Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-16
ALONE In HIS GRIEF
President Harrison Deserted
by Republican Leaders.
CARTER BITTERLY CRITICISED
Nov That There 10 No More Chance for
Ar. Harrison Ofice Seekers Go
Elsewhere.

WAsHuGrox. Nov. l5--There has
been . great deal about tho White
house during the psst few days To
arouse ones sympathy for the presi-
dent And II there 10 such thing as
rsgrstting the defeat OF al opponent,
many Q democrat who has had ocea-
non 70 visit the mansion has felt that
regret. It is not that any object OF
sympathy il obtrusive. Quite the re-
verse 10 true. 'If the president would
only look sad / could think of ltaIl
and no. care a continental" said
one of these visiting democrats. "But
he doesn't look sad At all. He doesn't
even look resigned. In fact, ne doesn't
look Al AL different from mis- appear
ance before the election. But though
he looks the same and tholgh he says
nothing IN = bitter way toward the
managers OF his campaign, one can't
help feeling that the president Is car
ryinx q pretty heavy load OF sorrow
Just Al present"
AL of which - quite true. The long
Illness OF his beloved wife; the anxiety
of the campaign; her death; and this
csmpalgn's-to hlm-melancholy end
are enough TO make any one who
knows the president feel sympathy for
him. Ii Is not that he failed 70 get an
other term for the satisfaction OF u.
But Il IS IN great part the failure or the
people 10 approve of his efforts IN their
behalf. There Is no doubt that Presi-
dent Harrison is q stronger nian today
than when he went into the White
Ia L. ak "a
dent, and when the bitterness of party
strife shall have been forgotten aud
the rough edges of the campaign
smoothed down by time, the history of
tne Harrison administration will, so
far as the president IS concerned, be
written down as eommendable and pa
triotc. Had he been q trucker or
trimmer . different state OF things
might have existed today; but he be-
lieved IN the Mckinley bill. strange as
the fact may seem, and he was no
trimmer. tie Was mists ken and strong,
and for being so the people turned his
picture TO the wall.
Deserted bv the Rats
But there is another thing that adds
9 bit of sadness 10 ID ali. And that Is
the nauseating sight of his fawners and
fiatterers turning from him IN the
hour of his defeat. They who, but q
few hours ago, were won't TO 20 upon
the stump and nng his praises, who de-
clAred with loud voices that he was
dear 20 them, had no sooner learned
that the object of their lsudxtlons,
their fawning and their fiattery had
been defeated than they ssraightway
ignored him. True, nothing they
could have done would have snatched
victory from the conquerer, and
bestowed is upon the vanquished.
But then neither can the sad funeral
rites restore the dead 10 life. Blu. the
last sad rites are always performed,
even among the unclvllized. But
among the politicians of certain
brand a different custom obtains. The
man whose fsvors thew had humbly
sought may remain at some
distance from the seat of war, and
though he suffer from the excess
of ms desire for news of how the battle
"a gone he may keep on suffering for
all of them. He 10 nothing TO them
now.
That was the way that Carter and
his followers treated the president.
From Tuesday morning 10 Thursday
night not . single word did he receive
from them. Had the result been
different, the fastest train could not
have brought Carter and bis followers
10 the presidents side fast enough foI
tnsm- As Il was, they ignored him.
People at great distance may
not appreciate u all. but those here
do and the comments upon Tom Car
ter and hrs followers have been any,
thing but complimentary. But the
president says nothing. Not q word Of
complaint hss issued from hrs lips since
hs defeat. Nor Will one be heard. II
all goes % show. though, that there is
more than one good reason for adopt
iBg the single term amendment.