Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-05
He Is the Same Republican
He Has Always Been and
Expects Ever to Be.
B0WING TO THE MAJORITY.
lie Will Work Just as Hard for
Harrison as if the President
HAD NOT BEEN OPPOSED BY HIN,
4 Tlain Statement From q Man Who
Doesn't Want 10 lie a Boss
SIS DOUBTS OF SUCCESS SWEPT AWAY

NEW YORK, Sept. 4-The following will
appear in the New York Herald tomorrow:
l visited ex-senator Thomas c. Platt at
the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, yes
terday, and invited him to talk on politics
Senator Platt lives at the Oriental during
the summer. He loves the brisk sea breezes
lie loves the ocean and its restless water.
Be has an active mind and active body, and
these ;hinGs are in consonance with them
He was sitting on the eastern piazza of the
no el as approached, and greeted me, as he
Hlwt Us gree newspaper men, most kindly.
tuld him L wanted him to talk politics, and
that wanted to print whatever he said I'm
the Herald He hesitated moment as if
thinking over the expediency of saying any
thing, but finally he replied: "All right.
suppose it is tair and proper that i should
SAY something. / suspect know the ques-
uons taat you have in mind to ask me. and
so, considering that. pei naps, it is suitable
or me to say something. l shall talk frankly
md clearly"
'lou talked that way just before the
minneapolis Convention" ventured to re-
mark
p att Has Nothing to Retract.
''Wen, yes, so did" the Senator replied
"So did; nor have l anything TO take back
nor anything to regret did then what
ttou%ht was my duty to the Republicans of
new lOIk anu o. Tile COuulTN- l. AIN gong
% do what i think is my duty now. We
i've in q land where the majority rules,
must rule, and is going to rule every time
Tie majority did not agree with me at Min
nea pOiis. / did nv best to defeat the Presi-
dent, but Ee had more votes than the other
candidates and that settled it. Now he is
the nominee of the Republican party. am
a Republican. l WAS a Republican in 1855
l have been a Republican every hour of
nnril this miDufa
never faltering in my support of Republican
principles and Republican candidates. no
matter whether the candidates were men of
my choice or not The aims and policies
and characters OF parties in this country
have got to undergo a wonderful change
before shall be anything else than Re-
publican"
Senator Platt paused moment and dur
Ing the pause 1 suggested that neverthe-
less, lie had been rather quiet since the
Minneapolis Convention. and perhaps a
source uG some soiiciJude among the Presi-
dents friends.
ghe Senator IncIines to Modesty.
Mr. PlItt smiled and said: "The weather
has been pretty hot, you know" Then he
went on more seriously: 'Yes, nave been
quiet though l shall not fiatter myself with
the idea that l have been a source of much
solicitude. 1t would be the shaIlowest kind
of preteuse for ME to claim thGt L was not
greatly disappointed by the result at Mime
upolis My friends and my enemies have
generally agreed, think in charging me
with strong Feelings and fancy they are
right. What 1 believe 1 believe and know
1 believe il, and as lar as 1 can / try to act
not get over sucn dis
lad at Minneapolis in "A
there las been in my
stion whether it was my |
nls campai IN with the ac- |
ulY put forth. Because a |
Ihder pitiIess attack, bends |
take l. and smiles more or |
Nhen he rights himself it |
that he mas experienced |
tions nor that ne is proud or |
has been said.
that there has been a man |
in the whole country. who |
rOundly or indecently abused |
far a. this comes from Demo- |
t-Wump sUurces-that is, from |
enemy-l expect it and am |
out when spend day and night |
e of the Republican party, do |
can TO prOmote the success OF its |
md candidates without thought |
expectation of office or reward, |
little hard that should nave to |
Republicans what every Demo |
TO be ashamed to give me.
Doesn't Claim o BE Boss.
ose that our friends, the enemy, |
and perhaps some OF our sincerer friends |
viii think iE vastly amusing when 1 tell you |
that ! am not boss, that l do not want to |
&c q bA-5s AlldN udlt nothing SO IluCD as 10 /
do with patronage, and that my actions in |
occasionally undertaking to direct Republi- |
can methods and policies, and in urging cam
dldacies and recommending persons for |
office are dictated solely by what / conceive |
TO be the interests and necessities of party |
and pubic welfare. But that is true.
"DnCbtS are raised IN my mind, alter the /
Minneapolis convention, how far my SER
vices were desired by those who seemed |
then to be IN charge of MIR. Harrison's cam
palgn. heard some persons were represent
Ing to him that all the misiortunes the Re-
publican party had ever undergone in the
State OF New York were t. be attributed di-
rect.E to Ie, and that it would be good poll
tics Tor him to let it be understood that he
wished nothing to do with bosses Ger
talnlv had no desire to obtrude myself on
the President, nor to force myself into the /
conduct of his campaign if 1 was not wanted. 7
As the IIcJa nave proved, was probably
oNer-senSlJlye. But If man must have
faults, that one is among those most easily
forgiven
There was another pause here, and filled
It IN with the question, so YOU waited2"
Didn't " ait to Hold Up Coach.
"Yes, waited. 1 waited to hear from
President Harrison. Some people said that
! waited TO hear from him request to take
Office; that waited to make sordid bar
gain; that l stood like a road agent holding
up coach. These were lies, and they were
among the meanest and most irritating
most painful and most hurtful lies have
ever had to endure.
President Harrison, like all men in high
power, has great number of fool friends /
more or less close to him. These creatures
are lnsepaiable from nigh political station.
-ome are very artful as well as silly, and
from some the quality OF malice is not want
ing But he has too, a large number of
friends closely attached to him. proud
OF MN, Jealous in his interest-men
VINO profoundly admire him and
profoundly love the party he leads.
IAey probably told the President that was
NOT as Lad as these imaginative people had
painted me, but was furnished with that
proper measure Of self-respect which ought
70 be the equipment of an american citizen.
hhey probably said, too, that / loved the
EepuDLcan party good deal more than |
Ilsltked him, and perhaps that my preju-
olces against him, like those he entertained
AGAINST me, were due, in a large measure to .
.ilsa pprchcnslOn. l suppose they said these
things, and possibly others even more kind,
II less true. At all events it was indicated
10 me that the President would be glad to
see me - ! went TO see him. as any Ameri-
can citlzen should who has received such
an ntimation. He met me cordially"
w ont yoI give me some idea of the con-
versstion?' ] asked
Iratt's TAX With the President.
at was not a talk on pettv personal
issues" the Senator replied. "The Presi-
dents remarks we're those OF q broad
minded lalr-lnlnded, sensible man, who had
the rlght view OF the dignity of his Office,
we" tlaS the American people admire and
sustain Much was said of his Forthcoming
letter OF acceptance and OF the manner and
method in which he proposed 10 treat the
issues DelWeeh the parties. We went over /
the more important and nublic ouestinns !
ma 1