Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-26

and at Saratoga Tom Platt cracked the whip and Warner Miller and Chauncey Depew danced to the lash as gracefully and prettily as the Harlequin or Panta- looms in Humpty Dumpty show. There was enough harmony" in both to run church choir or a singing bee.
 The result in Massachusetts was no surprise. It had been discounted in ad- vance. It was case of the machine against the mugwumps, and such con- test could have but one result. The mugwump went down before the Jug gernaut of the machine and was crushed ruthlessly beneath its wheels. The platform was probably meant for joke, for in the bay state the republican majority is so irredeemably large that the party can afford to make sport for the country in it's platforms. It opens with the expression of qualification "by of the treasury by which the national debt is extinguished at reasonable prices and the money market protected against speculative combinations" This is rich when we remember that the national debt has been increased in the past two months about eight millions of dollars, and that Secretary Windom is generally regarded as one of the favored sons of Wall street. But the richest of all is the plank that "commends most especially the policy of the president in regard to civil service reform, as shown by his strict adherence to the law, by his ex- tending its provisions to large and inn portant branch of the public service, and by the character of the commission which he has selected to carry out the law, both in letter and spirit" In view of President Harrison's record In turn ing out more officeholders in the first six months of his administration than any president since Lincoln this joke will be appreciated. But the republi- cans of Massachusetts make a mistake when they glorify the president for his devotion to civil service reform as they may find out when they go scouting for offices. The president takes no stock in reform as understood and preached by the mugwumps he isn't built that way. The Massachusetts convention and its platform will make an excellent contri- button to the humors of politics.
 F. In New York there was good deal of a scramble to get inside the breastworks, Warner Miller and Chauncey Depew tumbling over themselves in their hurry
 to be first in getting ill out of the wet.
 They had found it pretty cold on the
 outside, and though they had received
 telegrams from the administration they
 found that these were mighty cold shin
 coasters to tie up to. Martyrdom is all
 right and nice in theory, but when il
 comes to standing in with the admins
 tration Miller and Depew are ready to
 drop it as they would chunk of ice or winters day. If Johnny O'Brien had
 been admitted to yesterdays convention
 the band could have footed its
 horns without break of dis
 cord, but Johnny is likely to play one o1
 those symphonies .on election day fol which he has long been an acknowledg
 ed expert. Another chap who could have played on the jewsharp of harmony
 was Corporal Tanner, but the corpora was nt there as he is too busily engaged exchanging billets doux and pretty
 compliments with his dear and beloved
 friend Secretary Noble. Taken alto gether the gathering at Saratoga yester
 day was good deal like convention O. / Kilkenny cats whose claws were tied ! but which will be all the sharper whel v the time comes for letting go. It would /, bringa smile from brass monkey or q joke from Senator Evarts.
 The republicans of the country mus Q feel proud as they contemplate the spec
 tacle in two cities yesterday. Tn , machine, not working by ''blocks o , fve," but concentrated, competed an, overpowering in it's perfect working, what presents itself to their gaze as the, shoot it in the direction of Boston o
 Saratoga. And it is machine that Q taking from the common members o
 the party all voice in the direction o ', the party affairs. That the rank an, q file of the party are willing to dance whel o the machine turns the crank in the ''ha1 n mony" organ is one of the saddest proof v of the decay that has come to the part n of Fremont and Lincoln, of Grant an v Garfield. Yesterdays spectacle is no F one to bring cheer to the hearts of thos who have faith or hope in republica l principles.