Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — THE SAGE OF DEERFIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE SAGE OF DEERFIELD.

Horatio Seymour's Estimate of President Cleveland and the Work Awaiting Hint. (Albany Cor. New York Herald.] Your correspondent recently met Col. Dunlap in-. Albany. He was on his way home from Utica, where he had seen and conversed a long time with ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour. He represents the Sage of Deerfield, who has now passed his seventyfifth birthday, as somewhat oppressed by the weight of years, but upon the whole enjoys good average health and spirits. His mind is as clear as ever, and he still possesses that graceful flow of conversation and aptness of expression which have made him through life so trusted as a monitor and so cherished as a friend. The men of his generation have almost all passed away; his early co&pamons and rivals alike exist only in memory and in the record of their acts, and the venerable ex-Governor, in his charming but modest country honse, sits calmly and expectantly awaiting the summons to follow them. He is thankful that he has been spared to see the final triumph of the Democratic party in the late Presidential election, and expresses entiro confidence in Mr. Cleveland and his policy. CLEVELAND A BRAINY AND SAFE MAN. “What,” Col. Dunlap was asked, “is his general idea of the President elect?” “He lodks upon Mr. Cleveland as a big, brainy man, conservative in his opinions and likely to be found equal to any emergency. If care and discretion be exercised in the important point of selecting his Cabinet, his administration will be not only a successful but a brilliant one. Mr. Seymour, however, fears that too much will be expected of the President at the outset of his official term, and some disappointment may be expected from the impossibility of making radical changes immediately. It will take time to assimilate the entire executive force of the country to the views and designs of the new regime. This, however, will be facilitated by tho result of the. investigations which must be made into the doings of the Republican officials who liuve held power so long. A GRAND WORK FOR THE DEMOCRACY. “Irregularities of every nature may be expected to be found in every branch of the public service, and in some notorious corruption has run rampant. When the books are overhauled, as they must be, such wrong doing as-may be found will be punished bv the removal of the wrong doers. The public, remarked Mr. Seymour, must be made to realize that we have a clean Government. In harmony with this purpose, too, the civil laws must be respected. It is Mr. Seymour’s opinion that the opportunity is now opened to the Democratic party to identify itself closely with the future of this country, to direct its destinies, and to carry on the Government in accordance with the traditions of its great leaders, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. ” “What are the views of Mr. Seymour upon the tariff question?” “He thinks the question must be squarely met and dealt with, and that its settlement will form one of the features of the coming Presidential term. Agricultural, as well as manufacturing and commercial interests must be considered. For instance, the great Northwest must find the market which it demands for its products, for without reciprocity of foreign trade it will find itself without an outlet for them; and the strength of this local feeling was shown by a large Western vote at the recent election. Mr. Seymour believes it possible to equalize the interests of different sections and earnestly desires it. ABUSES TO BE REFORMED. “The subsidies given by the Government in the shape of public lands, and otherwise, to railroad corporations, he also thinks require attention. In every case, the recipients ought to be compelled to live up to their contracts; they should be taught that they are the servants rather than the masters of the great popular interests. The Governor favors emphatically a ship canal from the lakes to the Hudson River, since the demands of commerce have outgrown the capacities of the Erie CanaL In this connection, he expressed a hope for the control of the isthmian canals by our own countrymen. “Gov. Seymour does not believe that the prevailing hard times are due to the Presidential election, and attributes the depression, which he believes to bo but momentary, to the overproduction of goods beyond the limit of dema ®d and necessity. Ho thinks it a grievance that the election machinery should be so largely in Republican hands, and suggests an early endeavor to at least equalize its control between the two parties. He was very frank, too, in deploring to me the divisions in the Democratic party, and thinks it a most praiseworthy object to endeavor to straighten them and harmonize the party differences in New York City/; The Philadelphia Press was among the organs to declare that with the election of Cleveland the country, industrially, would go to the “demnition bow-wo<ws.” The believers in the prophecies of that paper expected by this date to see affairs as tho Irish sailor, who had taken to landfaring and plowing, described his team which he had deserted at a yellow-jacket’s nest. Running to his employer he ejaculated: “The larboard horse got over to the starboard side and the starboard horse over to the larboard side, and the whole craft is drifting to the d 1 generally. ” And yet so early after the occurrence of the calamity it deprecated, the Press has thrown out the following: “There is some encouraging news from manufactories which give hope, if not a positive promise, of the future. Sheet and rail mills and one of the blast furnaces at Bethlehem are starting up on new orders and several mills at Cleveland, Ohio, are preparing to resume operations at an early day. These evidences of returning confidence can not fail to have a good effect upon others and inspire a hopeful feeling in all.”

The New York Sun says that it has been suggested that the election of Mr. Evarts to the Senate may interfere with his professional pursuits, and that he makes a sacrifice in going to Washington. This assumption is unfounded. During his whole term as Secretary of State under the Fraudulent President, whom he helped to put in office, Mr. Evarts practiced law regularly and actively. The fact is recorded that he only wrote seven dispatches with his own hand in those four years. He turned the work over to his subordinates, as Mr. Frelinghnvsen has done since he entered the department. Mr. Evarts’ clients need not repine.— Omaha Herald. Recent movements ot prominent Democratic statesmen toward Albany have created a wonderful flutter among the Blaine orens. They don’t seem to “catch on” to r. Cleveland’s policy in requesting the presence of gentlemen of such wide differences of views on tariff matters as Carlisle and Randall are supposed to represent. This evident attempt to close up a gap so early in the season sits heavily on the great expectations of the average Blaine editor. Hero is just where he expected a row in the Cleveland camp.— lndianapolis Sentinel Editor McClure, who is traveling through the Houth, declares that the Democratic victory has destroyed the color line in politic* in that section. Nothing else oouid have accomplished the political Indt-