St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-06
opponents as Well as Sup
porters Of Harrison Are
Nearly All Bosses,
And Neither Side on This Ac-
count Appeals Very Stron-
ly to the People.
Last Night Given UP to a
Scene Of Hilarity at
the West.
Various Small Convention
& Matters Done Up in
Short Notes.

There has been great deal of specu-
lation and discussion as to the probable
nominee of the Minneapolis conven-
ton, and the wise men who have been
on earth and i'll attendance at every
Republican national convention since
the one which met in 1856 and nomi-
mated Fremont and Dayton are daily
getting off great deal of nonsense in
regard to what the 900 delegates who
Will be raped to order in the EXposi-
tion building tomorrow by Chairman
Clarkson are going to do. These men.
who, as a rule. are not delegates, talk a
little about what will be best for the
party and most surely lead to success.
But few. ii any. of the delegates talk
like them. With the delegates the main
consideration is not who will make the
strongest candidate, but rather which
man, if nominated and elected. will do
the most for us, or, in other words, give
them or their friends control of the
federal officials.
The spoils element are in absolute
and almost entire control of this con-
vention, and the Spoils seekers are as
numerous in the ranks of the SO-called
Blaine men as they are in the admins
tration ranks. With over one hundred
and fifty federal officials on the roster
of delegates, no one will deny that the
administrations division of the spoils
has been wasted. This is one-sixth of
the entire convention, and may be
counted as at least One-third or more,
for the reason that the federal officials
are few indeed who, strong enough to
secure their own elections as
delegates, are not also strong
enough to secure the election of
AT least one man whom they can con-
ir5l. The Harrison men will, of course,
llndly assume to the outsider that the
men who are fighting the president all
lave ''individual disappointments." Of
course they have They wanted offices
and failed to get them. but the admins
tration managers fail to state that the
men who did get the good berthS are all
on hand either as delegates, alternates
or visitors working for the renOmina-
ton of Mr.. Harrison.
On the other hand. for the men who
started the Blaine movement to attempt
to persuade the people that it was done
for the salvation of the Republican
party and from disinterested motives of
party loyalty, is the height of all
surdity. The American people are
too well acquainted with Mat
thew Stanley Quay, Thomas G..
Platt, j. S. ClarkSon, Gen. William
Malone, A. L. Conger. Joseph B. Fol-
aker, J. Sloat Fassett, Don Cameron.
Chauncey o. Filley and their fellow
workers to believe any statements OF
fsj fEhncn houa oc
against President Harrison, and the
latter. never spoke truer words than
when he criticised them in his .'indi-
vidiial disappointments" interview
which so disturbed the old bosses. 1t
is not necessary to .particulariZe in re-
gard to these men. but in the cases of
one or two of the most prominent lead
ers word may not be amiss.
What is the matter with Chauncey l..
Filley? Every one knows that for years
Mr.. Filley has managed the Republican
party of Missouri for his personal bene-
fit. When the Republicans have been
in power he had the patl Oh &c
of the state to distribute as he
pleased. But when President Har-
rison came in he took John W.
Noble, of Missouri, as his secretary of
the interior against the wishes of, and,
in fact, without consulting Mr.. Fill
lev; and he did not stop with
this. but allowed Mr.. Noble
and his friends to distribute the
Filev is against Mr.. Harrison, and
''Dick" KerenS and John w. Noble are
for him.
"Tom" Platt wanted cabinet Office
and all the New York patronage. He
received neither, and fOrgets his old
chief, Conkling. and declares for Mr..
Blaine and is one of his StauncheSt
supporters.
Every one knows how the president
tried to ignore Senators Cameron and
Quay in the Keystone state.
But there is no necessity of going any
further into this analysis of the OppO-
sItiOn to Mr.. Harrison. 1t is all because
of the manner in which the spoils were
portioned out. Had President Harri-
son drawn this opposition upon himself
because of the fact that he had turned
down these men fol the good of the
party and to fill the offices with better
men than they would furnish, or better
yet to carry out his civil services
pledges, he might today have the
sympathy of great many peo-
pie who are shedding no tears
over HIS lmpcHulilS uOWHldII. Nt
fact of the matter is that he is as
much of a sportsman as Piatt or Quay,
and he turned down these men for mat
tiers entirely personal. and such that he
is in nowise entitled to sympathy.
When he was in the United States SEN
ate he built up powerful machine by
the aid of the offices. and he attempted
to repeat this in the whole United
States. He felt he could not trust few
of the old boys, and so attempted to fill
their places.
1t is simply fight between spoilsmen
at Minneapolis, and neither side is in a
position to cast reflections on the other.