Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-08
ROSCOE'S GOOSE COOKED.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLAINE'S
COMING ELEVATION.
A Terrific Onslaught by Donn piatt
on the New York Senator,

Washington Special to the Chicago Times.
Some of Gen. Garfeld's Mentor friends
are of the opinion that Gen. Garfield had
nothing to do with the present raid that IA
being made upon Conkling in New York
Mere proximity TO the President-elect Is not
the finest basis In the world for absolute in
formation. 1t is fact that Gen. Garfield
has made onerequest about these New York
appointments that clearly indicates his po-
siaion toward them all. Among the
applicants for the appointment to sue
ceed Stewart L. WoOdford, present
United States District Attorney for the
Southern district of New York. is one
Colonel Sheppard, who has acquired promi-
nence in New York State politics by his
fighting Conklipg. General Garfield has
requested that Colonel Sheppard be ap-
pointed, and there is 20 doubt that his
name will be sent into the Senate at an
early day. President Hayes himself has not
been anxious to make these antiConkling
appointments. He has felt great delicacy
which properly belong to the next
administration to fill, and had he
not been certain that he was
acting In accordance with the desires of
General Garfield, no action upon them would
be taken this winter. Secretary Evarts, who
is the Presidents confidential adviser in all
doubtful matters, has been mainly instru-
ucubdl III upOu dCblOU III
these New York appointments. He has
seen his opportunity to score a most effect
i've point on his ancient enemy, Conkling,
and as a shTewd tactician he knows that
now is the time to secure the combinations.
Beyond this it is enough to know that
MR.. BLAINE IS TO BE PREMIER
of the coming administration, and If any
one thinks that Mr.. Conkling will get very
much from an administration where Mr..
Blaine is the principal adviser, he must be
very credulous child of nature. A very
prominent Senator tonight, IN discussing
this New York phase OF the situation, said
everything depends on Mr.. Blaine's atti
tude. II he should be IN favor of these
offices going over to the next administra-
ton. there would be no trouble. II one
can imagine Mr.. Blaine's meeting with
Mr.. Conkling in asking to have nomina-
tions hung up in committee rooms, then
one could predict their failure. Otherwise
not. But Mr. Blaine's being In favor of
the conirmations, Conkling could not
muster q coTporal's guard against them.
Blaine has been given by Gen. Garfield to
understand that when he enters the Cabinet
be shall be Secretary of State in the full
acceptance of the word; that he shall be the
principal adviser OF the President, and be
considered IN every question of policy of
the incoming powers. General Garfield
himself is supposed to be not fond of rough
and-tumble lighting. Mr.. Blaine is. No
man has ever done more for Gen. Garfield
than has Mr. Blaine. The
IMMENSE ENERGY AND FIERCE COURAGE
of the Maine Senator will form strong
backing to any policy that General Garfield
may desire to pursue. The two are near
friends-men who have in the past consult
ed with each other on a thousand and one
incidents of their Congressional career
From the day when Mr.. Blaine took Gen.
Garfield by the hand in the gloomy times Of
the Credit Mobilier exposure, the closest
friendship has existed between them. Gen.
Garfield has always been more than CRATE
full. With Mr. Blaine in the position of
Secretary of State, he would practically
be President so far as the mere WELD
ing of power is concerned. Blaine's am
bilious spirit demands change. The dull
life of the Senate is enervating him.
In the House he was central figure, where
the eyes of the country rested admiringly
upon him. Now ne no longer is figure in
the public eye, and is losing ground. The
other day he sat down by the side of a
Senatorial friend, and asked him to tell him
frankly what he thought of his going into
Garfeld's Cabinet. This Senator said to
him: "Blaine, yod have nothing to gain
here In the Senate. You had much better
be prominent figure under the new ad-
ministration, for
IF YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT
you will have to wait for some time. If
Garfield's administration is success he
will surely succeed himself. Eight years Of
power as his chief adviser is the next best
thing to being President" 1t is this belief
that has induced Mr. Blaine to resign his
seat in the Senate, which he will do shortly
before the 4th of next March. This will
give Messrs Hale and Frye two places in
the Senate. 1t is now thoroughly under.
stood why Mr.. Blaine is so intimate with
the Southern leaders. AS chief adviser
OF the new administration, he Is nego-
tiating with them for q real Southern
policy. Such men as Lamar, Joe Brown
and Ransom are ready to meet him more
than half way. Mr.. Blaine is plotting to-
day brilliant stroke of dividing the solid
South, and from the surface indications
there is no doubt that the new Garfield ad-
ministration will capture the Independent
and progressive element In the South. There
is to be no special war made upon the stall
warts Mr.. Blaine is himself too good a
stalwart for that, but Mr.. Conkling himself
is to cut very small figure during the next
four years. Gen. Garfield, as has been here
tofore stated in the Times, is very sore over
the New York Senator's early position in
the canvass, and his supercilious support,
when it did come, was only in the nature of
another affront.
THE DEMAND OF THE sTALwARTs
that Mr.. Blaine should be returned from
the canvass in Ohio, In order to permit Mr..
Conklfng to appear as a grand central figure,
will be repaid with interest by the new
premier. Dom Piatt, who is one of Gen.
Garfeld's most intimate friends, has an edt-
torial on Lord Roscoe which is to-day the
sensation Of the town. This editorial is as
follows:
This scandal, although affecting husband
and wife widely known, and once leading lights
in the Proverbial nine days, Mrs Grundy to the
contrary Notwithstanding, were it not that the
central figure is a tremendous swell of the po-
litical world. The fact is, all right minded
sound hearted people would hasten to forget
the painful matter but for this central figure
VIM. Sprague has past that endearS him to
the popular heart. He was a gallant soldier
during the late war, and as a Senator, although
millionaire, he marked his efforts as a law
maker by sympathy with and an effort o benefit
the labor OF the country, and he is the only
man OF that grave body, through all time since
its organization. who has left US a speech con-
densed into sentence. He did thfs when he
said: There is nothing
MORE CRUEL, DEsPoTIc AND SELFISH
than million dollars, unless it be q million
and half Mrs. Sprague is the daughter of
one of our greatest men. She is what is left of
Salmon p Chase, and the beautiful, charming
and accomplished Kate Chase The men
whose vulgar tongues and dirty mouths are
noisy with her poor name are, some of them
men who have been seen speaking in her
presence with bated breath and awkward
humility, as il In the presence of Queen,
crowned by nature with loveliness as by right
divine with power born through many genera
tions Of kingly lineage. The fall Of these Two
would make al men who respect their mothers
and love their children turn sorrowfuIly
away with closed mouths to wipe 1t all out as
something too painful for human thought but I
for the brazen-faced wretch who is the sole F
cause of all this shame. God might have made
MORE DEsPTCABLE WRETCH THAN ROSCOE
CoNKLNG,
but he never did. There have been wickeder
men, but never one who covered his wicked
ness with such meanness and cowardice These 1
words are net written in the impatience Of T
anger. They are selected and printed advised (
Iy and reflect the feeling of ali men, even the !
miserable dependents who run whooping after I
this crestu for the moldy bread his poIftical T
favor gives their families. 1t was the CapftaI
that first gave printed circulation to a story