Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-26
Breakers Ahead for the Adminis-
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trati0n.
There has really been q good deal of
good humor in the press of all parties in
the treatment of President Harrison,
both during the campaign and thus far
in his administration. The canvass of
1888 afforded most gratifying contrast
to that of 1884. 1t was realized by the
manipulators of Republican opinion in
the press that revival of the weak
ISLANDERS of Cleveland that disgraced the
campaign of 1884 would simply act in
favor of the Democratic candidate for
President. They were consequently in
termitted, not out of regard for Mr..
Cleveland, or from any delicate sense OF
self-respect, but simply from an appre-
citation of the fact that dirt-slinging
would be losing game. The Demo-
cratic press were influenced by finer
sentiment. They at once and frankly
conceded the personal excellence of
Gen. Harrison, and fought their battles
on grounds of principle. Thus much can
be said, no matter whether the issues
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garded as timely or inopportune.
The same forbearance has been ex-
tended to Mr.. Harrison since he assumed
the reins of government by the Demo-
cratic press. OF late there has been
some departure from this uniform good
humor, and the change has been brought
about by the development of nepotism to
an exceptional degree. The new Presi-
dent has shown disposition to appoint
his relatives, both by blood and affinity
to office at positively alarming rate.
Sir osep phi Parker, X. G. B., shows in
Pinafore a marked prediction for his
sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts,
but these were all of the feminine gen.
der. Mr.. Harrison leans to his male
relatives, and when he departs from that
rule he is found to be very partial to the
male relatives of the ladies of his family
Wherever an official plum can be dropped
in his charmed personal circle, it is sure
to reach the individual to whom it will
do the most good.
bCllOSidb avs obCOi w Rho WIN
ment on this fact. There is in it sug-
gestion of the old Grant methods, with
no Appomattox or Vicksburg to break
the suggestiveness of the bad practice.
1t is even broadly limited that the Presi-
dent is about to go out of his immediate
family to exhibit an indefensible favorit-
ism, and that his late law partner is in
danger of being thrust upon the Supreme
Bench of the United States. Such a
prostitution of the opportunities of the
Executive Office would not only shock
Democrats but men of all parties.
But the immediate danger of Mr.. Hsr.
rison' 5 administration does not lie in the
Democratic ranks. Without whit Of
exaggeration it may be said that great
peril has already arisen for him within
his own party. The undercurrent of
political opinion all trends to that pur
port. Encouraged by his success at the
polls, and pluming himself upon his
polished, neat and elegant speeches to
the drummers and others during the
Cdlu pdlSh- We Vial dSlCiIAO thObC pCNo-
liar efforts by a phrase of Professor
Blair's-the President is now suffering
from very pronounced attack of the
"big head" or, as it is grouped in medi'
cal works, capitis elephantias:s. There
seems to be no question that he regards
himself as bigger man than old Blaine,
and he has devoted himself, Of late, by
all authentic accounts, to snubbing the
Plumed knight and his following. 1t
is asserted in pretty we'll informed
circles that Blaine no longer finds
it convenient to attend the Cabinet
meetings. The announcement that
Blaine, Window and Proctor were about
to resign from the Cabinet is unquestion-
ably prem allure, but there is blood on the
face OF the moon. Blaine undoubtedly
permitted, if he did not bring about, Har-
rison's nomination, and he furnished the
issue upon which the Republican party
won the battle. He is Warwick up to
any standard of history, and when the
break comes, as come it probably will
soon, the esults cannot well fail to be
dire and memorable.
Taking all the circumstances into the
count, it need surprise no one if Presi-
pent Harrison shall find himself, before
the end of the first year Of his admins
tration, with recalcitrant Senate that
will tie his hands up, while the extremes
to which nepotism has been carried by
him has already disguised the people at
large.
THE final closing down of two wooden
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