The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-17
THE LATE CAMPAIGN.


Inside Workings of the Republican State and
National Committees.
Gath's New York Special:
"Do you know Warren2" said my friend.
Said I: Warren is an upright man every
way, is he not?'
"Yes, we think he is a perfectly square man.
He was in favor of Arthur's nomination. In the
heat of his disappointment he sand that Blaine
could not carry the State of New York. After
ward he found so much zeal for Blaine all
through the interior of the State that he revised
his view, He was then made chairman of the
State committee. Like all of us, he was short
of money and had these powerful i~ntrigues and
combinations to fight, but, we thank God we
beat everything in the State except the last low
Italian intrigue led by Conkling. We leave him
to the verdict of history as about as mean a
character as has been portrayed in the past. He
has made a Democratic President out of the
State of New York, just as he, tried in 1876 to
secure the election of Tilden over General Dix.
Said | to my friend, who has been in the
national committee ever since it was organized.
How do you boys feel in there over this de-
featl"
why, we were conscious of no want of labor
or sacrifice to help our friend Blaine. We sin
cerely loved him, loved to work with him, hoped
to have him President. Nothing which has
happened in the campaign has in the smallest
degree changed our view of him within the
national committee. We have always been har-
monious and kind to each other, and nothing
has happened there to distress us except the
want oe funds. We have been accused of being
the party of the jobbers and monopolists. Every
interest of that kind has kept away from us.
All that we could rely upon in this campaign
were the sincere Republicans who considered
that the country had been we'll managed for
twenty-four years and ought not to have a
change. Compared to the times when Gen
eral Arthur ran the committee, we were really
hard up. There were times when we had to
put our hands in our personal pockets and
pay small pressing bills which it would
have been oishonorable to have protested. You
must understand that Jim Blaine has never
been surrounded by any powerful assemblage of
capital. He has belonged all his life to the rank
of poor, aspiring, hopeful men. A mans friends
are very much like himself. We were all of US
a kind Of school teachers band Of fellows, who
had made their own way in the world, and had
not more than half made it. Our zeal was
our chief capital. There is Steve Elkins," said
he; II defy any man to discover a more upright
man than Elkius In any relation of life. He is a
v1rtuous husband, a true and upright father,
a partisan, never severe but perfectly
faithful all the time, and he is a com
fort to any person connected with him. To
have q man like that abused as if he were a
culprit fills his friends with unspeakable disgust
with the public criticism of this country. Then
our old man Jones, at the head of the commit
tee, was a perfect father to everybody. He
wanted no praise, no Office, and was ready to take
all the blame. In short, y said my acquaintance,
considering the power of the Republican party
in the past, it is astonishing to see how, the
moment it nominated a really great man, it's ed
itors and bosses got into "a confab. If We had
picked up some cheap, second rate person. they
would all have exclaimed: There is the pink of
sweetness? We gave them q great big fellow,
able to take care of himself everywhere, and
they could not stand HIM"
Referring to Chester A. Arthur, a man about
whom 1 think l have made no mistake for some
years past, a friend from Washington sends me
a note to the following effect:
The night of the election the entire dipl0-
matte CORPS with their wives were by invitation
in the State Department to receive the news by
special wire. All were eagerly DESTROYS of the
election of Cleveland, and the officials of the
State Department encouraged them to believe
that he would be successful. Before the diplo-
matte corps left the department they were told
that they could cable their governments that Mr..
Blaine was defeated, and they did so. There
upon there were congratulations and hand
s~hakings on both sides. What a spectacle for
the loyal men of the country to witness the en-
tire administration except two Cabinet officers,
striking hands with the representatives of
foreign governments and of the solid South! No
wonder that the old rebel yell is heard at night
on the corners, and pictures of jeff Davis and
Wilkes Booth come out of their hiding places"