The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-04-01
Republican Harmony.


The Whitelaw Reid correspondence
recently published seems to have played
havoc with the sweet disposition of the
grand old party of morals and harmony.
The statement in the World is not
denied that the notorious communica-
ton from Whitelaw Reid to the late
President Garfield, giving eccentric and
extraordinary counsel, was furnished for
publication by one of the closest friends
and member of the official family
of Mr.. Garfield. The gentlemen
who gave out the Reid dispatch
for publication has personal cause for
wrath against James G. Blaine. He is
a representative of large number
of the friends of the deceased President
who are determined that Mr.. Blaine
shall not make himself the heir to the
popularity of Garfield or seize his politi-
cal estate or administer upon it. 1t is
also true that the tone of the American
foreign policy of the United States has
been changed because the bold, vigor-
Gus American purpose which generally
pervaded the State papers of Mr..
Blaine was making, it was feared, the
name of the ex-Secretary too strong in
the popular talk of the hour, and was
putting up the Blaine stock in the
political market. Blaine early con-
fronts the hostility of the Administration
on the one hand and of friends of Gar
field on the other. In several respects
the Administration is enlarging its bor-
ders and strengthening its stakes. 1t
proposes to have an organ at the Ma
tional capital in absolutely friendly
hands. The controversy between the
Stalwarts and Half-breeds is smolder-
ing but not suppressed. The President
has been so apprehensive of the infln-
ence of the radical Stalwarts, rs being
interpreted to exclude himself, his
thoughts and policy, that it is under
stood his whilom chum, George Bliss,
has bought the National Republican,
which was at the same time an Arthur
and Star-route organ. The influence
of this paper in the community of Wash
ington to deaden local public opinion
upon the mail transactions of HAYES
Administration was felt to be fatal to
the pending prosecutions. Hence the
rumor of its purchase by Bliss causes
more than one sad heart to cease to
ache. 1t seems further to show that
Administrations are prone to fall back
on the old style of organ of the days of
Gales and Seaton and Blair and Rives.
Mr.. Gorham has been too hot an editor
for the Attorney Generals Department
to counteract. Persons affecting to
speak the secrets of the White House
say the President is decidedly ayerse
to seeing Governor Cornell get sec
ond term, while Cornell will be satisfied
with nothing else and is too much of
quantity in the country districts to be
opposed without serious consequences,
while his well known hostility to Mr..
Arthur would make him, with the large
patronage of the Governors office in
1884, probable competitor for the Pres
sidency and rallying center for the
Half-breeds. Mr.. Arthur is said to pre-
fer Mr.. Starin He is equally oispleased
with Mr.. Tom Platt, and recently, 1t is
charged, sent him bootless home from
an errand at the White House. Col
lector Robertson has made quasi peace
with the President. His prime favorite
is Mr.. Crowley. And so while Blaine is
perspiring between the flames kindled
on the one hand by potential friends of
Garfield, and the Administration fur
mace already glowing Tor his discomfort
on the other, the Administration buys an
organ to conduct the contest against an
ex-Secretary of State, against the Gov
ernor of the President State and against
Garfield wing of his party. Blaine has
two great fights on his hands within his
party. The President has on his hands
the fight with Blaine and that with the
Half-breeds, and the fight with Governor
Cornell is to be added to these. The
Half-breeds have the fight with the Ad-
ministration, and large portion of
them have begun fight with Blaine.
The party has three quarrels to bear and
there is uneasiness in the camp.--Hart-
ford Times.