The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-18

q bait n of nnIlinations were sent 10 the Senate.
aud among them wefs several erotF.f6ads ap-
pointments for the State ef Maine. The names
ef the appointess told the story. Blaine and
Hale had been mp and drawn their
htTrLR sArioHs or PATRONAGE,
The whole amount OF this patronage wgnla not
eIseed faw yearly salary, and consisted of col
leotorahips NJ bofts where no goods ere imported
aud where The time Of the 6tii5ehnlder In divided
between drawing hs salary sad setting up pins
In conventions for blaine and Hale. This sup4
pose is Civil Service reform.
The old adaee thai few die and none resign has
received rsfutation from an unexpected guar.
ter.
SIMON CAMERON HAS HRstaRHp.
Da The faes Of IL there is nothing very remark
able In this fact. Simon is pressing close upch
f3ursoofe, snd while, perhaps, u would not be
truthful 10 aay tiab he has served his ,untry
for thiftysfvs years, IL would be quite exact 10
say that he has managed 10 make bis eouatry
serve him with attaining fidelity for about that
length OF time. And nov The old man 70.
signs In The middle OF his .bshatofiai
term, and at the beginning OF Ian sd.
rninattatioH af his own creed. Ii is given out
that Simon is fasigBsa that The cares Of efies
have become burdensoms TO hin. aud that hs
prefers TO pass bis few feinainlng wears In peace.
lt has even been fsshly suggested that the old
man Intends 10 write ha HenlUifs, but this suE-
gestion probably was invented by some fellow
who IL not aware of the defects In Sim Jh's early
education. God forbid that Hupn should ever
write any memoifs. for, II he should write fiction
enough to make his memory respectable. the eE.
ample would DO pefnieous, ard, If he should
write the truth about himself. another would be
added to the long catalogue Of books which must
be carefully kept away from the pefnsal gf the
young and the n ebies sminded=@liks the Advens
tdres OF Captain Kidd OF the Exploits OF Richard
lnfpin. III Bm0h should wtie truthful memoir.
be small boys would ksep copies uf II hid Ia hsJ.
muws TO read fnrLiye1y when the old folks were
away from home, aud tbs neat generation would
be fall OF Sunday Behoel confessions Of oulp It's
about to be hanged, syerring that The reading Of
that book was the frat stet, In the psthwAy that
led 10 The galows. And If The book did not lead
ts readers TO crime against The statute its style
would certainly beget ....
A bIsHEssEgT ron syNrAx.
which Of itself would be most aersicous. But
this is digrsesion.
The fact 10, sjmon has been f6.oed 10 retire.
vatia hHs been w0fnly bunged, and her power in
conventions has been FILTERED away. As Simon
grew old hs got ugly aud fell into Qtierulons
habit. He got at outs with Grant repeatsdly dur.
ing the last three years. and for more than halt
the time was utterly without inHasnee 81 the
White House and. what was worse thln oil, he
Lost his grip In the Senate and was bssten IN Hsya
efsl important msterH in executive session
which need not be REQ united here. The result
was that the b'hoss In Phiiadephia and Harris
"
sylvsnia got left ont of tho Cabinet and got the
cold shoulder generally In the recent deal, the
old man received all the blame. and il WAS forth
with resolved ihat he must step dcwn and ont
and give place 10 younger and more energetic
msp. This is his Son Don. Now Don will neser
have the Rhfewdness the hard senss or the force
that tho ID man used TO have. He would never
be able to tise OF his owt buoyhney IN sff'irs as
tho old man rose forty years Hgo. But as politics
and politicians 20 nowadays, Don will suit the
Pennsylvania rug better and be more useful t6
its meahCrs than simon-and thai IL
WHAT PENNSYLVANIA WARTS
OF Senator. Don is young, Retve. and, barring
some ridiculous airs which are rapidly being dis.
pelied by tho painful discovery that Washing on
10 q larger and more important place than Har.
risburg~-a man OK some magnetism. But he
can mover acquire tho grip his father used TO hold
nor can he attain To the power. sinister though II
was. that the old tnan u.s. q to WELD. Don Cam.
eron will be lost In the Senate. u is true The
senate Ia not stuffed with great men, but there
will too. for that matter, to make fellows OF Done
calibre sing small. Men like Roscoe Conkllpg
Thurman. Bayard. Booth, Lamar Ben Hill
Hoar, Stanley Matthews--if he gets there-and
those OF like stamp have very disHgreeable
way OF unexpectedly sitting down on youths like
Don, who bring into that august body m nmbi
tion disproporioned TO their mental weight. II
Don has any confidential friend whose advice he
takes, that friend ought 10 90 and persuade him
| never to open hts mouth In tho Senate except tC
vote, and to refrain from getting up excep. when
he wants 10 no out. This course will insure hil
safety But IN attempt as greatness or states
man ship will bo certain TO end In his destruction
/ hear that Behurz intends to smuggle Gros.
venor In nnd get him confirmed for somo position
or other on the last day OF the session. Wen
SOC about that. a. q. y.