National Republican., 1882-03-27
Modern Romance.

sprightly news-gatherers for the daily
papers penetrate the secrets Of the Presi-
dent must.be to him n wonder To SEN
ators, Cabinet Ministers, and would-be
Cabinet Ministers il is terror or aioy, as
it makes or unmakes them or their
friends. Senators and Members gather
at the Executive Mansion five days in
the week to advise, request, suggest, and
inquire. On the subject of his intentions
concerning Cabinet changes they find the
President as uncommunicative as priest
is on the secrets of the confessional. But
10 some of the newspapers of the next
day can tell them all that is in his mind
tho nominations that will be sent in,
and when minute details of the mental
operations of those most concerned,
what they wrote in their private letters,
and how they dickered and traded in
offices all this we read in infinite variety.
They will not allow Mr.. Kirkwood to
rub his glasses in peace, prior
to reading the piles of Endorsements
of applicants for clerkships, but must
needs keep fixing the day when his sue
cessor will walk in and relieve him Of
that pleasant occupation. Senator Teller
is amazed and amused at finding that all
the world but himself has definite infor-
nation that he is to be transplanted to
the executive branch of the Government.
Not only so, but he learns in the news
papers for the first time that he has begged
the President TO defer his nomination until
he can arrange little Colorado politics
and make a speech against the Admins
tration. The President could not choose
clearer headed or more upright Secre-
tary of the Interior than Mr.. Teller.
What is here written is only in praise of
those brilliant young men who divine
the Presidents purposes by their strange
gift of penetration, and communicate it
to the world before he can state it to the
individuals personally concerned.
Another case is that of Secretary Hunt.
That worthy gentleman has been pitched
out of the Navy Department head-fore-
most every morning and evening since
the goth of last September by one set OF
news purveyors, and as tenaciously re-
tanned by an opposing set The poor
man must by this time be metaph horically
torn metaphorical limb from metaphori-
cal limb. The agonizing labors of those
of the news reporters who are about to
turn him out to provide him a fitting
asylum do credit to their hearts. 1t
would have greatly relieved the Presi-
dent if there could have been more con-
centration in this matter. He is confused
in the effort to give him so many places
all at once. They have positively booked
him for six different foreign missions,
the Court of Claims, circuit iudgeship in
New York, and all other vacancies which
may occur in offices with salary attached
of $4,000 or upward.
And his successor. Who shall he be =?
They cry aloud for handler-Willam
L. In mighty private conferences at
Willard's some of them call him "Bill'
They have for full three months been
able to name the day and hour when his
name would 60 to the Senate. Not that
he knows anything of it any more than
does the President. They are daily
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der whether there is not, in some "misty
mid-region of Weir," where correspond
ents ofgreat newspapers sit enveloped in
clouds oftobacco-pipe smoke, some other
President Arthur whispering eagerly to
some impalpable William i. Chandler
conceive him if you cam his purpose of
making him ruler of our navy on the fol-
lowing day. Inthiscase, as in the first one,
we have only good words for the gentle
man whose name is so freely used by the
knights of the pencil. We have seen
the time when he was too thoroughly
given over to faction to retain that i'm
partial consideration for all members of
the party which is one of our own recog-
nized characteristics. If time and expert
enCe has sufficiently chastened HMM this
regard we know of no Republican in the
country better able to conduct the public
business well, stand by his party, and
doom the tarry toplights" of its foes
than Mr.. Chandler.
But Cabinet-making is not our present
purpose. 1t was only to join in the general
admiration for the clever novelists who
give us our morning and evening stories
in which Presidents and Cabinets are the
favorite characters.
Mr. TreScot as n Peruvian Dirtntor