Daily Republican., 1881-02-02
|NzBINET AND Policy.
Plans and Purposes OF ths Presi.
dent Elect.

dent Eleot.
A special despatch from Cincinnati
Ohio, to the New York Herald says:
poR sRoRRTARI oV sTAxE.
! You may take 1t for granted that Mr..
Blaiss will bs Secretary Of State. |
notice with regret that the Herald
does aot think this q judioious sp.
pointnaent. The Herald would, per
hap,, prefer Mr.. Conkling but would
Mr.. Coukling take the plasss Un-
dou ubtedly he would not, and no one
can doubt that Mr.. Blaine's appoint
msnt will give strength TO the new ad-
ministration in all parts Of the ooun-
try. He will make an able and bril-
liant Secretary Of State, and, as one Of
the most widely popular men in the
party in all parts Of the country, his
nomination will give almost universal
sati ,facti0n.
p0R TIE sRBAsUEr.
A strong pressure has been brought
to bsar on General Garfield to appoint
O New Yorker to the Treasury. This
pressure has not yet ceased, bat the
General will not suceumb to 1t. His
purpose Is to place Western man at
the head Of the Treasury. He believes
this to be the soundest course, because
be means to carry . oonspicuously
sound money policy, and he feels that
to do this he must omit nothing which
will strengthen such a policy in the
West, where o good many Republicans
are still weak. kneed on this question.
He is too experienced politician not
to know that an administration mus.
have the party behind il in order TO do
effective work in any direction, and he
meaEs to use every proper means TO
keep the party with him in all the
great features Of his policy. He docs
not conceal from his friends that the
selection Of head for the Treasury
Department is one Of the greatest
difficulties. You would be surprised u
know how many men believe them.
selves ft for this great place, but Gar.
field means to judge for himself on the
subject. He has q number Of names
before him, aud he will doubtless make
! a choice which will be approved by tht
country, II not at first, still when ex
perierce and time shall show the wis
dom Of his ohoios. He sometimes
thinks Of asking Secretary Sherman 4
retain the position which he has so sd
mirsb!y filed, and for the present he il
undecided about any name, though /
| is not unlikely that Mr.. Allison MAJ
be finally settled on.
NO PLAcB FoR NEW YORK.
When Mr.. Hayes came in, in 1877 hi
found avtgorous faction fight going OF
in the party in Now York; and he wa
advised by some Of his friends to settl
his relations with the Bvarts and Conk
ling factions by refusing to take an:
Cabinet officer from New York. Mr
Hayes did not take this advice. d.
called Mr.. Evsrts, the head Of one 0
the New York factions, to the Cabinet
and thus brought upon his administra
tion a quarrel with the Conkling fac
tions which for a while made thing
uncomfortable for the party OF Arg
and no doubt crippled him in the pur
suit Of many of his purposes. Genera
IGsrfeld is too experienced in polite
to repeat this mistake. He has bee
lmsde to feel the bitterness Of the d.
visions in New York, and you will flu
THAT he will solve the difficulty by th
simple aud natural course Of refusin
to take any from that State into hi
Cabinet. This may disappOint bot
factions, but it will at any rate leav
the honors easy between them, and i
Thereafter, either chooses TO quarr-
with the administration he will kno'
how to defend himself aud the part
against the undue assumption OF ovel
reaching ambition. 1t was understOO
that when, in 1877, Mr.. Conkling PIT
forward Mr.. 7. C. Platt, now Senator
elect, as his candidate for a CGbint
position, he did this as q hint to NJ
Hayes that 1t wou!d be wise to leav
New York out in the Cabinet dea
General Garfield expects Mr.. ConkliD
to be satisfied with the same polio
now, and II he is not the General wi
regard him as one OF thofs person
whom 1t is impossible to satisfy, an
Who must perforoe be left out OF a
calculations and arrangement.
But it ia believed at Mentor that Nj
Conkling will be easily satisfied o
such terms, and, II he should not bt
that he will appear to the party g
large as O mutineer against the genert
party welfare. In that case the polio
of the new administration In regard
New York offices might be such as t
isolate the mutinous spirit and to rt
oognise cordially those members in tn
party, no matter whether they hav
been in the past Conkling or ant
, Conkling men, who show loyal spir
Of harmony for the good of the party
He will not in any case favor one fat
tion in New York at the expense of I'll
other, but he will cordially recogni1
all loyal Republicans and carefully ST
the seal of condemnation on all wh
attempt, for their personal purposes,
keep alive trouble and division in th
party.
PRESIDENT LrECoLN's son.
j It Is no secret among the General
friends that he means TO call into til
Cabinet Robert Lincoln, of Chicago, th
son OF the great President. Mr.. Lin
ooln Is sound lawyer and q zesltu
Republican. He WAS an arden
. Grant man in the movements pre-
|limiuary to the Chicago Conventio
and presided at the great Grant meet
ing in that city. IL is believe
that thiG selection will !be gratifying t
i, General Grant, and it is knowD that
will be peculiarly gratifying to Genei
al Loqao, who does not himself desire
Cabinet place, as he prefers to renal
lin the Senate, but who is an arden
friend of Mr.. Lincoln.
THB INTERIOR DEPARTNRHr.
Next to the Treasury the Interio
n.ku,ant baa bean Ruljeot of tn