Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Chauncey M. Depew, Mr. Whitelaw Reid’s candidate fqrjtho New York Senatorship, wasn’t so tnijch as named in the caucus. Yet Mr. Reid claims to be the personal organ of the Presidentelect. It whs very kind in the Michigan Legislature, and characteristic of Legislatures generally, that, having refused to give ex-Gov. Bagley the Senatorship which he sought from it, it joins heartily in a recommendation to Garfield that he be given a Cabinet place, which he doesn’t seek from anybody. It is a very cheap way of disposing of a man’s ambition. Garfield is probably not at all concerned about Michigan, agreeing with Conkling, at the Chicago Convention, that any Republican can carry that State. — Chicago Times. Everyone now, in speaking of the next administration, says a Washington correspondent, talks of it as if Mr. Blaine were to be President. It is common to hear men talk of the tine administration Blaine to give the country. A prominent Democratic lawyer of this city, who has been closely allied with Mr. Tilden, said this morning : “lam glad Blaine is going into the new Cabinet. He is a big, brainy, active man. An administration with him at its head will be noted for its incisive aggressiveness and brilliant dash. It will also be a liberal administration, one that will look earnestly toward building up the real interests of the country. If the people of one section of the country need a canal or railroad, Blaine will say to them : 4 Build it and you shall have all the money you need to help you out.’ ” Arm the indications are, says a New York letter, that the same old syndicate that managed Grant’s tour about the world and trained him for the nomination which he failed to get, have him still in hand for 1884. . Who knows but that Tilden and Grant may be the contestants then ? Mr. Tilden has wonderfully improved in health. He is living quietly, exercising freely, eating heartily of brain food, and is in the hands of a masseur, whose manipulation, so rejuvenating to the old man, has given strength to the veteran statesman, and almost made of him a new man physically. In his bucolic life at Greys one there is repose, strength and longevity. It goes without saying that he knows better how to conduct a Presidential campaign than any man in America, and if he had been at the head in the last contest there would have been no such blunders as Democrats now grieve over. President Hayes has lost that small modicum of “sand” which was in his gizzard when he went to Washington. He has become actually afraid of Conkling, and, in the matter of appointments for the Senator’s section of the country, “lets ‘ I dare not’ wait upon * I would,’ like the old cat in the adage.” For instance, he was aching to name a snccesfcor to District Attorney Woodford, of New York. An appointment could hardly be suggested that would not be an improvement upon this person, yet Mr. Hayes lets it lapse with the full knowledge that the appointment in such case would be made temporarily by the Justice of the Supreme Couit for the New York circuit, who is a cordial friend of Senator Conkling. Justice Hunt has, of course, appointed Woodford, and Hayes is solacing himself by copious draughts of crab apple cider, and bv vaporings of what he will do to break down the Conkling machine in New York. Meantime the victorious Senator treats the Ohio little man with the utmost contempt. The negro voters are determined to have something of the plunder of the Republican party or quit its membership, but white Republicans, never dreaming of giving the negroes an office themselves, swear themselves black in the face because Southern Democrats will not do so. In the negro interest, Bruce, of Mississippi, is being pushed for Secretary of the Navy, but Garfield doesn’t consider his name seriously for a single moment Rainey, of South Carolina, was named by the Republican caucus for Clerk of the House of Representatives, when, the Democrats being in the majority, the act was a mere compliment. Now that the party is in the majority, it will no longer think of Rainey in connection with so honorable and lucrative a place. In St. Louis, J. JLJtou Turner yyho ww bowed with

an office, that of Minister to Liberia, a place where no white man in his senses would voluntarily go, spoke the other night of the neglect of the colored folks of Missouri when the spoils were passed round. He declare I that “ out of 2,000 public offices distributed in tho State by the President of the United States, there were no negro Postmasters, Collectors of Customs, Surveyors of Ports, etc.; and that out of 200 appointments within the patronage of the St. Louis postoffice and several hundred made by the Mayor of St. Louis no negro hail been appointed chief of an important department, created a policeman, Comptroller, Assessor of Water Rates, etc. The negroes held tho balance of power hero, and proposed at tho spring elections to make their strength felt.” Garfield told some negroes, the other day, that they mustn’t think of themselves as different from other Americans, or demand anything for themselves ns a class. Garfield forgets that nature has made it impossible to class a negro with a white man, and the negro himself would be bi tter pleased with an office or two than with all the fine talk tho gentleman at Mentor can give him. Mr. Frank Hiscock, member of Congress from tho Twenty-fifth New York district, is a candidate for tho Speakership of tho next House. He has always been classed as an anti-Conkling Republican, but in order to strengthen his chances of success he recently called upon Senator Conkling with a view of forming an alliance. The latter, we are told, received his visitor with more than his usual haughtiness. He raised his form to his full height as he looked Iliscock full in the face and declaimed niter the fashion of a proud political potentate who does not lightly grant favors to men who have been lacking in personal loyalty. Mr. Hiscock began by bluntly saying that he wanted Mr. Conkling's support in his canvass for tho Speakership, frankly saying that he did Hot believe that he could succeed without hit, help. He understood the full value of the service he was asking, and subscribed fully tr whatever reasonable terms might be demanded for an alliance. Said Mr. Conkling, slowly and impressively; “Mr. Hiscock, yon ask me for my support for the Speakership. Now, my deal- sir, L ask, in advance, what kind of a man lam supporting. There are in this sad vale of tears two kinds of Republicans. If you belong to a c rtain class, who are beneath any language, however contemptuous, you must uot look to me. By , sir, if there is any one thing upon which I pride myself, it is the fact that lam a Republican—a stalwart Republican, if you please. There is no milk-and-water business here, no sniveling hypocrisy or selfish cant. To all loyal Republicans I am a friend ; to the insipid make-believe Republicans, who make an endless practice of I eing superior to their wicked party associates, I am a sworn, unshrinking, tireless enemy.” Mr. Hiscock took this lecture very quietly, and then asked, in a quiet fashion, what sort of a pledge Mr. Conkling would require from him to satisfy him upon the question of personal loyalty. Mr. Conkling replied in a still more emphatic manner: “It is a subject that will take some time for mo to consider. I am free to say that I like you. You have never, to my knowledge, played the sneak or hypocrite ; but, by ,if you were my own father or my own brother I would want to know in advance just how you stood on one or two vital things before you could have my support. I tell you, sir, it is a matter far beyond any personal feeling. I should want you to be able to satisfy me that you are loyal to the stalwart element of the Republican party, and that you have no sympathy with the treacherous, traitorous, mendacious, hypocritical conspirators who are now seeking to betray the coming President into a contemptible disregard of the men who made him to-day all that he is. By ! sir,” said Mr. Conkling, with increased fire and energy, “ there's going to bo in future a square line of action drawn. Tho men who carried the last campaign on their shoulders, and who secured a hardearned victory, are men who will not be overlooked. The same power that made can again undo. Bo when, you come to me to ask my support you must first bo certain where you stand. At tho present time, as well as for the future, tho loyal, stalwart Republicans do not propose to allow tho cunning, sneaking, hypocritical, feather-headed Ohio breed of milk-and-water men to rule. We have submitted quietly, believing that relief would come in the natural order of things.”