The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-03-29
a Party Man.

Gen. Harrison holds As yet. says tie New
DIRK Sun, only the rr,diments of power The
great machine of government cannot for some
time 10 come fully respond 10 his hand and
the work of giving it into the hands Of Ee-
pnblicans will. if pursued with even The ut
most diligence, take several months. There
is every reason 10 believe that the work will
he pursued with the utmost diligence.
After the adjournment OF the Senate, Gen.
Harrison will have pretty much all his time to
give 10 the applicants for office. lie will have
till the meeting of Congress to prepare his
policy. When Congress meets again. nearly
all the Democrats will probably have been
erased from The Isis of Federal oiiice-holters.
In this aspect of his relations with his party,
by his selection of expert politicians TO dis
tribute the offices among Republican parti
sans and mainly in consideration of political
services, General Hasrisou has already declar-
ei himself. 4 President whose chief of
staff during the campaign was Quay, whose
Secretary of State is Blaine. whose First As
sisiaut Postmasier-Generali is Clarkson, must
be spokesman, and benefit the spoilsmen as
he has been benefited by them. Gen. Harri-
son has made certain uiterances about civil
service reform TO which an absurd prominence
has been given by the friends of that delusion.
We do not question his sincerity. Still, II is
significant that he has post oned the time for
including the railway mail service within the
civil service rules. 1t is unnecessary 10 say
that under The present management of the
Post Office Department the Democrats will
be sweeded out of it before the civil ser
vice rules 90 into effect in the railway mail
service. Further, under a Republican ADJ
minist.ation. Democrats will spare themselves
the trouble of going to civil service eNamina-
tons. THERE'S au impression that by pro-
cess OF unconscious cerebration the appoint
ing officer appoints elisibles of his own party.
Aside from the effect and the defect Of the
civil service nonsense. anu from Gen. Harri-
sons opinions past or present about ii, his
acts. so far, show him so far to be a good par
" man. He has yielded where TO persist
signs of ingratltude to his party. He has not
scorned The advice of its active politicians
He has not thought that the applause Of the
Mugwumps is worth gaining by insulting his
natural friends. He has not sought to please
the Foulkes, the Burts, and the Pottses by
throwing over the men who most helped 10
elect him, and the expectations of most of
those who voted for him. Later in his Adj
ministration that tlaitery which is the great
est danger of Presidents may destroy his sense
of perspective and bring him to regard him
self as born to boss and regenerate lis party.
His difficulties and temptations are only be-
ginning.
Gen. Harrison has male a good beg inning,
as 4 party man. Level-headed Democrats
will prefer that the Republican party shall
owe the defeats which We hope are in store
for it in 1890 and 1892 to its extravaganza. its
| reckless and meddlesome legislation. its ge-
MUS for jobs. rather than To the big head or
small mind of its President.