New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-17
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There appears TO bc a general impression
among the persons who were most Influential. or
who think they wore most influential. in bring
ng in that singular body Of men known rs the
Lid Congress that the great reforms which they
believe in themselves. and promised the people
with great confdcnc, Should be Immediately
put on tap are rather slow in coming. The COM
plant Oh that acccun; J., growing 20 be universal.
The more reasonable among them point with
pride - tia fact that new draln AT the Nc>,
Point Academy which would have est severn.
hundred dollars and served no earthly puip'so
except to furnish additional facilities for the
establishment Of O military dictatorship, has been
defeated by the stlp"rhundn cXcltlonS OF Repre-
sentative Holman. Of Indiana. They are hope
full, too, that the same noble specimen Of upright
American manhood will succeed in cutting down
other Appropriations. - that in the end several
thorand dollars will lee saved o. the distressed
peope who groan one year over surplus and
the next over possible dciic, in the Treasury,
and who whatcycr the conditions. impIoI" the
sincere and abo statesmen Of the Democratic
party 70 come to their relief.
But the influential persons who bough, in the
Northumberland fifty majority Congress are I'M
patient. They say Congress Is too slow. They
are not satisfied with the very considerable saving
in money on the West Point drain, and the
much more important gain T. the country ind
cctly in making the West Point Academy 50
unhealthy that all danger Of "A ruling military
elias, growing up there will be removed; they
want still greater reforms. They want some
thing done about tho tariff And they want il
rich, off 80 thoy are dissatisfied with the slow
progrcsS If the present Congress. They sup
roSed when this Congress aN,cmblcd-th"y hay
ing been the influential and potential iac'oIS in
getting it iogcthcr-that it would place Itself II
once under their lead and thai with Speaker
Of their own selection il would without any Dc
Law or prevaricalOn or EVASION rake up tho Me
Kinlcy Tarin-thc sum OF all vlllanlcS-and piJ-
coed TO rip il mp from wool to tin plate. They
were singularly confident. They had behind
them the prestige of Success, the greatness 81
Grover Cleveland the general trend of the uni
verse and " the logic Of the situation" Huidcs
which they had George Fred Williams and >her-
man Hear f Massachusetts, both quito in ear
nest and fresh
And then, the next thing they knew, they got
left
y
ing having happened in the way of IufJrm cX-
Ccpt the cuttng-oT Of the West Point drain, the
question is under discussion among thom-among
the influential and potential-why these thing,
are thus. "1he Evening Post" OF this city, a
proverbial rushcr-in whore angcS hesitate offers
an explanation. 1t says: When Speaker
Crisp appointed his committees we expressed the
fear that the organization Of the House was not
in accordance with the lines OF natural leader
ship 1.-The House" it adds, not being or
ganizcd on the lines Of astcrtalned leadership,
has hardly worked at all F,om those premises
it proceeds to say that what has been done in
tho way Of reform Is utterly inadequate to the
expectations OF the people. 1t ato speaks dis
palagingy of that eminent Democratic states
man Congressman Holman, known as " the
Watchdog of the Treasury" and OF his great
work, already referred to, on tho West Point
drain. Il says: "Thc drain will be fe,tuied
by the Senate, As it ought TO be, and conCincd.
in by tho House. and the Watchdog OF the
Treasury will bay the moon unnOtlcod for seycIt
nights aftcrward."
All this because the natural leaders" " the
asccitaincd leaders," were not recognized. And
this gives rise 10 the inquiry who are the natural,
the ascertaincd. LEADERS, Why, pIobably, Roger
Mills and George Fred Williams and sherman
Hear and the Mugwump Contingent. Bless Their
dear hearts no The Democratic party is not
just now cnlisting BrgadicrS. Ii has a leader
a natural elder-a recognized leadef-a leader
who learned the business of leading from Will
lam NJ. Tweed the greatest Democratic leader
of his time-a leador who leads. lie sy''r,ted
the present Speaker; he stood over the Organzl-
ton of the one hundred and fifty majority; his
plans and his policy arc the chief consideration.
Natural leadership Asccrtaincd leadership
On, move away David b. lIIl's leadership is
natural by reason of his lineal descent from the
Tweed regime; ascertained BY the concrete. alb.