the weight of the nation
TO be upon their shoulders.
We have great deal Of sympathy
with Mr.. Harrison in his encounter with
his political friends and we would have
q great deal more If they did not usually
turn out to be his bosses. The president
is too often defeated in his desire to he
president to entitle him to the profound
est sympathy Of those who see virtue
STRUGGLING stoutly with vice.
Since the election we see that he has
surrendered even the one eve lamb that
he sought to save from the clutches Of
the hawks, and that good Captain Wal
tiers, Of Downingtown, has gone down,
under the protest of the spoilsmen that
there must be no poaching upon their
preserve. To keep peace In the family
another man was taken who says that he
was not applicant for the office. Plainly
Walters went only because the president
selected him; and the lesson to he taught
the chief magistrate by the Pennsylva-
MIA bosses was that he must mind his
proper business and not dare TO pick out
men for Office on his own account.
BY the time the coming session oi
/ Congress is over We think that the
president will have learned this lesson
quite thoroughly. We do not see the
evidence that he has the backbone tc
persist in his resolution to maintain his
preroga.ive. He starts out well enough
but gets into limping and hating gait
before he gets many miles in hi:
course, as we find him drop
ping before the fire of the senator
before the Senate meets, we may lool
to see him steadily on his knees early il
the session. We are sorry for him bu
certainly the man who has the power
to defend himself and lacks the
mind, deserves no more than pity and
cannot claim praise. 1t may be that
we misjudge him and that he may re.
cover himself IN the extremity into
which the session Of Congress will
put him but we shall be surprised il
we have hereafter anything Of indie.
pendence in this administration whose
promises of reform in civil service
methods are shattered every time the
politicians hammer gets a chance at
them.