The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-11
A FATAL VICTORY.
That Won by Harrison's Men by
Means Of Patronage and
Doodle.
A Triumph That Cannot Possibly
Extend Beyond the Con-
vention Hall
Necks Of Almost All Leading Repub-
lIcans Broken by the Harri-
son Juggernaut
Platt Publicly Announces That He
VIII Not Help Re-Elect the
President.
Pathway to DemocrAtio Victory in the
Fall Cleared OF All Obstacles Dis
gusted M0ntAniaps.

l-Over tho necks Of Blaine and
Mckinley, Of Platt and Quay, of Clarkson
and Malone. of Warner Miller and For
aker and Tom Reed went the wheels OF tho
Harrison juRgernaut, with one hundred
and fifty Office holders up aloft holding the
reins, and two thousand more pushing it
on. II was great victory Of the machine
politicians. The days work 10 go fully
told in the detailed report of the proceed
inRs that follow that il is unnecessary to
give full story. The full purport of the
result will be more apparent when the
smoke and dust ,and hurrahs have dis
appeared and men como to reason. Then
it will be seen how wide was the breach,
how ugly the fight between Harrison and
his offioeholders on the ono hand and the
great mass of the party on The other. II
was handful Of regulars, against tre-
mendous mob. and the regulars won. not
by force Of numbers, but BY drill and dis
cipline.
It was just the sort Of fight TO parry joy
to every democratic heart. The great oppo-
sition is split asunder and torn by fsctionaI
strife. Fends have been started that gem
Grafton will not cure. Old leaders have
been humiliated and discarded. Quay, the
general of 1883, has been driven into retire
ment. and Plat, the boss Of New York.
publicly states tonight that he will take no
part in the campaign of 1892. It is a
crushed. depressed party that leaves
Minneapolis tonight. Defeat is in the air
and gloom is everywhere apparens.
tt was great victory for Harrison, d
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was victory that goes no f.s+thsr than the
nomination. It was the victory of office
holders and negroes from Arkansas. Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
North Carolina and Texas, where there il
not republican electoral vote; not the
thinking men Of New York. Pennsylvania,
Ohio. and other eenters of republican in
telliRenee. It was victory. in the opinion
of every conservative man here, that means
republican overthrow in November. II
was veritable victory Of defeat. The &c.
lection of Blaine as an instrument to de-.
feat Harrison was great mistake. Had
Platt could have effected q winning combi-
nation on another candidate
The Montana delegation yielded to the
general pressure and the establishments OF
Carter. and all went for Harrison, except
Nick Bielenberg, the cowboy, who went
down flying the Blaine flag. II was bitter
dose, but they gulped il down. sadder,
sorrier, madden lot of visitors than the
hundred Montanians it would be difficult ia
find In the town tonight.
Blaine was regarded back number by
all of the younger men in the convention
and never stood any show. The men who
followed him to the death were too stupid
to move quickly when third man had a
chance and went down into the last ditch
with their candidate. 1t was the stupidity
of the Maine mans friends that renomi-
mated Harrison. As soon as the attempt
was made to take Blaine's men to MoKin-
ley, Harrison caught the stragglers.
The last Blaine yell that will ever be
heard in a national convention was mag
nidcent effort. II came when Wolcott, OF
Colorado, was making his eloquent speech.
Clsrkson had carefully packed the galleries
for it and the old guard on the floor had
the tip. It was a fiftsen-minute hurrah by
the watch but it did not stampede the Har-
rison old guard or fool the veterans who
have seen the same demonstrations since
1876. In one sense it was pathetic spec-
tacle, for it was the last of Blaine. The
Mckinley offer came too late.t
II was pretty scene when the ballot be-
gan and Quay. Platt and company started
their lieutenants out to give their following
the Mckinley tip. There was period of
intense excitement when Ohio, which
panned out twenty-five votes for Harrison
last night, turned forty Eve of its forty-six
votes for Mckinley; but the effect was
s, oiled when few minutes later dozen of
Quay's Pennsylvanians Topped to Harrison.
Everybody saw then that the jig was mp,
and il did not need prophet to see that the
prize WAS Harrison's.
The Harrison work was well done. II was
machine made and worked to order, bet
there was no heart in it. The enthusiasm
died out when Blaine was killed off.
Mckinley was an interesting picture dur
ing the balloting. He was pale and nerv-
Gus and i'll at ease. He wanted tho nomi-
nation, but was afraid to work for it in the
face Of Harrison's demonstration of posi-.
tive strength. He has not helped himself
by his willingness to take the honors away
from Harrison. Harrison of1iceholders are
muttering vengeance against him next time.
but a. there won't be any Harrison office
holders four years hence, the threat il not
very alarming, A. W. l..