New-York tribune., 1886-07-12
TIE SOUTHERN RING.

AttOrnev-G General GaIland's retirement Is re-
sisted it appears, by strong comDlnduon ol
Southern leaders. They not uunatlrally conclude
that his disgrace would tend to dlscledlt them.
Indeed, it would obviously dive not few OF
them from public life, because of their connec-
ton with the Pan-ElectIic scandal. Hence 1t
is that, according TO dispatches 10 some Demo-
cratic papers, threats have been employed to IN
Thence the President, and he has been told that
Senator Harris would defeat hlm i'll Tennessee
and Mr.. Garland in Arkansas, and Mr.. Lamar III
Mississippi. and that these defeats would make
an end of him. il he disowns the Pan Electric
statesmen.
Between the devil and the deep sea is not
pleasant situation. The President probably
begins TO understand that ii would certainly be
fatal to him if he should stick 10 Mr.. Garland
and the Pan-Electric ring OF Southern plunder-
ylabbers. Nothing can be clearer than tiil~'
that the Democratic party will not shoulder Tie
telephone scandal. If there were nothing else
10 depIess MIR. Clevcland's prospects, this alone
woud be fatal TO him, if he retains Garland,
Goode and Lamar But it happens that his best
deeds have hurt him with many Democrats,
while his very yielding to the party has injured
him with many Others his veoes OF pension
bills by the score, and his peculiarly offensive
language ID regard to them, Will cost hlm some
support and his utterances about the tillh VIII
cost him "A great deal more. lie cannot aiioid
TO play Sin bad the Sailor t. Mr. L@nars Olu
Man oi the Sea.
There is another phase of the matter which
the President ought to understand by tins time.
The temper of the Northern people III regard
70 the control of the Government by the Old
rebels of the South is not quite pleasant Had
the Southein brethren, upon Their return to The
control of affairs behaved themselves Ill all
RESPECTS discleetly and worlhily, it would still
have stirred the feeling of those Noltheln Dem
ocrats who supported the Union to see the gray
preferrcd to the blue in large pa1t OF the
country and at Washington. But the oou'hclh
Bligadier, having captured Washington, has not
been entirely discreet Or worthy III his conduct
1t is not necessary TO remind Democrats ol 'he
mad rush for office which brought disgrace
npon the Administration, OF the appointment
of unpaIdoned and malignant rebels because
tLev were unnroned, nor of the selection oi
men implicated in assassinations and election
massacres. The honor paid to the memory OF
Jacob Thompson is not forgotten, nor has lhe
country been delighted By the behavior Ol the
Bligadier in Congress. The attitude OF the
South on the taiit question has reused intense
resentment in portions of the North where the
Democratic party needs support. The od-tlme
fondness of the ContedeIates for England Is
brought freshly to mind by the behavior OF
Southern Secretary OF State on the fishery
question, and other questions Whlch pace
| British and American interests III anlagohlail.
If II is to he added that a Southern combination
of hungry politicians is to use the power OF
the Government to plunder the country, and to
| disgrace the Government at the same time
to destroy the property OF men who have In
vested on the faith of the Nations patents,
and to enrich as shameless set OF scamps as
ever infested Washington, Mr.. Cleveland will
find that his Southern support will not help
| him mnch, if he cont ives to retain It,