The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-19
HIS HEAR STILL HARD.
Tom Plat Sulks In His Tent and
Refuses to Help Harrison
Out
Reid Rents Rooms Next to Ma
chino Headquarters at the
Fifth Avenue.
1ahs fsrticui"r Businos II to Placats Mr..
Plstt and Get Him Again In
the Traces. .5 o. ,.......

NEW York, July 1S.-Since Whitslav
Reld has hired headquarters at the Fifth
Avenue hotel. whore he can be near Thos,
=. Flats headquarters, there has been NO
snd OF speculation 40 to why the republi-
can vics-presidential candidate has prsoti
caliy deserted Ophir farm and taken off his
coat and gone a-campaigninQ a. though the
entire responsibility rested upon bis
shoulders @
Doesn't he trust T. G. Platt?'
lis he going to run the campaisn ali BY
himself?'
These are some of the questions that are
poinR asked. The spectacle of q Woe prssi-
Dental candidate in almost daily con tact
With the machine, in daily conference VITA
the machine leaders, and occupying special
headquarters within almost speaking dis
tanoe of the machines headquarters is suf-
6cient of novelty to attract widespread
concern. That there is something behind
the peculiar action Of the tail of the repub-
ilcan ticket that makes him desert the cool
ing shades of Ophir farm goes without say
ipg.
That something is Thomas G. Platt
1t may be that the sage Of Ophir and the
friend Of union labor tof the vintage of
June, 1882 thinks unessily of Platt and his
knife, but it is decidedly CO tain that Mr..
Reid does not like the attitude of Platt,
Miller and company toward the president
So far al the president is concerned, Platt
Is still sulking in his tent. His companion
ship with Warner Miller outside the breast
works has not improved the character of
his sulklng any.
Although the indications are that Platt
has made his terms with the men who are
to manage Mr.. Harrison's campaign there
are no indications that he has made any
terms with the president or that the terms
which he suggested to the Harrison man
agera have the approval or will have the
approval of the president.
Last week Platt had conference with
Chairman Campbell and Secretary Carter,
of the republican national committee. He
vas very anxious that it should not be pub
licly known that be was in conference with
these officers.
But that night, last Thursday, he took
occasion to praise the executive committee
which Mr.. CampbelI had appointed, and it
was VA noticed that w. A; Sutherland, one Of
Platt's men, was placed on that com ,nittee.
There was more OF q feeling of repose in
the republican camp in this city and state
shat night than there has been since. An
awakening of interest in the campaign, SO
far as the Platt machine ia concerned, was
looked for. but it has not come.
Everything is fat and dull about the
Platt headquarters in the Fifth Avenue
hotel One hears no talk about great rati..
hcatlon meetings that are to be held, and
none of Importance has as yet been held
here. One sees NO signs of enthusiasm, and
no evidences of confidence are displayed.
When the leaders get by themselves thew
shake their heads and do not know what to
make out of the situation. 1t is evident
that Mr.. Harrison is not ready to surrender
70 MIR. Platt, who fought him 10 bitterly at
Minneapolis, and it 10 evident that those
who have tried to restore peace have met
with no success, and that the breach is still
wide open.
Hence the enormous activities Of White
law Reid. Hence tho deserton of Ophir
farm and the momentary Interruption of
MIR. Reid's real business in the campaign,
VIE: to pose as an apostle of union labor
after having maintained q rat" Office and
and years until political ambition began to
change his views.
With Platt in his present frame of mind
Mr.. Reid doesn't see just where he is com
ing in. With Platt brought into line by
means of Il bargain, under which he will
MIR. Ha. rison should be elected-and that's
what Mr.. Platt is after-those republicans
who fought Platt in the interests of Mr.,
Harrison don't see where they are coming
in.
70 placate Platt Mr.. Harrison will have
to slight some of the friends who stood
loyally BY him when he needed them ut
Minneapolis. II is this condition of affairs
that Mr.. Reid is trying to undo, and it has
become his daily business.
He was hard at work at il Tuesday, He
went down to his headquarters in the Fifth
avenue. and he conferred long and earnestly
with ex-senator Miller, e1- Congre ssman
Henry g. Burleigh and Chairman Charl,
W. Hackets, of the republican state COM
mittee's executive committee. Not much |
good came out of the conference for there
was even more gloom about the Platt head
quarters at night than usual.
The situation seems to be this: The |
president won't bulge to placate PIatt, and |
up to date Platt hasn't budgsd to help the |
PRESIDENT The difficult task of budainQ
some one ia now the peculiar business of the |
epublican vice-l residential candidate,
Mr.. Reid has hired headquarters for the |
purpose of getting Platt into line.
The Union league people DON'T love Platt. |
MIR. Harrison knows this. He undoubtedly !
used his information on that point when he |
had Cornelius N. Bliss made treasu or of |
the rel ublioan national committee, 1t was
for Cornelius N. Bliss that MIR. Harrison |
humiliated Plat in the recent turning out |
Df office of John L. Milholland and Charles |
II. Murray, two of Platt's stauncn lieuten-