McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, d. c., May 4, 1884.

George +. Edmunds may be likely to
enter the Presidential campaign as the
nominee of the Republicans, makes the
politicians shake IN their shoes. Whcth-
er you know it or not, | can say TO you
that he is the hast man IN the party
that the Office holders want to see in
the White House. Mr. Ednunds is
man who, if he knows all the tricks in
trade OF politicians, will not adapt him
self to them, and will not be counted
in as a participant in any of the ways
that are dark, which are to be expected
of the average politician. But like
Blaine and Lincoln and Tilden and tho
rest of them, Edmunds is not candi-
date Of course not. Blaine is no candi
date, but he has got magnetism, and
magnetism is running his campaign on
its own hook Lincoln is not a candi-
date, but the very children are cryin.
for him because his name is Lincoln.
and therefore he unconsciously falls into
the hands of his friends Logan is not
a candidate in the ordinary acceptation
of the word, but somebody has been
mighty lively of late in working up a
regular compound double ack-action
stub and twist boom, with Fitz John
Porter at one end and the G.. A. r.,
at the other Nor is Mr. Tilden caadi-
date if he were, you would not hear
of these politicians visiting Gramercy
Park in squads, companies and battal-
ions. And what in the world would
Mr.. Randall and Mr. Hendricks and
Mr.. Morrison and Mr.. Cox and the
other prominent shepherds in the
Democratic fold, be calling upon the
Sage for if it were not to get his disin-
terested advice and receive his Demo
cratic benedictions ? The only thing
absolutely positive about Mr.. Edmunds
candidacy is his own declaration one
day that he was not candidate, and
the next going upon still-hunt for
nomination. Such is politics
And what power there is behind
politician after he gets up among the
high muck-a-mueks of the party! Here
is Sabin, of Minnesota, who was never
heard of until last fall, furnishing to the
country successor to Knox, Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency, in the person of
another man who was never heard of or
heard from, although his name is Can
non. The responsibility that attaches
to this office of Comptroller is simply
unreasonable, and the men are few who
possess the requisite capacity for Il
discharge Of the vastly important trusts
involved in it. Mr.. Cannon may be
most excellent man for the position, but
the business men Of the country, and
particularly the men who run the Ma
tional banks, would much prefer to
know something of the man who is to
boss the finances of this great Nation.
1t must be that Julius Caesar Bur
rows, of Michigan, has got sure thing
for the next Congress, or he never
could have refused the Solicitorship of
the Treasury, which the President has
been urging upon him. The Office has
been vacant since the death of Mr.. Ray
nor, and, strange to say, the country
had really forgotten that there was such
an office. Now the Solicitor of the
Treasury is nothing more nor nothing
less than the legal adviser of the off
Gals in the Treasury Department, at the
head of which is the ex-Chief- Justice
of the highest judicial tribunal in the
State of New York, who would hardly
think of asking the advice of a third
rate lawyer as to his duties, and if he
did, would never act upon it. There
are law officials connected with each of
the departments, and who are called
Assistant Attorney Generals, who are
selected for these places seemingly be-
cause they will not fit in anywhere else.
They are as incapable of solvinga prob
lem involving legal principle, as the
man who drives their carriages at Gov
ernment expense. And more than that,
their decisions upon questions involving