Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-04

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WASHINGTON, October 1.-President Arthur
is now in New York. He is there on business.
That means private business and political
business. He is fixing up Cabinet and con-
sulting with politicians there in person and
elsewhere by letter. 1 happen to know that
the stalwart crowd is not alone admitted to his
counsels. He calls upon and hears the views
both by word of mouth and by letter from
what was formerly known as Garfield or ad-
ministration Republicans. Out of all this grist
there will come something, Of course. 1t will
be a Cabinet and a policy" A policy now-a-
days does not mean anything more than a GER
tain line Of conduct prescribed and set agoing.
with the reservation always that it can be
broken whenever the inclination orexpediency
partisan or otherwise-shall dictate No
body knows exactly what will be the outcome
Of it all. The first real bed rock indications
that will come into our possession will
be brought to the surface by the ex-
ira session of the Senate. In the natura.
course of events that session cannot but give
us some definite clue. In the meantime, we
must content ourselves by judging of the
signs of the times. 1t should be remarked
right here that the new President has not only
successfully concealed from the political
world what he will do, but has also allowed
but very few signs even to get abroad. From
this meagre substrs tum politicians build their
calculations for the future. The general YER
dict Is that the Arthur administration will be
what we might term a political pudding.
There will be several ingredients of an alto
gether foreign character to each other
which will make up the whole In
other words President Arthur will not go
so far as to buck entirely against the sentiment
of the country in favor Of the general policy
which the late President had mapped out but
will, at the same time, subordinate that policy
to what is known as stalwartism. The stall
warts will be atop Of the heap, but they will
be checked and curbed. President Arthur is
one of them, body and soul, but has become
chastened by the will Of the great mass of the
people. He will throw over the stalwartism-
certainly not-nor the sentiments of the Gar
field administration neither. He will make
his cargo up Of mixture Of the two and en-
deavor to induce them to be homogene
GUS That alone will show whether such
a course can be pursued safely. Judg-
ing from the expressions of both
stalwarts and Garfield men, il would seem that
President Arthur would not have such hard
task before him after all The stalwarts fear
the country, and the Garfield Republicans,
finding themselves superseden and likely to be
upon almost any excuse or pretext. The
former are anxious not to go too far: the lat
ter want not to be altogether tabooed. "Poli-
tics makes strange bedfellows'' is truer now
than when the saying was first uttered.
THE XII G IS DEAD.
Human nature could not be better held up to
all eyes, as far as politics is concerned, than it
is now being put on view. President Garfield is
dad; President Arthur is alive. That tells the
whole story. The followers of the former
Cte erInn 70 fplr -
him They turn their eyes to the new king
No more do they talk Of Garfelds patriotism
and many great qualities. They talk of Ar
thur. Instead of denouncing-cend
him as they have since the late President com
meEced his war on stalwartism--they only
eulogize They even go SO far at this early
date as-admitting at the same time that he
was pretty good man-to say that his course
was such as would have forever split up the
party. Now" they say there will be no
such danger. Stalwart Republicans will be the
means of binding everything together, and the
party is safe and sound forever. There will no
longer be any difficulty in distinguishing Re-
publican when you meet him" The grave is
hardly closed. but the dead is forgotten by
Republican politicians. They bend before the
rising sun. This is nowhere more apparent than
in the departments, where the government
clerks and employees have been all in love
with the popular policy of President Garfield
Now there are none so stalwart or so unswerv-
ing in their faith to the 'Old guard and the
sentiments which go along with that phrase,
as they.
NEW CABINET.
Nobody who has seriously thought OF the
matter has ever doubted but that President
Arthur would surround himself with Cabinet
OF his own choosing. In the case of MacVeagh
and James there may be delay in naming their
successors, on account Of their close connec-
tion and knowledge of the star route prosecu-
tions, which have Just been brought into court.
but in the end there will be new set OF Cabi-
net Ministers entirely. There is some senti-
ment which has been written about Lincoln
being kept in the War Department because of
his name. Arthur is not a man of sentiment
Beyond his name there is nothing to recon-
mend Lincoln except his whiskers and NOUS
tache. | believe l have once expressed my
opinion that Lincoln is about the smallest
man who ever got into the Cabinet.
| would repeat that asseveration if you will
allow me to put Hunt one peg below the dandy
Secretary of War. Blaine would stay if
asked to, but Of the invitation cards not one
bears the superscriptiou -. G. Blaine" A
gentleman who pTides himself upon knowing
''inside" small political gossip said to me to
day. Blaine and Lincoln are no worse off
now than they would have been if President
Garfield had lived. They will 20 now; they
would have gone If the dead chief had lived.
Swain, Rockwell and Mrs Garfield were down
on Blaine and Lincoln from the day the Presi-
dent was shot. From the outstart Lincoln and
Blaine were in favor of calling in Arthur to
act as President. They were the only advo-
Gates Of Presidential disability They argued
al alonB lOI Tue speedy ana pracClcal sue
cession of Arthur. The other members of
the Cabinet were dead against it, as
were Mrs Garfield and the Presidents imme-
diate friends. Lincoln and Blaine caused a
& eat deal of bad feeling by the course which
they pursued. If Garfield had got well one of
his first acts would have been to relieve the
Cabinet Of the presence of Blaine"
JOHN SHERMAN.
The ex-Secretary of the Treasury and the
present Senator from Ohio by the name of
John Sherman would appear not to be in a very
enviable position under the present admins
tration. His charges of dishonesty and fraud
against President Arthur while he was Collect
or of the Port Of New York are In documentary
evidence. While the President was here a few
days ago, he sent for the men who recently
made a partial investigation of the Treasury
ring, and from his talk to them it is thought
he will order a thorough investigation
OF the Treasury Department abuses and the
stealings which have been going on there The
readers of the News will remember that the in
vestigation, which only went so far, was
stopped just as soon as it became evident that
the researches were duplicating John Sher-
man. President Arthur bears not the least
love Tor Sherman. 1t is more than probable
that he will so act that Sherman's rascality in
dealing win the treasury contingent fund will
be exposed to the public view in an official
manner.
TOBACCO.
Reports from the Census Office show that
during 1879 Georgia planted nine hundred and
seventy one acres in tobacco, which yielded
22S, $50 pounds; Florida planted ninety acres,
which yielded u 1872 pounds, and South Carolina
one hundred and sixty nine acres with yield
of 1858 pounds. PoToMAo.
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