The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-07-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Garfield and Arthur's Letters of
Acceptance.
The Cabinet-Negr0 Canvassers-DOug-
lass POwerlts s..
Iwa.hington Correspondence of Leader

The sun is now striking the eartl
at this point in perpendicular strokes
and causing our much boasted con
crete and tar pavements to seethe anC
flow down the sewers. While this ha
a slight tendency to be unwholesom'
and disagreeable tothephysical make
up, the boiling of the political caul
dron seems to greatly agitate and ex
cite the mental faculties of politicians
and those who belong to the Can't Ge
Away Club.
GARFIELD AND ARTHUR's LETTERS.
Politicians have been eager and OF
tiptoe to get the first glimpse of tht
Republican standard bearers letters
of acceptance. They have got them
and splendid documents they are
concise in diction, replete with states.
manlike forethought, sound in logic
filled with the wisdom of twenty years
experience and study of our political
system, and altogether able docu.
ments. The feeling here is that they
have the right ring, that they are de.
void of any "conciliatory policy" to-
ward the south, hypocracy toward
the Negro, and deceit toward the
whole country in general. The i'm
preston obtains here that should the
Republicans be successful this fall
that the next administration, with
Garfield at its head, will be no namby-
pamby, milk and water affair, but
stalwart through and through. Gen.
Garfield does not sweep for the poor
colored man." but the belief is here
entertained that should he be elected
he will do more for them than those
who did "weep."
HIS CABINET.
There are some, at this early day,
speculating and prophesying as to his
probable Cabinet, and who believe OF
profess to believe that a colored man
say Bruce or Langston-will be in
vited to a portfolio under him. True,
all this may be possible but it is not
at all probable, and Judging from the
action of the Republican committees
and those who are engineering the
campaign up to the present time, such
a thing is out of the question. For it
is not like that the Negro would be
left out of the canvass and be invited
into the Cabinet.
NEGRO CANvAssERs.
The issue is sound North against
solid South, and the Republican
managers relying upon the belief the
that the Negroes can do no good upon
the stump in the North, have about
determined to ignore them in the ap-
pointment of stump-speakers for that
section. The managers seem to have
forgotten that while the Negroes are
not IN the majority in the North they
hold the balance of power in Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Connecticut, Cali
fornia and possibly some other States,
and that that fact entities them to
some recognition in the appointment
of canvassers. They forget that if
the Negroes do not turn out and vote
for Garfield and Arthur in the above
named States at the election, it will
be dark day for the Republican par
ty. 1t is bad enough for the present
Administration to have ignored the
claims of the Negroes to Government
patronage, but when it comes to a
campaign committee ''going back" on
them, and just on the eve of an elec-
ton too, it is time for them to make
terms for themselves.
NO NEGROES NEED APPLY.
The Republicans, through Superin.
tendent Walker, have appointed in
the Census Office, at Washington, dur,
ingthe present week, some five or six
hundred clerks, but our glasses have
failed to discover any colored person
among them.
DOUGLASS POwERLESS.
Justice of the Peace, John A. Moss
who was insulted by rebel in tn,
Capitol Library for having pictur,
of Garfield, and who was dismissed
by the librarian because he defended
himself, is still out of employmen
Notwithstanding Fred Douglass ha
interested himself in his behalf.
DISTRICT REPUBLICANS.
The District Republicans are nov
preparing for grand demonstration
in the shape of ratification meetin,
TO come off some time in the near flu
ture.
GLAD HE'S COMING.
Among the many Congressiona
nominations recently made non
seemed toplease the citizens of Wash
ington more than that of Hon. JOhl
r. Lynch, of Mississippi. There i
already talk of expressing their feel
ings toward him in some forma
shape.
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
The triangular fight which has bee
going on here for some time betwee
the peoples Advocate the "Fre
Lance" and the Exodus has at lai
subsidized. And instead of spendin
their force and wasting all the
"white powder" on each other, hay
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