The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

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You don't need Blaine cabinet. Mr.
Blaine's mOdesty, however, will not
prevent him from taking hand il
{ the smallest detail of your administra
tiOn. His strikers are numerous anC
noisy. l hope they will not embar
raSs you. The pleasant satisfaction
have in the midst of all rumors anC
| newspaper talk is the fact that / be
lieve that Gen. Garfield will be preSi
| dent himself, and not Mr.. Blaine. Sc
much for the gossip that meets me on
all sides. Now think that so far as
New York is concerned, if you have
definitely determined not to appoint
the secretary of the treasury from
this state. that it would be wise to
offer Morton the navy, or Crowley the
department of justice.
1t seems clear to me that you should
appoint Judge Folger and that you
should do 1t without comforting with
anyone except the judge himself. /
have not seen him for months, No
one has ever suggested his name to
me, but know enough to know that
his appointment to that position scalps
every malcontent in the state of New
York of both factions, and will make
your administration so strong that no
party man dare assault it. l want YOU
to understand that l am expressing a
most deliberate conviction of my own,
wholly in your interest and without
suggestion from any quarter and for
the reasons / have given against all
quarters. Another phase. If you
have settled upon western man for
secretary of the treasury and have
arranged some other position for New
York have a word to say ubout the
interior department. Senator Win
dom is the man would recommend.
If he will accept it, he is the best man
in the west, and, l believe in the
country, for the place.
When l last saw you you told me to
write you frankly. If this is not
frank enough shall have to give up
my efforts for the future. Ihave said
what believe. If you have other
lights and your Judgment leads you in
a different direction l shall not be Of
Tended. What l say is for Gen. Gar
held and our success hereafter. l
have no selfish reason in the world ex-
cept to see glorious cOnsummation
of the work we all undertook last
July.
In another letter Dorsey dealt with
the lesser lights that were to be put in
position rs subordinates in mind as
well as position to Blaine. 1t is a re-
markable paper:
No. PAL FIFTH AVENUE,
NEW YORK Feb. II, 1881.
Gen. James A. Garfield, Mentor, Ohio:
My DEAR GENERAL have been
thinking good deal of your sugges-
tion respecting the appointment of
Wayne McVeagh as a member OF
your cabinet. The more l consider it
the more thoroughly convinced L am
that it will be grievouS mistake. l
have heard so much about this reform
business that 1 have stopped to con-
slider just what it is and what it
means. l am weak enough to believe
that the reform element of the Repub-
lican party Is the element that fOrmu-
lates its policy and directs its purposes
and achieves its splendid results.
Those results have been satisfactory
to the country for twenty years and
have made us great and prosperous
people, and have given us the liberty
the whole world admires.
Now, what does Mr.. McVeagh rep
resent? Has he got party, a policy,
or an idea that is better and stronger
Or purer than that represented by the
regular Republican Organization Do
bu know MacVeagn? Do you know
ms history? Have you any knowl-
edge of his. personal character? If
not, why in the worn don't you in
quire?
He has been the paid lobbyist of the
Pennsylvania railway for a great
number of years. He is the man who
appears for them on;ll occasions. He
is charged with-and l believe it to
he Understanding the legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania time and
again, and of robhng that common
wealth of many millions of dollars in
the interest of the corporation he rep
resented. 1T there ever was a corrup-
zionist his name is Wayne MacVeagh.
Pursuing his Pennsylvania training
and in obedience to his natural in
stincts, he went to Louisiana and de
bauched the legislature of that state
to turn Packard out so that Hayes
might remain in. Knowing what l
do of him and of his class, | think,
upon the whole, herepresentS the best
reform element of this country
brlbe taker and bribe giver, who
tried to shield his own criminality be-
hind the holy look of his heavenly
turned eyes and continuously assert
ing through the public press tha. he
is reformer. The only good thing
that can be said of MacVeagh is that
he is the son-in-law of a great father
ln-law. With me that would condone
much of his wroDg-doing, falsehood
and assumption.
The only reformer that l know of
in Pennsylvania is Aleck Mcclure.
For years he was professional poker
player and general gambler. I am
told he has determined to quit gam
bling and has turned his attention to
the publication of reform newspaper.
Mcclure wants MacVeagh and Mac
yeagh wants McClure-both repre-
entative reformers.
NJ Mac Veagh has always been a fora
er between the two great political ar
lies, and invariably adhered to that
rmy which had the largest commits
Ary.
Now, let US take another view of
this question. If you think that any
minority in this country ought to be
represented in your cabinet, why not
select a representative of a respectable
minorityr What is the use or sense
in appointing a man who claims to
represent 5000 votes, and ignoring a
minority that represents more than
four millions of votes? You have
been elected by bare majority of the
people-the minority being the Demo-
cratic party, not the pretending re-
formers. Now, why would it not be a
wise thing to appoint, not an "erring
brother" as one of the seven in your
cabinet, but well known, able and
outSpoken Democrat, and appoint him
as Democrat representing the DEM
ocratic party, and who can sit at your
cabinet table and discuss with the ma
jority the rights of the minority?
l believe it to be one of the wisest
things that any president ever did.
and If were to be inaugurated on the
day you are / should look about to
fine one of the best representative, one
of the ablest and one of the most
upright of the Democratic lead
ers of this country and hand him
portfolio in my cabinet, with a clear
understanding that he came in as a
Democrat, to represent the Democratic
party, and nothing else, with no pos
sible. obligations to the power that
appointed him. In my Judgment it is
a mere matter of time, and, think, a
brief time, that president elected by
one political party will give some en-