New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-20
A TALK WITH PACKARD.
SOME POINTED VIEWS on POLITICS.

| PARTY-PACKARD WANTS HAYES TO CHANGE HIS
| CABINET.
| Mr. Packard of Louisiana. Governor de jHre, as he
believes himself TO be- sat in his shlrsleeves this
afternoon in his parlor at the fifthAvenue Hotel,
and talked for an hour about politics with
! pendent of The TRIBUNE who used to 90 to him for
daily bulletins of the war in New-Orleans, in the
days when he holding the fort" in the old st.
Louis Hotel. He looks genial and happy than in
those troublesome times when behind his barbados
| with his molly guard of few hundred men of
all coors he deied the solid battallions of Nichollss
militia; but as he never lost his or his temper
then, his present good humor seems only natural.
! With him to-day was the man who commanded the
| faithful ody-guard that stood by him until the
| Commission "ginned him out" as he expresses it
| using a phrase borrowed from the cotton field
and through the open door leading to a bed
room could be seen glimpse of the clean
/ cut. conSp.fator-looling face of ex-Gov kcl-
opg. Mr.. Packard seems to have gained a
good deal in girth during his fishing excursion to
the North west but with his six two of stature
his massive head, and his breezy. frank way he
ries his avoirdupois gracefully and without the
least appearance of heaviness. Kellogg on the con-
trary, seems TO be growing tnin-perhaps because OF
his anxiety about that seat in the Senate.
Mr.. Packard's talk first in answer to questions
about Louisa ana. "Who is Judge Hunt he was
was asked, whom it is reported President Hayes
is gong to put on the Supreme !Iench~
"Oh that is my Attorney General. You remem-
Der him-the ine-looking whom you often
saw in the State House. He's not judge,
bat he's one of the best lawyers IN the South.
He has a brother who is judge. He was
born in South Carolina, and although always
Union man, never acted with until last year, when
he came over with number of other frst-class men.
IA artv bnr n mon "a
cut by the Commission. They argued and pead'
and showed how could gain large native white
element if we could only hold on but it was of no
use The Commission came down to close up the
Republican party in Louisiana, and they might as
well have talked TO the wind Do you think Hunt
has been appontedV
"Theres such a report in the papers. They have
a way "a, Washington. however, of sending out re-
ports OF appointments to what will be said about
them before they come to a final decision"
81 thought" said Mr.. Packard, that they would
put Judge Woods on the Bench, and give Hunt his
place.
In answer to a question about the prosecution of
the Returning Board members, Mr. Packard SAID
that he scarcely thought 1t was nstigaed from New
York though il might he. The Bourbon leaders in
Louisiana were determined to take their re-
veuge on prominent Republicans, and OF
course singled out tic Returning Board iirst
He supposed that Wells and Anderson would have
TO stand their trial. There had been no lndict-
ment but under the Louisiana Constitution an in
formation lodged by the Prosecuting Attorney was
equivalent TO an indictment, and the accused
could not demand action by the Grand jury.
Tae sentiment of tie Louisiana Democrats
demanded their trial. He did not believe
Gov Nichols would protect them. He had
no faith in any of the Democrats of his state, how
ever far their prOfcssings might be. Mr.. Packard
talked with a good deal of feeling of the pecunary
ruin brought upon most of the Republican leaders III
Louisiana by being compelled, after an expensive
campaign, to embark another after election, ana
carry it OH for five months at their cost, only to
be thrown out of thor offices in the end by the ac
ton of the President they had elected.
Afterwards he spoke of the present National poll
ties and the prospects for the future: - The half
WAS not told of the Iowa C0nventiOn-no,
not the sixteenth part. The newspapers out
there are edited by Postmasters, and the
Associated Press agent is Postmaster so of
course The opposition to the Presidents policy
was put ia a. mild a way as possible i'll the dis
pafchcs There was perfect furoIc OF opposition.
The few policy-men who went 10 the Con-
vrntion were amazed and senced at the tor
rent of feeling before they had been two
hours in Des Mones. The resolution endors-
ing the policy was tabled with contemptu-
Gus howls, while the Convention greeted me with
enthusiastic shouts. | never had such a hearty
recrpiion And then Secretary McCrary went back
from Iowa and told the President that there wasn't
much dissatisfaction there with his policy. Me
Crary didn't go to Des Moines, but he might easily
have found out at keOi.uk what the feeling
was. | assure you that l am not TAX
ing without knowledge when 1 say that the
R..nublicans of the West are almost unanimous in
opno,ing the Southern policy of the Administration.
have been among the people; have talked with
the farmers, the merchants, the doctors, the me
chauics and the lawyers. and know what they
thiuk. | don't know how it may be in New
England, but the President is deceiving himself
grossly if he nagnes the West is coming to his sup
port"
sYou think. no doubt that the Republicans will
be defeated next Fall in all the close StatesP
"B,vond any question We shall lose Wisconsin,
Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA. The Democrats will have
70 900 majority in New-lork. Our party is going to
pieces We are all broken mp and am afraid the
ruin is irretrievable don't care much Tor my own
grievance, but it makes me feel melancholy to see
the old party destroyed by men of its own house
hold
MIR Packard did not look at all melancholy he
spoke in this strain On the contrary lie seemed the
nctpre Of a man contented with the world and him
self-a genial philosopher, IN fact accustomed TO
langh at the rcverses of fortune His good-humored
face was seldom without smile during the whole
conversation. But the grave Ex-Governor AID
xonldbe Senator who kept his seat in the adjoining
room. grew more solemn than ever at these dismal
predictions.
"Do Won see no help for the threatened downfall
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