, 1892-11-26
SOME BACK TALK.

A well known old citizen of Washington
City, Hawkins Taylor ESQ, appears to
have hit the nail pretty nearly on the head
in two instances at least, in summing up
the reasons why President Harrison was
defeated. Mr.. Taylor says:
1.-The managers of his campaign in 1888
In New York, after their success, were
charged by the democrats with having
bought the result. In place of the presi-
oent standing by them, they, to the public,
seemed to be ignored by the president.
This was to them and their friends most
mortitylng. All through his administra-
tlon ne was antagOnlzing senators and
friends IN making appointments, and at
the national convention in Minneapolis
the convention was dominated by office
noid trs, a large element of them from the
oouth without constituency, and assum-
ing to represent states that could not and
dld not give the president a single electo-
raj vote. But the cap sheaf of the party's
defeat was put on in the nomination of
Whltelaw Reid for vice president, a man
destitute OF every qualification to Justify
his nomination; a chronic bOlter. the act
i've opponent of organized labor. whose
treatment of Greeley and COnkling was
heartless and brutal. To add Insult to in,
jury, Morton, a man without enemies and
every way fit and worthy. and one of
Conkling's close friends, had to be dis
placed to make place for this evil politi-
cal spirit. All these things were used
with much force by a shrewd opposition.
and no law has ever been passed by con-
gress that has been so deliberately lied
about as the Mckinley bill John Sher.
man and DepeW and other republicans told
the people that Cleveland was better than
MS party, and Cleveland and the entire
North and East ignored and repudiated the
Chicago platform. The people were told
SO much on both sides that thev concluded
10 put the under dog on top and see what
they all would do, and l hope they will
commence the 9th day of next March and
let US have the good times they promise
at once"
1t is also given out in society circles at
the national capital that Mrs. Vice-Presi-
dent Morton who spent last summer at Bar
Harbor. let herself be heard on
the subject of politics with no little en-
phasis of her dislike of the manner in
which DR.. Depew, acting for President
Harrison, had so manipulated the Mime
apolis convention that her husband was
set aside for Mr.. Whitelaw Reid. She
quietly predicted at Bar Harbor so fire.
quently in July, August, September and
october that President Harrison could not
be reelected because Mr.. Morton had not
also been renominated that her opinions
became as much public property as the
secrets Of United States senate executive
sessions. In her comments upon the Pres
ldent she was not sparing of sarcasm, and
she predicted thatthe Union League club
and the banking circles of Wall street, in
which Mr.. Morton had been instrumental
IN raising large sums of money for pre-
Vlous campaigns, would not open their
pockets so widely this year. On the other
hand, says another, Mrs. Morton did not
know that some time in March or April,
the vice-president had incurred the presi-
dents displeasure by saying he did not
want a denomination with Harrison, be-
cause he was afraid Harrison could not
carry the country again. The natural
sequence Of such an opinion getting into
print was the dropping of Mr. Morton as a
Vice-presidential candidate.