Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-22

lawyer, Wno plays With party po1tlcs as 8 pastime, and who is too busy digging pit falls for his enemies to waste his time tumbling into any which the other people dig for him. When he lashes himself into fine rage, and seems to have lost self-con- trol entirely, then look out for himl Make up your mind it's all for effect on the jury, and don't be beguiled into treating him as if he were really beside himself When he espouses cause in politics, he does it just as he takes case at law-to plead for all it is worth, and to make use of the emotions as well as of the logical faculties. The man whose side he is on is his client for the time being, and has got to be carried through the ordeal in triumph at any cost of wear and tear to the attorney.
 "Mr. Porter, so far from being 8 veteran in anything, is young man comparatively few years out of college-a genial fellow, wholly without experience in party war fare, who acts more or less on impulse in everything he does. Politics is to him 8 much more serious business than to Har- rison, and he plunges in waist-deep where he really need not do more than wet his feet. This summers fight will have done wonders for him, if he has the good sense to profit by it's lessons, for he will have two more wisdom teeth in the fall than he had in the spring. I only hope he won't be soured by the whole thing, and spoiled for the good he may yet be trained to do"
 "But you said something about the in side history of the fight, didn't youa' ''I'm coming to that. It was necessary to fix the portraits of the chief actors well in your mind in order to appreciate fully the meaning of what they did. I believe, in short, that the whole scheme was Lynde Harrison's way of getting even with Bulk eley for not doing the fair thing by Mer- win. Of course, everybody knows why Bulkeley played his grab game, elbowing the republican governor elect quite as far into background as he did the democratic contestant. It was because everything Bulkeley does is for Bulkeley's benefit, and the Bulkeley slate contains, in bigger let ters than anything else on it, the name of Bulkeley for United States senator to suc- ceed Joe Hawley. in 1893. That is what Bulkeley's excessive zeal means; and natur- ally Merwin's friends resent having their man thrust into corner in order that some other persons political ambitions may be promoted. So Harrison, who in this case is Merwin's attorney, throws open the l window and let's in all the unfavorable light he can on Bulkeley's share in the big conspiracy, suppose you folks would call it. And he found it convenient to draw Porter into controversy which looked hot, at any rate, so as to give him 8 sufficient excuse for saying good many things that would hardly do to say in cold l blood"
 "Has Judge Harrison any aspiration for l the senatorshIp himself?"
 "I don't believe he has. In fact, think | he cares little for public office anyway. His taste is to be a king -maker-not to be | king himself. He loves party management as another man might love horses, or fish | ing, or billiards. He likes to make money, | too; and, of course, all the reputation he | gains in the political world advertises him professionally as well, and increases the 1 the size of his law practice and income"
 "Will the internal dissension in the re, publican party have any serious bearing on the senatorship question"
 | "Yes; in my judgement Harrison has made it practically impossible for Bulkeley to go to the senate. There are good many republicans in Connecticut who wouldn't object to sending Bulkeley on his own ac
 been spattered with mud pretty freely by one of the leading lights in his own party
 and who has not been able either to shield himself from the attack or to fire back
 may safely be put on the list of ineligibles
 no matter whether he is guilty as charged or not. The question of expediency ii
 often paramount to any question of jus
 tice; and the republican party of Connect
 icut probably will not feel itself under obli
 gations to 'vindicate' Bulkeley at tht
 risk of 8 possible smirch on it's own cloth
 ing" . - .
 part of this whole affair, at least as far ai
 concerns Porter. You know what it mean
 to set down two editors in small city
 both belonging to one party, and each hay
 ing pretty fair opinion of his own poll
 tical desertss We'll, there you have the sit
 uation as between Hawley and Porter
 Hawley, as the older and more distin
 guished man, rather looks down on Porte
 as youngster who had no business to in
 trude upon his field; Porter, on the othe
 hand, is little tired of the 'halt-and- pay
 tribute style which Hawley put on be
 cause he happened to be on the ground
 first. Naturally, it wouldn't have beer
 Porter's highest aim in life, if he had beer
 consulted on the subject, to procure Flaw
 to the squabble into which he let Harrison
 draw him, he has been indirectly doin. yeoman service in aid of his rivals re-elect ion. The controversy has split the part,
 into factions, and I've no doubt mysel
 that the only way they will see out of
 general breakup will be the choice of
 comprimise candidate. There is wher
 Hawley's strength will come from. He i
 already senator, and his reelection would
 involve less of disturbance than the elect
 ion of brand-new man."
 ''Do you suppose General Hawley hat
 any hand in fomenting the family discord
 for the sake of his own future?"
 "Oh, no. He is not enough of polite l ian t0 law Out ao comn1ax schama ava1
 if he had the disposition-which I doubt
 If you were to go to Hartford, though
 you'd probably find him chuckling in hi
 sleeve at the way circumstances have fav
 ored his cause, and set even his fer, young rival hard at work for him."