National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-09
The Ran on Horseback.


tious delay. He told the result of the caucus
decision. His reply is reported TO have been
| Then will take my own course. am deter
mined 10 learn who are my friends, and such as
fail me viii hereafter require letter of introduce
ton. Hashlgto. C5rTespoadeneeo oftkc Philadelphia
| Press.
He said to q very prominent Republican Friday
| that the votes of Senators upon this question
would be test of personal aud political frendli-
ness Washington Correspondence ftte Ne.c York
| Tribune
And this is the man who was hastily
caught up by combination of beaten
candidates at Chicago in June last and
nominated to be President of the United
States upon the pretcnse that unless the
packed galleries there were allowed to
hoot down Grant the country would drift
into imperialism" From the nettle
Grant we plucked the flower Garfield.
The result is before lis. The new Presi-
dent, intoxicated to the verge of delirium
by the power which is safe only in the
hands of the truly great, is engaged
in a pucrile effort to dictate to
the Republicans of New York State
Imhom they shall honor as leader.
Aiming at the control of the party ma
Echinery everywhere for his own aggran-
IIdizement and second term, he nominates
for the collectorship at New York city
tricky ard Unscrupulous politician, who is
/ the enemy of all the great controlling
forces in the party of the State. This his
intimate and familiar, Mr.. E. Y. Smalley,
stated in the New York Tribune was done
in order that that great political agency"
the New York custom-house, should be
in the hands of one who would use it to
aid in Garfield's denomination, or, to be
more exact, he said Garfield was not
idiotic enough to place it in the hands of
anv friend of Grant, because if he
ldid it would be FUSED as a knife to
cut the throat of the administration
.at the end Of its first term" This state
ment being criticised, was, after time
enough for consultation with the Presi-
dent, reiterated by Mr.. Smalley, and de-
clared by him to be the Presidents
harni6I:izing policy" There is no dan
ger that The SEN York delegation to the
next nominating convention ca;@: be
moulded by mercenaries and ofIice-hold-
ers L.; but the attempt by the President at
this early day to prepare the way for such
a result is an offense which no parrot
cry that "G;lrfieid is President" can
conceal. 1t is as fragrant an abuse
of the appointing power as ever dis
graced any administration. 1t is a
tyrannical effort to tear down State Or
ganization which cannot be used to aid
in the scheme for the succession. 1t is
crime against the people of the whole
country, who have a rightto free choice
in 1884, and who will not tameiy submit
to have oficialsset up over them to harass
them into obedience to a presidential
dictator.
There cannot be Republican Senator
who believes it is fair play toward the
party in New York that Robertson should
have been nominated. Nobody believes
that fitness for the ofiice had any part in
it. 1t was done, us the President says,
from personal motives. 1t was to pay for
Robcrtson'S vote at Chicago. The Presi-
dent RACES because the nomination is op-
posed. He seems to fear defeat. Demo-
Gratis are ashamed to aid in the discom-
future Of great and gallant party leader.
At this crisis comes the method of
Louis Napoleon. There shall be vote,
but woe unto him who votes against the
empire. No Senator shall be free to vote
as his judgment dictates without punish
ment. Whoever votes against the polIti-
cal expert selected to manufacture a
Garfield delegation from New York in
1884 shall carry the weight of Execu-
tive displeasure in his next home con-
test This is civil-service reform. No
post-offices for recalcitrant Senators.
"PoIitjcS depend not on gratitude, But ON
POWER" says one of the Presidents
advisers. II don't knOU whether he'U be FOR
ME-" says the President himself, in dis
cussing the weight to be given the recon-
mendation in favor of another by a man
of national fame. "Hurrah for the PreSi-
dent Down with the Senate p' coarsely
bawls the administration mob, and
hundred pens are at work in the columns
of the court journals, repeating the servie
cry We can wait for the reaction It
will come too soon for those who now
would fain suppress freedom of speech
and of the press.
The President has as much right to tell
the Justices of the Supreme Court that
the decision of a case a certain way by
that tribunal would subject each of them
who participated in it to the personal
displeasure of the Executive as he has to
so threaten the Senate Ifhe can dictate
to the Senate he may do the same to the
lower House, and if he may command Con-
gress ochy may he not djsobey2 If refused
what he asks, why not follow the example
of Charles l. and dispense entirely with
the formality ofany cooperation with the
legislative department? Will he be de-
tered by the fear of Cromwell?
We have fallen upon evil times if the
Senate bows to the yoke. When the
legislative department is no longer re-
spected, then we have absolutism. The
people will stand by the Senate if the
Senate will stand by itself While the
Gar is contemplating a concession of
some power to council to be elected by
the people, our President-Czar is giving
orders how Senators shall vote, on pain
of his displeasure. Let him be met with
the answer that only the people are SOW
ereign, and that they can be led only by
those who are going their way. The
people will be right. They may be be-
guiled for an hour by the audacity of
juggler, but they will take care that in
the end no Executive asserts any mower