Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — More Breakers Ahead for Garfield. [ARTICLE]

More Breakers Ahead for Garfield.

There is one rock upon which the Garfield administration is liable to split in a way to sink the whole concern. A failure to support MacVeagh and James in their efforts to break up the postoffice rings, to stop the plunder and to punish the guilty, would do the business effectually. But are MacVeagh and James to be supported ? There is reason to believe that the President is already frightened, and would gladly turn back if he dared. The nomination of Chandler had a bad look. MacVeagh never had any friends among ring politicians and public thieves. He had none among them in Pennsylvania, where they were the ruling class. He knew precisely what he had to expect when he came to face them here. They had resisted his appointment to a man, and showed that they fully appreciated the force of the battery he would be likely to open on them from the Department of Justice. Accordingly he was no sooner warm in his seat than they set to work to get him out, and Chandler was the lever chosen to hoist him. Blaine insisted upon making him Solicitor General. MacVeagh told the President that when Chandler came in he would go out, but the President yielded to Blaine, and relied upon his ability to coax MacVeagh to remain. Thereupon every jobber and every agent of every corrupt lobby in town put his shoulder to the wheel to confirm Chandler, and so drive MacVeagh to resign. Had he been confirmed, Garfield would have been comEelled to choose between them; and ad he ever signed Chandler’s commission the Attorney General would have retired, and the surrender to the corruptionists would have been complete. James and MacVeagh, it is well known, mean to stand or fall together. They have determined to prosecute the star-route rascals according to law. to mete out to them full legal justice, and to break up the system by which they grew rich enough to buy Indiana for Garfield. If Messrs. Dorsey and Brady are so extremely anxious for a hearing as they pretend to be they will not be disappointed. They will probably succeed in getting it before a jury of twelve good men and true, whose verdict will have some weight with the country. Mr. James feels that he has a mission, and a great one. In pursuit of it he has parted with Conkling and Platt, and remained

behind to perform a greater public service than either of them ever dreamed of; but he is well aware that without the Attorney General he would be powerless. It is quite safe, therefore, to say that whenever MacVeagh goes, James will go with him ; and then the administration will be left to its Chandlers and its Tynors.— Washingtonletter.