The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-10-27

aho wete IN tksa basis Of The old flag az the Sol
ointment mt But later in the seasonully by de
pmRbowered In the sylvan shade.S. OH party
iers' Home, he discovered heauglIinited 10 Luz
souad ,elens "a aforesaid z he could not see any
greebe discovery bstnSg tSg an spRonsd%entf ent
philosophical man, apex WIN one Petty anu ifu
.'a .o9'd oIa geasDap ba for the soeaed
sn,cn WIN tbe %eet response IN the heart Of the
sIlons m,In n,ssitive On the other hand, there
soRs qpoPs shedshp taS appShehes p%heh eoud
.aao. ...a,, afely be ignored; and thus the slate
were ,i s9t be surveyed from top to bottom-every
Y UlpSAsnirant seemed handicapped with some fatal
W weakness.
When returned here two weeks ago an in
timate friend Of the President laid the whole
situation before me, advised me OF the per-
plexity at the White House, and asked my
valuable opinion In the premises.
I said | had none, or ut least no opinion
that would be valuable TO the President, look
ing at the matter from my standpoint.
But" said the friend of the President,
"you must know
HOW THE DEMOCRAT STANDS
In relation to the matter"
responded that thought the DEMOCRAT
did not stand In relation to the matter that
II was my impression that the DEMOCRAT was
desirous to avoid the imputation Of having
any influence whatever with this Adminstra-
hon N respect to matters OF patronage,
But suppose you were In the President s
place" persisted the philosopher, friend and
guide, "whom would you appoint
said In that case would appoint
PACKARD.
''The devil you would And why p
'sBecause Packard has status, both polt-
ical and personal while none of the others
have" / said 3m
then proceeded to say that the appoint
ment OF Packard would have the merit Of
boldness; that 1t would be either fish or flesh,
while the other nondescripts did not amount
TO even red herring.
Some time afterward / learned that the
friend OF tho President had conveyed these
crude suggestions TO him. and / was again
approached on the same subject, with the OBJ
garded as both novel on account OF its source
and interesting by reason Of It's disinterest-
edness. | was asked to be more specific.
told the friend of the President that 1t was
party in Louisiana on the, strength of the
Federal patronage; that those "Conserva-
tive" gentlemen who held out such hopes
either, did not understand the situation or
poses; that Louisiana was a Democratic
State and would remain so for long time
forever, in fact, II the Republican party
should t,e endure 50 long the only
political aspects the Democrats in Louisiana
would respect Hayes more If he appointed
one of his own party than Ii he should
aPpsa a to pposgong be tgg P H neha pn e
cally the most prominent personally the
most respectable, and intellectually
THE MOST CONSIDERABLE REPUBLICAN, IN |
LOUISIANA;
that our people would not expect very much |
good or him Ii he were put In the Custom
House, and hence could not be very grievous-
Moreover, on the other hand, the Rad
dcals In the North who have been
howling about Packard's wrongs would be
eonfidence and esteem on Hayes part. Az to
the administration OF the duties Of the office |
presumed that Packard would do as well as
anybody. And above oil. he could be con-
1irmed. @.g aa
The friend of the President seemed desirous
that these suggestions should be put as COM
Ing from the New Orleans DEMOCRAT. To
this Of course l objected that my relations
vcytnent OF Washington news for its columns
and that was In no sense employed to run
its craftsmanship; that the suggestions were
my own and would be not unlikely to encoun-
ter the disapproval Of the DEMOCRAT, as had
been the frequent fate OF my views upon other
subjects In the past.
However, have no doubt that, with the
customary peryerseness of politicians, my
suggestions will be conveyed to the Presi-
dent II they reach him at all under color of
the authority of the DEMOCRAT, which sup
position is the reason that impels me to rise
To the above personal explanation.
But must be permitted to repeat that il /
were In Mr.. Hayes place, | would appoint
Packard Collector of the port of New Orleans,
and tell all the other gentlemen to go to the
devil.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY or LOUISIANA
has too good memory to be demoralized or
split In two by any such feeble wedge as the
collectorship. And the sooner Mr.. Hayes
recognizes this important fact and quits
trfling with triIlers, the sooner the intelligent
people of the State will credit him with COM
mon sagacity.
have reason to believe that If King gets
out Of the way. Packard will be invited to
step In. A. c. b.