Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-29
SOUR ON BENJAMIN.
Republican Workers Beginning to De
nouce the President.

Republican Workers Beginning to De-
nouce the President.
WASHINGTON, April 2s.-The Courier
Journals Washington correspondent tele-
graphs his paper as follows: The generally
'well-informed press" is little slow in
getting on to the occupant of the White
House; but, like the bed bug, the boys are
getting there, all the same.
The Courier Journal said and repeated it
often in 1876 that Benjamin Harrison was
vain, narrow-minded man; but the other
newspapers did not believe it. The truth
is now coming out The President is daily
showing his egotism and parading his self
Importance. Only the other day he re-
marked to well-known public man that
be believed that if the Republicans party
had nominated any one else but him (Har-
risOn), it would have been defeated. He
thinks, and has rs good as said, that his
name and his diplomatic spseches during
the campaign are what gave the party vic
tory. A prominent Republican, member
OF the National Committee, said the other
day that Gen. Harrison had up to this time
failed to as much as thank the National
Committee or any member thereof for the
lard work they did in securing his cleo
ton.
The snub 10 Dudley shows the iDgrati-
tude of Harrison. Dudley has been his
friend through thick and thin for quar-
ter of a century. 1t is absurd to suppose
that Dudley or any member of the National
Republican Committee, played a card,
cOncOcted scheme, or devised plan to
catch vote in Indiana last fall that Ben
jamin Harrison was not fully advised
about l ASSERT without the fear of sue
cessful contradiction that General Harrison
knew about the celebrated ''blocks of five"
Dudley letter before it was publicly ex-
posed, Had the notorious letter escaped
public exposure, Dudley 10 day would be
the most influential Republican in Wash
ington. The very day that this letter was
made pnblic, Dudley received from Harri-
son a warm, cordial, sffecliOnste and eulo-
CYSTIC letter on his admirable management
OF thu campaign.
Dudley is not the only man that Hsrri-
son has gone back on since he became
President The Worlds Washington man
says: HE has soured and alienated Sena
tor 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
to ruin the party and pave the way to its
certain defeat in the next Presidential
contest Cleveland, they say, with
all his genius for giving Offense TO
influential Democrats, did not ALLEVIATE as
many members of his own party in six
months as Harrison has done in less than
two. Col. Dudley's pathetic plant that
he has no influence at the White House,
folio wing the humiliation Of Senator Quay,
is being talked about everywhere. Senato-
German and the other managers Of the sue
cessful Democratic campaign of 1884 did
not get everything they wanted from
p-ssidant Cleyslsnd- bnt they were nAvAr
turned out Of doors by him, as Quay and
Dudley have been by Harrison. Blaine,
too, they say, is being habitually and stu
diOusly snubhei by Harrison. Nobody
ever suspected that Harrison was possessed
OF such inveterate Jealousy and such over
whelming vanity; because that is how they
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