Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-29

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The Star of
this city publishes the following:
A superficial view of Republican politics
at this junctuTe seems to point inevitably
to the denomination of President Harrison,
but careful analysis of all the elements
entering into snd bearing upon the situa-
ton shows that 1t is not absolutely free
from danger to the 1president's prospects.
Beneath the apparently placid surface
there are evidences Of a movement in
progress, engineered by able and infuen-
tial men in the cuunsels Of the Republican
party to compass the presidents defeat at
Minneapolis. This movement has been
taking more definite and tangible shape in
the last ten days than it had previously as
sumed. Those people who, on Mr.. Blaine's
withdrawal from the canvass, hastily
Jumped to the conclusion that the RepubIi-
can nomination was already settled in Har-
lison's favor have been obliged to revise
their judgment in the light of recent devel-
opments
STRONG WITH THE PEOPLE BUT NOT WITH
THE MACHINE.
OF course the masses care little or moth
ing about the offices, but they watch their
public servants closely and take notice when
national affairs are conducted creditably
and on business principles. President
Harrison undeniably stands well with this
element of the Republican party. In its
GSlludtlOu llO Ids SlNCu IilC q very
successful administration, and it is gener-
ally in favor of his denomination. But this
is not the element that always controls con-
Yentions. The active politicians, who more
or less depend on and deal in government
patronage, view the president from an en-
tirely different point of observation. In
general he has been too Independent IN the
distribution OF the offices to suit the
machine.
Many of the politicians are hostile from
various causes, They argue that President
Harrison has made the party stronger for
some other candidate than himself, exactly
as Horace Greeley argued in the case of
Seward in 1860. Then it was anybody to
beat Seward; in 1876 it was anybody to
beat Blaine at Cincinnati; in 1850 it was
anybody to beat Grant at Chicago, and now,
with the politicians of the class referred to,
it is anybody to beat Harrison at Minneap-
oils. The president knows this as vel as
anybody and he knows what a tremendous
force these apparently iucongruous and dis
satisfied elements sometimes become in the
hands of foe and his managers are en-
deavoring to meet the danger.
The early convention in Indiana was the
first decisive and open step-and a signif-
cant one-takeD on the part of the presi-
dents friends in favor of his candidacy, for
the purpose of at once sileneing fractional
opposition in his own state and to give con-
fdence to his followers in others, which, by
the way, was the object of Hills early COM
vention in New York.
WHERE THE PRESIDENTS DANGER LIES.
Hence it becomes matter of genera in
terest and importance to know the extent
of the presidents danger and his vulnerable
points and the grounds on which bzs oppon-
ents base their hopes of success ii case the
fight should be carried into the conTention.
1t is generally believed among politicians
IL this city that the presidents fchief dam.
ger is in New York, Pennsylf ania, Ohio
Illinois and Michigan, the five leading Re-
publican states OF the country SThe storm
center is at present hanging over New
York, which IS controlled by a Republican
machine every whit as close ana effective
as that of Tammany hall. The Presidents
hope of success lies in placating this ma
chine. and It is the popular1 impressigazI
that this is what his friends are now en-
deavoring TO do.
It must not De understood that Harrison
IS without friends IN New York and the
other states Ramed-he has plenty of them
OR that the machine is unalterabiy OBJ
posed to him. They do not like him, but
viii support him if they find it impossible
1zsnefeat him, or become satisfied with the
terms his friends offer. They simply claim
TO be for the best man, the man who can
win, but in none OF these states, excepting
perhaps, Ohio, are theF believed to be at
present faTorably inclined TO the president.
If their opposition crystalizes and the dela-
gates from these states can be united