Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-04-14
After One Month.

already in q chapter of difficulties. And
he has forty-seven months of Presidency
ahead of him, if his constitution holds
out. One of his earliest official acts. after
the selection of his Cabinet, was to send
handsome basket OF flowers to notori-
Gus ex rebel and repudiator, as fragrant
reward for infamous treachery. The
President thus gave his official sanction to,
and odorous public approval of, the in
famous alliance Of the Republican Sena-
tors with Mahone-an alliance that has
already returned TO plague him. The
marked and unprecedented discourtesy
is shown to a new Administration by the
Presidents own party of refusing to con-
slider appointments sent to the Senate by
the President day after day and week
after week till they have accumulated by
the score. This mark of disrespect has
never before been shown to an incoming
President. 1t practically excludes him
fromexercising,the functions of his Office.
1t is of no avail for the President to
pile up his nominations in the north end
of the Capitol if they receive no notice
from the Senate. Garfield, for month,
has scarcely any other reason for sus-
pecting that he is President than the
facts that he is the victim of callers and
the target of office-seekers. HIS party
in the Senate, the only branch of Con-
gress in session, called together by his
Presidential proclamation, treats him
with no respect. If he demurs. each Re-
publican Senator can say that the Presi
dents own bouquets have made fragrant
this insult to himself. Thus do the roses
have their thOrns and thus do the camel.
lias poison. The fact that Malone & Co.,
who constitute the Presidents party in
the Senate, daily insult the President by
refusing to consider the business which
he lays before them, while the Democrats
of the Senate have been at all times ready
to proceed to the public business, is but
one of the many melancholy predica-
ments in which the President finds him.
self after one month.
There is already insubordination in the
Presidents Cabinet. General Garfield
called MacVeagh to his Cabinet as mild
hammered man and reformer, to please
a daughter of Simon Cameron. He had
promised the r.Generalship to
William Chandler, and he kept his
promise and nominated Chandler. This
is all the President can do till Malone &
and attend to the public business. There
upon MacVeagh, the reform member of
Gar6eld's Cabinet, hastens to the north
end of the Capitol to lobby against the
confirmation of q nomination made by
his chief. What is this but insubordina-
tion? What kind of member of Cabi-
net is that to have? Who is President,
anyhow? One of the Presidents official
family intercedes with the Senate to de-
feat nomination made by the President
who invited the fsformer into his official
household! This is another unpleasant
situation--after one month.
Garfield's Secretary of the Treasury
went over to New York to consult with
some gentlemen who know their business
and WINDOWS also. Among the keen
eyed, quick Drained. discerning men of
New York, who have broad views and
minute knowledge of details, Window
left the impression that he might be a
skilled critic of Minnesota saw-mill or
of a Northwestern wheat. field. The
grounds for this belief were that Window
must know something. and didn't know
any thing about france. This is the
hold which the Financial Ministry of
Garfield has gained upon the financial
center of the country; and this is another
thorn in the Presidents crown of rejoic-
ing.
By scratch" the Republicans carried
the State of New York in November, and
Garfield was elected. The most impor-
tant nomination, after the Cabinet ap-
pointments, to be made for the home
service of the Government is, probably,
the Collectorship at the Port of New
York. If we except for the moment the
President himself and the Secretary of
State, Senator Conkling, of New York,
in which State this port is situate, is the
most brilliant and commanding civilian
in the Republican party. After Blaine S
State had been lost in September, Conk-
ling came to the rescue, with Grant, and
saved Garfield in October and November
When the President nominated Robert
son to be Collector at New York he flung
in the faces of Conkllng and Grant the
most direct official affront he could find
in all the broad land to fling. Conkling
successfully defed the Administration of
Hayes for a year and half, and by his
contemptuous opposition nnquestionably
lowered the place which EXPresident
Hayes will hold in our history. Mr..
Hayes made no promises to Conkling.
Garfield, having made fair promises to
Conkling, within a month hurls the most
hateful of all nominations in his face.
The Republican party is to some extent
at the mercy of New York, still the
Empire State, and here Garfield is in
another strait.
Only one month President; and his par
ty in alliance with a r"pudiator, blocking
the public business to make another re-
pudiator an officer of the Senate; mutiny
in his Cabinet; the press of his party al
ready divided touching his Administra-
tion: his Secretary of the Treasury
laughed at as general ignoramus; and
the most eloquent and poetic Senator of
his party, with great State behind him,
arrayed against his Administration!
After one month!-Enquircr.
Saved From Death.
Mrs. Jacob Wilson, Marion, o., says
her child was not expected to live, owing
to a severe attack of Croup: she tried DR.