Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-13

NJ. L. Suns
Chambers appointment to the solicitor
generalship was SO clearly the work of
Blaine that no amount of lying can con-
vince any one to the contrary. 1t illus
trated the power of the secretary over the
president. MacVeagh, for attorney gen.
eral, was peculiarly Gar6eld's selection.
Hardly had he got on his official shoes,
however, when he was treated to an insult
that seemed to leave him NO alternative
but to resign. Whether he will do so is
still as much an open question as ever.
MacVeagh went into the cabinet against
the protest of both senators from Pennsyl
vania but it is in their arms that
he has taken refuge, asking revenge
for the insult of Chandler's appoint
ment. And Don Cameron and Mitchell
have promised him that he shall be pro-
tected and avenged. They have under.
taken to secure Chandler's rejection So,
from a hearty Garfield Blaine and anti
Cameron man MacVeagh has been changed
into an enemy of those old friends and
patrons and into dependent if not a gen
uine ally of Cameron. For some of the
results likely to follow see the late action
of the Pennsylvania Republicans in the
Legislature bracing up Cameron against
Garfield. The firm, for the present al
least, is Cameron, MacVeagh & Co., and
Pennsylvania is once more solid.
1t should be known that Chandler's ap-
pointment is by no mems the only insult
pinned on MacVeagh, nor is is the sOlt
cause Of the Indignation he hardly at.
tempts to conceal. He has been OverruleG
in nearly all the appointments in his de
partment. Blaine's cunning and Garfield's
duplicity and lack of stamina have
thwarted his wishes in nearly every in
stance. He cannot find a particle of thu
civil service principle about which Gar
field has long and loudly talked. anG
which MacVeagh sincerely cherished
This Of itself would be enough to DISCUS
q man like him. The refOrmers, to satisfy
whom his appointment was specially in
tended, will soon become as disguised a.
he is and they, with many others, vii
be compelled to agree with him that Gar
field is sham.
"Did you ever suppose Garfield wa.
anything else than than a sham?" said :
veteran Republican. Il always knew b.
was one but he has proved himself Sc
quicker than thought. Garfield resem
bles the fellow who lately swindled Sc
many persons by playing the role of al
English lOl d, aud who was all the more
dangerous and successful till found out
because he was natural born sham, be
sides being educated up to the finest
points in that line. Alongside of the hare
realities of public life his pretty sentiment.
and fine theories amount to nothing. He
can't lean on them now that he has to act
and Blaine is supplying the absence o
native will and genuine backbone. When
Blaine gets through with Garfield, as h
soon will, don't know what will happen
"BY the way" continued the veteran
observer, "do you know that Blaine
rheumatism is of the kind that nothin!
will cure but the atmosphere of England
in the neighborhood of the court of St
James? You will see before long that
the thing is coming to that. Blaine can
bear to 20 abroad until he has rewarded /:
good many of his best friends with Office
This he is doing, from Chandler, Robertson
and::the rest, upward.o downward, and hi
rheumatism is growing worse all the time
At first he was laid up only one day in
week now it is two; it will be three
pretty soon.''