The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-28
He and THEY WERE WEARY
harrison Was Not Half As Tired As
the Non Of His
Party.
y scorutul indifference Among
Them About tho Time Of His
Return.
btHaP Failure ar Marrow Mind 70 Meet
Evsn the Very Smallest Expsc-
tption&.

When Mr.. Harrison ran down to tho Cape
Nay cottage, which he ID said recently to
lave purchased from his wife, the vigilant
|eporters, whose eyes not even the most in
|ianifcant of public men are allowed to
|scape, telegraped that he was fatiaued
18th his journey, ard hal lone -rthing all
lay but sit on the piazza and bre the in
The delightful breezes t.lau Di.w III strongly
(rom the sea. We can readily believe that
kr. Harrison was weary, says the New York
FINES, though for . man in the prime Of
lie, barely grandfather, the journey from
Washington ought not to have been very
|xhausting. It was not coming from the
|apital that tired him. It was what he left
here, and the long tedious experience he
lad undergone there, that may we'll have
made him sigh for repose in his cottage by
he sea, and wish that he might never have
return. He left congress still
lifting in the ninth month after he had
|ent it to it his hopeful first message,
Law ing accomplished almost nothing but
he sack of the treasury, the passage of
preliminary tariff bill, and the passage
Il the silver bill which he confessed that
Q did not understand, and an endless,
Implicated, hopeless quarrel among the
nembers Of the majority. And the Presi-
ent left, about as wearisome a thing to
contemplate as could we'll be imagined, a
complete and scornful indifference among
'he men of his own party as to whether he
Vent or remained. and as to what he should
o Or leave undone. He left particularly
he inanimate body of his fsvorite party
|aeasure, the Force bill, slain in the house
I it's friends, despite his most earnest Of
orts to save it.
It is not to be wondered at that he vas
Iatigued. There is something almost pa
hetic in his experience, the utter failure of
he great hopes of small mind, with large
opportunities, entire confidence in itself,
nd none of the generous sympathy with
theirs that softens defeat. When Mr.. Har-
fson was nominated for president, he was
1robably the only man in public life in the
ountry at all familiar with his capacity
nd requirements who really believed that,
elected. he could fill his great office cred
MIR. Quay and the purchase of the cleo
oral votes of New York the country knew
i'm better than when he was nominated,
nd while no one had any confidence in his
bility to distinguish himself, there were
lany who thought that he would make a
air, commonplace president, letting him
elf be guided by his party advisers, and
either shaping nor resisting the policy
1at might be developed in congress. This
ceiling was strengthened by his inaugural
ddress, i'll which he went out OF his way to
rofess the utmost loyalty to the represent
lives of his party in congress in
le matter Of appointments. con-
,nting himself beyond this with
tame repetition Of the platform phrase.
mr. ha hp I'm Nv rrSt t0 u q
puntry began to see that he took no such
low of his Office or of himself. In dull,
OBSTINATE, narrow fashion he began to take
Us own way, to ignore and almost to defy
pc leaders of his party in congress, and to
,reshadow here and there the formation
policy of his own.
1t was great surprise to the managers,
nd not pleasant one, yet the situa-
ION was such that real leader would have
sen welcome. Mr.. Harrison had one
uality of eaaership-frmness in adhering
his own purposes. Had he united to that
le breadth of view, the foresight. the
nowledee of men and the fidelity to his
ord that go with successful leadership he
light have made considerable mark in
ne political history of his time. But firm
ess was his only qualification. He could
lick to his own purposes. but the purposes
lemselveS were narrow, selfish. trivial.
ften mean. He tried his hand at ''organ-
ing victory i'll Virginia by means of Ma
one and his machinery and met with
cushing defeat. He pottered with plan
pr forming a white republican party in
le south and set all the white republicans
here by the ears, while disgusting the
lacks. He meddied with the Ohio factions
nd staked his prestige on the success OF
10 Foraker clique, and gave the state over
the Democrats. He had a like experience
Iowa, and came near having the same in
massachusetts,. Finally discouraged, yet
ot really enlightened by these mishaps, he
lrned squarely around and pinned his
18th to the Lodge elections bill and the
d. worn-out policy of the bloody shirt
ind during all this time, by the pecu-
arities of his personal character, his
stty selishness, his unworthy nepot-
m. his dull concet. and ungracious-
issa IN intercourse with others, he made
imself as thoroughly disliked as any presi.
snt we ever had. No marvel that he is
tigued. It would be well for him and fol
he country, If his WEAKNESS should lead
m to resolve to get on in the future with
ut doing or saying anything he could pos
2bly avoid. But it will not. Next week he
jill be back in Washington, refreshed and
adv to begin over again the curious course
at his nature compels him to pursue unto
q end.
Homeseeker's Excursions-180O.
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ctober IA, 1890. Tickets will be limited to
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