Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-25
General Garfield Interviewed.

r,
o, to pump" him upon his views as to
the policy the new administration should
follow, and about Cabinet probabilities,
The General blandly twirled his cigar
made his reporlorisl visitor at home, and
declined to be interviewed" in the regu.
l,r form, though the drift of his desultory
talk during the afternoons call, and the
impression it made, were roughly drafted
ss follows:
Gen. Garfield seems, to begin with, q
broad. minded man, devoid OF any petty
feelings of like or dislike. He has no
piQues to equallze, nor any prejudices to
follow. He is ready to listen TO sugges
tons from all parts OF the country, and
will be glad to get them No man WAS
ever elected to the Presidency with less OF
personal effort in his own behalf. He
iold me, when called upon him in Sep
tember last, that the nomination having
fallen TO HIM without his seeking, he
troubled himself personally little about
the result, father than that he desired his
party to win. His present unworn ap-
pesrance and buoyant health tell plainly
enough how lightly the campaign has
lain upon his mind. He had a pleasant
career before him in the Senate; his tastes
lay in the direction of legislative work
had he never been nominated, his position
and his duties, though less high and con,
sequentlal than they will be now, would
have been much more 10 his personal
liking. Feeling under the circumstances
of the case less bound TO any faction than
TO the whole country, he will be much
more free to follow his conscience and his
judgment for the good of the whole than
though he had, through course of in
triguing before the convention, been
tied To sny set OF men whose
labors might have secured his
success. The Issues of the campaign
impose upon him a subservience to the
will of the majority IN certain heading
questions; but in nothing is he an e1-
iremist. Ii is not to be expected that he
will temporize, for example, with the
South, but so tar rs his influence in the
government may go, that part of the ma
ton may look TO be fairly treated.
Up 10 the time OF my visit, Gen. G Ar
field had not been informed of the effort
that was organized in Chicago tnis week
BY Joseph Medill, E. B Washburne and
others, to have Allison, Of Iowa, appoint.
ed Secretary of the Treasury. But the
fscts that under the new congressional
superintendent the great northwest will
take almost ii not quite first place
among the sectional divisions of the ma
ton, and that the leading issues of the
near future will be almost wholly eco
nomic, and OF particular importance AS
affecting that region are 20 less plain TO
him than TO any resident OF any north
western state, ana the northwest may not
unreasonsbly lcok for recognition of It's
claims in the formation Of the Cabinet.
AS to any diversity of desires between
the s;slwarts and the negative forces, by
which the stalWarts were overcome in the
Chicago Convention, he Will tor the pres =
ent be passive listener. 1t is all open
secret now that Grant, Cameron, Logan
and Conkliug Will not voluntarily go
near him. If he wants their ala or their
counsel, he may have II; but unless he
signifies a desire in that direction, they
Will present no claims upon his gratitude,
leaving it to his own sense of honor TO
recogniza the efforts by which they turn
ed the tide his way, From his manner
and conversation, however, it appeared
plainly that his personal feeling toward
the stalwart quartette, and IN particular
toward Gen Logan, is one of warm friend
ship.
Opon one subject Gen. Garfield express.
ed himself with considerable freedom
That subj ct was the Morey letter. He
deplored the course of those Democratic
leaders who could descend to gu attempt
to change the result of a National election
by so dishonest a trick, and pointed out
how easily 1t might have succeeded had
the case been a close one. He did not
hesitate to say that ii had cost the Repub.
licans the State of G .liforna' should it be
finally shown that California had gone
against them. That it had al effect
throughout the North, by reason OF the
industry with which copies Of the letter
were circulated, he had proofs enough.
II had been sOwn broadcast among work
ing people, to whom the exposure OF rs
fraudulent character came too late. Ii
had been used upon the very day of cleo.
ton. One paper in this city had on that
morning printed picture ola factory with
white woTkmen gOiog out OF one end aud
Cnlnamen going IN At the other, and the
line, This is what GNfield's election
means" Ia the town OF Warren, in his
own district, they hal showed the streets
with copies of the letter printed on yellow
paper. he cares very little what tool was
used IN the mere execution OF the scheme;
the hand that traced what "in the dlction
ary sense OF the word" he calls forgery,
IS to him q mstter of Indifference; bur
that men of standing and repute in their
party could stoop to an act go bsse, he re.
grets with more of surprise and sorrow
than Of bitterness. THAI the letter should
have obtained moments credence as
genuine, is to him matter OF astonish.
ment 1t was 50 palpably GU. of the way
fh,t man of any nrnminence In M hlic