The New York herald., 1876-02-03
A PRESIDENTIAL INTRIGUE
Vaccinations Of the BriStOw-Jewell
Forces in the South.
THE TREASURY And POST OFFICE TICKET.

The following extracts from private letter written
by prominent Georgia republican, have been handed
to the HERALD by parties in this city Interested in
pushing the claims Of aspirant to Presidential
honors having much to fear from the use Of federal
Official positions in the and behalf Of the
parties below described The value Of the communica-
tion however lies outside OF the interests Of
contending factions and shows the reality of the
ger to which the people are exposed by the TO
which federal patronage be put IN pushing tho
claims of candidates ''by order" from Washington or
the other headquarters of daring ntrguers The let
ter is dated Atlanta in the last days Of january The
extracts are as follows:-
MORTON AND
'You needn't be afraid that Grant is going to carry
this State the solid South in the National
tion. II looked a while ago. and there are still
plenty OF third termers; but Senator Norton OF In
diana, is at work very busy in some quarters In
Mississippi he has the promise of Governor Ames sup
port If he can for his part keep Ames at the head of
the party and he has jealous friends aud agents in
other States. You probably tho eject Of their
efforts liz the way in which the National Committee
was swayed the other day In Washington.
"But even Morton is only q losing horse. If zeal
and pertnacity and considerable opportunity can do
anything, begins be clear that the Bristow and
Jewell ticket will carry considerable Southern force
to the convention-so considerable, indeed that the
Southern third termers will make but a moderate
array Marshal Packard of Louisiana the head OF the
Southern third term movement, is adrot and able
wire puller and he is working every direction and
in every way and It Is said he is not averse to an
alliance with the Morton forces considering that Nor
ton has no chance and that he may safely promise
them his aid IL they will help him first.
THK BRIsTow-JEwELL INTRIGUE
''But the most notable phenomenon in our politics
not only in Georgia, bat all through the Southern
States at presents the effort progress to secure
delegates to the Republican National Convention for
the joint ticket OF Bristow and Jewell Whether these
gentlemen themselves cognlzant Of all that is going
on certain Is that the subordnates In the Treasury
and Post once departments working for this partc-
ular end
HISTORIC PARALLEL
am old in my knowledge of Southern politics, and
we'll remember that Peter G. Washington as early as
1852 wnen he Assistant Secretary OF the Troas-
ury began TO peregrnate and calculate for the nomna-
tion OF Mr.. Secretary Guthrie the democratic Prcsi-
dental candidate in 1S60 He aided by all that the
Post Office Department could then do under Aaron "
Brown. History repeats ITSELF Again a Kentucky
aspirant to the Presidency has the patronage Of the
Treasury Department in his hands-tenfold great
in Guthres day-and again he has tho Post Office De-
partment q corps de reserve and both departments
flung into the contest in way which Guthrie and
Brown, with their old fashioned democratic notions,
would never have permitted
WORKED.
"Judging by the general experience about here, no
revenue officer visits Washington in these days from
the Southern States without being interviewed. In
structons given all the internal revenue
officers of this State Isham Tanning, Collector OF
the Augusta district boasts quite openly, told,
that they & e, revenue oflcers) have set
this State for Bristow and Jewell, and that
nothing undo the work. Jewells interests
for the Vice Presidency being carefully guarded
by Chamberlain, the Revenue Supervisor of this
trct comprising several States 1t is said that Jewell
insisted on having in the Revenue Depart
ment whom he could personally depend and So by
shiftings Of supervisors last year. Chamberlain
formerly special agent OF the Post Office Department
appointed Supervisor and, gossip hereabout says
for the special bencnt Of the Postmaster General
and for the interests OF the revenue second
THE POST oFFIcE OFFICIALS
'But the whole corps of Post oce special agents in
the South are busy in their manipulation, and with
that happy accord which should always characterize
the different departments Of great government they
are in absolute harmony with the Treasury agents
In all my political life, long one have never
known any such attempt as Is now being made to place
officials over the heads of the people and TO dictate
delegates to nominating convention through the in.
nuence OF Executive patronage.
WORKING SUPPORT
zone little incident which related me recently
however, has bad significance gentleman from the
South happened of the Washington hotels 10 ex-
press preference for Mr.. Brstow, and he once
cordially seized by Of his hearers and taken to Mr.
Burnham the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury He
aterward said that he understood Mr. Burnham, In his
own vernacular, to be the Cheerman' OF the private
and confidential committee OF the Treasury Depart
ment that is running the Bristow machine"
A GOOD CANDIDATE
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.1