Griggs courier., 1892-10-07
SURRENDERED 70 TAhs.aANy.

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SURRENDERED 70 TAMAaANY.
rhs Free-Trsds Prophet Pays some At
i tention to Machine Methods.
The same trouble Is Just now brood.
ing over Mr.. Cleveland that made the
last days Of his administration unhap-
py.s Between 1884 and 1858 he had de-
voted himself to counting mugwump
favor, and had turned his back in the
most positive and offensive way on the
leaders Of his own party. It was not
until about the time of his renomina-
ton that it began to dawn upon him
that his coddling of the mugwumps and
toploftical treatment Of the party.
workers had alienated the men whose
support he most needed in the cam
paign, while bringing him nothing in
return but the sweetened wind Of q
small contingent of pompous persons,
who strutted round as best thinkers
and leaders of public opinion. When
he saw the true situation he began to
hedge. The crowd that had been clam
oring for Offices, but.had been put of
with civil-service reform excuses, got q
hearing. The barriers were thrown
down, and, to the horror of the mug.
wumps. the Offices were distributed
upon the old plan Of spoils to the VIC
tors. 1t was too late to remedy the
mistake already made. The mugwumps
were disgusted, and the old leaders and
political workers were not won. So
that at the close of MIR. Clevcland's ad-
ministration the cloud rested on it of
having thrown overheard all its pro-
fessions in favor Of civil-service reform
without profiting at all by the transac-
tion. The leaders did not trust him.
Being defeated, he fell again into the
embraces Of the mugwumps, and for
the last four years has turned his back
on the leaders and workers.
And now it appears that he is about
to repeat the experiment of 1883 and
undertake to conciliate the men who
hate him and whom he dcspises There
is no patronage in hand to be divided,
but there are lots of federal offices in
the distance which democratic success
will put at his disposal. He knows
very well-knows it better now than
ever before-that Mcssrs. Murphy
and Sheehan and Croker and the rest
ure not SO madly in love with him or so
ardently devoted to the principles Of
the cause he represents as to roll up
their sleeves and go to work for his cleo
tion unless they have some positive as
surances concerning the distribution of
patronage in the event of his success.
For these gentlemen make politics a
business, and it is business with them
oil the time. Nothing is more notorious
than that the democratic canvass has
Jagged, and the whole party in the
state has been istless and apathetic
simply because the Tammany leaders
had not come to an understanding with
Mr.. Cleveland as to the distribution of
the Offices 1t has been said by some
prominent ones that there would have
to be a definite arrangement, not
merely verbal promise, but q written
contract, with Mr.. Cleveland on this
subject before the Tammany organiza.
tion would exert itself effectively in his
behalf. But it is dangerous to put such
things IN writing. and there is no doubt
that the dinner given by Mr.. Cleveland
10 leading democrats the other night
was device, suggested perhaps by Mr..
Whitney, to avoid this difficulty.
There have been no disclosures as
yet of what took place at this consul.
tation, but one thing is certain: that
The dinner meant business, and that
the business was to reach an under
standing by which Tammany Hall, in
consideration Of the federal patronage,
is to take hold and whoop up the presi-
Dental ticket. When Mr.. Cleveland
sent out his invitations to the Tammany
leaders It was surrender on his part
10 the machine. Talk as he may about
his aversion to machine methods, he
knows they are necessary to his sue
sess, and If he should be elected it will
be, as The Sun says, 'because he rep
resents the methods of Senator Hill,
Mr.. Murphy, Mr.. Croker and the de-
mocracy of the state of New York" It
Is his second surrender to the machine.
Whether clinched by written docu-
ments or not has not yet appeared. It
might as well be, for the conviction
that a bargain was made amounts, with
or without written proofs, to . cer-
tainty in the public mind. And this,
we take 1t, eliminates tho civil service
plank from the Chicago PLATFORM
N. Y. Tribune.
A FoRLoRN HOPE.
How the Democrats Expect to Garry New
| York.