Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-24
BROTHERS DWELLING IN UNITY.

BROTHERS DWELLING IN UNITY.
 The condition of the republican par ty since the inauguration of President Harrison can hardly be said to be that of brothers dwelling together in unity. In fact the snarl for public office and patronage has left its leaders and mem- bers in much the condition of the Kill kenny cats after their famous battle.
 With Warner Miller making faces at President Harrison and Tom Platt, with Senators Cullon and Farwell denied any say in the partition of pap in Illinois, with Quay and Cameron on the outs with Wanamaker, with Edmunds and Evarts kicking over some of the foreign ap- pointments, and with the spirit of Murat Halstead and Deacon Smith broording over the field of strife, there is picture to rejoice the soul of the most malignant ly partisan democrat in the land. And uow we have Senators Quay and Sher- man giving each other the lie,7 and all because Matt Quay claims the willy John gave him the razzle dazzle about the ap- pointment of solicitor of internal rev enue in the treasury department. 'I consider Senator Sherman's actions," says Quay, ''as discreditable and dis honorable and when am found doing anything for MT Sherman again the peo- pie of this country will know it." And the apostle of addition, division and silence generally means what he says Nor will he probably feel any better towards Sherman for the latters asser- tion that he is mistaken. Quay brides himself on generally knowing what he is talking about, and nobody will accuse him of shooting off his mouth without pretty thoroughly weighing the ammu- milton with which it is charged. Sen ator Quay, it will be recalled, was Sen ator Shermans chief supporter at Chicago. He got Sherman most of his northern votes outside of Ohio. He furnished the brains of the Sherman management, in Adjutant General Hastings, the man who put Sherman in nomination for the presidency. Quay was faithful to Sher- man throughout, and if there had been any chance to beat the Blaine men in their determination to prevent Sher- mans nomination Quay would have done it. He has been faithful to Sher- man ever since. He wanted Sherman made secretary of state. He tried to bring it about. Failing this, he has given Sherman his assistance in all his efforts to get office for his friends. Yet now he declares war on Sherman. The reason is simple, but interesting as show ing John Sherman's capacity for grati- tude. Quay supposed he had it fixed for his man, Frank Gilkeson of Pennsyl- vania, to be appointed solicitor of inter nal revenue, but Sherman got the inside track for his man, ex-Representative Hart of Ohio. Hence Quay's furious on- slaught on the man for whom he stood up so manfully at Chicago.
 It seems a little strange how bitterly the republican leaders are wrangling over the spells when we remember how jealous they were for civil service re- form while Cleveland was president. And it is just little singular, too, that President Harrison should show himself so anxious to build up machine to secure his nomination in 1892. Of course the professions that were so freely made last fall were not intended to be kept, and the way the republican leaders have been falling over themselves since the election in their hurry to get at the
 head of the spells table is only what might have been expected from their previous history. But it was expected that the president would make some
 little show of keeping the promises of
 words were still ringing in the ears of the country. That he has not done so and has not even made a pretence of doing so, and that he allows the leaders
 of his party to eat each others heads of
 in their battle for the spells, is proof that
 he is not particularly interested in any
 kind of civil service reform but that
 which puts the offices in the hands of
 republicans.
 In the meantime, while the other
 other like dogs around bone, one man } lies low and is saying never a word James G. Blaine is keeping quiet and is ) quarrelling with nobody. James G. has , big head.
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 popular author, will be our next serial Watch for the opening chapters.
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