Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-15
ARTHUR AND BLAINE.
RUMORED DECKER 10 MAKE
THE PRESIDENT A SENATOR.

THE PRESIDENT A SENATOR.
a Celebrated Team Broken Up--The Sit
uation In Nesy York as Outifn I'd by a
Republican Politician.
The suggestion, says the New York
Herald, made some days ago simulta-
neously in several Blaine papers of this
State that 1t would be well to give Presi-
dent Arthur the next Senatorship. has
caused the Republican politicians to
prick up their ears. They sc..i.t bar
gain, and they like bargains. i.;lt thew
are not all agreed about the value of Mr..
Arthur's possible services to the Blaine
cause in the coming election. It is ad-
mitted, however, by leading Blaine men
that some kind of help Is needed by them
in this State, and that eif Arthur can
show us that he can help us where we
need it, we ought to pay him for it, that's
all there is in 1t, as Republican boss
frankly put it to Herald reporter.
The same gentleman discussed at some
length the question of Mr.. Arthur's value
to the Blaine canvass. He said: 81 don't.
of course, know how far the trade has got
along. In my judgment Arthur's help Is
not worth as much as Blaine or seme Of
Ills dOlNlSeI5 DeltcN6s anu bnSre are good
many more of my opinion. But / know
that this dicker has been going on for
some time, and know also that il is op-
posed by some of our leading men. hear
now that Chandler, the Secretary of the
Navy, wants to have FOlger's place as
Secretary of the Treasury; and / Judge
that If Arthur gives him that it will be a
sign that Blaine and Arthur have come
together, and that Arthur will go into the
campaign and has the promise of being
the next Senator"
DIFFICULT PROMISE TO KEEP.
"What do you think of such an arrange.
ment" asked the reporter.
''Well, don't know. You see it will be
very difficult to keep the promise to make
Arthur Senator without making a good
deal of trouble in the party hereafter.
Blaine's managers, OF course, look no
further than the November election. They
are ready to do or promise anything to
elect Blaine. OF c66rse / want to see
Blaine and IMan elected, and know as
we'll as anyMW that we need all the help
we can ugaeee5 carry New York for Blaine.
B(ntzf = of the men who have been press
iH9Nsnis dicker on the Blaine side are from
other States aud Territories, and they
don't know and very probably don't care,
much about our State politics. We who
live here and who have got to think
of the future of the party in this State
and of our own futures, more or less.
don't see it as plainly. To make such a
bargain with Arthur can't possibly be
pleasant TO Senator Warner Miller. be-
cause no man likes to put a knife some.
where near his own throat.
SENATOR MILLRR's POSITION.
"Senator Miller is a good manager.
though still a little new to the ropas. Rut
he has seen the old managers 90 down be-
fore him and has the field to himself. 1t
was not pleasant to him that Blaine made
personal pledge to Tom Platt to make
him Secretary of the Treasury: bnt he
had to swallow that, because Platt was
very important fellow at Chicago, and
was determined to have his price. | sup
pose Tom Platt and Warner Miller might
agree together, perhaps, though Platt, as
secretary OF the Treasury, or even Post
master General, would not leave much
chance to Miller in this State, except as a
subordinate. But anybody can see that
to put new life into so shreWd and unscru-
pulous political manipulation as Arthur.
who is now as dead as door nail, is un-
pleasant to Senator Miller. To be sure,
Platt and Arthur are out with each other
just now, but as they are both practical
men they will know how to get together:
and, don't you see, If they should come
together, Warner Miller might get
CHAUNCEY DEPEW'S ASPIRATIONS.
''Then, again, Chauncey Depew has
been wanting to go to the Senate for a
good while; he came near going when
Platt got the place, and it was a disap-
p0intment to him. He won't take it very
kindly now to have Arthur put in ahead
of himself. Depew's tired of waiting, and
he has a notion that the Senate would
give him chance to make much bigger
mark than he has yet made, aud he is not
the only one by all odds who has a long
ing for Senator Lapham's place. There
is Cornell, for instance; he's mighty quiet,
but he is by no means dead, and he would
not be pleased to see Arthur slip in past
him.
'"The fellows who want to use Arthur
keep throwing it up to the rest of us that
ifit hadn't been for him the State wouldn't
have gone for Garfield in 1880. That's all
right, but they forget that Arthur then
and Arthur now are two very different
persons.
CoNKLING, ,PLATT, ARTHUR AND CORNELL.
''Four years ago we had team in this
State that could pull tOgether-Conkling,
Platt, Arthur, Cornell, all working to-
gether, could achieve results. No doubt
Arthur played the trick that saved us the
State, but he couldn't have done it il he.
had not had with him and behind him
Conkling, Tom Platt and Cornell. And
Just think what he got for it, not to speak
Of the others. He was abused ike apick-
pocket for two years by the men whom he
had saved from political death; his friend
Folger was slaughtered and is now dead
Of that undeserved punishment; and final
ly, at Chicago, Arthur himself was
by the same men who killed
Folger. l can't blame him if he requires
to be paid for any work he may do tor the
men who have shown him and his friends
no mercy. But what l was going to saw
Is that Arthur now stands alone; he has
no Conkling or Platt or Cornell TO work
with him, and therefore / doubt whether
he can give as effective help now as he
did in 1880, while to promise him the Sem
is sure to make very ugly row
in the party after the election. That's the
way it looks to me.''