The Hartford herald., 1879-06-18

term, has vanished where civil
service order No. ] and the Cancellation
policy WENT Now Secretary of WaI
McCrary is satisfied with his achieve
ment as author of the ARMY bill and
wants to retire to the bench. Judge
Dillon, who resigned, Is said to be am
bilious to get on the Supreme Bench,
and to have entered into an engage
ment with McCrary whereby the latter
fixes" things with Hayes for vacan-
cy which is expected to occur soon, and
in return, the Secretary gets life posi-
tion as Circuit Judge. But the Demo-
cratic Senators scratch their heads and
strike thoughtful attitude. If McCra-
ry really wrote the veto message referr-
ed to, he can't he confirmed Judge, they
say, and their say cuts u considerable
figure in the case. Judge Dillon is a
brother of Sidney Dillon, president of
the Union Pacific Railroad, and whether
he gets on the Supreme bench or not,
he makes pretty good thing by resign
ing, as he not only receives u $1,000
professOrship, but WILDE i'm position to
earn $4,000 per year besides AZ attor-
ney for his brothers corporation.
Several names are mentioned as pos
who, however, had better not pack his
trunk yet-amOng whom are Wayne,
McVeagh, Attorney General Devens,
Governor Hartranft, Hon. John Han
cock, of Texas, and Zach Chandler.
Viewed from the standpoint of what
was supposed to be Hayes original
hightoned policy, the appointment of
Chandler would seem to be an impOssi-
bility; but i'm the light of what the
fraud has actually done, it Is highly
probable. And after all, was it not
Chandler who conceived the plot for
the rape of the Presidency, and who in
spired the lesser villains that performed
the work? Hayes is still in debt to
Chandler, while all the Others have
been paid. Another of the above
named, to whom the acting President
is in debt, is Wayne MacVeagh. He may
not have done anything directly toward
stealing the office, but he afterward went
to Louisiana and helped convince the
State officials who run on the ticket with
Hayes that it was possible for the latter
to carry the State and be thereby elec-
ted, while they, though receiving more
votes, were defeated. This was, per-
haps, not quite rs bold a piece of work
as the theft, but it was, nevertheless,
remarkable achievement.
Some prominent members of the Ma
tiOnal party are expressing a doubt
about the organ lately started here by
Lee Crandrall, called the National Vie,0.
Honest Nationals may safely give this
sheet long range. 1t Is, beyond doubt,
a tender for the Republican party, and
in the interest Of John Sherman. 1t
is said, and think, truthfully, that the
means for running it, as well as for eX-
penses of the active gentlemen who ed
it it, and OlsO run the National Green
back organization here, are supplied
frOm'the plethoric purse of that eminent
Greenbacker, the Secretary of the
Treasury. "COl." Lee Crandell isconsid-
cradle Ofan adventurer The writer knew
of his career at n time when
he was in the dry goods business in a
New York town, and, il was said light
ing his cigars with five-dollar bills. He
has since been in the Confederate
Army, and is liable, ] think, to be al
most anywhere. If it was not John
money that paid his expen-
ses to Ohio to use his efforts to defeat
union of the Democrats and Nationals,
it would be interesting to know whose
1t was, or what other inducement took
him.
The result of the Ohio convention is
received here with great favor, and
there is a buoyant feeling among Dem
Ocrats, with u corresponding depression
among the Republicans. The interest
in Ohio political affair has really over
shadOwed everything else for some days.
PHONO.