The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-07-12
THE Gagged sTARLINGs.

THE CAGED sTARLINGS.
1t is again stated that Postmaster
General Key will resign in order to re-
lieve the President of the odium OF
having a straight Democrat in bis Cab
met. Meanwhile, Mr.. Secretary Sher-
man is scared out of his wits by the
action OF the Wisconsin Radicals, who
| repudiate in round terms the conduct
and policy Of the President. Mr.. Sher-
man, we are grayely told, is going
down the coast, even to Portland and
ElstpOrt, in " line. His Ostensible
purpose ls TO inspect the life-savIng ap-
paratus along the coast but it is hard
y to be assumed that party leader
who lived through the war between the
States would devote weeks TO such pur-
poses Of pure philanthropy. In fact,
no Ldherent Of Grant can he said to
place high estimate upon the value
/ WI illf. anu NC Cdu see uph
the Secretary Of the Treasury can waste
his valuable time in this trifiing task
of Inspecting apparatus designed "to
take in out OF the wet the few unlucky
fellows who fall in now and then, every
year or two, along the rock ribbed
New England coast. We do not
really think that Mr.. Sherman cares
about this diving bell, luGia rub
Der clothes business. In truth,
the distinguished gentleman, in view
Of the detection Of hls party in New
Hampshire and in Wisconsin and Iowa,
has gone to see Blaine. We greatly
fear that Blaine will scare Sherman out
of his boots and out of the Cabinet.
Sherman is not modelled morally after
the heart of his big brother Tecunseh,
who is not only hero in the field, but
often dares to violate public opinion
and partisan notions of GIT without
a qua'm of conscience or moments hes
ItatiOn. The learned and adrolt Stcre-
tary OF the Treasury is an excellent and
able politician and not soldier, and
he may be lacking with the vcering
winds that now fiji the bcllying sails
of the Democratic ship and threaten to
drive ashore that on which Hayes
took aboard Sherman and a queer
lot of freight to constitute a
Radical cabinet. While it is said thar
Key like Sterne's starting, repea
the endless wall, 81 can't get OUT"
there is nice Young man In the cab-
met from IOwa, McCrAry by name,
whose party at home insists that Hayes |
is crazy or a D-mocrat. McCrary is
exceedingly uncomfortable, and he,
too, wants to get out" The story |
comes that he will tender his rcSigna
tion, very teuderly, it is true, but he
must get out. To use an expression of |
vulgar:sm, Sherman, McCrary and
Key can't stand the Radical racket,
and the Cabinet goes to pieces. Such |
are the dispatches from Washington.
We can hardly credit these statements.
These gentlemen are not idiots. When
they went aboard with Hayes they
knew precisely the course marked out
and where the voyage would end.
They must have foreseen the very
tempest which they now encounter.
mocracy and those thh5s findirfl IL fine D6eii 81
promotion in the party would alb
hor Hayes more than they would
hate q Blaine or Butler in Hayes's |
place. The President and Key and
Sherman knew when they thrust Rad
Icars aside and adopted a wise policy |
of conservatism that the violent ele-
ments of the Republican party would |
cooperate with the extreme office |
seeking Democracy, and that this sc-
cretIon to Democratic strength and de- |
sertion of Hayes would make Democ-
racy omuipo;ent, two years at least,
in local and State elections. Foresee-
ing this as Key and Sherman and Nc
Crary must have done, it is strange
that they had the courage to take
portfolios and hold them after Alr.
Hayes pronounced his wise and just
and admirable inaugural. II Mr..
Sherman resign in the face of dangers
contemplated as plainly on the fifth of
March as to-day, he shows either a
want of common foresight or of CON-
mon courage. and we cannot, there
fore, give credence to these stories
finding places in our Eastern exchanges
ana telegraphic dispatches constantly
asserting the coming dissolution of the
Cabinat