The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-23
CHANGE POUR CHANGE.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CUSTOM
HOUSE K0W.

| For days past there have been rumorG ol
| coming changes in the Custom House, which
| it was expected, would be made by President
| Hayes for the complete carrying out Of con
| templated change In his Southern policy
First, it WAS whispered that the official head
| of Albert Leonard was to be guillotined and
! q more stnhpar5 and bitter partisan, and one
whose fidelity to the party could not be
doubted, would be appointed to tho Dis
trict AttorneyGhip for the purpose :of
carrying out the bloody shirt and out
rage mill business, designed by the
leaders Of the extreme wing of the Republi-
can party. Naturally enough Mr. Leonard
felt n delicaey about being unceremonioualy
dismissed from office, and, acting OE instrEtc-
| tons from the powers that be- he Forthwith
posted off to Washington to assure the I'D
| lnnistration Of his reliability and prompt
| obedience to the orders Of the party leaders
| This declaration saved him, and he can now
| feel himself secure so long ns his zenl does not
| flag.
The next incumbent whose fate appears to
| hang in the balance was Col Jack Wharton,
the the United States Marshal The opposition
struggled to dispossesa the .joIe-telliDg
Colonel and put IL ex-Marshal Pitkita, Of
! alphabetical characteristics. But up to this
| time Wharton has held his own, and he de-
| the end. The third and most startling change
| yet rumored affects nothing less than the
| c9lIectorShip.
IT IS ASSERTED
| that the administration Of Collector Smith
| has been far from satisfactory from q pOlit-
| ical standpoint. 1t Is generally conceded that
| an agreement was entered into between those
! whC Row run the Custom"H ouse machine nnG
| the representatives of the general govern
| ment, whereby the former guaranteed to re-
| turn at least three Representatives. to the
| House to support Hayes Southern policy
| This part of the contract has not been ful-
| filled, as every one knows who has taken the
| trouble TO uerllse the late election returns.
| 1t is alleged that Smith, Wells and An
derson do not possess sufficient execl1-
! forward the latent power Of the Repub-
| ican party and lead it to IL glorious victory,
| Louisiana, it ig claimed by the Radicals, is ol
| nccessityn Republican State, and should elect
a fair representation for the party in the ma
| tiOnnl legislature.
| The man most fitted to reOrganize the
scattered forces Of the party, to bring together
tho antagonistic elements, and to distribute
| the Federal patronage where it will do the
I most good ia the one who will be selected to
| lill the post shortly to be rendered vacant by
| the forced resignation OF George l.. Smith.
| The individual who has been settled upon tC
do such pro1gies for the party Is
| HENRY CLAY WARhrOTH,
whose sagacity, unscrnpnlousness, personal
magnetism and political adroitness, mark
him, ns is admitted alike by friend and foe, as
| the most Consummate political tncticinn lT
| the Republican ranks south OF Mason and
| Dixon's line.
! With Warmoth in the Collectors seat Jack
Wharton as Marshal, and II. Conquest Clarke
the universal Office-hOlder as chief clerk 10 the
Collector, the Republican party will find itscl
| represented by men whose proStituted talents
well fit them for the nudacious schemes CON
tempiated.
| THE TEMPORARY BREECH EXISTING
between the Citizens Conservative AssOciA
tiOn and the Democratic party in this city
will be taken advantage Of, and, il possible, II
will be widened-
| The plan now contemplated, SO it Is said, Is
| to form combination with the Conservative
Association by which the Republicans vii
support the State ticket Of the Citizens. ant
In return the latter will provide q sufficient
quantity OF votes to elect the national nOnli
nees Of the former
The above Is the scheme now under consd
Grafton, and II it Is not carried out In Oil its
details, it will be because Mr.. Hayes is so un
wavering and uncertain ns to never know al
one moment what he will do at the next. A
present, however, it is asserted Warmoth's
name will be handed in to the Senate for con
firmation Immediately on the assembling o
Congress, for should the matter be delayed
until the fourth of March, 1879, tho Democrat
ic Senate then in existence would refuse tx
confirm any such name as Henry Clay War
moths