The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-04-26
OFFICES.
Republican Quarrels over
The fat takes.
What q new President has
to go through.

lust as soon as there is Senate" as tn
Secretary expresses it. He AYERS that 'w
have no Senate now, wherefore there i
no use in sending in appointments. Th
list contains number of foreign nomina
tons. If a considerable proportions o
| them are not eX-SenatoTs. eX- members, ant
war horses in general it will not be becaus
they have not been here by the regimen
asking for this description of Presidential
favors. At least a dozen expect to b,
sent to China. For some reason this is
favorite post AS Ohio did not have it thu
last time, it is claimed now by half a score
| of patriots from that State. Gen Comley
the Ohioan, wants to keep his place at the
Sandwich Islands. He is a favorite as
| well as townsman of Hayes who is try
ing to keep number of Ohio friends in
good things. What may yet happen to
| the average Ohio man there is no telling
Applicants from other States now study
the census after looking through the Blue
Book, as a means of determining their
own chances. 1t has been discovered that
there are several thousand men in Ohio
over twenty one years of age yet to be pro
vided for.
4 know at least dozen in my own
neighborhood who expect appointments
from Garfield" said an ex-member of the
favored State, and at least half of them
pretend they have promise from Garfield.
Charley Foster" continued the cX-member,
'"has brigade to reward. He came on
here while ago, and Garfield undertook
to throw him Off but the Governor
wouldn't be thrown off; and so it is prob
able that a good many of his friends will
get appointments. Then there is John
Sherman, whose idea of the public service
is something for private benefit. The only
reform he wants is to get more out of it.
1t is curious to see how rich that man has
got on his seven thousand a year while
Secretary of the Treasury. Somebody
must have made him valuable presents,
for no one wants to charge John Sherman
with anything corrupt"
The brigade of Southern Republicans
who came here early fare badly in their
hunt for office. They were of little account
in the election, and Garfield blaine rather)
regards them as of no account any way.
Their stock in trade almost exclusively is
the outrage cry. Martyrdom is their
strong hold; but that sort of thing has an
ancient odor. ''Where are you going to
get your gains from in the future?" de-
manded an indignant Southern Republi-
can; where are you going to get new
question he asked of Brother Garfield. The
President didn't know. Southerner You
can't get them unless we give them to you
Sustain us and we'll do it. You've now
got just enough to say your souls your
own in congress, and must have more or
you'll have less. Stand by u.s. and we'll
give them to you. If you don't, you may
go to the devil, as you certainly WILL and
ought to! | tell you its holiday politics
you have in Ohio compared with what we
have. We get the work up, and when the
thing is over we get beaten by all sorts of
deviltry, for which the laws are
no match. l sometimes wish you
could have one years experience
in Ohio of the sort of thing we
have to go through every time. You would
then know id sight more than you do!
Just mind that, will you?" And the ex
cited declaimer wiped his red face, and,
looking about him, seemed to say he didn't
care a button who heard him. The Presi-
dent had other callers to attend to- Il
read his speeches at Mentor, and thought
it was going to be all right" continued
rather musingly the man; but now l don't
know how it's coming out. I'm not so sure
as | was" He waited few moments, and
then: Look here, Gen. Garfield, just for
once only half carry out the promise of a
free vote and a fair count in our part of
the country, that promise you have so Of
ten made, and we won't ask any more. i
thought I'd like an office or something, but
just do that and these things may go to
the dogs; Wen take care of ourselves
What would you have me do, my good
MANI" asked the bland Garfield.
DO" responded the man from the
South. DO! Why, the one who makes
pledges should know what to do"
And he settled back as though al
new light had dawned upon him. He be-
gan to have a sense of the sham of the entire
business. Il guess it's no use" as Garfield
turned away; The don't mean it, | really
believe, no more than the Republicans in
the national conventions the last twelve
years have believed it when they resolved
that every man should have every right
under the laws and the Constitution,
Il say, Mr.. President, | thought every
thing was going to be fair when you got
in, and hope it'll turn out so yet; but it
seems to look curious. | only want to
know where you'll get your members to
make your majority in Congress if you
don't"
I'm going home to tend my craps" he
said, when he had got fairly on the outside.
That's blamed fine house, said he, look
ing up at the White House. Garfield
knows heap about a good many things,
| guess, but he falls short on the Southern
question.
No fancy sketch is this. Probably no
more earnest men come to the capital than
these Southern Republicans; but they make
no Roadway Some of them are preparing
IAN eye opener" as they style a document
hey are bringing out relative to elections
N certain Southern State that voted for
Hancock.
Last week one of Garfield's personal
and political friends, living not far from
Mentor, came to Washington to see what
he fuss was all about. Before he went
away he let out to an intimate friend from
another part of Ohio, who was under a |
similar concern of mind, what he thought |
# it all. ''Gartield's blundered badly" |
aid he. Il know him well, and he has |
gone and done just what | was afraid he |
would do-in fact, what he could not help !
LONG. He has simply been true to his
nature. When talking is to be done. he is
trong enough in the head; but whenit
IctiOn, he lacks self-reliance. And that
eads him TO what is commonly known as
ying. He doesn't think it is lying how
yer. A peculiar sentimentality makes it
asy with his conscience. And this is the
trangest thing with Garfield. He man