The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-03
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.


bable fer PennsyIvRHia a PcnusvivRuia
Cabinet Oficer-He will not be Recoms, eaded
by Cameron-A Description Uf the UsnIng
HIan-Tbe Periis of the Presiatnt.
FROM Or Oirn Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. "A large number of
Senators and Congressman are here, aud poiti-
cal discussions and combinations are the ruling
themes from theWhite House down through the
departments and Congress to- the hangers-on
about the capital. The short session of ninety
days will be devoted almost exclusively to plot
ting and-aounter-plottpg for the vantage-ground
in the organization of the new Congress to COM
mence Oh the 4th of March, and political
changes of radical character are not
only possible but more than pro-
bable. With all the confidence that
has been expressed in some official organs to
the contrary, ii is not disguised that unless the
administration conciiates some of the powerful
elements now outside of the pale of its favor,
the next Congress will be organized in distinct
hostility to the President, and the Senate is
likely to be even less in sympathy with the ad-
ministration than the House. The decisive de-
feats the President sustained in the Senate on
the rejection of important nominations, and the
rejection of the st. Domingo treaty in the
face of his personal opportunities for its sue
cess, exhibited an organized and controlling
opposition before the last session was half ex-
pired, and that organization has been greatly
intensified and strengthened by recent events.
The unfortunate and needless issue with Sc
naters Fenton, schurz Sumner, Trumbull, Car
penter Ferry and Others has now become an
almost irreconcilable breach and they will not
be in q iUority in the Senate while such men
as Cameron and Chandler are the special cha m
pions of the administration, and Buffers arro-
CANT leadership in the House is crushing load
for the President. Morton is disappointed be-
cause he lost his State and had to decline the
English mission to prevent Hendricks from be-
coming his successor in the Senate, and he
holds the administration responsible for the
disaster. Colfax is utterly lost out of sight, and
seems to be unknown and unfelt in the political
movements of the capital. He is not in
love with Morton, aud in that
line the honors arc easy, and
he is outside of the confidential counsels of the
President. To save himselfhe publicly declined
second term before the Indiana election, so
that he escapes the rebuke that has fallen so
heavily upon the administration and Senator
Morton. Drake is mortified at the Waterloo
defeat the administration and himself suffered
in Missouri, and he is in far from amiable mood.
He wanted to vacate his seat in the Senate
to accept the Chief Justiceship of the Court of
Claims, life office, but he dare not do so be-
cause Frank Blair would roar his eloquence
frees, the Republican Warwick of Indiana poll
tics, is not on terms with either
the President or Vice-President, and
is hardly in accord with the Republican
party. Missouri and Indiana are counted as lost
to Republican rule. New York is also given
over as hopeless, with as nearly an honest elec-
ton as lie possible under any circumstances in
New York city. Hoffman was reelected by an
Increased majority; In other words, while his
majority of $4,000 in 1868 was held to be
wholly fraudulent, he has now $4,000
honest majority. When there was an opportu-
nifty for Republican success by the prevention
of Democratic frauds, the attempt to overthrow
Senator Fenton by administration power rent
the party in twain, and doomed it to destruction
Pennsylvania is still regarded by most of the
Republican leaders as hopeful State, although
all contestant unless its discordant Republican
elements can be harmonized it will relapse into
the embrace of the Democracy. An earnesteffor
is, therefore, being made to bring the Keystone
State into accord with the administration The
President does not conceal his desire to accom-
plish it. He appreciates the fact that he has
been mised into the gravest misunderstanding
of Pennsylvania; and had he the opportunity tt
commence his policy with your State again
with the freedom from embarrassments which
he felt when naugurated, Governor Curtin would
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glad to scquiesce. But he started wrong. HI
assumed to manage the administration withou
any respect for the popular will of the party
and every day has but increased his difficulties
Cameron now has the entire patronage
of the State practically in hi
interest His followers and dependant
are in Office and are potential by reason of thei
official positions, while thousands of expectaat
under Camerons prolific promises swell tn
paralyzing force that is robbing the Republican
party of its vitality. To regeAerate the part.
for healthy and successful action, these mel
would have 10 be removed, and competent an,
acceptable men selected as their successors
This involves the utter destruction of Cameron
Being entirely without popular support,
stripped of the power of plunder he would b
helpless and hopeless. He will therefore max
q death struggle to save himself, regardless 0
the consequences to the President, and hi
death-throes viii be Of the most violent charac
ter. He sees constitutional reform in pursui
of him at home, with fearful retribution in it
train, and his only hope of political power is i
forcing the President to immediate himself o.
the altar of Lochiel.
But the President has decided that he owe
something to himself, and he would gladly ge
free from the Shiny embrace of Cameron to-da
If he could only see clearly the best way to d.
It. Enol0 that recently The President has con
.fdentially conferred toih seUerdl prominei
PennsyIodnians as to the best means of diSet
loeight of Cameron, and i hazard nothing /