Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Washington special to Chicago Tribune: Senator Garland has returned from his Albany visit To a friend he said this: “Mr. Cleveland is an excellent listener, a broad-minded man, progressive, up with the times, and will make an excellent President;” and beyond this Garland says little. To a Star reporter the Senator said he had been to Albany, but there was nothing connected with his visit that would properly make an interview. He saw Gov. Cleveland, as other Democrats have, and talked with him. He had never met the President-elect before, and he was most favorably impressed with him. The belief among Democrats is that if Senator Garland has not been offered the AttorneyGeneralship it will be tendered him. . Gov. Cleveland last week gave a reception to about three hundred ladies and gentlemen whose hospitality he had enjoyed in Albany, Troy, and Buffalo. The visitors from the latter city arrived in the morning, and spent some hours in inspecting the State House. Two sisters of President Arthur assisted the sisters of the President-elect in receiving guests at the Executive Mansion. During the day the claims of Wm. H. Barnum to a seat in the Cabinet were presented by a delegation from Connecticut. Washington correspondents assert that “leading Democrats are endeavoring to urge Senators Bayard and Garland not to accept positions in the Cabinet if they shall be offered to them. The argument is that the administration party in the Senate would be greatly weakened by the retirement of Bayard and Garland, and that experienced and capable men will be needed in the Senate to support the administration from the attacks of the skilled Republican majority. ”