Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-20


kelectading even Blaine,
VefnorSnried since he entered
o Apartment and seems to have
06nntxether off the drivers seat. He
Ntatiss along now with his proposition
- let In the South American trade
11fee, and wants the tariff amended
nCCordingly. 1t Ia not new
3ouggestion from him, but 1t does not
s6eom to have made an impression on
ehe tariff makers Of his party. II ID
certainly very strange to see how Blaine
hss been supplantcd in party leadership
while nominally occupying the leading
place beside the president in tho admin
htration. The secretaryship of state Is
supposed to be the second place in the
government, and one would suppose
that, In the occupancy of so lively a
Fperson as Blaine has been In party
management, its occupant would be of
some political account.
But he is not. II is true than the
president himself Is not leading his
party, which seems to have come into
the possession for the present Of one
Reed, speaker ofthe House. There may
be an outside leader or two, who is still
ia fairly lively condition In his particu-
lar dung hill, but there does not seem to
2 b one in the national business who
does not wear draggled feathers. II Is
really lamentable TO see the pitiable
weakness of the Republican roosters in
the House; and though their state In the
Henate is better, we find even that old
bird Edmunds wearing just now black
aye from Ill usage by his party in the
silver business.
And there Is Quay, who has for some
tlme been quite the most highly col
0fed Republican bird In the whole
country, but who is not now a-crowing.
The Senate gave him heavy slap when
It refused to make his man sergeantat-
4 arms, though he had made the vacancy
FOR him by making Senator Sherman's g
man too uncomfortable in the Office to
\ keep 1t. With Canaday out, Quay did
not get in, but old man Sherman staid
still on deck and gave him valentine.
Since then Quay has clearly demon
etrAted his littleness and real stupidity
BY asking the Senate, which had just
1 shown Its indisposition to do anything
( to oblige him, to rebuke Its sergeant-at
h arms because he had dismissed a Quay
boy from a pageship, the boy having
4 grown to be a man. Whoever does not
suspect, aftor this, that Quay's vigor has
gUne, IL likely to have sufficient evil
dence Of the fact before the guberna.
torial canvass is over.
He has been demonstrating his Sc.
Aility right straight along by pretending
- be taking no hand In the contest for
the nomination, which everyone knows
TO be false and by taking up Delama.
ter, man with no inherent strength at
4 al and character and record that is q
stone to his neck, to make him COVER
nor ; only because he wanted just once to
eject man who should be stamped as
ousy's man. The consequence is that
In the last days of the battle even his
head Is made to see that maybe his man
may not win and that the result may be
that the whole concern will be blown
out altogether and no one will be left
but mourners.
And Speaker Reed, even, is having
trouble ia making his title clear to that
presidency he seeks and If he ever gets
it,by the way, there will be very inter-
esting time for the country, we may DO
sure. But the speaker is not now keep
ing his usual gait toward his goal he
seems rather to be steering In among
the rocks. His particular virtue has
been In his control over his party in the
House, which he has obtained by the
bold and unscrupulous use Of his
power as speaker. That power en-
ables him to make or unmake u
congressman and keeps the MEM
bens In subsection to his wishes.
He has, however, strained the cord too
hard in seeking to hold the free coinage
advocates from their silver calf. He set
himself in vain across their pathway
and they broke by him like savage
beasts. Mr.. Reed may be able to repair
damages and again show his party in
line and under his thumb but for the
present he Is laid on the broad of his
back and the flock has scattered from
him.
We do not believe it will long pay the
politician in this country and in this
age to seek his ends by wrongful means.
It will work for while, but not for
long. The intelligent opinion of this
country condemns the means by which
Harrison was elected, and the undertone
ofsentiment created by the methods cer-
tainly was water on the Democratic
mill. Quay's plans, of national and
state craft, work only for a limited time,
and in the end will wreck his craft on
the rocks.
30 Speaker Reeds powers, while
seemingly bold, brilliant and successful,
Are not of the long lived kind. 1t is a
hare and tortoise race that he has
started with the Democracy, and when
his winding ways are over he will not
be ahead.