Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-12
NOT READY TO GIVE IN
Harrison Still Standing on His Dig
nifty in Regard to Tom Platt.
PEACE-MAKERS HARD AT WORK
And Satisfactory Understanding May Yet
lie Arrived At
HOW CLEVELAND PUT HIS FOOT IN 1T
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. /

meeting between the President and Boss
Platt, of New York, have not been success
full 1t appears that neither Mr.. Platt nor
any of his immediate friends, who would
have any authority to speak for him, will
have anything to do with the effort to es-
tablish peace footinf between the man
who wants to be President and the man
who wants to own the President that is to
be, if that President is to be a Republican.
The anti-war people are said to be coll
fined to the friends of the President and to
members of the National Committee. who
see no hope of winning victory for the
Grand Old Party without some cessation OF
the very bitter bitterness that has been
growing and ranking between the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Platt ever since the latter
found that Mr.. Harrison disputed with him
the right to control New York politics and
New York appointments
Loon Lake Peace Makers Plentiful
The gentleman referred to asserts that
during the last week several formally ap-
pointed peace-makers have visited Loon
Lake and have endeavored to the best of
their ability to induce the President to dis
mount completely from his high horse and
virtually go to Platt and say that he regrets
that any act of his should have resulted in a
difference that endangers the success of the
party, and that if the New York man will
forget and forgive there shall be no cause
for censure of the Chief Executive in the
future.
Mr. Harrison, 1t is said, is not quite ready
to do all that is asked of him. He is will
ing to do all that ought in reason to be
asked of him. He is ready to meet the
New York boss half way, or is even docile
enough and anxious enough to step bit
across the halfway mark, but as yet his
soul revolts against the sacrifices Of his self
respect that would follow his throwing him
self at the foot of the throne of the boss and
promising everything that his majesty can
think of demanding.
Power of the Machinery
That is just about the sacrifice that is
asked of the President and 1t is plain that
at least few persons connected with the
work or the outcome take more than ordi-
nary pleasure in a situation that compels the
President to acknowledge that he is not
sufficient in himself, and that if he would
be elected, or if he would have any chance
for election, he must recognize the ''practi-
cal politicians" who have ut their command
machinery that counts for much more in
ecrisis of an election than does the best
.eofd that can be made In four years by the
ccupAnt of the White House.
One thing is certain, and that is the Pres
lent realizes the predicament in which he is
,laced in all the fullness of its threatening
meaning and ia convinced that he cannot
win without the Intervention of Platt in
New York. No one can heal the breach ex-
cept the President himself The blandish-
ments of the ex-book agent who is at the
head of the National Committee have no
effect on Plat. He can't be wheedled into
influencing either money or men, The one
thing that can move him is tho absolute
surrender of the President, and if Plat be
found with his harness on at any time dur
ing the campaign, nv informant asserts,
that will be proof positive that the New
Yorker has had every assurance from the
President that he demands. 1t is said that
Clarkson, Quay and Dudley send daily tele-
grams to each other on account of the de-
lghtful situation.
Alarm About the Labor Troubles.
This same gentleman above referred to
makes another statement which, if it be
wholly true, is scarcely less important than
the New York peace negotiations He as
serts that the National Committee and
many of the State Committees as well, are
much alarmed on account of the labor
WHICH, luItdIcu W scuu lcuS VI
thousands of Republican workmen into
either the Democratic or the Peoples party.
unless the Republican managers succeed in
composing the difficulty and inducing the
proprietors to recognize the Amalgamated
Association and readmit the strikers to
their old positions. While it is not ad-
mitted that Hugh 0'Donneli had any
formal consultation with the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the party while in
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private consultation at his hotel with lead
ing members of the committee, and that he
plainly told them if they did not step in
and call halt on those who were bent upon
destroying organized labor root and branch,
the Republican party need no longer ex-
pect the support of voters among people
that at any moment might be thrown out of
work and evicted from their homes bv
masters who owed their riches largely to
legislative enactments influenced by the
principles of the Republican party.
Malcontents Must Be Mo!Iifisd.
This is a statement that is corrobo ated
from many sources, in so far as the fears of
the Republican managers are concerned, if
some satisfactory arrangement be not soon
made between proprietors and strikers and
locked-out men. 1 am told ct the head
quarters of the Congressional Committee
here in Washington that letters have been
received from local politicians in various
parts OF the country stating that the working
people are deeply dissatisfied on account Of
the trouble in great steel and iron mills be-
tween employer and workmen, and that the
dissatisfaction will be made manifest at the
polls if something be not done to mollify
the maleontents.
1t is hoped that a different spirit will
prevail when the campaign grows warm,
and the working people hear cogent ex-
plantations that even with all their labor
disputes they can gain nothing by avenging
themselves on the party that brought them
good wages by means of the tariff for pro-
lection.
How Cleveland Put His Foot in It.
"Heretofore Mr.. Clevelands profuse
letter writing has simply made him silly,"
said prominent member of Congress from
Tennessee to-day, ''but his last published
letter will do something more than that
1t probably had more influence than any
thing else to brace up Governor Buchanan
to the sticking point OF committing the
death sentence Of the murderer Henry Clay
King. 1 cannot understand how Cleveland
or Senators Harris and Carlisle and the
Governors of Missouri and Texas could
with any propriety take hand in the affair.
The people of Tennessee who were cogni-
zant Of all the facts were almost unanl-
mously opposed to any executive clemency.
They knew that if there was ever murder
that was cowardly malicious, thoroughly
and coolly thought out, and therefore de-
serving of the death sentence, it was the
murder of Poston by King. All of the
courts 10 which appeal was made after the
verdict of the jury and the sentence by the