The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-06-03
TIE WIDENING BREACH OF TIE
PARTY.

WASHi NGTON, May 2l.-ChanulCr'S :
rejection and NIacVcagh's staying il,
the Cabinet are important facts. They
mark a new phase Of the ins and outs
of this Administration. That Chan
tllcr'S rejection was cOnspired for by
MacVcagh from the start is certain
He formed 4 coalition with the Grant
men in the Senate to circumVent the
President. Everybody said then was
. the time Garfield should have demand
ell his resignation. But Garfield did
not. Blaine did his best for Chandler,
tried every means in his power to
gain Democratic votes to Offset what
MacNeagh would get from the Repub.
iican side. The issue was sharply
drawn. The result is, Blaine, and ap-
parcntly Garfield, too, is beaten. It is
Il victory for MacVeagh. 1t would
have been ali the same had there been
no designations. That the Democrats
came to have majority did not help
the case so far as NIacVeagh was con
cerncd. He: as a Cabinet Minister,
was all the same Il conspirator to beat
the President. Now that Chandler is
beaten, Garfield makes no sign OF dis
approval. The inference is inevitable
that Garfield was beaten only in ap-
pearancc. Blaine alone was beaten in
reality.
Nor does this conclusion rcst wholly
on appearance. It is not the sole in
stance where Garfield has had an un-
dcr5tandinG with Cabinet Minister to
beat one of his :ippointees. 1t is not a
mere conjecture that he wished for
Chanulcr's defeat, as the result of his
more mature thought, perhaps Of his
field has begun vetoing Blaine. The
day before the adjournment he struck
from u list prepared AT Elainc's Office
more than one name that the Secretary
had reasons for earnestly Wishing to
have sent to the Senate. Garfield
won't quarrel with MacNcagh for beat
ing Chandler and Blaine. II is the be-
ginning of an important phase in the
Garfield Administration. Rumors OF
Il coldness between the White House
and the Department of State are circu-
lated in Whispcrs-all the more sIgnifi-
cant for being whispers, considering
where they are heard. Gov. Fosters
caution to Garfield to beware of Blaine
and have less personal politics made an
impression. Blaine wants to keep up
the fight. 1t was Garficid's idea, the
sending in the names of Woodford &
Co., as Il polite concession to the New
York StalwartS, and as the marked eX-
ceptiOHs to the rule of hitting a Grant
head wherever seen. This thing is 60
ing to grow; the breach will widen.
Blaine will go out.
The Garfield Administration has
passed through its first stage. 1t has
been stormy beyond precedent. For
those who entertained expectations of
Garfield, it has been decidedly disap-
pointing. Not SO, however, for those
who could correctly estimate probabili-
ties concerning him +; more especially
after his Cabinet was announc cd.
Blaine was given the control. Blaine
in the Cabinet would of course be us nc
had been on the floor and as Speaker
of the House OF Representatives.
tricky, audacious, unpo!itic, with the
added quality of rcvcngefulness, as the
result of disappointments. With him
power was something to be used for
furnishing those who had stood be,
tween him and tho object of his ambi
ton. No one who could form 4 decent
estimate of human motives, operating
in a mind like Blainc'S, could expect
him to act otherwise. In appointing
Blaine, Garfield gave himself away
1t may be he shared Blaine's revenge.
fitness. y stronger mind like Elainc'>
would speedily bring him in sympathy
with almost any object. In the frs
hour Of its existence the Administra
ton conceived the unnatural purpose
Of turning upon and pursuing to tn,
death those to whom it was chiefly in
drhtcl for that existence. 1t commit