The Washington critic., 1885-08-28
Washington, Aug. 2S,. 1855,
GIISDN-EIsTIS.

The antagonsm of the administration
by one of the Louisiana Senators and
its support by the other, continue to
attract attention and afford amuse-
mcnt
Mr. Gibson, in spirit of true 10y
atty, says that the Louisiana appoint
mcnts of the President have been made
upon no narrow line and in no pro
scriptive spirit That they will prove
satisfactory to the people of the State is
his confident hope lie desires the
people to remember that for the first
time in generation the Federal Offices
in Louisiana are in the hands of men
who have shared their fortunes, aud
that they are all trustworthy Demo
Gratis. He cannot believe that the
party there will seek to administer n
rebuke to the President for not surren-
dcring himself to the idea that the
main duty of a chief executive is TO
ladle out that poorest of all party nu.
triment-the spoils of office.
Mr. Gibsons general view is prob
ably the correct one 1t were strange
indeed if the people of Louisiana were
not sick and tired of faction and family
quarrels and political vendettas.
Mr.. Eustis, upon the other hand, is
dismal and truculent, Things are not go.
ing to suit him; therefore they shall not
go TO suit anybody. That's his philos-
ophy in the rough Yet there is trace
of just grievance, perhaps, running
through his opposition to the President,
and on this he apparently hopes to
build.
1t is reported that while the Grant
funeral was in progress, there was n
conference in New York between Vice
President Hendricks and Senator Eus.
lis, in which they substantially agreed
that Mr.. Cleveland was by no means
the right man in the right place so far
as the distribution of official patronage
is concerned. They even came to the
conclusion, as the story goes, that the
President was endeavoring to split the
Democratic party into pieces, that he
might be taken up by new political
deal in 1888. This is such an eXtraor-
dinary conclusion to come to, however,
that we can never be induced to believe
the Vice President entertained it, eX.
cepting upon his own sworn affidavit
10 that effect.
There is another feature of this ros
nance which challenges even the most
open-mouthcd credulity. 1t is that Mr.,
Eustis is already preparing speech
TO be delivered in the Senate, the first
thing after the opening of the session,
based upon an anticipated defeat of the
Administration in New York and Ohio.
But is it not asking little too much OF
the gullible public to believe that Mr.
Eustis would go seriously to worl,
upon the greatest effort of his life, on
the naked expectation that two events
both of them good distance in the fu
lure, will take a certain foreordained
shape when they are just as likely tC
take another and entirely diiferen
shapey Besides, such a course woul(
imply that the Senator desires the Dem
Ocratic party to be defeated.
In other words, he yearns himself t.
bring about the same party rupture anC
humiliation, which he charges or is nj
legged to charge, the President will
conspiring to effect There's lack o
consistency here that man of Mr.
Eusts' sagacity would scarcely b.
guilty of. The probability is that sen
sible and pacific counsels will gradu
ally l<evail and that by the time Con
gress meets Senator Eustis will have
discovered the unwisdom and futility
OF making war upon an administration
which is fast cntrenching itself in tn,
confidence of the people, Sooner THAI
this, we shall expect to see him and Glib
son shaking hands across the erstwhil
lurid chasm and the Louisiana hatche
buried out Of sight.