New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-25
TfEJNG 1DTlCE.

Il is understood 10 DE one of Che he.vi, st
burdens OF complaint Just now III Cong. cSs
that President Hayes does not take advice.
" Not single appointment" sad a prominent
Republican Representative the other day, has
q been made by President Hayes on my recon-
"mcndaticn. | don't like the feeling of beng
showed oh.r We did not want 10 dictate
the appointments said another 'brt we
"did fec! hurt when we were not az much as
asked 20 give friendly opinion on the
subject II feel ;" exclaimed Il third, as if the
President thought my Office Of Representative
" sort Of disgrace, or. at least, barrier tc his
confidence Indeed, as one of our Washing
ton correspondents reported the other day, the
President hud such 4 provoking way of act
ing on his Own Judgment and emitting to let
Republican Congressman know what he was
going to DO, that the question was asked with
s0ne alarm whether he could possibly be TAX
ing advice from TIE Democrats. That he
might not be taking any advice at all was a
VIII supp0stion which nobody seems to have
entertained.
We say That this unprcc, Tented behavior is
the great stbject OF complaint Just now. II
would be more correct to say that it was tho
great subject Of complaint day before ye>ter-
day Something has happened since then. IL
il currently believed that if the anxieties OF
the Republican Congressman have not been
altogether removed they have been distracted
by such novel and unexpected complication
thai thee arc no longer worried by the Pres
idcnt's reserve, and are half inclined to sus-
poct that instead OF taking too little advice ne
is taking altogether too much
There arc various ways Of looking at the
absurd result which followed the request
to tho Pennsylvanians to say whom they would
like to have sent as Minister to England. OF
course tho selection OF Mr. Simon Cameron, that
hoary representative of all manner Of Civil
Service abuses for the most important foreign
mission i'm the gift of reform Administration,
il too grotesqHe 10 DE seriously considered.
II would not really be mach worse than some
of the appointments already made. In fact
the best friends OF the Administration are
forced every day TO admit, that its l,orst work
is in tho matter OF filling Tie Offices, and
that some of the worst appointments
made have been those for important
foreign positions. But none Of them have
been so glaring as to tasten the public at
tcntion as this Pennsylvania proposal does.
Mr.. Camcron's appointment is plainly impos-
sible If we could imagine that Mr. Eyars
and Nr. Hayes wished to amu.e themselves
1T the expense OF Pennsylvania politicians,
and lure Them into making "a ridiculous
demand in order that they might be-
refused amid the iecrs o. The rest Of
the country, ii might seem that they
had purposcly provoked this demonstration.
But We cannot believe the President aud his
Secretary of State capable OF .hus trliiing with
grave interests. We must presume that they
have no desire 20 disgrace their own party.
even for the sake of eXaopcrating Pcnneylva
MIA politicians. We must suppose that, with a
critical election only a lew days ahead, they
regard politics as something more than the
playing of Donsen.Ical pranks, and politicians
as a class OF people who, whatever THEN sins,
are entitled Ia sober treatment Bearing all
this in mind, We cannot help calling this Cam
eron catastrophe the most serious bluldcr