The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-01
The Decentralization OF the Re-
publican Party Becoming

politics he did not attribute to anv
disapproval of the public on the
course of the administration, but
looked upon it as calamity, the
weight of which would fall upon the
shoulders of Mckinley and Reed,
and those leaders who had the di-
rection of public affairs in the last
Congress.
The circumstances which served
to disillusionize the President was
the recent poll of the Indiana Leg
islature. which disclosed that a ma
jority of the Republican members of
that body were in favor of Blaine
for the presidency in 1892. No man
in public life has so unpleasantly
obtruded on the Presidents ambit-
ion to succeed himself in the White
House as his Secretary of State. 1t
is beyond question that if Indiana
cannot support Mr.. Harrison for a
denomination, the remainder of the
Republicans from other sections are
not likely to come to the front and
supply tho detection from this quar-
ter. That Blaine should prove the
man of their choice makes the fact
more Calling. The change in the
Office of the United States Treasury
will now be speedily made. Huston
made his threat that he would turn
Indiana from its support of the
President, for denomination, and
while he had no more to do with
the turn of sentiment thanhad the
late McGinty, yet he will point to
the circumstances of Harrison's loss
of prestige as the result of his Illus
ton's) handiwork. The Presidents
dignity can hardly permit him to
retain in Office day longer such
pronounced and bitter enemy, who
is ungrateful for what he has already
received and chargined that he did
not get more.
One of the results of the Presi-
dents opinion that the. late Con-
gress has brought about the politi-
cal revulsion is that he will hardly
tolerate the suggestions made to him
by Republicans who have been retir-
ed from Kansas. In Ohio, where
the slaughter of Republicans has
been marked, the President has
practically served notice that the
ex-members cannot control even the
minor appointments in the districts
lately represented by them unless
their requests are endorsed by Sena-
tor Sherman. AS Sherman is not
on friendly terms with many ofthem
they will have little show for the
present at the public crib. Senator
Hiscock, in like manner, has come
in control of the patronage of the
State of New York, the first time in
the course of his administration that
he has had an opportunity to make
himself felt.
The sorest ofall the retiring states
men is Senator Ingalls,. He seems
to have lost.his head as the result of
his recent defeat, conclusion reach
ed from the fact that he is evolving
a campaign to defeat Senator Plumb
two years hence and return in his
stead. While Ingalls, might secure
the defeat of Plnmb, he could not
himself get the best of the contest.
Plumb, with a great deal of shrewd-
ness, has looked closely after the
Federal appointments in the State of
Kansas, with the result that what is
left of the Republican party is in his
control. The party organization in
the State is in the hands of the Sen
ator. Ingalls's scheme seems to be
to down Plumb by letting the light
into his record in Congress, public
and private. On these points Plumb
is vulnerable, the more so because
the attack has never been made up
on him. Plumb for the past few years
since he has had some capital at
command-has been a stock gam
bier. He has been ballooning around
in all sorts of enterprises, and it is
to the credit of his sagacity that he
has made fortune as the result OF
his Judgment. 1t will be rememb-
cred that Plumb, Farwell and Cam
eron last fall busted up A. E. Bate
man in a stock transaction which
that gentleman was carrying on fol-
them, they refusing to put theirsha
when it was found that the venture
would prove a loosing one. Plumb
is also a conspicuous member OF the
Senatorial poker crowd. One ofth'