The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-05-17
Governor Garcelon and the Georgia
Movement.


Mr.. Tilden and Senator Thurman, and Mr..
Hendricks are invited to take the rear seats,
under the gallery. The first Democratic
Governor of Maine for twenty years is on
the road to the White House, by the way of
Georgia. The route is circuitous, but Gov
ernor Garcelon is not a man who disdains to
step off the sidewalk when he sees a good
thing in the cutters; and he sees fifteen
States in the South with Democratic majori-
ties ranging way up in the thousands. If
they support him, and New York, and New
Jersey, and Connecticut and Indiana and
Maine-Maine will go for him by ten thous-
and majority, he himself has said it, not
greatly to his credit-he will be the next
President.
These States will Of course throw their
votes for Mr.. Garcelon. The Republicans
won't fight him. What's the use? They
tried it in Maine last Fall, and he had such
grip on the popular heart thathe was chos-
en- Governor. It is but wasted effort to
fight man who can do that. If the can
didate with the smallest vote, and Mr..
Garcelon can safely count on that, is going
to be elected the Republicans may as well
ground their arms. They are no good at
the game of give-away.
1t may be assumed that Governor Garce-
Ion will be elected President. Indeed, there
is no use in arguing the matter, and we de-
cline the thanlzless task. The question is:
What will he do when he gets to the White
House? His first step is already indicated.
Those best-informed in political movements
are of the opinion that he will disregard the
custom of his predecessors, made odious by
the tyrants who have oppressed the country
for the last eighteen years, and begin new
and pure administration by taking all the
members of his cabinet from single State.
That State, it perhaps need not be said, is
Maine. President Garcelon will retain his
old and faithful councillors, for, above all
things, he prizes harmony in administration,
and believes in the good old scriptural rule
that in a multitude of councillors there is
safety. The distribution of offices has not
been definitely arranged, but we violate no
confidence in saying that Councillor Chase
will be made Secretary of the Navy, Coun-
cillor Fogg, Secretary of the Treasury, and
Councillor Moody Secretary of the In
terror. The Secretaryship of State will
probably be given to a Greenbacker. The ap
pointment of Mr.. Moody will be- happy one,
for his acquaintance with the Indian legends
that cluster around Cider Hill and Scotland
peculiarly fit him for dealing with the
aborigines. Of the qualifications of Council
lor Fogg nothing need be said. 1t is well
known that he is the ablest financier we
have, and his lately displayed if not newly
acquired knowledge of liquors will measur-
ably contribute to a simplifcation of the
tariff. 1t was at first thought to
make him Secretary of State, on
account of the facilities for foreign inter
course which his voice Affords but on
mature reflection it was perceived that his
genius for finance better fitted him for the
Treasury.
Councillor Chase we all know. He
is an able seaman, and perhaps can make
more profitable use of those vessels on the
navy list past service than any man in the
country. He will certainly set his face
sternly against nepotism, and that will be
blessed thing after the scandal of Grants
administration.
The other appointments have not yet
been made, but they will doubtless reflect as
much credit on President Garcelons sagaci-
ty as those indicated above. He is deter
mined to have harmony in the cabinet if he
doesn't have. anything else, and Messrs.
Fogg, Chase, Moody and the rest are just
the boys for that. Of course there is pos
sibility that Governor Garcelon will not be
elected,-but it is very remote. If the Bean
Pot contest in Boston should result in favor
of the Maine team there would be no with
standing the popular enthusiasm for him,
and Tilden and that crowd would be wise to
get out of the way of the boom. When the
Androscoggin is really on freshet, she is
a terror, and people will be safer to step
one side.