Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-04-27
MACVEAGHS WRATH.

Chambers appointment TO the soho.
itor generalship was so clearly the
work Of Blaine that no amount of ly.
ing can convince any ono to the con.
trary. 1t illustrated the power of the
Secretary over the President. Mac
Veagh, for Attorney General, was pc
culiarly Garfeld's selection, Hardly
had he got on his official shoes, how.
ever, when he was treated to an insult
that seemed to leave him no aIterna.
tive but to resign. Whether he will
do so is still as much an open question
as ever. MacVcagh went into the
Cabinet against the protest Of both
Senators from Pennsyvanla; but it is
in their arms that he has taken refuge,
asking revenge for the insult of Chand
ler's appointment. And Don Cameron
and Mitchell have promised him that
no shall be protected and avenged.
They have undertaken to secure Mr.
Chambers rejection So, from hearty
Garfield-Blalne and anti. Cameron man,
Mac Veagh has been changed into an
enemy of those old friends and patrons
and into dependent if not genuine
ally Of Cameron. For some Of the
results likely to follow see the late
action of the Pennsylvania Republl.
cans in the Legislature bracing up
Cameron against Garfield. The firm,
for the present at least, is Cameron,
McVeagh & Co., and Pennsylvania is
once more solid.
1t should be known that Chambers
appointment is by no means the only
insult pinned on MaoVeagh, nor Is il the
sole cause of the indignation he hardly
attempts to oconceal. He has been over
ruled IN nearly all the appointments
in bis department, Blaines cunning
and Garfcld's duplicity and lack of
stamina have thwarted his wishes in
nearly every instance. He cannot find |
particle Of the Civil Service principle
about which Garfield has long and |
loudly talked, and which MacVeagh |
sincerely cherished. This of itself
would be enough to disgust u man like
him. The reformers, to satisfy whom
his appointment was specially intended,
will soon become as disgusted as he is
and they, with many others, will be
compelled TO agree with him that Gar.
field is a sham.
"Did you ever suppose Garfield was
anything else than sham ?" said
veteran Republican, 81 always knew
he was one; but he has proven him.
self so quicker than | thought Gar.
field resembles the fellow who lately
swindled so many persons by playing
the role Of an English Lord, and who
was all the more dangerous aud sue.
cessiul until found out because he was
a natural born sham, besides being
educated up to the finest points in
that line. Alongside of the hard re.
alities of public life bis pretty senti.
ments and fine theories amount to
He can't lean on them now
that he has TO act, and Blaine is sup.
plying the absence Ci native will and
genuine backbone, When Blaine gets
through with Garfield, as he soon will,
don't know what will happen.
"By the way, continued the veteran {
observer, "do you know that Blane's
rheumatism is of the kind that nothing {
will cure but the atmosphere OF Eng.
and in the neighborhood of the court '
'f st. Jamesl You will sec before
ong that the thing Is coming to that. (
Blaine can't bear to go abroad until {
'o has rewarded good many of his {
'est friends with office. This be is I
loing, from Chandler, Robertson and |
he rest, upward or downward, and his (
rheumatism is growing worse all the J
ime' At first he was laid up only
me day in week now il is two; it
viii be three pretty soon.-N Y SIM. 9