Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-03
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The Philadelphia Times, usually so in
dependent and thoroughly fearless in its
judgments of measures and of men, exhib-
iting breadth and clearness of understand
ing, quite surprises Us. That journal has
sons, in its opposition to jobs and jobbery
among public men in places of trust. That
which surprises US is its recommendation
TO the president in regard to the formation
of a new cabinet. ''The one man." says
the Times, ito revive the political fortunes
''of the administration and reinspirit the
81 Republican party, is James G. Blaine,
''and he should be recalled to the State
'portfolio. Window is the one man of all
''for the Treasury"
How any journal that is conYersant with
the conduct of public affairs for the last
twenty years, except one wearing the ser
vile collar of pertisanism, can offer such
counsel, it is very difficult indeed to IN
derstand, though we take it that the Times
speaks in sober earnest. The GLOBE is not
prepared to accept such Judgment of the
gentlemen named without protest.
Beyond all question and all dispute, Mr..
Blaine is the most dangerous man who has
had prominence ia American politics dur
ing the last quarter of a century. He is
brilliant, dashing and magnetic, but
he is equally INSCRIPTIONS and reckless, a
man to be feared and always distrusted.
Had the late President Garfield lived, and
Mr.. Blaine remained in his cabinet, that
administration would have shipwrecked.
No man in our politics has been caught in
so many political offenses of a venal
character as has Blaine. Little as we ad-
miro Mr.. Arthur, we are not so evil-mind-
ed as to wish his administration the wreck
and misfortune the giving of Blaine place
in the cabinet would surely entail
Mr.. Blaine is apparently out of politics,
and it is so much the better for the coun-
try. Should there be real or simulated
urgence brought to bear to bring him for
ward again, those who have any agency in
the matter will see the day when they will
bitterly regret it.
If it is true that "Windom is the one
man of all for the Treasury" God save the
country. Mr.. Window was given the
Treasury in the Garfield Cabinet, through
the mysterious and unaccoantable power
of John Sherman over Garfield, to the
amazement of all Of the latter's true friends.
Sherman's management of the department
under Hayes made it imperative that he
should be succeeded by Secretary of his
own choosing. Window was, and is we'd
ded to Wall street, and it would be a calam-
ity to permit him and Sherman and their
peculiar associates, to again manage the
Treasury department.
In lecture in New York city by Col. F.
A. Conkling, a few evenings since, of which
a synopsis has already appeared in these
columns, the speaker referred to the knit
goods sSindle. A decision of the supreme
court of the United States declared that
stockings and all knit goods, except silk
and linen, should pay duty of only 35 per
cent. March 30, 1881, the treasury depart
m6nt issued a circular that where duties in
excess OF this amount had been collected
offer caused the manufacturers of
shirts and drawers TO be very busy, and
one man, with but small capital, IN an
incredibly short space of time became
worth half million. The practical question
confronted Secretary Window and Assist.
ant French, whether they should execute
the law as construed by the supreme court
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call of the manufacturers. The final con-
strUction CT the secretary was that the de-
cision of the court only applied to stock
ings, ''and this said Col. Conkling, sought
''to have led to the impeachment
''of Mr.. Window and Assistant Secretary
French for high crimes and misdemean-
"ors." Pending the hearing before the
Treasury department, the National Knit
Goods Association raised fund of $780,
900, ostensibly for counsel fees. Col. Conk-
ling said that he commended to the next
congress the appointment of a committee,
with power to send for persons and papers
and find out where this fund went to.
Certainly the man of whom such things
can be said by prominent and
responsible gentleman, is not the
man to be returned to the Treasury
department. It is the misfortune of the
Republican party that it has only leeches
to bring into places of responsible trust.
If Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Window are restored
to the cabinet, Mr.. Dorsey should be made
their comrade as Postmaster General, and
then the eternal fitness of things would be
observed.
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