Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-27
NO REGRETS.


NO REGRETS.
officials Not Monrnfus Over
The Certainly Of Gar5leld's Defeat.
Washington Cor Chicago Times.
1t is strange how few personal regrets are
over the prospective defeat of
Garfield. The regrets that come are over
the prospect of Republican defeat, and the
fear of a Democratic rule for the next four
years.. So far e. any personal regret for
Garfield is concerned, there is not a word.
While his great intellectual ability is con-
coded aud generally admired for ita full
worth, yet it is coupled along with belief
III the mans moral dishonesty. He belongs
to the most undesirable class of Statesmen
who, under gulse of pionsness end buzz
lesque of refinement, attempt to disguise
scaly, course ways and dishonest purposes.
Such men are wrapped in such absolute
egotism that it is impossible for them to
unset tishly Or honestly score others.
They have not the sturdy courage to
blunily express opinions of their real pur-
poses, but are always found in acts of petty
trickery that earn for them the deserved
the Presidents extreme unpopularlty ut
Washington arises from his feeble temper
ing, and, ct times, tricky methods of dis
posing of the petty details of his Office.
While he has ample courage to stand ont and
fight his whole party, he has always ap-
peared to be incapable OF dealing fairly and
decisively between applicants for offices at
his disposal. The actual misrepresentation
oL4 r. ~ Ill i
portant delegations has been SO out of keep
ing with the dignity Of the place as to thor
oughly exasperats everyone who has come in
contact with the White House people. The
latest example of this weak and
MISLEADING POLICY
has occurred duriag the Presidents last alb
sence from the city. Several weeks before
he went away some vacancies occurred in the
paymaster's department. in the army. These
positions are sought after with an earnest
ness that at times becomes almost bitter.
During the last week of the Presidents stay
he was harrassed with applicants. he listen
ed to them all and promised to give them all
consideration. This promise of considera-
ton is the fatal element in q mans case. 1t
buoys him up with hope, makes him relax
the vigilance of his pursuit, and insures his
defeat. 1t is only the friend of the better
informed, who are upon the inside, who
know how to mold the Presidential vaoillation
into the form of certainty. During the
last week before the President went away
he put off all the applicants by giving them
to understand that final decision would be
postponed until his return from California.
A dayeor two before his departure he made
out the list of appointments for those va
canoies and sent them over to the war de-
partment accompanied by the strict ipjunc-
tionsthat under no. circumstances was the list
to be made known to the public until one
week after the Presidents departure. This
space of time was desired by him so as
to enable him to get fully out of range OF the
deceived pack of applicants. This shutting
unmanly, and undignified methed of dealing
with petty details of public business has beer
pronounced in one expression as
s'THE OHIO Way"
The Ohio breed of statesmen is SO unpopU-
lar at Washington that Garfield's defeat will
be borne with Christian resignation by the
Republicans who reside at the capital. Gen.
Garfield has such an unenviable reputation
among his associates, for lacking in all the
nameless articles that go to make up the
code of q gentleman that none of them will
weep to see him kept out of the White House
With the exception Of being maj
of great intellectual powers his admins
| trstion, in all its details, would be an I'M
wholesome continuance of the policy of tell
| ing pleasant lie to ones face rather than 6
| sturdy unpleasant truth. These Ohio Chris
tian statesman are not fair fighters. They
| wheedle and betray under an air Of sancti
monious and superior honesty that is mad
| dening. They will refuse with an air Of hor
ror to violate some pious conventionality
and lie to you with the volubility
and remorselessness of the common swindler
Smiler Colfax should have been born il
Ohio. He represents the true Christian
statesmen of that State. Vulgar, unctuous
pious at the surface; Pecksniffs at the bot
tom.
It is one of the pleasant criticisms passed
| upon Gen. Garfield here that for all his as
sociating with people who have contaminated
him he has not yet made much out Of it.
He is bad business man, and even his Gar
rangements'' with ring people who use hin
have never brought him in very much. Ths
other day asked one of the most promjnen
lawyers interested in claims and business be
fore Congress, in Washington, how Gen
Garfield had been classed among his assooi-
ates. His answer was very much to tn,
point: 'It is the impression with us all
and it has been my experience, that it has al
ways been easy to secure the influence O
Gen. Garfield upon the side of anything call
ing for an appropriation"
TWO CAUSES OF DEFEAT.
II the Republicans are Leaten this yea
their leaders will charge up their defeat prin
cipally to two things. First, their candi
dates, and second, their party manager
Marshall Jewell is fast earning for himself
with his Republican associates, even NOR.
uDpopularity than he possessed when Gran
| put him out of his cabinet. The most ridic
ulous thing that he has done during the
campaign was the celebrated Republican
conference in New York. A distinguished
party leader from the West, who was pres
emit at this conferen ce, in speaking of il
| afterward, said: "Why in the name of God
were we summoned to New York? 1t was
another of Marshall Jewell's brass-faced
| ideas. We were summoned there without
| any plan or settled idea. We were called
| for the purpose of making procession of
statesmen, apparently for Marshall JEWELS
benefit only. There was no semblance of q
private conference. That aggregation
of speech-making at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
can not be considered as anything specially
| effective or worth the money we all had to
pay for our expenses upon that silly trip"
Another party leader, when Gen. Garfield
was last in Washington, was summoned to a
private conference with the Mentor states
man. They were closeted for several hours.
The politician summoned was very anxious
to get at some plan for the campaign to get
hold of something definite; but he after
ward confessed to friend that during the
two hours talk not word had been said of
anything practical. It was as idle in results
as talk between school boys. Yet politi-