The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-11-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.
GLOOMILY AWAITING THE
FALL OF THE OFFICIAL
AXE. @e s.4-.s
Cabinet Making Premature
Harrison has a Mind of his

Cabinet Making Premature
Harrison has a Mind of his
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From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l9-Now.. is
the winter of Democratic discomfort,
and the few, very few that President
Cleveland has appointed to Office here
10 Washington, are gloomily await
ing the fourth of March and the
official axe. -Four years ago, when it
became evident,Ihat tine Democratic
president would not turn the rascals
out, | wrote these words. The gen.
eral who makes battle with an army
composed of traitors will he shot in
the back, and be deserves his fate.
Now this is precisely what has hap
pened to Mr.. Cleveland. This is one
of the causes OF his taking off If
it we e only the taking off of an
individual it would not matter much,
but the Democratic Party, through no
fault OF its own, is doomed TO four
years of dirty eclipse.
1t was amusing TO go through the
Government Officer here Immediately
after the election, and study the faces
of the many republican clerks in con.
trast withthe faces Of the sprinkiing
Of democrats who have in some mysS
ferrous way gotten into Office. The
former were trying to look lugubrious
at the defeat Of their friends, the
enemy, While the latter were smiling
desperately at their own grief. High
comedy has furnished few things bet
ter to the Indifferent onolOoker, but
behind it all was that terriblest Of
tragedies, the battle of life, in which
not the fit, but only the fttest sur.
wye.
Among democratic politicians here
aud elsewhere, the cursIng ia both
loud and deep. Mr.. Cleveland has
received something like a ton of mail
denauEcing him for his lack of polit,
ical comm0n se4se, fos his obstinacy
against advice, in short for his failure
TO mold the fort. Those who sent
and are sending these letters may as
we'll know that the President never
sees them. He has several clerks
whose business is to select and burn
all such letters
Il is too early to talk about 1892,
but many democrats here, in AMI out
ol Office, are talking about it, and
the drift of their Ia k or / might say
their feeling il, that while Mugwum-
pry is dead, Democracy is immortal,
and that no temporary defeat, much
less a betrayal, can smother its c.er
nal fire, or deraciuate its love from
the human heart. 1t lived through
light years ofthe despotism Of Grahl:
tour years Of the usurpation of Hayes
with its sequel Of Garfield and
four yeats more of victory without
is fruits. Ii can certsinly survive
this galyan'zatiou Of republicanism.
Ii seems 70 be accepted as a fact
among Mr.. Blsine's friends here, that
he should be made eith-r Secretary
OF State Of Mini.ter TO England. No
one doubts that he could have either
position, but il is mooted question
whether he would accept. No ere.
dence Is given To the report that he
would like to succeed Senator Frye
There is an impression here that Mr..
Blaine would prefer 10 remain out of
the Cabinet. but as the leaier Of his
party. having a potent voice in MAX
ing up the Cabinet aud distributing
the offices. IL is understand here that
Mr. Blaine will live in Va. hington
next wiuter.
II is believed that Senator Sian
ford Of California will have q Cabinet
nomination His subsc'ip.iol to the
republican campaign fu"d vas enor'
mouF, stupendous, big. Tho Presi-
dent elect and Stanford we're persons
al friends when in the Senate tUgeths
sr. IL is not thought the California
Senator wants anything for himself,
but his friends of the Pac,ds Slope
want All they can glt.
a may say, however, that Cabine'
making at this early day by even the
best posted, is premsturc, American
slate makers cannot make the Cabinet
Of the incoming president. He is re
puted 20 have a little mind Of his own
land some diminutiye minds have Z
great deal of obstinacy and self a..
scrtiHn. II Is probable that somebody
will lie surprised when on the after
noon OF March 4. 1880. the Cnhina