The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-23
CUsTOM-HOUsE GOSSIP.
THE COLLECTORS CHANCES LOOK
sLIM-wARMOTH IN THE HING.

THE COLLECTORS CHANCES LDOh
sLIM-wARMOTH IN THE RING.
A washington idea as to Returning
ROard Indarsements-Darra Kick
and ChamplIn's Chances.
The average wrestler with the terribly mud
died
CoLLEoToBsHIP QUESTION
had az much az he could do yesterday to keep
pace with the various floating rumors about the
Custom-House, snd those only were successful
who could strsddle the fence, 80 to speak, and
show their friendship for all Of the candidates for
the position by repeating seriatim to inquiring
reporters the pedigree OF each candidate and his
eminent fitness for the position.
Warmoth now looms up ss Che dark horse men,
toned week ago. and If reports be true he has
been pulling the wires very shrewdly in WASH
ington. One Of his intimate friends stated yes
terday to DEMOCRAT commissioner that War
moth merely wanted the position to pave the way
for mself to the United States Senate. and that
il was his opinion thst the Representative from
Plaquemines parish
WOULD BAG THE POSITION.
II WAS generally conceded that the salary was
no object TO Warmoth, but the political ambition
he had would not die out until he had landed
himself in the Senate, where he expected to
climb through the Custom House patronage in
case he secured the position.
"Hs is thorough politician said one, "and
oan see as far into the future IS any one else,
and il he takes the oolleotorship and the third
party movement should be q success, You Will
find him ranking with the leaders,"
.I..1I Hi n1~r,
spoken TO, that Wsrmoth was candidate for the
position, nor would he aek 1owledge that
wARMoTH WAS AMBITIOUS,
but he did mention something bout re urnipg to
The shades OF st. Landry alter three mon tbs
stay here. Whether or not he il satisfied that
the present Collector must make room for s0me-
body else he did not signify. but bis expression
led to such construction.
He was not well pleased with the morning dis
patches which alluded to wholesale inoompetsnoy
in the management OF customs affairs here, and
as far as
DARBALL Is CONCERNED,
he could not understand how Darrall should per-
init his name to be mentioned in connection with
such information.
Dsrrall must have ''soured' on the Collector and
the Returning Board, and yet the ex.vioe pres-
dent OF that board says that Darrsll has now and
has had heretofore more patronage in the way OF
appointments than aDv maD. He cited also
the names OF four or five employees now drawing
salaries who were given places through Dsrrsll,
as they were his especial friends, and 1t may be
possible that these four or five will wake up some
fine morning snd find that
THEIR RESERVATIONS ARE WANTED;
that, should 1t occur, being the innocent method
of revenge usually resorted TO by eminent Off
Gals who fail to receive that support they e1-
pee ed from those of their own political creed.
The reference, In the dispa ohes alluded to,
to the fact that numerous sigpers to the Collec-
Il r
their names was mentioned week ago nearly in
the DEMOCRAT, the reasons assigned BY the NOR
chants, etc., being that they did not know at the
time that they were
ENDORSING THE RETURNING BOARD,
II was stated yesterday about the building that
two Custom House employees were engaged for
three or four days in obtaining signatures to Pc
by a. least one OF the two, was that Collector
King was going to cut loose from the Returning
Board Influence and run the machine on an indie
pendent and HUT 1ti6al basis.
This argument was used in more than one
commercial house and Of course
CAPTURED THE sIaNERs,
who. rs soon as they saw that they were actually
the Returning Beard, sent kilograms
to the Hon. e. John Ellis and others asking that
their names be erased from the petition.
Scarcely any of those conversant with the COM
plioations believe that the present Collector will
be confirmed, the Gins" even having, to q certain
extent, deserted him and gone to the enemy, and
are now preparing TO make themselves sufid
with the other candidates by addressing each in
terms through the mails.
It is hard to tell from the present outlook who
Ks ogg is working for, but IL is not denied that
he is using every eff,rt to defeat King, and in
that connection it is thought by some that he
might join some OF
CHAMPLIN's SENATORIAL FRIENDS,
Christaucy, Fs,rv aud others, in effort to have
Champlin appointed and confirmed
CbRmplln's chances seem to be looming up in
Washington and it may be that his conf ion
will be ssier to secure than chat Of the present
Collector. This prediction is based upon q letter
from well posted party ia Washington, and q
who writes friend bore that after
canvass of the Unite States Senate he sis sat-
isAed that il King is confirmed it will have to be
done by the Democrats ID the United States SEN
sic, by 90 doing will iDdorse tho Louisiana
Board wi b all that it's name implies"
The same writer says "the administration is sat
SIZED that if Ghampn were appointed the Gran
Ito Building would be run IN the interest of
THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY,
md not as an asylum for political dead BEATS"
II was stated by one of Champlin's friends
aud it can be proven he Gays, that had
Chsmplin voted at the last election his ballot
would have been cast for
NICHOLS AND Witt,
rs he had become thoroughly Disguised with the
state. And that fact, with his long acknowledged
Endorsement Of the Presidents Southern policy,
nay make for him friends in Conservative and
Liberal Republican circles at Washington.
There was not one at the Custom House yester-
day who could account for
PINoHBAoK's SUDDEN FLIGHT
% Washington, and the only one who gave a |
plausible theory was one Of Pinoh's own color,
Who sad he had gone there to see il he couldn't
aise another $4,000 out Of the United States
senate, and intended taking advantage, il an
opportunity offered, OF the long term Senatorial
Ease complications to get his own hook in.
LEWIS WILL START
when Jack Wharton says the word, but not be-
ore.
ADJUSTMENTS
st. Charles Theatre.
After visiting Callender's Georgia Minstrels
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