The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-02-01

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The New Fork 1bza,ns Or ths 90 inst. c0mes
out IN doobleleadsd editorial, q sach IDcnaen-
tous importance that 4 was telegraphed 70 the
press iwenty-four hoess heinfeit regular publ
cation. This editorial Il = follows:
The time seems flt ibf Il least one statsment
about the approaching administration - Pres-
dent Garfield. 1t IL not to be used - . make
weight IN pending Senatorial contests whether
IN New York or elsewhere. We are fully au-
thorized TO say this, and the words are entitled
to their fun Significance
II b proper to say, further, that the incoming
administration win see 10 1t that the men nom
New York and nom other States, who had the
courage At Chicago 70 obey the wishes Of their
districts in the balloting for President, and who
thus finally voted for Garfield. shall not suffer
for II, nor lose by It. They will not fail OF hon.
orable recognition for their Independence, their
courage, their TesOlute pursuit of the policy they
believed best for the Republican party and for
the country.
Gentlemen At Albany, who are said to have
been threatened with different course at Wash
ingtOn, may reassure themselves. The admins
tration Of President Garfield is to be an admins
tration for the whole Republican party. It viii
foment no quarrels; 1t will most earnestly seek
the things that make for peace, and for the best
interests of the party it represents. But It will
not permit its friends TO be prosecuted for their
friendship Whoever has been persuaded to
doubt this may as well make henceforth q dec
laration of independence from the dictation Of
any authority, save the wishes Of constituents,
and his own convictions of policy and right
All this, says the Macon Telegraph, will be
readily understood. 1t is notice to the stalwaris
that they can't pay off their old third term
grudges by drafts on the new administration !;
that Garfield is ready to take up the gage of
battle if the stalwarts are ready to throw it
down; that he means TO stand by his friends of
the anti-third term and anti4stalwart persuasion,
and doesn't admit the boastfhl plea of the stal.
warts that Garfield was q defeated nominee till
they took him up and forced him through That
it must be admitted, was about the facts in the
case, as the Democrats saw it, and Garfield does,
practically, owe his election to the Intervention,
at the eleventh hour of Grant and the stalwarts
But this manifesto is official notice that Gar
field does not view il in that lght that he don't
mean TO belong 10 or be used by the stalwarts,
but stand by the party which put him in nomi-
nation. Garfield, with Blaine as his premier is
coming in on the Hayes footing. 1t is going to be
an anti Conkling and Grant administration, with
out, il may be, any very decided hostile demon
STATIONS against the sialwarts, but with a
clear understanding that it will not be used in
their interests.
1t is also alleged by the Washington cores
pondent of the Chicago Times that the new adj
minstration has more sanguine hopes of support
from the Southern Democrats than those which
beguiled Hayes in the beginning of his presiden-
ial career. Says that paper:
The other day he Senator Blane) sat down by
the side of a Senatorial fiiend, and asked him
TO tell him frankly what he thought Of his going
into Garield's cabinet This Senator said to him.
Blaine, you have nothing TO gain here in the
Senate. You had much better be prominent
figure under the new administration, for ii you
want TO he President you will have to wait for
some time. If Garfield's administration is sue
cess he will surely succeed himself Eight years
of power as his chief adviser is the next best
thing to being President" II is this belief that
has induced Mr.. Blaine 10 resign his seat in the
Senate, which he will do shortly before the 4th
of next March. This will give Messrs. Hale and
Frye two places in the Senate. 1t is now thor
oughly understood why Mr.. Blaine is so intimate
with the Southern leaders. AS chief adviser of
the new administration he is negotiating with
them for real Southern policy Such men as
Lamar, Joe Brown and Ransom are ready to
meet him more than half way Mr. Blaine is
plotting to-day brilliant stroke of dividing the
solid South, and from the surface indications
there is no doubt that the new Garfield admins
tration will capture the independent and pro-
gressive element in the South.
And the Times thereupon proceeds to mention
the Sprague scandal as a very serious breaker in
the way OF Conkling's presumptuous efforts to
dictate ih advance the policy of Garfelds ad-
rn;n;otrot;on