Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-16
FREEMAN TO FOSTER,

Gov. Foster having been credited
with saying that "Gen, Garfield,
having received no votes from the
south, owed it no debts Hon. A.
A. Fresman, solicitor of the posts
office 9 department., discusses the
proposition in the New York Tri-
bune, as follows:
20. IT do not understand that cabinet
sppointmebt3 are TO be used as means
OF liouidst on of political obligations.
Iowa, believe, is the banner repnbli-
Gao state. Is Iowa, therefore. ert ted
to the best appointment? Is Kansas,
for a similar reason, entitled TO the
second choice? Add 80 on down
through the list of republican states.
Are appointments to be made solely
with reference TO the number of votes
received? Out of seven cabinet ap
pointments, President Hayes gave
four to states that cast their votes
against him. Now, [ UNDER tand
your proposition TO be that not ouly Is
state tat voted against Garfield to
have no representation, but that the
rule is to be applied to an entire Sec
ton of the union. This is passing
from one extreme to another, and eX-
tremes are generally wrong. A CAB
met officer is provided by law as an
aid to the president. The president
surrounds himself with cabinet to
| advise and assist him In UNFOLDING
and executing the laws. Now my
| dear sir, suppose the president should
be unwise enough TO adopt the policy
Indicated in the interview referred to,
what will he thereby say to the coun-
try? He will say, in effect, that
although elected president CT the
| nation, and sworn to administer It's
laws, there is 81 entire seCt on COM
posing more than ore-third OF the
entire country that he intends to ig-
more. True, he will have to admin is
ter the Law In that section, but he
declines to call to his council chSmb Der
any man who, by reason OF his famiii-
aritG with the wants Of that section,
ma, he able t. advise him properly.
he says in effect, that because the cleo
toral vote of that section has been cast
| soIidly against him, he intends to treat
its entire population. friend and foe, as
public enemies-trest them, indeed, as
out of the union. do not care how
"stalwsrt" his administration may be.
Understanding stalwaltjsm to mean a
rigid enforcement Of the law by the
friends of the law, [ am myself stall
wart; but I am extremely anxious TO
see national and not sectional ad-
ministratioE. Four years OF q wise
administration will complete the work
already begun, viz: the breaking up
Of the solid south. Nothing would SC
rapidly undo the work thus begun IS
the policy you indicate. II southern
bourbon were asked to indicate the
policy which would best suit his sehool
Of politicians, he would agree with you
that in the coming administration the
south should be entirely ignored.
Why? Because policy of that kind
would tend TO color with truth the
charge made against the republican
party-that it is sectional. I long to set
the time come when republican prin
ciples and republican Ideas shall cover
the entire country as the waters cove
: the face of the great Deep and such
believe to be the views OF the grea
statesman whom we have elected, aDC
such I believe to be the sentiments o
our gifted governor.
Yours, very truly,
A. A. FREEMAN.
TO the Hon. Chas. Foster, governor
Columbus, Ohio.