The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-15
BLAINE's "GRAyEYARp.n

gossip we get pretty good idea of the es-
innate in which politicians are held. Every
fable contains many grain of substantial
truth. What, for example, could convey
a better idea of the class of men that
Blaine, Cameron and company would keep
out of public life, il they could, than this
morceau-whether fact or gossip-related,
in substance, by the Cincinnati Enquirer :
Immediately after the inauguration, three
eminent statesmen from the Pine-tree state
called upon the president for the purpose
OF selecting for him cabinet officer from
New England. These gentlemen having
heard OF some of the peculiarlties of the
preSldent-he has a sad habit of having an
opinion of his own-thought it advisable to
commence in mild sort of way by asking
him who he had been thinking of as the
New England member of his cabinet 2
whereupon, as the Enquirer relates, the
president, producing card from his
pocket, commenced to read, first mention
ing John N. Forbes of Massachusetts,
who, 1t will be remembered, was a member
of the Cincinnati convention, and an arden,
supporter of Mr.. Bristow-and asked :
What do you say to that name ?" The
ex-speaker OF the house and late presi-
Dental aspirant promptly responded 81
SEQ nothing about him, Mr.. President,
except his nose, that would be prominen,
in your cabinet" "Well," says the presi.
dent, "there is Governor Rice of Massa.
chusetts. What do you say to him?'
TO which the response came {: ale wa,
4 buried i've years ago." The name of
Aaron H. Cragin, native of Weston in
this state, and for the past twelve years a
senator in congress from New Hampshire,
was then mentioned and the usual inquiry
was put. This was too much for the dap
per little son-in-lsw of Chandler, Blaine q
right bower, and he excitedly replied :
Oh well, he belongs to the past too. He
would not do"
The President began to understand the
manner of men he was dealing with-and
we shrewdly guess he had fully measured
their calbre beforehand 30 he asked
What have you got to say of Mr.. Ed.
munds of Vermont The delegation
from Maine was aghast. They hastily
seized their skull caps, and, as they were
retiring, the venerable author of the double
rate of postage bill exclaimed: "Mr.
President, go into some graveyard, for
Gods sake, aud take your man."
Now this is probably all fable, although
IL would not require very great stretch of
imagination to believe that the conversation
actually took place substantially as mar
rated. But fact or fancy, truth or fable,
1t gives fair Illustration of the two class
of men who have been, for years, carrying
on an irrepressible conflict in the ranks of
the republican party. On the one hand are
the Blaines, the Hamlins, the Camerons,
the self-seekers, the INSCRIPTIONS politi-
clans who believe in party because,
through 1t, they see the way for
personal aggrandizement, for rewardng
their friends and Furnishing their political en-
emies. On the other hand, are the Hayes,
the Bristows, the Edmunds, the men whom
office seeks, but who never seek oiIlae, who
believe in the republican party because OF
its underlying principles and who see in itf
success not the triumph of personal ends
but the good of the country and the well
fare Of the whole people. The former
class, for eight years or more, have had al.
most complete control of the party and
have carried it to the very verge of destrac.
ton. Their sun went down at Cincinnati,
and new men and new prlnciples-but,
after all, principles as old as the govern
ment itselt-rose in its place. A new
era dawns on American politics, and it is
no wonder that Blaine and Hamlin think
that so far as the accomplishment of theii
selfish purposes or thelcarrying out of their
style of politics is concerned, the presiden,
had better Ego into some grave yard and
"take his man" than 4isten to the coun.
sells of such men as Edmunds, Evarts,
Forbes, Rice, Devens, Morrill,, Key and
Schurz. The country thinks 1t a pretty
good graveyard" to go to.
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