The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-08
TIE COLLECTORSHIP.
EUsTus' COURSE IN REFERENCE TO
THE CONFIRMATION OF SMITH.
reIrEra from Our Leading business
Men Asking Him Not tn Oppose
smiths Confirmation.


Especial Correspondence Of tho Demoerat.l
Elt.t.H HousH
Washington. May !. 1873.
suppose ynu all feel about
THE cpLLEoToRsHtJ
very much ns an old lad v of my acquaintance
when was small boy said she fsit about
fhe marriage If hnr daughter The girl. ~
Seams Ind seyeral ett,rs who wsre about
sa,,aIly derepntaEle IN character. Finally
she aelrrtad one and was married 10 him,
wherent The "a lady went round 10 tho
psjpbbors tn toll them that she fslt greatly
relieved, Her daughter, shs said, had been
aeaniup company for long fime with three
or four very bad young men. but now she
was married and tho agony was over
"Ah," said u sympathetic neighbof. hut
hasn't she married about the worst in the
tptf"
Eyes" fejoIncd The old Indy. 'thatH true,
but the rest Of en- ~ keep away from my
house now md that's come comfort
Thus. ! suppose, it is with you about Tho
Golleet4rehip The fellows who were court
Ing IL were u bad lot. md though. perchhnn'.
one Of the worst Of them has got 1t. there is
some satisfaction IN the thought that you will
hear no more Of the rest Of the gnng.
must toll yon u pleasant anecdots of Eus-
liz "a this connection.
SENATOR ErsrIs.
as VIZ eali him here Or Jim. MS he j. known
in the courily phrase ~ your tropical city. 10
81 you know royal good fellow when y"',
to get close TO- He Is u man not only of dc
tided opinions. but If decisive methods Of ex-
pressing them when he thinks he has al hp-
prariative audience. ! went over To his rooms
tion asked him II hn hnd made NJ his mind
what roiIree hn would take in references to the
confirmation Of Smith.
"Well"' he said. in ha cool anlzz1ical way,
II hnvs about concluded not tp mako up my
mind mt all on that subject
"That means that you have determined to
lei the thing GO by default =
Look nj these" he replied. handling me n
bundle of kilograms,
OF course ii would be violation nf roufi-
dence on my part to publish the tenor 81 these
dispatches or tho nHines that were signed to
them Suffice to snY they were all from prom
inenb business mon and politicians MI over
the State all Democrats, md MI ,ekng him
moi 10 resist the confirmation ot Snth,
"What does nl this mnhnl" | asked
ooh, II means, suppose, that our people
down there arc
SICK AND TIRED or THE EVERLASTING
sgUABELE
here over TINT patronage. aud want the mni
Ter settled That they think Smith rs MS good
n man M thay'll get from this Adnnistrm-
ton, and that they would rather hay" him
regularly installed 10 Collector than 500 Tom
Anderson stay there indefinitely as dr. fncio
heHd Of the Custom House.
80 you're not going to Oppose smith,
mo. I'm going to let him 20 through. ]
had n reason for boating Williamson that was
satisfactory to mo and which IL well under
stood by nv constituents, IT the same fcn
son applied 10 Smith would try to beat him.
But IL does not. You soc how tho business
people, who are really interested in the mat
tor, feel about IT, and nm going to defer to
them"
"Ynu have no idan" no pursued whit u
relief II will be tn mo to have this matter dis
pohsd Of. For five months the people Of Lou
isiana have seemed tn think | had very little
to do except recommend candidates for Col
lcctor Of The Port, You would be- astonished
to know Of tho number and character Of such
applications that receive every day by mall
and by telegraph. u seems to me that every
man out Of onplloyn'"nt in The State who rnn
read and write Ia n candidate for this Gpllec-
torship, All this Is very embarrassing. 81
course ! can't do anything in tho premises.
and Of course every applicant Ia to q certain
extent sourod and disappointed. And the
longer the matter remained IN Hbeyance the
thicker the applications flowed In, shall be
glad to have the mntter disposed Of on this
account II on no other.
What do you know about
SMITHS CHARACTER AND orALITIcATIosa|
"Absolutely nothing except what Is snId In
those dispatches | sat with him In the Log
islature. or rather In one Of the 1iepieintilret
~ Louisiana, some years ago, through an On
tire term. and never got to know him even by
name. II he had been In the other Legisla-
ture sitting at the time. this would not have
been strange, because you generally had t.
have the countersign In order to get from ons
10 The other. But Smith and were In The
same body for n considerable time. and
never knew him. You may Imagine the hs
ht., y.,,t tt,., bar Kama fx,f,g II
Smths name was sent In. They oil inquired
VINO THE DEVIL II sMrTHr
and had to tell them did not know. Some
Of them wanted to know II he lived In the
State, and had to tell them TINT suspected
Ms much, but couldn't DO positive ] after.
wards photographed down there for informn
ton, and ut length somebody sont me Smith'p
descriptive list"
How d. you suppose Hayes happened L
find him."
Il don't know. How do You appoR' the
Republican party happened to find ilayoR2'
There you arc ngain, suppose, however
because this Is the n,e Of discpveryN'
Whereupon we changed the subject This
random report of casual conversation
will serve TO show Mt least That Eustis acted
according to the prcponderance Of suggestion
from his constituents in allowing SMITH
confirmation to go through by default He
could easily have secured his rejection II h,
had worked for it. because there were several
Of Packard q friends on the Republican side
headed by Blaine, who would eagerly have
joined hands with the Democrats to bout
Smith, and the Democrats would hnvo gone
with Eustis almost TO n man II he had mad.
n fight against tho confirmation. There
could have been no consideration Of personal
interest involved because iustis did not
know Smith by sight when the nomination
was first made. think
III HE HAD BEEN LEFT TO HIS owN MOTION
Eustis would have concluded to fight Smith
on the general ground that he was carpet
bagger. and on the special ground that hs
was not resident OF New Orleans even in
CARPET bag sense. A. &. H.