New-York tribune., 1895-10-30
NICHAEL'S "REVOLT."

MICHAELS "REVOLT."
II to-day the atmosphere at the RepuDhcah
headquarters is gloomy with foreDodihss OF us
aster. and moody melancholy takes the pace
of buoyant hope; II Republicans meeting each
other on the street stare vacantly at each o'her
in woriless woe; If the betting becomes sua-
denly $1,000 to doughnut on the success oi
the Tammany ticket, and East Fourteenth Streei
ont of deep depression bursts into blaze Oh
glory there's lust one man in this town VINO
will not be astonshed in the least He Is look
ing for It. As matter Of fact. he set 1t or him-
self. Set It off with a slow match A SLOW
match three columns long, in nonpareil type IN
the evening edition Of yesterdays "New-1ork
Sun" Very thoughtful 1t was in hlm, too' 10
make II so long; 1t gave everybody an oppor-
tunity to get away while 1t was sizzling. IL was
Michael Kerwin who did it. He will be up very
early this morning-if, indeed, he has not sat up
all night for ito witness the effect. Michael
reyolted Yesterday afternoon. Revolted from
the Republican party-a party which, as he elo-
ouently saws in the course of his revolt, pro
duced Lincoln Grant and Garfield" and which,
no might have added, kept Kerwin in office
several wears The New-York SUM- publish
ing the revolt in fuh under extremely startling
"the severest blow the supporters of the Union
ticket have received. Obviously, this also Is
| Nchaels view He meant 1t TO be corkcr
| He must have been in training for it several
weeks.
We regret that limited space prevents our
nublishing it in full in The Tribune For Michael
is a picturesque person, and it would be our
wish TO give him q reasonable amount OF room,
| linn, .ip md
disaster all round. II he had compressed MS
revolt into paragraph or two, or even halr
column, we should have taken pleasure IN CIV
ing him full swing. But three columns OF non
| nareu tvpe for the revolt Of one man-eyen
| though the man be Michael kerwln. ana AT thls
| stage OF the game-we never could mink OF H.
We might have felt differently about II II he
had revolted earlier in the game. If, for In
| stance, he had revolted at the time when the
| removal Of Police Commissioners Murray and
Kerwin BY Mayor Strong not only foreshadowed
the total failure of the Reform movement, pnl
furnished convincing proof that 1t had ALREADY
| suffered shipwreck, we should have printed MS
| entire revolt, even TO the extent or three col
umns. with the greatest pleasure for then II
| would have been timely Or If he had postponed
| his revolt until Immediately after the nOmlna-
| tions had been completed and all the efforts or
Mr. Platt and Mr.. Lauterbach to save the ticket
| nv putting Mchae's name on Ii somewhere had
failed. we should even then have been glad To
print it in full for IT would have related directly
10 something current and contemporaneous But
the truth is-hough we hate to say h-thal
| Michael has delayed his revolt too long, Tor one
| thing. and made it too long, for another Most
people have forgotten what Is the matter Win
him.
| A considerable portion Of his revolt, we OBJ
serve. Is taken up with rather lurid exposition
| of his views concerning Mayor Strong, VINO, he
saws. ito put 1t plainly, proved cutthroat
| This is. of course. true-that Is what he was
| elected for-but the Mayor not being can
djdate at the pending election it hardly seems
nertinent in this revolt. Nor do we understand
precisely why, in speaking Of the county ticket,
he should say: What, this a Republican ticket?
| Shade OF Conkling forbd.' No one will
dcnv that It is eloquent-the revolt abounds In
eloouence all the way throughput, really,
Michael ought to know that the shade OF Conk-
ling had nothing TO do with making or naming
the ticket He should have appealed to the other
fellow-to Platt in the fcsh-to forbid IT, In
closing his revolt Michael expresses his hXed
conviction that the Republican party has made
a stupendous mistake; that 1t has "stultlned ana
| demeaned itself; that 1t cannot Justify ITSELF
in the eyes of the people, and that he would
be untrue 10 the party's best interests II he
neglected "to point out the treachery ana cow
0ardlce whlch-more surely than the attacks OF
"other enemics-threaten its life here In New
"York City" From which we infer that the
revolt is merely temporary and local, and that
he will 90 away somewhere by himself and wait
for the party to repent and come back to him
| This Is a handsome thing TO do. 1t shows good
feeling But, OF course the party cannot expect
| to be taken back into his full fellowship WIN
| ont making amends for It's treachery TO MN by
putting him up for something. That is sine
qua nom And Mr.. Platt ought to do something
for him while he waits.