Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-08
PLATT WILL HAVE TO GO.
HARRISON GAVE HIM NEW YORK
STATE PATRONAGE.
In Return the Boss Was to Deliver the
Electoral vote-The Latter Has Failed
in His Part Of the Bargain and the Presi-
dent Ia Free

Electoral vote-The Latter Has Failed
in His Part Of the Bargain and the Presi.
dent Is Free.
rFEoN A STAFF CORRESPONDENT,
NEW York, Nov. IA most important
feature of the campaign and the most far
reaching element in the verdict of Tuesday
last is the relation of the Federal admins
tration to the contest. The fact that Boss
Plat has been the subservient cat's-paw to
pull Harrisonian chestnuts out of the fire is
quite too familiar to require more than the
mere statement President Harrison may
have freely selected his instrument and may
have been compelled to accept him by force
Of circumstances. In either case he found
tool ready to his hand. Mr.. Platt's dom
ination in this State had already been
demonstrated. To strengthen the iron rule
of the Republican boss all that was re-
quired in addition to the alresdy absolute
authority in the party was to make him the
sole purveyor of Federal patronage and to
give official countenance to whatever use
Mr.. Platt might see fit to make of it,
This President Harrison did. In so doing
the other Republican leaders were thrown
"outside of the breastworks." Mr.. Platt
is not a man with whom to talk of division
of authority. There was no such contin-
gencv discussed or suggested. He was
therefore constituted high-cock-alorem,
given the keys of the New York Custom
House and whatever else he deemed requi-
site to carry out his deal with the admins
tration. In return for all this, he was to
hand over the support of New York in
furtherance of the Harrisonian scheme for
Presidential denomination. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that the double jointed backbone
of the situation was the control of the State
by Mr.. Platt on the one hand and the sup
port of that State to President Harrison on
the other
The Blaine Boom Forced 1t.
1t was desperate alliance, but the sit
uation of the Harrisonian boom was des-
perate and required the hazard. The shadow
of James G. Blaine rising from that last
sickness to which the Presidents support
ers had with crocodile tears consigned him
was again falling athwart his political
vision. 1t was doubtless the Blaine night
mare that rode the Presidential pillow and
made the uneasy brain conceive of the Piatt
alliance.
The scheme was great-if it had worked.
Now, why didn't it work? Because the
friends of James G. Blaine in this State are
numbered by scores of thousands. The hue
and cry against Tammany Hall raised by the
Platt contingent up through the State could
not blind the shrewd believers in Blaine.
Their loyalty to their party was too strong to
permit many of them to vote for Mr.. Flower
or make any active demonstration against
the figurehead set up by Messrs. Harrison
and Platt; but they could stay at home, de-
clining to register and neglecting to vote.
And this they did by tens of thousands.
The talk of the Worlds Fair having any,
thing to do with this negative and open op-
position in the State at large is ridiculous.
Mr. Fassett himself and other disguised
Republican leaders talk of the knife"
They correctly attribute their defeat to the
inactivity and covert hostility Of their own
people. But they do not care to further
analyze these causes. To do so would be to
expose the fact that very considerable.
body of Republicans in this State are in
imical to the administration at Washington.
Republicans Want New Deal
There is very little sympathy heard in
any quarter for Mr.. Plat. Republican
journals that supported him and his ticket
already demand his immediate abdication.
''The administration must unload Platt, is
the cry: but whether the Administration
will unload Plat& o. Plat will unload tbs
first remains to be seen. 1t
will probably be decided when the discov-
ery shall have been made which of the two
is on top.
One thing is already apparent. When
the scattered and demoralized Republican
forces of this State are brought together
again and are mobilized for the campaign
of 1892 they will not be under the leader
ship of T. c. Platt or Mr.. Platt's proxy. 1t
is equally apparent that they will not be
led BY any man or set of men representing
l., eh
radically change between now and the
National Republican Convention there is no
more hope of the capture of New York
than CARRYING the State of Georgia The
responsibility lies Eholly with the Presi-
dent. Mr. Platt offered him New York in
return for the Federal patronage. Now Mr.
Platt finds that circumstances over which
he has no control prevent him from carry
Ing out his share of the bargain. Therefore
he is in duty bound to pay back that which
he took, and if he doesn't feel the full
force of this duty, Mr.. Harrison is clearly
justified in taking it from him with what
ever force necessary.
Will Notify Harrison OF It
There will soon be powerful forces organ
lied here to present this idea to President
Harrison. A little time will be necessary
for some of these fellows to get their breath
sufficiently to swear; but when they do get
at it somebody is likely to get out of the
way or get hurt Look out for Blaine and
With Plattism should disappear the out
appointment in this State which
disfranchises some 100000 inhabitants,
mostly Democrats. In nv ante-election
representations, it will be remembered by
the reader, while / placed the gubernatorial
majority at from 10000 to $4,000 for Mr..
Flower, called attention to the fact that
still larger majority might be necessary to
give the Democrats the control of the Leg
islature. The Flower majority is nearly
SO, 600 and the Republicans still control the
power. Imagine such condi-
tion in your own State if you can! This is
Plattism. Against the voice of $4,000
voters PiattIsm is to govern the making of
the laws at Albany. Do you wonder at the
disgust felt by all decent men for such
man and for such methods? This one sta
tistical fact tells the story of New York
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.