The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-27
MADE HIM PRESIDENT.
In the Hour Of Sore Need the Men
Who Did so Turn Against
Him.
But by His Own Acts He Both In
vited and Deserved the
Disaster.
The Chief Beneficiary of UNANIMOUSLY Cor
The Chief Beneficiary of UNANIMOUSLY Cor
rupt Mehhods-Despised by the
Men Who Made Him.

Mr.. Harrison has reached a crisis in his
administration and in his public career.
The men who made him president have
turned against him. The republican state
OF Pennsylvania, a state that, next to Kan
sas. gave him the largest plurality of all the
states in the presidential vote of 1888, and.
next to New York, gave him the largest
number of votes, has virtually declared in
the great council of the party that he is un-
worthy to be renominated, and that his
chief rival for the nomination must be pre-
ferred to him. There is no mistaking the
meaning of the Harrisburg resolutions.
even In the softened form in which thew
were adopted, says the New York Times.
Were Mr.. Harrison not an ardent aspirant
Tor the honor of a denomination, Pennsyl-
van!a's colaly formal praise of his admins
tratlon and its enthusiastic Endorsement
OF Mr. Blaine would not disturb his
equsnlmlty or turn upon him the plying
Chances OF bis countrymen. But his aspira-
tons are obvious. if not yet avowed, his
plans and preparations for a second term
have been made in the sight Of men, and
his quest OF powerful supporters is uncon-
cealed. The opposition he now confronts
forces upon him. in the last year of his
administration, either a change in his
advisers or the abandonment of his nm
bition.
1t would be impossible for men of feeling
to withhold their sympathy from Mr.. Har-
rison had he not by his own acts invited
and deserved the disaster that has now
overtaken him. He has been the willing
beneficiary of the corrupt doings and the
Immoral schemes of the men who have now
repudiatsd him, but he has not been will
Ing to share the odium of their misdeeds.
The money that Mr.. Wanamaker raised and
the ways of spending it that Mr.. QUAY de-
vised put Mr.. Harrison in the chair of the
chief executive. The country was not LONG
in fading out the abominable corruption
OF Mr; Quay's campaign methods and the
Pious active and consentino
part in making them successful. Mr.. Har-
rison we'll knew what had been done, His
Pfesbyterian conscience doubtless protest.
ed. bat his controlling ambition comforta-
bly, acqulesed. The expert and unscrupu-
lous political managers who had SCI we'd him
once could serve him again. They were too
powerful to be frowned upon; they must be
accepted and conciliatad. Mr.. Wauamaker
became his postmaster general and his
friend. Nr. qnny, for whom he could not
quite conceal his inward abhorrence. has
continued to be his political advisor. The
president condoned the sins of those who
had made him president, and became an
eccomplice ntter the fact. Quav's criminal
record and Wanamaker's unpleasant hypoc-
rlsy were obstlnately overlooked by the
president, and the country reasoned that
wat he chose to overlook he did not con
denim.
Mr. Harrison's weak and unworthy toll
eTnnca of Quay and Wanamaker has now
become The plague of his existence. Ho
cannot with good grace repudiate these
nSa, for they have already ~repudiated hin.
~ tho tardy action he might now take