Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-18
SATURDAY. JUNE Is. 1sss.
A BAD BEGINNER WITH A WORSE RE-.
MAINDER-HBAD AND TAIL BAD.

BAD BEGINNER WITH 4 WORSE RE-
MAINDER-HBAD AND TAIL BAD.
The most remarkable circumstance
about the Republican national ticket ID
it's ensemble. The vagrant and prank
some instincts of the Minneapolis con.
vention led them to give an expectant
public something altogether out of the
common. With little Ben everybody ID
familiar. His infantile ways have Gre
ated something quite out of the ordina.
ry line. If he were Baby Mckee, in
stead of old, aged and criss-crossed Ben
Harrison, the extrusion of his linea-
ments outside Of the rim of grandfather
hat would be both interesting and in
genuous. But to see these old and
scared features, with their air of fantoc-
cini of calculation, in situation
which calls for spontaneity and enthu-
siasm, is something quite embarrassing.
We are driven to exclaim, with Hamlet.
as he runs old Polonius through the
small CUTS. "Are you there,
old Truepenny?" It was the
good fortune Of PoloniHs to die
behind the arras; but, unfortunately
for the American people, little Benny
Harrison will be months a-dying. He
will die with great circumstartiality, on
a spectacular stage. in which the
United States and the world will be in
termittent observers. The probability
is extreme that citizens. American and
alien, will look upon his mortuary
political agonies with much of the cal
lous Indifference which characterized
the Billingsgate fishermen. of whom DR..
Samuel johnson has made note, who
skinned their cells alive, and cursed
them because they wriggled during the
ordeal.
Benjamin Harrison, of present and
accredited memory as fantoccini pres
ident of the United States, is now on
the tenter hooks. His weazened visage
can only be quickened into semblance
of life by some signal act of folly on the
part OF the Democratic party. That
masculine and immemorial organization
puts in all its time in doing either wise
or otherwise things. Most of the saga
cious and solid members of the party
which occasionally makes mistakes and
Is hearty aiiSSsavs right, hope that this
year we have struck the nob.'a and always
successful combination, politically, OF
four. eleven and forty-four.
And we believe we have. Should our
proposition prove to be correct, we shall
have converted q fateful problem of
policy into noble Democratic polity.
The Minneapolis convention having
given US Benjamin, has added to it's
fatuousness by placing Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid at the tail OF it's ticket.
Who is Mr.. Whitelaw Reid? We de-
cline to enter into a minute biography
of this gentleman. The fact which is
doubtless of most interest to Mr.. Reid
is that he had the good luck to marry
the young and charming daughter of
Mr.. D. O. Mills, Californian who is
generally understood, by those who are
best acquainted with the circumstances,
to be worth quite eighty millions Of
dollars.
1t is probably owing to this circum-
stance that, when Mr.. Blaine appointed
Mr.. Reid minister plenipotentiary and
envoy extraordinary to the French Re-
public, located at Paris, our American
journalist Immediately hired a hotel
whose yearly rental exceeded the sum
of $17, 500, which is the salary of his
post.
At this point of the business father
in.law Mills came in with great impresse-
n,ent. While he contributed to Mr..
Reid's great social standing in the po.
lite capital of the world, in 30 doing he
was only casting his bread upon the
waters, to return, after not too many
days, in the shape of the Republican
nomination for vice-president. Levi P.
Morton having served his purpose of
knocking the slaves out of potential
"bar'l" in 1883, old man Mills was
slated for this gracions Office in 1892.
Mr.. Morton is generally understood not
to have been prodigal enough in his con-
tributions to please the fat-frying brig.
ade. The gentlemen who barter honors
for ducats are frequently fastidious in
their requirements, and it ia generally
assumed that Mr.. Morton had put
conservative estimate upon the honor
and pleasure of sitting as an official
dummy at the head of an illustrious
body which, when great charity is exer-
cised, is supposed to contain a half
dozen or 80 of gentlemen who might be
assumed to have brains.
In addition to being the husband ola
woman whose father bought him the
New York Tribune, Mr.. Reid is gener-
ally accredited with having betrayed
Horace Greeley, and with having broken
the heart and compassed the death of
that great journalist, whom the Demo-
cratic party, ia a moment of madness,
nominated for president Of the United
States in 1872, to run against Grant,
who was up for q second term. Mr..
Charles A. Dana, the editor Of the New
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