The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-15
4 Representative Stalwarrs Opinion.

! A Representative Stalwart's Opinion.
McCullagh, the editor of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, is representative stall
wart leader, and his opinions about Gar
field and Blaine emphasize the manner
in which those names were treated at
the meeting of the New York stalwarts,
under the name of the Lincoln Club, the
other evening. In a talk during the
fall of 1880 with General Garfield about
the statement that Grant men would
have to take back seats under his Ad-
ministration, McCullagh says that he
said to Garfield: "The Grant men were
beaten at Chicago, and they know it.
They went into the fight to win, and
they lost. They don't expect to occupy
the boxes, but they would like to have a
fair show in the dress circle. Even if
they should be pushed into the back
seats or crowded into the top galleries
they will stay through the circus, but
after that they will do heap of kicking
if they don't get good treatment. "
General Garfield laughed and said he
did not know exactly what meant. l
explained to him at some length the an
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tacks, which were mainly directed
against Grant and Conkling, and l
wound up by saying that we did not pro-
pose to have it regarded as peniten-
tiary offense to have supported Grant
at Chicago or to regard C0nkling as one
of the accredited leaders of the Repub-
lican party. General Garfield looked at
him for moment, rose from his seat,
put his hands on his shoulders and said:
"My dear fellow, you don't know me if
you think that with my consent the
services of Grant and Conkling can ever
be forgotten or ignored by the Repub-
lican party. know these men well;
know what they have done, and know
that if am elected l will owe as much
to them as to anytwo men in America."
All this time, says McCullagh, Gar
field was making a league with Blaine
for the humiliation of Conkling, which,
not without reason, McCullagh pro-
nounces '.insincere. 1t was done by
Blaine's ''magnetism''-the magnetism
by which snake swallows bird. Nc
Cullagh's opinions of Blaine are nearly
as bitter as those which Grant holds of
that statesman, are in fact probably an
echo of Grant and the stalwarts. Blaine
is "incapable of disinterested friend
ships" he is "a public man who has
been 'on the make during his public
career, advancing from a poor-house to
a palace on salary which never paid
his expenses" As to his friendship for
Garfield, Blaine told Democratic men,
Der of Congress from Missouri-who
said laughingly that he was looking for
documents defending Garfield in the
Credit Mobilier and De Golyer matters
that he (Blainel was looking for
something of that kind himself. but he
couldn't find it. Blaine's foreign policy,
says McCullagh, ought to be good for
two years in the penitentiary for every
hour in the State Department. 1t is
Beaconsfield's lingo policy with mon
ey in it. 'James always has his eye to
the main chance"
McCullagh was, in 1876, as hot-headed
a champion of Blaine for the Presi-
dency, as he was of Grant in 1880. On
being gently reminded of this, he re-
marked that Mcdill, of the Chicago
Tribune, and Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, suddenly sprung a record
on Blaine about which his supporters
knew nothing when they went into the
fight. But all that Medill, Halstead
and the rest did to ''spring record"
was to publish the record of the
Mulligan letters, which was already a
perfectly well-known incident in Mr..
Blaine's career. If Blaine supporters
never heard of this until it was sprung
on them, they did not read the papers;
it is a strange confession, certainly, for
a newspaper man like McCullagh to
make 1t is one of the strange contrasts
of politics, and a proof of want of
principle and conviction on their part,
that while many of Blaine's supporters
in 1876 were, like McCullagh, Grant
men in 1880, Blaine's critics of 1876,
like Medill and Halstead. are adoring
worshipers and defenders of Blaine now.
1t is curious in the light of all this
fierce contempt and hate of the Stalwarts
for the Half-breeds and of the Half
breeds GOODNESS toward Arthur and the
Stalwarts, to learn from McCullagh, who
is one of the most savage and unspar-
ing of them, that Arthurs Adminstra-
ton is very successful and that its
tendency is to unite the Republican
party. If Arthur can s'unite" Blaine
to Grant, Storrs to Medili, Reid to Nc
Cullagh, Chaplain Newman to Carl
Schurz, he can unite the Republican
and Democratic parties and be President
by a unanimous vote the rest of his
National life.-Detroit Free Press.
A Subject for Philosophical Reflection.
1t is well for purposes of history and
for philosophical reflection to recall the