The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-07

SEccS dOONc zero IN sunny Places i his
brought out New Years callers in con-
siderable numbers, and the streets DUR
ing the afternoon presented spectacle
of unusual gayety. The banks and pub
lie buildings were closed, while carriages
and groups of gentlemen in holiday at
tire took the place of hurrying werkmen
and business wagons and carts. The
weather grew cooler toward evening and
was quite nipping toward midnight A
similar condition of the temperature
prevailed IN other parts of the northwest
so far as reports are received.
Grouped by Garfield
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The specula-
ton relative to the composition of Gar
fields cabinet has been awakened by The
late conferences at Mentor between the
president-elect and Don Cameron and
other prominent politicians. An init
mate friend of Garfield's. now in this
city, declares that it is his belief that not
a single cabinet officer has been settled
upon as yet. This is not because Garfield
has not received enough advice upon the
subject. Some of his advisors have been
very officious. The General, however,
is inclined to take it philosophically.
According to this gentleman. who claims
to speak by the card, the office-seekers
are already quite numerous. Garfield
has always considered himself fortunate
in having large number of warm and
devoted friends, but he never had any
true idea of either their numbers or the
warmth of their friendship until he was
nominated for the presidency. Since
his election they haye increased wonder
fully in numbers and enthusiasm.
GARFIELD's ACQUAISTANCEs GROUPED.
"The only way in which can esti-
| mate the number of my acquaintance"
said Gen. Garfield, "is to group them.
/. There is the neighborhoOd group. /
have always lived in the neighborhood
| where l was born, and for forty-nine
years my life here has brought me a con-
tin TALLY widening circle of acquaIntan-
ces, until / can say with almost literal
| truth that personally know a majority
of the voters of the Nineteenth district,
and they all or nearly all know me. 2.
There is the school group, all those per-
sons that l have gone to school with, or
| all who have been my pupils, those
whose acquaintance formed at teachers
institutes, educational conventions, ETC.,
when was teacher, and all whose ac-
| quaintance have made by correspon-
dence and otherwise during my
public life, persons who are
especially interested in educa-
ton, and who have sought my acquaint-
| ance or assistance on account of my in
terest in the same subject. 8. There is
the church group. The Disciple church,
which from the very nature of its or
ganiZation, being a new church as it is
called on account of its orr gin in a sort
of protest against the creeds and formu-
| las of other religious denominations,
has tended to make the Campbell tes''
what is called cianish. Membership in
any new organization naturally creates a
strong bond of fellowship and sympathy,
and this was especially the case in the
early organization of the church of the
Disciples. So from my connection
with that church many OF the members
in all parts of the country have sought
my acquaintance. They feel that they
have a peculiar claim upon me, such, L be-
lieve.as no other president ever had made
upon him for a similar reason. 4. There
is the army group-the 42d Ohio volun-
teers, of which was colonel, and the two
brigades which I commanded afterward.
| Then as chief of staff to Gen. Rosecrans
1 was known by sight to 100000 men,
and personally known to nearly all the
officers in the army of the Cumberland,
and besides all, of course, my connection
/ with the army brought me many more
acquaintance. 5. There is the political
group, all those with whom | have served
in congress during the last seventeen
years, in which time there have been
| about 1000 different members of the
house of representatives. Besides these
are the political acquaintances made
during political campaigns, or stamping
tours and other acquaintanceships, which
grew out of the fact that during my
public service in congress many hun.
dreds of persons have appeared before
committees of which have been 6 mem.
Der. / already find that percentage
of these groups will be disposed to take
advantage of their acquaintance with
me, whether it be intimate or casual, to
ask Office, favors, appointments, etc. OF
course many of them will be persons
who would be unfit or unworthy recip-
tents of the favor they seek, or for Other
reasons it will be impracticable to give
them what they ask. l shall be com.
PEELED to refuse them and thus cause
them as we'll as myself great pain.
81 sometimes think of myself" con.
tinued Gen. Garfield, "as man going to
prison. You have heard the advice
given one who has been convicted of 9
crime, to go to prison and bear manfuily
the punishment for his offense, to obey
ali the rules of the prison, and when his
term expires to come back home and live
it down. / am going TO see if can obey
all the rules of the presidency and thea
come back and live it down."
Speaking particularly of the tenacity
and pertinacity of offlce-seekers and OF
the pain which some of them have al.
ready begun to inflict upon him, Gener
al Garfield remarked: at may appear
very foolish to be greatly annoyed al
what seems to be little things or by the
logged pertinacity of those one terms
small people, but it cannot be helped
sometimes. Some of my recent exper-
fence in this regard remind me of the
story of the ichneumon and the croco.
ollie on the banks of the Nile. The keen
cunning, cruel creatures called the ich-
neumon watches until it sees the croco.
die fast asleep with his mouth open. Il
then rushes quickly down his throat,
hold of the very vitals of the great
crocodile, which with all his
strength is utterly powerless to loosen
the hold of the relentless little tormen-
tor. He rolls and writhes in his strong
agony and desperation and at last dies.
Imagine a crocodile with 100 or 1000
ichneumons down his throat and you
have picture of the torture that may be
inflicted upon sensitive, sympathetic
nature, by the horde of office seekers
| which attack a new president, or any
other man who has patronage TO be-
stow.
SAT the incoming of new coming ad.
ministration president labors under q
disadvantage that the crocodile does
not" added Gen. Garfield. THE ich.
neumons that assail him do not wait till
he is asleep, nor do they hunt singlv.
They come at all times and seasons and
in squads and regiments at time"
The Norev Force,v
| NEW YORK, Jan. 3-The Star to-mor-
row morning will comment as follows
| on the subioined letters from the propri-
| etors of the Truth to Gen. Garfield and
of Detective Jayne TO Mr.. Hart: sAs
/ previously published in the Star, il is
i now q clearly established fact that the
over-zealous friends of Gen. Garfield in
sIbjecting Kenward Philip to arrest and
| indictment on q charge of malicious IL
beling Gen. Garfield only placed them
selves further away from the real cul-
prit. Mr.. B. g. Jayne, formerly q spe
ciai treasury agent, and an expert detec-
tive where presumable forgeries were in
volved, has devoted much time and labor
toward unraveling the Garfield-Mo
Chinese letter mystery, and he has ascer-
tanned not only that the published letter
| was q forgery, but in what particular
office ii was concocted, by whom, and the
names of men who fostered and encour-
aged its distribution. Some time ago.
when the proprietors of the Truth news
paper became convinced that the letter
was forgery, they wrote TO Gen. Gar
field, SO declaring. al the same desiring
that the correspondence should be sup
pressed from the public until all the
] facts of the case could be secured. That