The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-06
wNks AT THE DECEIT.
Harrison Loudly Announces That
Cabinet Officers Must Keep
OFF the Stump.
And When He Leaves the Room
They Arrange to Go Gam
paigning.
AID His Declaration Is Known to BE
without Sinoerity-BeGginK Blaine
to Make q speech.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-Mr. Harrison woult
like to eas his cake and have il, or in othe
words he would like for the impression &c
60 abroad that he has insisted on the caoi
net holding aloof from this campaign, AM
at the same time he would like for some o
the w%ell-known m~anipulntors whom he ha'
honored with portfolios to actively engage
in the work of assisting Dave Martin ct nj
to buy the election. With characteristic
and Pecksnifian hypocrisy, he caused the
report to be widely circulated last weel
that cabinet ministers had been warned thai
they must not make stump speeches. Inc
Associated press was deceived into a belief
that the president was sincere, and by thy
time NO doubt civil service reformers in tffbe
republican party are happy in the belief thlas
the man who ia responsible for WanamRher
IL committed to their pet theories, asfrep-
resented, at the eleventh hour. Such - not
the case, however. Secretary Foster an
nounced positively to-day that he would
make a number Of speeches during this
month. He claims, doubtless at the sug-
restion of the executive, that members OF
the cabinet when not on duty are free
agents to do as they please. This report
will be diligently circulated, and cody re-
publicans will declare that while the pfesi-
dent does not believe In that sort of praotl-
cal politics, he is powsrless to muzzle office
holders who are bent or working their
mouths in his behalf. Those who think
that the two Fosters. Elkins ct al. will be OF
advantage to their party on the stump will
also be satisfied, and the party will reap
this advantage. and the president by trick
ery will escape the odium, if odium there
be attached to such q course. 1t may be,
however, that the president is wiser than
the party, and that he is not anxious 10
have the secretary of state. who 1t ID we'll
known is ready to accept a retainter to ar
que any cause; or the secretary OF war. who
ia audacious and commercial in every rela-
tion of life; the postmaster general, VINO ia
the worst of the trinity. face the people.
Be these things az they may. MI. Foster at
least will 90 on the stump. 1t Ia safe to
predict that others will do 80.
1t now appears that the question was not
discussed formally in the cabinet meeting,
and the republicans are pluming them
selves on the fact that it was mos, as if an
official meeting was quite the proper place
for the discussion of practical politics. In
formally, after the meeting was adjourned.
the cabinet talked the matter over, and it
is not unreasonable to presume, put up the
job.
1t is a sorry reflection for any American
to make that tho foremost mon in the coun-
try, the men who should have not only in-
tegrity. but dignity, will practice. and do
practice, duplicity in their dealing with the
people. A large body of voters do not OBJ
ject to cabinet officers speaking from the
stump, ard q large body Of citizens do OBJ
ject to the man who practices deceit,
whether he be in office or out Of office. but
it is not surprising in this campaign, which
has furnished for the first time in the his
tory of the republic q spectacle of a great
party under police surveillance because of
the %Well-known criminal record of men it
has crowded to the front to do its dirty
work. With SUPERINTENDENT Byrnes shad-
owing Dave Martin in New York and an
nouncing that that amiable party would
better 90 slow If he did not a to land
in Jail, nothing ought to surprise the aver
& Newspaper reader.