Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-22

LANCASrER, PA, June %. 1889.
Revubljcsu Statesmen.


beem to he very fragile sort Of ware and
suppressed with more than the average
Z; failty Of the species we do not remem-
4 her to have ever before looked out upon
Y The phalanx of Republican statesmen
{ and found so many among them charged
y By their fellows with so many faults and
credited with so little virtue. There is
their president, who has seemed TO the
country generally to he quite decent
sort Of man, who gets few good words
\ indeed from his party men, who might
be expected to be his worshippers T; the
biggest guns among them are firing upon
him and letting 1t be plainly seen that
he is not of their feather. That may not
be to his discredit but II shows that
there ls something rotten on one side or
the other, as president and his party
chiefs ought to move along in harmony,
and with public expression at least of
mutual feelings Of most distinguished
consideration.
Yet Mr.. Platt, the Republican wheel
horse of New York, is inspired by such
emotion towards his president as to pub
Iish someone else's opinion that he Is
pufied up with self conceit. And Sec
retary Blaine, after several months Of
patient endurance, is declared To have
told the story, in explanation of his
quietude, of a man who went 10 the
tieatre on free ticket to see bad play ;
and who replied, when asked why he
did not hiss II, that he felt a delicacy rs
an invited guest about doing 40, but
that II the next act was as bad as the
others, he would go out and buy ticket
and come in and speak his mind about
the play. And there Is remarkable
procession Of Republican politicians in
dulging In condemnatory observations
about the president, appearing in the
columns Of the daily press. The main
trouble seems to be that the president Is
determined to have his own way about
appointments to Office and refuses to let
anyone else relieve him of their dsposi-
ti0n and neither does he hurry
along with his own distribution fast
enough to suit his political associates.
He does not have the tact required to get
his own way while satisfying his parti-
nans. He is too jealous of his prerogative
TO permit his cabinet officers to relieve
f<him In selections for Office, and he Is
Exported to have plainly stated to u
Virginia delegation who told OF Il promise
&of Secretary Blaine to their candidate,
That he was not authorized to make it.
The general public will not share the
disgust Of the Republican statesmen that
the president is disposed to slight them
and run the machine himself, but they
understand that 1t does not promise we'll
for the health Of the party that there
should be 80 much friction between its
president and its leaders and does not
= exhibit exalted wisdom on either aide
And when We come down the line OF
these statesmen we find few places wher,
I We may stop in admiration of the figure
Blaine has gone all TO pieces In the cab
met and hardly the skeleton Of tn.
: Statesman remains. There IL no,
4 one interesting or important flgur,
In the cabinet; and the country
over is barren of them. Quay, theil
7 great leader of last fall, Is broken W
already In Pennsylvania Beaver
their governor, has become tn.
and Filter, Philadelphia model mayor
the most ridiculous. And, note tha,
4 we are not stating Democratic opinion
but that of these mems own party
\ Democrats naturally hold them in small
3, esteem, but they have not been disap
pointed In them and their feeling i
much calmer than that on the Republi
Ixf side Inst how long II will In. hefor
Il IL famed into a consuming flame W,
will not certainly predict ii may
smoulder through the coming campaign
i and await the bellows of the congres
sional session but il is easily to be for
told that year or 80 hence we will se,
Z the coming of "a coroner's inquest upon
the body Of the Republican party, slain
by the stupidity, cupidity aud selfish
ness of its leaders.