Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-12
Our Disappointed Secretary.


Our Disappointed Secretary.
Secretary Sherman removed Collector
Tuition, it seems, because Tutton's
friend, McManes, did not vote for Mr..
Sherman at Chicago, after having prom
ised so to do. A conversation between
Tuition and Sherman, which has just
taken place at Washington, is report
ed in the newspapers, in which the
secretary is made to say very distinctly
that he did not keep his word with Tut
ton because McManes did not keep his
word. He received with incredulity
Tutton's expression of belief that Nc
Names was only waiting till his chance
for the nomination opened out before
going for him. Mr.. Sherman evidently
considered McManes entirely too slow
and cautious with his support, and he
asks the decapitated Tuition, with fair
show of reason, how it happened that
McManes could hasten to Garfield with
his one vote, while he restrained his ar
dor from the support of Sherman when
he had over hundred votes.
Mr.. McManes has not been treating
the secretary candidly; and he has no
good reason for his disappointment at his
friend Tutton's decapitation. He count
cd, perhaps, upon the secretary's being
afraid to punish him for his lack of faith.
Perhaps it would have been more pru
dent in Mr.. Sherman to have bided his
time for revenge, and not to have brought
down his whip so manifestly in punish
ment of the crime of promising to vote
for him and failing to perform. Evil
IDENTIFY the financial minister's blood is
up. That honeyed dispatch he sent to
Garfield, indicating that if he had any
wish dear to his heart, it was that his
friend Garfield should be nominated,
hardly came from the heart. lie could
not have been so glad when he is so mad
at Mr.. McManes for voting for Garfield.
1t is just little bit disgraceful, un-
doubtedly and impudent withal, in our
secretary of the treasury to undertake to
distribute the treasury offices as rewards
of merit to his supporters for the
presidential nomination. But he is an
old hand at the business. When he took
office under Hayes he found any number
of debts of this character contracted in
the seating of that great fraud. He paid
them IS long as the offices held out.
There was some trouble for good while
because the debts were more numerous
than the offices, and to Mrs. jerks and
other useful people in Louisiana the sec
retary OftentimeS had to come down
with the hard cash. He was able to
do it because he has accumulated,
according to popular belief, great wealth
by the improper use of his advantages. He
is of the men who do not hesitate to use
any convenient instrument for their pur-
pose and who believe that the world owes
them all they can get out of it. Such
men never can become thieves. a thief
is Il fellow who is mean enough to take
what does not belong to him but how
can man steal who conscientiously be-
lieves that he has right to all he can
seize
If Mr.. Sherman was not far gone in this
belief he could not possibly have con-
ceived that he had right to buy Nc
Manes'S Influence with the Philadelphia
collectorship He needs missionary to
instruct him in the fundamental princi-
pies of morality. Perhaps now he is ill
Il fit state to receive one. Evidently he is a
very much astonished man. He can
not see why Garfield was taken and he
was left, after all the advantages he had
in the shape of plenty of offices with
which to buy the delegates. lie is losing
faith in the power of offices as bribes.
Taken in this frame of mind there is a
chance to prove to him that honesty is
the best policy. He will he likely now to
admit it. But he cannot practice it, we
fear: he is too old to learn the art.
We publish letter from Wash
ington giving an interview with
an ancient friend of Mr.. Til
den, who seems to have been heavily
struck 10y the Field boom. He certainly
says no more than the truth about Mr..
Tilden's candidacy; and in looking about
for a place to lay his head he has
just as surely not found in Judge
Field the worst pillow among the many
presented for our choice. Whether he has
found the best is another matter. We do
not think he has. No man can be
nominated in the convention but Horatio
Seymour, if he will take it; and it is
only in view of his possible refusal that
it is at all worth while to consider any
other candidate. We have one serious
objection to Judge Field in the fact that
he is on the bench. There should be no
stepping thence into political position.
We want non. partisan judges. AS far
as possible they should be removed from
the political atmosphere. If it had not
been breathed by the electoral commits
sion judges, the supreme court would not
be held in its present low esteem. We
have absolutely no defense against party
tyranny if we must have judges who are
no fairer than their party.
FROM Governor Seymour's home we
have to-day statement of a declaration
made by him of his confirmed disinclin-
alton to accept the Democratic candi-
dacy certainly he has a right
to decline. And If his health