Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-16
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
TALK IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES ABOUT
CHINGES IN THE CIRINET.
Reorganize His Corps of Advisers-FOl-
ger Probably the First to Get the G. b.
Items of Interest from the Depart
ments.

Items of Interest from the Depart
ments.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The president is
very much out of sorts. The defeat of the
Republicans last week was bad enough,
but the deductions from it drawn by the
press of the country, are even harder for
all ordinary man to bear. Misfortune is |
bad enough, but it is most irritating to be |
told on every hand that ones own short
sightedness, not to say folly, is the cause
of the misfortune. Within a few days
other ills nave befallen the president.
They are small but, coming as they do
while the presidential withers are still sore
from the wringing of last week, they con-
tribute in no way to his peace of mind.
One of these minor ills is a letter
addressed by the two Massachusetts sena-
tors to Secretary Folger, giving Collector
Worthington a severe hauling over the
Goals for helping the Democrats elect their
candidate for governor. The relations of
Worthington and his newspaper to Butler
are such that the truth of the charge is
highly probable. If Worthington did help
elect Butler it is not inconsistent with the
loyalty that many stalwarts have practiced
toward their party, though they profess a
different kind, and daily thank God that
| they are not traitors and assistant Demo-
Gratis, or even as this publican, Mr.. Blaine.
Another letter, and more irritating
to the president because more
personal, is a letter to him
by Messrs. Herrick, Kerr and Bliss in re-
gard to ex-senator Spencer. During the
late star route trial, the government u
sci, it is well-known, sent the president a
letter setting forh that Spencer was a gov
eminent official, was wanted as a govern
ment witness, but could not be found, and
was comforting a great favor on the de-
Tense by keeping out of sight. No atten-
ton has been paid to the letter. The
time of the second trial draws near, and
Spencer has not yet been found. He is
wanted very much. The government coun-
sci nave sent another letter to the presi-
dent calling his attention to all
the facts in Spencer's case. Of course
the president does not exactly
like to have his attention called to the
thing. It intimates that he wants to
screen Dorsey. Now the president wants
every ~violator of the law punished, but he
isn't very anxious to see a useful Republi-
can statesman, the secretary Of the nation
al committee, the man whom he has trusted
as the savior of Indiana, behind the graf
| irpc nf q noui4ontiarv Ho &c in nnuch fha
same position as Grant whom he ordered
that no guilty man should be allowed to es-
cape, but dismissed every prosecuting Off
Ger whose Investigations threatened to in
volve tho presidents chums or brothers-in-
law. President Arthur would rather not
have Spencer testify, but does not wish to
be held responsible for his not testifying.
the ju%ggernaut principle, expecting to run
over somebody in order to show its power
and greatness. There is neither sympathy
nor common political interest to prevent
this. A Republican who sadly contem-
plates the ruin ofhis party said to-day:
"What does Arthur care for the party ?
He may not fiddle while the country burns
but his ears are tickled with the talk
about his being a stately, polite,
grand sort of an administra-
ton, and he intends to make a
big season Of it this winter, and if he does
not fiddle he will call out on the Marine
band to play while the Republican party
goes to pieces. 1t will not upset the count
ry," he added, "'but it will leave him
and a small circle of the diamond back
sort pretty much alone by spring, and the
bosses that are left will be more tired of
each other than the people are now of
them"
A gentleman who is assistant of a cabi-
net minister, was shown to-day some pre-
dictions about Secretary Folger's retire
ment and other charges, more particularly
in the treasury, and asked if they we're
true. OF course he did not reply in a bold
affirmative, but he said that his questioner
would be surprised at the events
of the near future, though lit
orally nothing would surprise people
here more that the maintenance of the
stata quo. The assistant cabinet officers
manner of making the reply indicated his
belief in some notable changes at no dis
tant day.
The chickens that the Republicans labor
ously Matched last spring by a patent incu-
bator, under the management of Speaker
Keifer and Messrs. Robson and Reed, will
come home to roost in the next congress.
The Republicans have not only supplied
ample precedents for unseating claimants
for the other party, but they have supplied
a rulet to prevent filibustering, which the
Democrats will find very convenient, and
will work it for all it is worth.
It is estimated that there will be eighty
contested seats in the next house, and the
Republicans nave shown the Democrats,
though they needed little instruct
ing, how they decide cases of
this character. The Democrats now have
an apparent majority in the next house of
about seventy, and when they have adopted
the report of their committee on elections
it won't matter much whether any Repub-
licans attend the sessions of the house. 1t
is predicted that only three Republicans
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