Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-15


Their Claims-NO Extra Session 40
be CaIIed-AtIanta as a Port of
Entry-The Amelia Island Light.
WAsHIScrox, March 14.-There is going 70 be
no trouble In finding men TO I'll the Fedora
offices in Georgia, wherever new deal shall
be decided upon. The woods are full Of candi-
dates Everybody that voted the Republican
ticket is after something to reward him for the
great services to the party that he rendered
when he put In a Garfield ticket instead Of
piece Of Hancock papsr. 1 didn't know that
there were so many Republicans within the
borders of old Georgia. Jim Deveaux, the Sa-
vannah gentleman Of color, is the most active
Of them all openly Jim has delegation
God only knows where he got them, or who
they are-which he keeps hid among the pill
lars on that side of the Treasury facing the
White House Jim being an employe Of the
Treasury Department, is therefore always at
hand. About three or four times day he
heads that delegation and they march over the
asphalt walk to the White House. Sometimes
they get upstairs but as q rule they are
ordered to wait below until the President calls
for them. The President never calls for them.
When they get upstairs they have view or
the door of the Presidents office and of people
going in and out That's as near as they
have vet arrived at laying their case before
the new administration. But Jim is not dis
courage5, not by any means de keeps his
delegation well In hand and ready to march
at all hours OF the day. The time viii come
when he and delegation will secure audience
and then they can tell their tale. It will be
one of woe. 1t will be that the colored man
and brother has not secured one huRdredth
part of the government offices in Georgia to
which he is entitled, and will wind up with an
appeal to Garfield to give the aforesaid brother
more stalls at the public crib than he has
heretofore had the pleasure Of browsing in.
Next to Jim Deveaux's delegation
there ranks in pertinacity our old
harmonizer Paul Strobach, alleged 10 be from
Stro6ach when my connection with your highly
esteemed journal was a tning OF infancy. Paul
was then painting with hot hoof for the Post
mastership at Montgomery, Alabama he was
Hayes with the plea that he was the only man
In the State who could carry it Tor the Repub-
lican party by uniting all the "eelements-" He
is trying to work upon Mr.. Garfield for some
place-he win take anything by his same old
plea of uniting the "eelements." Paul must be
a harmonizer. II he cannot be a harmonizer
by every faith he can be nothing else He is
getting along in years, and having accom-
plished the role of harmonizer fines it impos-
sible TO change it for new one with which to
work upon the Executive influence.
l started out to write about Georg a Repub-
licans who are after offices. and here / run in
Paul Strobach, right in the body Of my screed.
l hope you will excuse me. But l had not
written anything about the great harm oniZer
for so long a time that l just slung him in
regardless Of expense and the symmetry of the
subject.
Now let us get back to the Republicans from
Georgia who want Offices. / will commence
with ex- Collector Atkins, of Georgia, the most
solid Of them all atkins is a very nice gentle
He is as intimate with Garfield and bis family
as you are with your next door neighbor-pro-
viding, Of course, that you and the neigh DOR
are ION terms" l have known next door
neighborS who were not Mr. Atkins will not
be provided for Immediately President Gar
field will lay his case, like many other favored
cases, aside until he has doed out enough of
the Offices to satisfy at lea t for time tue
bowling mob that now overruns the Executive
Mansion and demands a slice for services rem
dered. He will then take up the more favored
cases ard provide for them In decency, in order
and with liberality. mentioned in my last letter
l believe that Mr. Atkins could have eiIber
the Georgia MarshaIshlp or the Couectorship
at Savannah. The opinion was also ex pressed
that he would probably elect to return to his
old stamping ground, have seen Mr.. AtkiL s
since then. He was at the White House and
had just come from an audience with Mr. Gar
field He did not deny that he wante1 some
thi5g FROM the present administration. l
broached the two Georgia offices mentioned.
he 8dlQ ne WQulQ nave ubibUtE. l1S Ills 50
emphatically, that was forced to the conclu-
sion that if turnkey ia swallow-tail coat and
white kid gloves should hand him an appoint
ment to either the Marshalship or the Savan-
nah Collectorship on a silver Salver, with roses
and dewdropS all around it, he would refuse.
Mr.. Atkins contided in me further. he said he
would have no office ia the state Of Georgia
you couldn't hire him to take any thing that
the Federal patronage there offered. | asked
him point blank what he did want then. His
reply was that he would not refuse good
place outside the State. Report, however,
connects him with three fields of
looking after a good place abroad, a bureau
Office in Washington, or judicial position. he
was once connected with the internal revenue
service in Georgia, and might want TO be Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue. He cannot
get that however, unless the present incum-
bent, Raum, should be promoted Raum ap-
pears even to the casual eye to be too well
heeled as they talk it out West, to be removed
except in the scale of upward graduation. Mr..
Atkins would not object to Judge Billings
place as District Judge for New Orleans in case
Billings should be renominated and confirmed
as Judge Woods successor on the Southern
Circuit. Ny old-time friend of Atlanta
Ga, or somewhere else, John E. Bryant, who,
every once and awhile has something to say
about me in an alleged newspaper which he
publishes upon somebody e.se's money, seems,
upon careful look into all the contingencies,
to be pretty well fixed with regard to the pres
emit deal He is originally from Maine. Blaine
is also from Maine. Bryant and Blaine either
went to school together or struck up a
friendship with each other at a later period
of their beautiful and exem-
plary lives. No matter where that friend
ship budded, it is now strong. Bry ant is solid
with Blaine. Blaine is the head under boss OF
the administration, and rules over consulates
and other diplomatic places, which pay well
and require no return in labor. John L. will
therefore, stand good chance. am glad OF
it, He can hardly get place under the State
Department at home. He will, therefore, 20
abroad. Let John e. have consulate in g
warm climatel Give him a chance for pre-
pAration for the hereafter believe in giving
every man chance-even John K. In con
nection with John E., there is Collector
Wade, of the Internal Revenue district in
which Savannah is located. John E. and
will naturally extend hand to Wade and save
Around the Georgia Marshalsbip there
swarm 10! these many candidates spoke oil
however, too fruitful not to be again over
hauled. We will find new names and some
things that may induce reflection. Colone
Fitzsimons will hang on for some
Received s another sG@ $780, S { fom ths
government, being the full amount that he has
asked for. 1t is most certainty that he
will be Marshal until his full term of four years
expires next fall, unless he should resign vol
unfairly He will not be reappointed. And
right around his office there congregates a
mob of those who would like the place Elk
Marshal Smyth was among the very first to
file his application and state his claims
Smyth held this place for eight J ears, and il
may be put in the pipe and smoked that he
will not again scoop in the perquisites thereof
George s. Thomas, who was once Assistant
District Attorney for Georgia, would like very
well TO have the desk at which Colonel FitZ
smons now presides: and II. p Fsrrow would
not object to it. Marcellus E. Thornton
friends intend to make break for him as soon
fba oil he pla
man. of Griffin, once Republican member OF
the House, and VIM Markham, of Atlanta
who was hotel keeper, are DESTROYS of
drawing the emOluments that hang
friends of A. n. Wilson. of Savannah, would
lie to see him put in to succeed Fitzsmons
but as far as can be ascertained Mr. Wilson
has not done anything for himself in the way
crib. Mr.. EorcroSS, who has several times
been an Intellectual candidate for Governor
of the State, is laying out his hooks to grapple
upon the MarshalShip. Madison Bell, who now
has clerkship in the Ire aSnry Department, and
was strong Sherman man, has his of eye cas-:
in the same direction. 1t is reported here
that R. B. Bullock is working to be Marshal.
He has not yet filed his eaveat with the PreSi-
dent He Whooped up a small size boom for a
Cabinet place, l am to told, but may be actu-
ated by principles of the programme of ANY
thing D Lord" Those mentioned complete
the list to date of those who want to be -Har-
shall of Georgia. New names are expected
hourly. In regard to the Collectorship at Sa-
vannah, Collector johnson stands IN the way
Of being retained almost to a certainty. Hav
ing Mr. Stephens at his back, is with President
Garfield almost an equivalent to retention.
Mr.. johnson may, therefore, sleep easily.
THE FLORIDA OFFICE HUNTERS.
While the Georgia Republicans are working
themselves up tremendously about the
patronage of that state, the Florida brethren
are by no means idle There are three leading
Llln,.idn lornln hlinanS in the city Their r,ar1es