Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-03
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,

Harrison has issued his annual message. 1t is
long one. The Eventno Sun prints it. Read
it if you like. but it's hardly worth it.
NEW YORK Star (Dem.): Politically. it is a
purely partisan plea in extenuation of the
course of the administration and the Con-
gress which the people have just decisively
condemned
NEW YORK Evening World tDem.): Pres-
dent Harrison's message, presented to Congress
to-day, is a very carefully prepared document
It treats with more or less detail many i'm
portant questions.
PHILADELPHIA Times Dem.): The one fact
clearly taught by the message is that the Pres.
ident makes the old Bourbons of France COM
paratively respectable by learning nothing and
forgetting nothing.
NEW YORK Evening Post tMugwump): At
no time since the war has a session of Congress
opened when the. Presidents message was of so
little consequence TO the members or to the
public. This is true as to both sides of the
Chamber.
PHILADELPHIA Record (Dem.): The Presi-
dents message to Congress has been composed
under circumstances of irritation and difficulty
and it is chiefly noteworthy in showing how un-
able the writer is to adjust himself to the polit-
lcal situation.
PHILADELPHIA Evening Bulletin (Rep.):
It is almost the same message in spirit and pur-
pose, if not in phrase, as that which General
Harrison wrote year ago. In this sense it
does not indicate that the President has
broadened as party leader.
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer (Rep.): The feat
ure of the message IS the backbone displayed
by the President. In spite of the Democratic
whirlwind he stands just where he did before
the elections, unless, indeed. be has advanced
step or two upon the subject of reciprocity.
NEW YORK Commercial Advertiser Qnd) J:
If the Congress pays any heed to the voice ot
the country as expressed in the November
elections. little will be done except in the trans
action of necessary routine business, and the
enactment of few minor bills left over from
the last session.
PHILADELPHIA Press (Rep.l: The message
throughout maintains with earnestness and
broad Judgment the policy and principles upon
which the administration came into power.
What has been done was in pursuance of that
policy, and because it was elected on platform
requiring it to do those very things.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger (Rep): But the
President should not let this point escape
his view, nor should Congress either, that the
Federal election bill is the product of most in
veterate partisanship. both as to its paternity
and as to the House of Representatives that
-
test.
PHILADELPHIA Evening Telegraph (Rep.):
1t simply necessitates on the part of the wisest,
best and most patriotic element of the party.
the stern reputation of Mr.. Harrison as the
leader of the Republican organization. To fol-
low out his unwise counsel in this respect
would be to surrender the great contest of 1892
in advance.
NEW YORK Times (Mugwump): The Presi-
dent has forgotten little and learned nothing.
He meets the Congress in which his party pro-
voked defeat, on its reassembling. with tedi-
ously urgent exhortation to remedy none of
the mistakes already made, to press forward in
the same line. and trust to that Providence
which the French say watches over "Ameri-
cans and FOOLS"
NEW YORK Tribune tRep): The message
of the President is a calm, dignified and able
document. which appeals to the sober thought
of Americans, and will strongly influence pub
lie opinion. Without any reference to the re-
cent elections the President makes it clear
that he does not regard the neglect or absence
of a fifth of the Republican voters any reason
for supposing the people have abandoned the
convictions which were registered in the full
vote of 1883.
BROOKLYN Eagle Qnd.): The plea for the
passage of the force bill is a fatuous one. This
repudated Congress has the physical power,
but the Eagle does not believe it will have. the
immoral courage to pass it. Should 1t do so,
however nothing could prevent the measure
from becoming an instrument for the solidi-
fication of the North against the Republican
party as thoroughly as past enactments in it's
likeness have become such a means for the
solid1fication of the South against that party.
NEW YORK Herald Dem.): But Mr.. Har-
rison IN the latter part of his message shows
himself to be the head of a party rather than
the President of people. He reminds Con-
eress that this is their short session and calls
upon them to push certain purely partisan bills
with vigor and celebrity. The reapportionment
and force bills must receive immediate at.
tention. Mr.. Harrison is an honest man, but a
thorough partisan. We have never questioned
his motives or his integrity, only his judgment.
NEW YoRK,Sun (Dem.): The principal thing
in President Harrison's message is jealous
recommendation that the force bill should be
taken up and pressed through Congress.
This scheme should be resisted determinedly,
unyieldingly. uncompromisingly, by every
Democrat. If necessary. every means of delay
and obstruction should be resorted to in Con-
gress The mischiefs that are sure to arise
from such political revolution are so great
and so grave as to eyershadow every other
question.