Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-24
Ispecial Telegram to the Globe. !

said, IN reply to a question from me:
practically all Indiana is now for Nc
Donald for president. Mr.. Hendricks ut
tered something of protest recently. I
suppose it is natural for man who has
been leader SO long to feel wounded at
seeing himself supplanted by an old fol-
lower. Yet Hendricks, | think, is coRsid-
cred out of the race, and McDonald's
fidelity to him in other years
seems to justify the support he
is receiving. The personal fidelity
of Mcdonald is very greatly in his favor.
Almost every man believes that Mcdonald
will keep his word and be true to his
friends. That gives him the great hold he
has in our state. The old people have
known him long, and the young people
seem to have known him almost as long,
because he has very kind nature"
Mr. Matson also intimated that there
was considerable disaffection in Indiana
about the civil service bill of Pendleton,
and that it had not been correctly set forth
to the people.
was talking to Unit
ed States senator while at
Washington, who for many years was reck-
oned one of Blaine's strongest hackers.
He is still in the senate. He said to me:
,, "Keep my name out of the papers, and
you can always get anything I know"
"Well," said l, "is Blaine running for
president again?"
Eyes, he thinks he is, but he will get very
far short of it this time, when he comes to
show the open hand"
"Why are you, for instance, lukewarm
on Blaine?"
because he is just as frater-
nal with his enemies and with his
friends. lie does not make the proper
distinctions as politician. When I see
Blaine putting his arms around man who
has always opposed him and probably
always will, naturally reflect that the
J men who have always been Blaine's friends
may be disappointed by him in the ambi
ton to extend his acquaintance. He does
| not act like man of the proper spirit and
indignations, or like one who knows his
own mind. That was the difference be-
tween Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Conkling.
| The man who knew that he
had Conkling's friendship knew that he
was solid for ever, that he never could be
set aside by Conkling for any class of
friends, however influential"
''Are any other of Blaine's old friends
| gone from him?'
eyes sir. Frye of Maine, is down on
Blaine now. Blaine was very slow to step
up and put him in the senate. When Frye
and other such young men went through
Maine, and recovered it to the party, they
| found Blaine, who took no hand in the
battle, comi%g in on the home stretch,
accepting the whole victory as his, and he
so notified it 70 the country. Since Frye
has been elected he says he owes nothing
to Mr.. Blaine that he has not settled long
ago. Hale, the other Maine senator, is not
quite so saucy, but extremely lukewarm as
to Mr.. Blaine's presidential pretensions.
Chandler is completely severed from
Blaine and has gone into the stalwart ele-
ment. Chaffee has fallen away. Window
hates Blaine. Blaine rather upbraided
Window or talked about him for not
dropping his ten votes at the Chicago con-
vention to give them to Blaine.
So Window, when he heard of
it got mad and said: ''Mr. Blaine may go
to the devil" Allison is, perhaps, the last
of that set to stick to Blaine. He was one
of Blaine's proteges when the former was
speaker of congress, and although smart
fellow is not very bold. If Blaine has any
strength left at the next convention he
may throw it to Allison. don't pretend to
say that Blaine has not considerable popu-
lar following yet, but he has lost nearly ell
his politicians. He has not one able lieu
tenant left"
Has Window any pretensions to be
presidents"
Eyes, he has been twenty-four years at
Washington, either in congress or the
senate, and all the public acts are familiar
to him. -
Washington was never "a full of lobby
lists as at present. The dozen or twenty
monopolies which thrive on the present
tariff have their agents, and sometimes
their principals here, in full force to take
care that duties are not lowered or made
| less complicated. Another sort of monop-
olists, who have grown up under the fos
tering care of the internal revenue
laws, are here to prevent the abolition of
these needless taxes, the levying of which
proved to be favorable to the control of
several kinds of industry by few great
capitalists, and the eztirpation of COM
petitors of moderate means. It is not ex-
travagant to say that these Republicans in
congress are in league with these capital
ist monopolists, who fatten on bad and I'M
just laws. When Senator Plumb, of Kan
sas, Republican, ventured few days ago
to speak good word for the taxpayers,
and protested, in their interest, against
having duties increased, his remarks we're
received by his fellow Republicans with
contem ptuous silence. 1t is the deliberate
purpose of the Republican leaders
in both houses to prevent any
repeal of the totally needless
and burdensome taxes, because to do that
would lessen tine number of Office holders
who will be expected to help in the next
presidential canvass, and whose main
tenance costs $5,O0O,OOU a year.
An authority observes: 'The detailed
statement of our trade with Mexico during
the last fiscal year makes it clear that the
benefits of the proposed reciprocity treaty
with that country will be divided between
the Mexican and our protected manu-
facturers. The latter oppose the treaty, it
must be on principle, and at, the expense
of their own pockets. Of the $15,5OO,OOO
worth of our exports to Mexico more than
one-fourth was iron and steel, and $2,5OO,-
400 we're in raw and manufactured cotton.
treaty of reciprocity, even if confined
to few articles would naturally stimulate