The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-06-26

exempted from the curse which hes on
Yet look upon benjamin
Harrison and his woes, and who for all |
the pleasures az the white house and
the plaudits Of postmasters would ex'
change peace In privacy for his pub
licity? Mr.. Harrison was never
suspected Of greatness, ply sical or
mental, and when he carried out
the bargain by virtue Of which no
was made president and made James
q. Blaine his secretary OF state. II was
plain what would happen. His friends
boastcd that he alone would be presi-
dent. and in minor matters pointed out
the fact that he had apparently run
counter to the wishes OF the Maine
man as proof Of his ability To shape his
own administration. Yet to-day there
Is no prominent feature Of state policy
that is not attributed 10 Blaine, and
the smaller man is overshadowed by
the greater man behind IT, The presl-
dent is accredited with desire to be
his own successor. and il is the com
mon gossip Of the country that the re-
alization OF his ambition Is conditioned
wholly upon the consent Of his master
and the ratification Of the people.
This is humiliation enough. but II Is
not the only one which the nominal
chief Of the republican party suffers,
II he were not suspected Of broad
craftsmanship. Mr.. Harrison was never
smirched with scandal Ills skirts were
cleaner than those Of most OF the lead
ers Of the party. lie even pretended 20
austerity OF life. and his church con-
ncction was made prominent during his
canvass and in the cabinet forming
DAYS. Good people who accept church
connections as guaranty Of IN honor
able life had right to expect from the
PRESBYTERIAN elder decorous If not
brilliant administration. A promise OF
moral one was taken from the sclcc-
ton Of Sunday school superintendent
to direct the postal department. in
which arose the scandals Of the
last previous republican administration,
not withstanding the charge openly
made that the sanity Wanamakcr
bought his portfolio by raising great
sum of money with which to corrupt
the suffrage. Yet from the very begin
ming of the rule Of the elders and dea.
cons scandals have dogged the heels OF
the president and kept him awake
nights. First Dudley with his blocks
Of five, a scandal so undeniable that
the president was compelled to admit
its truth by openly repudiating the In
diana president-maker in order to clear
his own skirts of suspected knowledge
Of the flagitious scheme. Then began
the raid upon the pension department
by the pension ring and the scandal
| which resulted in the displacement OF
one commissioner by another SO much
worse that the stencil OF the
Tanner regime is forgotten in
the stencil which surrounds the
uns peakable Raum. Then came
Reeds congress with its lobbies,
who left to the administration an
empty treasury and the task Of con-
verting deficit into a surplus by lay
ing hands upon trust funds which the
grand old party had always declared
sacred A silver-ring scandal surged
up even to the feet of the cabinet. but
was calmed by the judicious use Of oil.
An Indian war was openly attributed
to the malign influence Of the Indian
ring over the interior department.
Scandal has attended the Behring sea
negotiations, and to-day the comp
troller Of the treasury and the sancti
monious Wanamsker arr under . cloud
1t is intimatcd that the retirement o.
the secretary Of state to Bar Harbor 4
not unconnected with strange doing'
in the state department, and the rela'
tons Of the president and his secretary
Of the interior are not pleasant, owing
to the scandals in the interior depart
ment bureaus
For all these tn ngs the nominal heas
Of the administration Is held RESPONSE
bic, while the man from Maine, who's
record is tattooed. is the idol Of hi
party. and. whether firing paper salvo'
at crowned heads from Washington o
listening TO the murmur Of the wave
at Bar Harbor. is its recognized chic!
1t was bad bargain which benjamin
Harrison made with Steve Elkins a
indianapolis just before the nationa
republican convention met in ChicaS
: in 1855. --Chicago Times.