The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-20
AFTER THE BATTLE.
What Senator Gormon Says About the
President.elect.
.Snecinl tn he Rnltin,ore S1ln.

Special to The Baltimore Sun.
NEW YORK, November l1.-Senator
Gormon, in conversation with your cor
respondent to day, said the country owed
much to the Independent Republicans
its escape from Blaineism. He said the
Independent Republican organization
was admirably managed, and did most
effective work, although not one of its
members was a practiced politician.
Some of the papers put forth by the In
dependents were models, both as regards
form and style. Mr.. Beecher, he said,
had been one of the most active of the
Independent members, and many of his
suggestions were most applicable. He
thought MIR. Beecher had given tone and
earnestness to a number of the addresses
which were issued. The Independents
consulted and co-operated with the Demo.
cratic committee, but had never under.
taken to interfere or dictate to them in
the least degree and had never asked for
the least pecuniary assistance from the
democrats, though spending at least
100000 in their own way. ALI asser.
tions as to the Democratic committee
contributing anything to pay the cam.
paign expenses of the Independent Re.
publicans were without foundation, and
no one of them had ever made any such
application. He said the Democratic
detection had proved to be greater than
was anticipated, and it was unquestioned
that the succor afforded by the Indepen.
dents gave New York to Cleveland. He
believed that Governor Cleveland fully
recognized the fact that he was not the
choice alone of his own party, and would
give due consideration to the Indepen-
dents.
The more he had seen of Cleveland
during the progress of the campaign just
closed the more he had found to respect
and admire. Cleveland would show him
self in the Presidential Office fully equal
to all its requirements, and his policy
and appointments would be of such a
character as to disarm just criticism. In
reference to the apprehensions said to be
entertained among the subordinate Gov
ernment employees at Washington, it
was like one starting at ones own shadow.
Cleveland was Democrat, and it would
be odd if he did not lean to favoring his
own side, but neither he nor the Demo.
cratic party could afford, after winning
the battle as it has been won, to lend
themselves to such an ignoring of the
elementary principles of civil service re.
form as would be involved in an immedi.
ate and wholesale discharge of subordi-
mates. He did not believe that there
would be more, if as many, removals in
Washington under Cleveland as there
would be under Blaine. Cleveland has
not made one single pledge as to Office,
and is not under solitary obligation,
while Blaine has mortgaged every Office
in Washington above that of any ordi-
nary clerk.
The Senator said it had been published
in some of the newspapers that he was to
go in Cleveland's cabinet as Postmaster.
General. In his belief, Cleveland would
construct his own Cabinet when the
proper time came. So far as he was con.
cerned, he desired no place in the Cabi.
net. He preferred his position as Sena.
tor from Maryland to any other under the
Government.
Upon the subject Of the operations of
the two National committees, he said the
results could speak for themselves. The
determination on the part of the Demo.
cratic committee to make no fight for
Maine was arrived atafter the most care
full consideration, and the committee felt
perfectly satisfied as to the wisdom of
its course. 1t had, without expending
any funds worth speaking Of, scared the
Republican committee into throwing
Sl50,0 into Blaine's own State. The
Republican committee had spent inn
mense sums in the West, and the Demo.
cratic committee comparatively nothing.
They had also saturated Virginia and
West Virginia with the stream of green.
backs poured from their corruption fund,
and Mr.. Elkins sent 100000 in one lump
to West Virginia. He felt now quite
satisfied that if the Democratic committee
had paid little attention to Michigan
they could have captured that State, as
its very close vote allowed. He said he
was somewhat disappointed as to the
result in California and Nevada, as the
committees advices from those two
States we're of such character as to
lead them to expect different decision.