The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-05-02
HARRISON AND HIS PARTY.
A Great Deal of Dissatisfaction with the
Pre.ideni.

A Great Deal Of DISQUALIFICATION with the
President
Washington correspondence New York
World: Eager republican politicians and
their friends. the office-seekers, are saying
here that President Harrison is carrying
the theatrical business too far. His tardi
ness in distributing the spoils, they say, is
mainly due TO his determination to prove
TO the country that he is a bigger man than
Blaine. He was very sensitive to the cam
paign talk that he was only going TO be a
tool in Blaine's hands, and it is his over
whelming vanity, his Jealous determine
ton TO be considered master of the situation
that impels him to refrain, so stubbOrnly,
from that speedy distribution of the spOiIs
among the republican victOrs which il was
generally expected would happen through
the influence of Mr.. Blaine
He has soured and alienated Senator
Quay beyond hope of reconciliation, and
has thereby set an example to dry up the
sources OF party enthusiasm, break the
bonds OF party organization and destroy
the hope OF reward for even the greatest
party services. Angry and disappointed
republicans are now saying quietly that
Harrison is doing all that one man can do
70 ruin the party and pave the way to its
certain defeat in the next presidential con
test Cleveland. they say, with all his
genius for giving OffeDse to Influential
democrats, did not ALLEVIATE as many men,
bers OF his own party in six months as lar
rison has done In less than two.
Col Dudley's pathetic plant that he has
no Influence at the White House, following
the humiliation of Senator Quay, is being
talked about everywhere. Senator German
and the other managers Of the successful
democratic campaign of 1884 did not get
everything they wanted from President
Cleveland, but they were never turned out
OF doors by him as Quay and Dudley have
been by Harrison.
Blaine. too, they say, is being habitually
and studtOusly snubbed by Harrison. No
body ever suspected that Harrison was Dos
Sessed OF such inveterate jealousy and such
overwhelming vanity; because that is how
they regard It. They accuse him of being
unwilling 10 do what his own natural de-
sires would prompt Tor fear that his actions
should be thought 10 be nfiuenced by Mr..
Blaine, and this source of disappointment
70 the spOllsmen Is the discovery that the
pool they were playing for was not nearly
as large as they supposed.
A count Of noses in the internal revenue
bureau here shows that out of about two
hundred and fifty Office-holders there are
not more than twenty demOcr is, and about
The same proportion obtains in other Offices.
There are not as many democrats 20 be
turned out as the political gamesters had
recEoned-
Assistant Postmaster General j.. ).
Clarkson was closeted with the president
for some time to-day, and In their uninter-
rupted privacy they discussed the removal
or retention of democratic pOstnnasser.
whose terms have not expired The same
subject will be taken up by the cabinet
to-morrow- The general impression among
some OF the more keen-eyed politicians is
that the president will allow the great ma
lority OF democrats, who are not heads Of
bureaus, To serve out their terms