The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-29
HORATIO SEYMOUR.
His Estimate Of Cleveland and the Outlook
for the New Administrator.

ALBANY. n. Y, Jan. 2S-President-elect
Cleveland is back from Buffalo, and the political
pilgrims again begin to visit the Democratic
shrine at his temporary residence on Whlet
street The distinguished gentleman was re-
Gently visited by a venerable politician, Colonel
Thomas Dunlap, of New York-one who has
seen very many changes in public life during
nearly half a century. He is also intimately &C
quainted with hosts of leading men in the State
and Nation. Colonel Dunlap fell into tho hands
of a newspaper man while here. He was on his
way home from Utica, where he. had seen and
conversed for a long time with Ex-Governor
Horatio Seymour. The conversation between
these tive men, as narrated by Colonel Dunlap,
was important and interesting.
He represents the Sage of Deer6eld, who has
now passed his seventy fifth birthday. as some
what oppressed by the weight of years, but upon
the whole enjoying good average health and
spirits. He is thankful that he has been spared
to see the final triumph of the Democratic party
in the late presidential election, and expresses
entire confidence in Mr.. Cleveland and his policy.
What" Colonel Dunlap was asked, lis his
general idea of the President-elect"
"He looks upon Mr.. Cleveland as q big brainy
man, conservative in his opinions and likely to
BIO found equal to any emergency. If care and
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selecting his Cabinet. his administration will be
not only a successful but a brilliant one. Mr..
Seymour, however, fears that too much will be
expected Of the President at the outset OF his
official term, and some disappointment may be
expressed from the impossibility of making rad
ical changes Immediately. 1t will take time to
assimilate the entire executive force OF the
country to the views and designs OF the new
regime. This, however, will be facilitated by the
result Of the Investigation which must be made
into the doings of the Republican officials who
have held power SO long.
irregularities of every nature may be ex-
pected to be found in every branch of the public
service, and, in some. notorious corruption has
run rampant When the books are overhauled,
as they must be, such wrong-doing as may be
found will be punished by the removal of the
wrong-doers. The public, remarked Mr.. Sey-
mour, must be made to realize that we have a
clean government. In harmony with this pur-
pose, too, the civil laws must be respected. 1t
is Mr.. Seymour's opinion that an opportunity is
now opened to the Democratic party to identify
itself closely with the future of this country, to
direct its deStiuieS, and to carry on the govern
ment in accordance with the traditions of its
great leaders, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
jackson"
What are the views of Mr.. Seymour upon the
tariff question:
HE thinks the question must be squarely met
and dealt with, and that its settlement will form
one of the features of tho coming presidential
term. Agricultural, as we'll as manufacturing
and commercial interests must be considered.
For instance. the great Northwest must find the
market which it demands for it's products, for
without reciprocacy of foreign trade it will find
itself without an outlet for them, and the
strength of this local feeling was shown by a
large Western vote at the recent election. Mr..
Seymour believes it possible to equalize the
interests of different sections and earnestly de-
sires it.
'"The subsidies given by the government in
the shape of public lands and otherwise to rail
road corporations, he also thinks, require atten-
ton. In every case the recipients ought to be
compelled to live up their contracts; they should
be taught that they are the servants rather than
the masters of great popular interests. The
Governor favors emphatically a ship canal from
the lakes to the Hudson river, since the demands
of commerce have outgrown the demands of the
Erie canal. In this connection he expressed a
hope for the control of the isthmian canal by our
own countrymen."