New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-22
I cOvyEcrJCrr MiSQTERADER.

Some Connecticut person who either has a
propensity for practical Joking or harhorS Ill
will toward cx,IuIgc Iyndc HARRISON OF New
Haven. appears 10 Ice Incorporating under mat
s;atcSman's name In interviews which occa-
slonally appear in tn" columns Of Tile New
York Times" y few weeks ago. tn letter
dated ut Hartford. BE- represented the cNJudSe
a. giving his views nj great length on III" po-
ltical situation I'm Connecticut. IN th" c'urS" "f
which he took occasion t. say that Colonel o'
borne. of The New Haven Register" had been
critcising The Administration AMI The Demo
cratic party I'm Congress because 81 his dlsSailS-
faction over certain appointments. and that the
course Of "Thc Register" was having dislhrii-
Ing effect upon Democrats. Now Judge llar-
rison has only been In the Democratic parry
since Few days prior To the Presidential "l"c
ton I'm 1902 and the writer ~ the letter could
hardly help knowing not only That The * Judg"
was a politician ~ too much experience" -
venture upon public criticism OF the leading
newspaper 81 the party with which b" hal
acted nj only one election. but that III" report
that hc had done So would seriously damage hS
Influence in the party In which he is believed
10 be- ambitions Of eventual leadership. For
the Connecticut Democracy. rs ihr cN,lnigr is
wei aware does not take kindly To criticism Of
It's old cstalllshcl organs nj the hands of new
converts. Just Of the anxious seat and AT The
very beginning II their poriol of probation. II
was 80 unlike man 81 the cy,Iudgc'S political
slrcwdncss to say nothing ~ his wcll-hnown
modcsty-thlt It was not strange that sus-
piclons Of the gcnuincncss Of the c"nnunica-
ton should be- excited.
II was doubtless the same facriious or ma
! licously disposed person who imposed an IN
| tcrvicw IN the name 81 the cX,Iudgc upon The
! Times Of Monday Tho Interview opens with
the authoritative statement that "thc Demo
| cratic party i'm Connecticut stands with the Ma
! tlonal Administration on the tariff measure now
pending IN the Senate ana proceeds 10 discuss
| The matter as II there were definite "tar.lI
measure" before The Senate with only two feat
urcs one being free wool and The other the
| income tax The author OF the interview could
| hardly help knowing that I'm making OK Judge
| Harrison speak auihoritativcly for the Demo
cratic party In Connecticut. and representing
him as saying that It stood with the National
Administration on a measure that Is yet IN ON
| bryo and nj the bcSt n vague. ncbulOus mlddlc
Of Inconsistencies. contradictions and crudltlcs
out Of which anything or nothing may come lac
was making the Judge appear ridiculous. Not
satisfied with that. the writer makes the Judge
talk about the effect Of free wool upon manu-
features in Connecticut something I'm the man
ncr Of a schoOlboy whose information on the
tariff question Is comprised In the summing NJ
| that free wool "would relieve the people from
part Of the burden OF taxation which has been
imposed on them by the Mckinley law" Now
| Judge Harrison, though by no means an cX
pert on the tariff, must have Informed himself
! sufficiently on the subject when as II Rcpub
| lcan he favored the Mckinley bill 10 be able
! TO talk more intclligcntly about 1t than this
! facctlous or malicious masquerade makes him
| Nor would the Judge he likely To talk. he is
| reported 10. in this interview about the present
business condition being the result Of Rcpub
lcan extravaganza since he was himself an
active and somewhat ambitious Republican
during the whole period OF the alleged extrava
gancc 1t is barely possible that he might have
INDUCED at some time represented in the
interview in contempiuous illusions to small
sized Republican politicians" though that seems
doubtful in view OF the fact that his own pro
portions are not by any means magnificent
and he would have exposed himself to the re-
tort from the impolte that there are not SC
many Of that class by one since November. 1892
The masqueradcr has manlfcstly ovcrlonc tho
joke If indeed it be joke, and not piece OF
malicious misrepresentation intended to destroy
the growing influence of the Judge In the Dem
ocratic party. That he should come into i'm
mediate prominence In the party and bccom,
the confidential adviser Of the chairman Of In,
Democratic State Committee was not unexpect
cd by those who were familiar with his ante
cedents He could hardly avoid It, But that h,
should assume at once the position Of leader
and oracle and essay TO speak with authority
for the whole party. still more that he SHOULD
disclose such feeblcness and Incompetence,
In dealing with what the Democratic party con
siders Its chief political ISSUE Is too great Ia,
on creduty. The Judge may not be a grea