Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-14

| placed all the boys in good positions, ano
then said, Now / am done; / have rewarded
| the gang, and my obligations are filed BuI
the Senate would not consent to that; that il
the Republican senators. They wanted to
! pin the President down 10 policy. Now
let me tell you something. II Ia only my
opinion, but / am wiiiiHg 10 venture =
prophecy. think you will find ths, the
/ Senate and the President havs come to an
understanding. That understanding 80; ,,,,.
The President will a....csrupt, "a far "a he ia
able, to evolve out Of the present chAoa in
"Eicn the party is involved, some sort OF
executive policy which will make for
It good name before the peo-
pie. In return the Senate will per-
nit him TO make such changes In the
Federal offices throughout the country az be
sees ut, Furthermore, these changes will be
made in a way an which there can be no
Misunderstanding. They will not be con-
fined to one city or one State. You will Ind
a decided action along the entire line. They
will doubtless consist 10 the removal OF Col
lector Robertson, Postmaster Pearson, Dis
trict Attorney Woodford in New YorB, as
well as come unimportant changes outside
the city. should no, be surprised il banges
we-e not made in Cincinnati at The same
time"
"You believe, then, that Mr.. Robertson
will be removed"
Undoubtedly; but be will be given an
other place. The President will not leave
him in the cold entirely"
"And Pearson@
81 cannot see how Pearson can stay. Let
me tell you something about Pearson. When
Arthur was still vice. pres dent he wrote to
Pearson asking him % make a certain
change for him. Pearson wrote him letter
which, in effect, was: you mind your busi-
ness; Pll mind mine.' That letter was shown
AIthgr's friends, sud when be became Presi-
don't komeeody said: We'll, Arthur, you will
remove Pearson now, of course2 'Ob, no.
said the President, mot now. The people are
all mourning for Gen. Garfield, and Pearson
being James's son-in-lSw, they will not I'M
derstand the causes for his removal. We will
wait. This letter will keep Well, Arthur
has not forgotten il. He will find man like
Van Mort, who will convince the people of
New York and Of the country that the post
office can be run Just as we'll by somebody
else as it can by Pearson, and th at the party
will be much better served. But, as L said
before, it is difficult to say what a man will
do, when the man does not know himself"
did Arthur's friends here know that be
was going TO put Ketcbum in the appraisers
Office"
''Not a word of it. The men he dimes
with, goes out with, sleeps with, had no ink
ling of it. Clint Wheeler, whom Arthur
would doubtless prefer 10 do more for than
any man in New York, never dreamed that
he was going to sppoint Ketchum until he
saw it in the papers"
SIS it because the President is cutting
loose from these men that they are angry"
81 do not say they are angry. They have
never uttered word of complaint to Arthur
about it. They stood by him in his dark
days, and they expected him TO stand by
them, for that is what he promised 10 do
But they are not complaining. Many of
these leaders, or some of them, have spent
far beyond their means for the benefit of the
party, and now they are scarcely recognized
An instance in point ls the nomination of
Mr.. Ketchum for appraiser. Was it neces-
sary for the President to so utterly disregard
the wishes of every organisation in this city
by this nomination? Men who had stood 30
faithfully by MIN; could he not at least have
appointed some one less Objectionable TO
these organizations, of which he was the
father? Was it even necessary in a civil
services view to do so? The people see too
we'll the hand of Mr.. Bliss in the whole mat
ter, and draw no fa,tering conclusion to the
President from it. Was it good judgment
for the President to offer 10 Mr. Phelps
(the brother OF his former partner the
position OF general appraiser, when the
name of a pure man like Donald
Mclean had been so long before him,
Endorsed by all but Two of the city organi-
cations? 1t can be shown from the above
and other facts that the President ia alien
ating from himself and the party all his old
friends, and when he slienates or divides
this city the State is necessarily lost. 1t ia
not necessary that all the patronage should
be subject to the dictation OF the above.
named bosses; bat can tue Republican party
afford to trust its leadership in this city 10
Mr.. Bliss and others? These men are of ne
use among the masses, and cannot carry the
smallest patronage OF the crowd"
''If there be any man on the Democratic
side whom the Republican party has to
fear" said Congressman John Van Voorhees,,
of Rochester, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
this morning, dit is Ben Butler, governor OF
| Massachusetts,. In my opinion he is the
strongest man among the Democrats. and
| will make one of the most formidable can
| didates for the presidential chair in 1884
Just see the following he has all over the
country. First come the Knights of Labor
who, l have reason 10 believe, are one and
all in his favor. They number ], 400, 900
and the great msjority are voters. They in
dorse him because of his prolabor and snli
monopolis,ic tendencies. For similar easont
he will receive the support OF the Green
hackers, of whom he is one, and of the anti
monopolists of all shades. Being a soldier
himself, the veterans and Grand Army msr
will probably stand by him, and also many
disaIfected Republicans; and last, but no
least, the Southern Democratic voters, in
Guiding the shotgun Bourbons, will Civ,
him their votes, in spite of their former de
nunciation of him. In fact, it wou not b.
surprising if his warmest support cams
from that quarter"