New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-14
OUR "ITTTLE SCHFME."

OUR LITTLE SCHFME."
Tho Ncw-Yorll Times" greatly to our dis
comfituro and chagrin, Is, as they say in Tam
many circles onto MS. In paragraph
ostcnsibly intended as m offer of sympathy to
Speaker Crisp on account of the incident at
the Reform Club dinner it says that after all
tho Republicans deserve the most sympathy
because they have not only been glleycd by
the fancicd wrong Of Mr.. Crisp but they arc
doomed u still moro bitter grief by the failure
Of their little scheme TO get up quarrel IN the
Democratic ranks As this gives away the
whole scheme to get up quarrel and consc-
oucntly forodooms it to failure, il ia hardly
worth while to mako any further prctence Of
secrecy in tho matter. We Republicans not
only accept defeat with cheerful philosophy
but we own up when we get found ont IN
schemes to fomcnt quarrcls among orr oppo-
ncnts.
And yet II we may say a word or two IN
eytenuation Of our offence, is II strange when
orc considers the unrulIled harmony that has
characterized the Democratic party since Is
victory, the terms of cndcarment with which
the various wings and factions have been adj
dressing each other, the demonstrations OF al
fec'ion that have amounted almost 10 what
cynical persons cal lallyeagging when one
considers this and how eyaspeIatng il must
be 10 us Of the opposition. is it strange that
we should be driven % some desperate scheme
70 upset the harmony and make an end Of the
billing and co,ing? And we shall maintain
Notwithstanding the exposure of The Times
that upon the whole the " little scheme was
-
VOL devised. and except for the exposure might
have boon successful. What could have been
better for instance in carrying ont the
scheme than h. have the Reform Club give a
dinner 70 Mr. Cleveland? When We Rcpub-
leans induced the Reform Club 10 give the
dinner we Of course knew what we were about
and that il would operate like touching of 4
hornets nest at q camp-mecting. Ana we
thought we knew our man too when we select
cd t. Ellely Anderson to preside. What could
have answered our purpose better than the
allusion. which he made at our SUGGESTION to
Bourkc Cccl,lan's Chicago speech? Was it not
rather shrcwd on our part to get Mr. Fairchild
10 invite Speaker Crisp 10 the dinner IN an
ambiguous way 50 as 10 trap him INTO pre-
paring speech which he would not be per
mittcd b. deliver? That on the whole was one
Of the SmartcSt things in our little scheme
And how on earth we should like 10 know
could we have done n cunninCcr thing than
Get Mr. S,hulz TO apoStrophizo Mr.. Cleveland
rs the author Of tariff reform and then have
Senator Carlisle give the credit for the same
10 Mr.. TIldcn, rcmarlling at the same time
that the latter had been cheated ont of the
Presidency by the gentleman in whose Cabinet
Mr. Schurz served rs Secretary of the Interior?
VIII anybody deny that it was n stroke of
genius on our part in carrying out our =" little
scheme to get up q quarrel in the Democratic
ranks" tn get Speaker Crisp the ranking Dem
ocratic official i'm the whole land. mmmcd into
4 corner and muulcd, at Reform Club din
ncr while his defeated opponent, Roger Mills
exploited himself, and "Tom' Johnson got
ND and walked all over him and Brcckinridgc
his rival for the Spcakcrship of the next Con-
rreSs. made eloquent remarks calculated to
promote his own candidacy, and everybody who
was anybody WINS called out and all was hilarity
and "hip hip'-he sitting there all the while
with a hot speech getting cold in his pocket
and novcr saying n word, nor asked to? How
could we lave fixed things moro cunningly :?
Then too the little cOntributory matters such
AS our arranging that Croker and Hill and
chcchan and Murphy should not be invited
that Whitney should decline and Judge Truax
should give a dinner TO Gilroy which let him
out-wcrcnt those all put up with something
like skill and cunning? At least give us credit
for that The only thing on which, as it seems
70 us we miscalculatcd, was the kccnneSs of
the detective intinct in our contemporary,
"Thc Times" We were not prepared for that
We were aware, OF course, that our ncighbOr
was cxcrting itself to the utmost TO preserve
harmony and keep the party together. This
was manifest by the cagencss and intense
earncstneSs with which, whenever any Demo
crat like, say, Edward Murphy so far forgot
himself and impcred the good feeling as to
run for office, it rose up rcmarking that he was
a backguardp and "piratc' and led him
rapidly ont. We shall not deny that Rcpub
leans generally regarded with uncasincsS the
zeal with which "Thc Tines was promoting
harmony.
But we did not think when we started our
- little scheme that our contemporary would
so soon got onto the racket" Now that it
has failed and the Democratic party is bound
10 continue harmonious in spite of us. we can
only say that we will never never, never again