The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1876, Page 4

THE PRESIDENCY The Meaning. of the Recent Cabinet Changes. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CANVASS ero Why Was Don Cameron Made Secretary of War? BRANT AND HIS PUILADELPIUA CABINET. How Blaine Has Been Organizing Pennsylvania. GRANT TAKES THE FIELD IN PERSOW. | ‘Don Cameron the Sheridan of the New Campaign. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE —___+__—_. CAMERONS, Purapenrata, May 23, 1876, The appointment of Don Cameron to be Secretary of War bas excited Philadelphia so much as to make her forget the Centennial. fhe news came in the afternoon, And about Sixth and Chestnut streets, where everybody who is anybody can see everybody in five minutes, | there was a flutter, Although a resident of Harrisburg, | Don Cameron is as well kuown in Philadelphia as his | father, It was only the other day, that as | your correspondent was strolling along Chestunt street about noon he ob: d, afew paces ahead of him, a group, at which everybody seemed to turn and stare, The day was sunny, and as everybody was out it was diffoult to move along. The group was composed of President Grant, Don Cameron and George W. Childs, and people who studied events with a critical eye shook their heads and said, “This means something.” You seo tts meaning to-day. Now everybody reminds you of the walk, aud how Mr. Childs marched the group to a point where they could get a fine view of the Ledger Butidings and the flags, and then marched them back again through the crowd. Administration editors, who would have wore crino- Ane or pusbed a wheelbarrow to have been allowea | to have walked up Chestnut street with | the President, were sore over this ostenta. | tious preference on General Grant's part for an editor who cares nothing about “the cause,” and | whose support of the President Is social and not politt- | cal. Whether Don Cameron and the President and Mr. | Childs discussed the War Department portfolio in that oonday parade 1 do not know, but it 1s an open secret What the President took occasion on his trip to discuss | Political affairs with bis personal friends, and that oat of this discussion camo some of these changes. GRANT'S CALINET OF CRONIES. I don’t think you people in New York have under. | stood the important part Philadelphia bas played inthe | adm/nistration of President Grant, You remember the | military Cabinet of Washington, which Hamilton swayed, and which was the power behind the throne. | You remember the kitchen Cabinet of Jackson, over which the hero presided with a corncob pipe when | he wanted to swear at some -one. Grant has hada similar Cabinet in Philadeiphia—which might be called the Cabinet of Cronies. Tho President always liked Philadelphia. When he came bere during the | warhe was charmed. I remember hearing mim say {and this must have been in 1366) that he thougnt of making his home in this city. Philadelpiia gave bim | his first substantia! recognition in the shape of a | house in the best partof the town, Ho offered one Cabinet portfolio to George H. Stuart, a merchant, and when that was declined he nominated Mr. Borie, A couple of years ago he strove to induce Mr. Drexel to | enter the Treasury, He camo near sending Joseph Patterson to the En ish Court, as he did Mr. Boker to Russia, He named Judge Strong to the Supreme Bench. | Every one of these appointments came from the Cabi- | net of Cronies, They were m no sense party appoint. | ments, There is not one of these geatlemen—Stuart, | Borie, Drexel, Boker, Patterson or Sirong—who would not resent tho suggestion that they wore in | active sympathy with Penusylvania ropubh. | tanism. When those who mpathized = with | the party made Mr. Sto} Mayor these | gentlemen o¢posed him im the Union League. ‘They | preserve their relations with the President on a per- | sonal footing, Mr. Childs, who edits and publishes the leading newspaper of the city, and who is a| prominent member of the Cabinet of Cronies, would never allow his journal say a word for or against the party to which the President owes everything. The politicians have growled because the President ignored the “rushers” and the “boys.” When the President came to the city, instead of going down to the Row and having a good time with Pull Leeds or Harry Bingham or Jobnvy Hill, or giving an evening to the Pilgrim Club, he was sure to slip away to the home of Childs or | Drexel or Borie, where none of the boys were on visiung terms, These journeys tranquilized a mind burdened with cares of State, for the members of this Cabinet of cronies are agreeable men, They are rich, They lve in splendor. They give fine finners. They move in @ refined, exclusive circle. They ure amiable, kindly | soothing, Idon't think Adolph Borie, who may be said to preside over this Cabinet and about whom you afl laughed when he was mado Secretary of the Navy, ever said an augry word in his life. The reason Borie did not succeed in the naval office was because he was rich and iazy, It was not a question of for he 1's a very able man, the of a vast fortuae which ho He was at the time of life when a busy man earned, craves rest, a genial man society and a cultured mau time for reading. Mr. Boric was both able, genial and cultivated, and if his office could have been a social offe he would have been an ad- mirable Seeretery of the Navy. But with the Testless genius of Porter on one side, and a horde of hungry politicians on tho other, what could a wealthy, middle-aged gentleman do but throw aside the portfolio And return to his pictures, his books and his friond- ships in charming Philadelphia. Sinco then he h been the confidential adviser and friend of Grant—the | @huef of the Cabinet of Cronies. THE ACHIRVEMENTS OF TUR CABINET OF CRONTRS. Thus far the relations between the President and the Party in Pennsylvania have been governed by this Cab- {net of Cronies. Alexander K. McClure, the Achilles of the reform movemeut, made the discovery when, one morning, he called on the Second Washington to advise with him as to the wisdom of taliing Governor Curtin into the Cabinet, The eyes of the Second Washington looked outupon Achilles through the hovering wreaths of tobacco smoke with a peculiar lustre, as he intimated that when be needed advice on Cabinet appointments he would prepay a lotter to the Colonel on the subject, From that day to this there has never been any sympathy between the President Qnd the party in the State. Curtin was ut to Russia, which be regarded as an exile, and resented by mutiny. Cameron was given tho Turkish miseion on the nomination of bis in-law, Wayne MeVoigh; bat that gifted and brilliant gentleman soon wearied ef the Bosphorus, and came home to his business. McClure left the * republican fold without asking for a letter of dismissal, and opened a church of bis own, Forney was given the coliectorship of the port, which would have been a humiliation to a man so able and devoted, but that its atceptance was an act of self-denial ior the party wolfare. 1 believe McMichael had some vague recogni- tign in tho way of an office for one of is sone, but | nothing bke what be deserved. All the appointments that meant anything, all the offices that carried honor with them, were given to the candidutes most accept- able to the Cabinet of Cronies, Uf there is any Pepys A@ Philadeipbia inside this Cubinet, hus diary will one fag reves! that no body of men bave had so much | they opposed Hartranft, Ropublicans (rom all parts of ; Newark Advertiser:—“Tbe nomination of Edwards | class | sentative | the State to the only man who can savo the delegation | rich, thrifty, clannish, NEW YORK HERALD, a influence over Grant or secured so many ad- | vantages im the way of patronage, influence and offices as this company of amiable | wealthy and hospitable gentlemen, who have no con. | cern with polities, who only “‘advise the President for | his good,” who are his “social friends,” not political, and who have gever allowed that friendship to betray them into a position which would make it impossible for them to support, comfort and advise Tilden or Bayard as they have supported, comforted and admired | Grant WHY GRANT WENT OUTSIDE OF THE CADINET OF CROXTES. Why, then, did the seeond Washington go outside of his Cabinet of Cronies to find a Seeretary of War? You know that ever since the Babcock | and Belknap exposures convinced Grant that | he could not be a third term President | his beart has yearned toward Conkling. He liked Roseoe, A plucky man, who never knew tear, he liked a Senator who carried the tactics of Donelson and the Wilderness inio the Senate. Roscoe was an uncanditional surrender cebater, who never detended, | but assailed, Then Grant, who bas com. | mon sense under hig emotions, saw possibili- | ties ia Conkling—genius, integrity and force. | Since he was to leave the place, he turned, with the in- Stinct of @ great captain satiated with power and | anxious tor his fame, to the most worthy. He liked Morton, but Morton’s health made his nomination im- possible, He never liked Blyine since Eu- gene Hale, Blaine’s friend, threw the Post | Office portfolio back at him, for fear that | his going into the Cabinet might harm the Maino statesman’s aspirations, That was a slighta man of Grant’s natare never would forgive, and those who sat | 1n the shadow of the White House said, ‘Farewell to laine!” Bristow is impossible, It is an open Secret that if Grant did not think it would make Bristow President he would dismiss him from the Cabinet to-morrow, As oue of the echoes of the theme said to me the other day, “Bluford Wilson has been feeding out too many slanders to the New York press for Grant to regard Bristow in any other light than asan emeny and a spy.” So that qll his soul goes out to Conkling. THE SECOND WASHINGTON IN PHILADELPHIA, So when the second Washington came on the other day to see Dom Pedro, open the Centennial and have a | good time with Borie and Childs and the rest of | his friends, he opened his mind as to tho future, He | wanted an English Minister and the Cabi- | net named one of themselves in Joseph Patterson, an honorable and wealthy bank president, The Presicent | accepted this, and Mr, Patterson was pointed ont in | select circles as the coming man, the incumbent of the | last great office tuat the President would be apt to | bestow upon Philadelphia friends. Then came up tho question of the succession. The President found | their | that his Cabineb of Cronies had own mind. Some of them were in favor of Blaino, some were for Bristow, | as an act of respectability; some of them had not made | up their minds whether they would voto the republi- | can ticket or not. This was a revelation, a disappoint- ment. When he went to the window to meditate, and | | looked out trom the gilded, burnished parlors toward the Row, where the boys with diamond pins and dyed whiskers most do throng, he found them in open mutiny. He had counted upon his especial friends, but their desertion died out with the aroma of the Johannisberg and the odors of tho Partaga. He had counted upon party discipline im Philadelphia, | but even ‘party discipline could not stand a President who gave his apples of gold to | gentlemen who would-not speak to them on the street, | and who had only tor Forney, McMichacl and the ac. tive workers such Hesperidean fruit as the Custom House on Chestnut street or a small law | office under the Attorney General. ‘The boys | were all for Blaine, Blaine had been here | and had shaken hands with them and had learned their first names, Ana he had left cach one of the leaders, | from Morton McMichael down to Harry Bingham, un- | der the tmpression that he was his own especial repre- and coatidential leader, The only | conquest he did not make was Bill Kem- ble. Bill sat behind the bars of his bank, announcing that the party needed reform, and he | would support Bristow. So when the second Washington returned to the capital ho executed a political move, which for strategy equals his move from Grand Gult to Jackson, im the rear of Vicksburg. He threw Patterson over, sent Pierrepoint ahead in the place intended for Patterson, end summoned Don Cameron to his side as his lieutenant general, in | command of the Pennsylvania line. 1t had a two- | fold purpose, It announeed his formal adhesion to the fortunes of Mr. Conkling and it gave the command of in Penns: vania to Conkling. THE CAMERON CLAY, It is dificult to understand the Camerons without understanding Pennsylvania, This isa peculiar Stato, Pennsylvanians believe no til We never grade public men in our | of Pennsylvania affections by the varying standard of ontside opinion, Although no family has been as severely assailed as the Camerops they havo never lost their power, Simon Cameron is an old man, ‘vut the induence he wields in this State, and especially in the central sections, is ike that of a chief in the Highlands. It is hard to understand this uniess you go among (be people, The Camerons have al- ways been true to themselves and to their friends. They have respected no discipline that was not a faintly discipline. When one party would not do the Cameron bidding another party was found. They were direct and sincere in their convictions, in the main hating slavery and the Pope, What) they believed, they delieved with - High- | land tenacity, Draw a circle of fifty miles avout Dauphin couaty, and there is scarcely a family | which for one or two generations has not felt the | friendship or the enmity of the Camerons, You will hear how this man was seut to school as a boy; how | another man was put into business; how another | was started in a newspaper; bow — anothor was helped iu the mortgage on the farm; how another was pressed forward into pablic life; how | others were placed in the urmy or the navy, and all through the Camerons, This is one of the elements of their power, Then there ts the hearty, kindly way of | the Senator—so winning that it has been said he could | coax a gold watch ovt of one of his followers | and e him feel as happy as if he had given him one On the questions of slavery and religion they have always been fanatical, and this led the Senator to forfeit his place in the Cabi- net by his report, which Lincoln suppressed, about | arming the slaves, While Simon Cameron bas foauded tho feudal power, his son Don has contirmed it, The two men aro not alike, The father is | familiar, gracious—who would stride all around Har. | risburg like an Indian, wit a nod, a smile and a grasp of the hand for every man and child. The son, erect, cold, shy, silent, might go over the whole town with out givmg or receiving a nod of recognition, But those who kuow the Camerons have for twenty years recognized the son as a manof superior power. Certayniy no man had ever a sovercr task than that imposed up Don Cameron in 1902. His father, the Senator, bad been forced out of tho Cabinet, He had been baniehed to Russia, His enemies in Congress had censured him. The republican party was in the hands of Curtin, ope of the most fascinating men in publig life, and of Colonel McClure, one of the ableet and boldest leaders ever known in American polities. If ever & man was down it was the cnief of the house of Cameron. It was then that the ability of Dor Cameron came into play. He organized the Sen- atorial fight in 1863 or 1864—1 forgot the year— and would have beaten Buckalew in a democratic Legislature, aa he had beaten Forney, but for Sam Randall and a brigade of Philadelphians, who threut- cued to throw any democratic traitor into tho nver wuo dared to vote for Cameron, That was Don Cam- eron’s firet campaign, He revived his father’s power im the party; he planned the subsequent Senatorial elections; but bis real power was never felt until in 1872 NOW DON CAMERON ELECTED WARTRANST. You will remember that there was a republican meeting in Pennsylvania in the Presidential year, The enemies of Cameron made an attempt to break bis power. General Hartrantt was nominated for Gover- | nor, There was an open rebellion. In Philadelphia Forney, editing the loading republican journal of the State, repudiated the nomination, He was tollowed by analert and brave minority, Curtin revurned from Russia to take part in the canvass and to, bring the power of his personal popularity to beat upon the people. MeClure was the leader of the opposition, and never did be show so much resolution and versa- tility, The mutioeers offered to support Grant while | will overcame the scrupies of the timid. The be- qualities were only known to himself Ho | placed = this officer in a high command, | and the result was seen when Early went | whirling down the valley. | chief, which is sovereign. | contractors, Mr. Cameron is a very ablo man, fonder | impartiality in a contest like that now going on in the | have the slightest effect upon the decision of the repub- | to the popular will, and it will bea great mistake now the country hurried to Pennsylvania and asked the party to withdraw Hartranft, nominate an ‘unobjec- tionable”’ man, and thus ‘save the State” to Grant, The pressure was terrible. There was a disposition on the part of the leaders to yield and sup plant Hartranft. But Don Cameron almost alone resisted, and not only resisted, but said in so many | words, that if Hartranft was sacrificed there should be no republican victory im Pennsylvania, He would ha no compromise, no concessions, no surrender. His seeching republicans who came to make peace wel told to leave the State, go home and mind their own | business, Instead of lowering the flag it was nailed tothe mast, The result was the election of Hurtranft by a large vote, and the State voied fur Grant by a wajority larger than it had ever before given for a Presidential candidate, From that time Don Cameron became a power in Pennsylvania, and obtained recognition as one of the | really great leaders in American polities, Colonel Mc- Clure, who was his rival im that campaign, bears this tribute to Mr. Cameron in this morning’s paper:— “He did more to reseue Grant, in 1872, when tho tide was sweeping against him than any one man in Pennsylvania,’ Furthermore, says the Colonel in a spirit of chivalry worthy of note in this age of defam ¢ ig a brave and skilful leader, wins his battles consequences to the:nselves. * WHAT CAMRKON'S APPOINTMENT MEANS. T have gone into this history, which may seem some- | what elaborate to those who are not familiar with | Pennsylvania, as illustrating the meaning of this im- portant movement on the part of the President. Ho has done nothing since he became President ‘that has made stich a sensation in the State, So far as | fitness for the office is concerned no one, not even the enemies of Mr, Cameron, question his ability, He 1s a | man of colossal fortune, partly earned, partly from his father, partly from bis marriage, which was into one | of the wealthiest families of the State, He is, perhaps, the richest men im an administra- tion of rich = men. His hesitancy’ about accepting the War Office arises from his distaste for of- fice, the necessity for protecting large business inter- ests at home and his disinclination to a Washington lite, But it is well known that his acceptance of the office would gratify his father, who would have more than an old man’s pleasure in the sight of his son in the Cabinet, while he himself was- in the Senate. The history of governments and of American | governments especially, has rarely presented this co- | Incidenet—a father and ason at the same time in tho | highest positions of honor and authority, Don Came- | ron is the last man in Pennsylvania to care about th or about anything that looks lik® sentiment in poli- tics, and if his father’s wishes wore out of the way he would not go into the fag-end of an adminigtration. PENNSYLVANIA WILI. OBRY THE PRESIDENT. Above all this means that Pennsylvania, in the Cin- einnati Convention, will obey the orders of tho Prosi- dent, The President pronounces for Conkling, and ho | names a8 bis political Heutenant general iu Pennsy!- vania the bravest and boldest leader in her borders, 1 have heard Cameron’s nomination compared to the appointment of Sheridan to command the cavalry of the army. Before Grant moved on to Richmond he sent out West for an oflcer whom no one knew, whose Tn the same spirit he takes Don Cameron and gives him the most important po- litical command in the purty, If Cameron seryds bin as well and with as mach success as Sheridan did in tho | Army of the Potomac, it may be that tho nominations | of Monday are only the precursors of the nomination of Roscoe Conkling at Cincinnati within the next three weeks, DISCIPLINE AT LAST, Clearly it settles one thing—that while Ulysses 8. Grant is President of the United States and head ot the republican party he means to command the party and to have only ono power respected, the power of the GRANT'S MOVE FOR CONKLING. Hartford Courant:—“It is thought at Washington that the appointment has been made in the interest of | Senator Conkling ag*a Presidential candidate, but this | is not likely. The more probable reason ts that the President has yielded to the pressure from Pennsyl- vania for a representation in the Cabinet.’? Albany (N. Y.) Argus:—“There is nothing in these | nominations to inspire confidence in Conkling. Its not intended that there should be. It is only designed to show to the world that the administration and the republican party are synonimous, and that there is to be no flinching in the fight. The nomination of Conkling is as good as settled.” Springfield Republican:—“These changes may givo votes to Conkling at Cincinnati; they will give fo votes to tho republican candidates in November. Judge Taft | is good anywhere, and will probably be more at home | among lawyers than among army ollicers and army of business than of polities, and his experience in the latter has consisted ehieily in buying up conventions and legisiatares for his father or his railroads. He will run the department on the strictly business principles of Pennsylvania politics, and ‘addition, subtraction and | silence’ should be the legend printed over his private | office.” | | | | Boston Journal :—“As an arrangement, however, it 1s a blunder, to say the least. The President of the United States cannot swerve from the path ot plam republican organization without the unfairness recoil+ ing upon the very parties sought to be benefited The day has gone by when an cdict from the White House, oran anderstand.ng over a Cabinet place, is going to lican masses or the destinies of the republican party, | The competition in the republican ranks thus far bas been carried on fairly and honorably, by direct appeals to interpose any wholesale attempt at Executive dicta- tion or matagement, for it will surely be found that the republican masses will have nono of It, besides set- | ting their brand upon the Presidential aspirants who » have no better knowledge of the American people than this.” Eimita Gazette :—‘‘The nomination of Hon. Edwards Pierrepont as Minister to England 1s probably about as good as might reasonably be expected from President Grant. He 1s ramored to be a trifle better than Schenck, though the latter be sound on the crooked whiskey frauds, whieh ts more, perhaps, than can be said of Pierrepont. When he gets to England the shapo of his bead may attract some attention."” Worcester (Mass,) Spy :--‘‘But the country will not be satisfied wiih the appointment of Mr. J. Donald Cameron to the office which Judge Taft leaves. His only qualification for 1t is that he ts Simon’s son, and Uis elevation to this place is said to be, and doubticss is, due to his father’s desire to start the young man in public lite, The disereditable record of his father in this same office ought to have excluded from that at least a man whose only recommendation 1s that be Is a Cameron, ‘Don,’ as he is fam'itarly called, has boen heard of before only in coanection with the devious intrigues of Penusylvania politics, aud in no State in | the Union are the politics or politicians tore discred- itadie."” Boston Herald :—“The President has shuitied his Cabinet cards and made a new deal Now w is Jad Pierrepont whom he desires to havo the English mis- sion, Judge Tait 1 too honest a ean for the War De- partment, and he is appointed to the office of Attorney General, and Simon Cameron's son, John Donald Cameron, is appointed Seoretary of War. Ii the younger | Cameron is at all like bis papa he may make as fat a thing out of the office as did Belknap, but the time is execedingly short,” Utiea (N. Y.) Merald:—‘'3igee Grant's frat secession Senator Cameron has had at heart this appointment, but up to this time ail of his shrewdness has not beon able to bring itabout. 1¢ will now be attribated to a scheme for controjling the Pennsylvania delegation at Cincinuat, The younger Cameron has a might to bo Judged by the record which he will make as Secretary, Unuil justified by such record the appointment capnot be calied # strong one.” Philadelphia Jéem:—“Colonel J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, takes the portioho of the War Depart | ment. It is hardly necossary to say a word, so weil 18 he known and so bighiy is be respected. He jx the son | of the venerable publicist, Senator Cameron, and he is one of the brightest and best beloved of our citizens; he is wealthy, Sagactous, public spirited and wise, and he has an immense following in Pennsylvania, The President could not have made an appointment moro _ agreeable to our people,” DNESDAY, MAY 24, is Ea \ Pierrepont as Minister to England, sent to the Senate Yesterday, puts an end to the hope which has been widely entertained that Mr. Cortiandt Parker, of this city, would be selected for that position, And with all due respect for Mr. Pierrepont, we must express our conviction that the enoice will not prove as acceptable to the country as that of Mr. Parker would have done.” Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser: —“We do say that Roscoo Coukiling will, and that he beyond avy man or all men will, make the canvass sure, There ts no republican element which will not support him, and there isa large democratic element that will. We do not by this assert that all republicans favor bis nomination, Strangely and upuccountably, there are some who do not, But all will support him, and his earnest. hard working an@ enthusiastic triends in every town and ‘school district of the State will mako a canvass that will be irresistible. Give us Roscoe Conkling and the thirty-tive electoral votes of New York are assured beyond a question,” Forney’s Philadelphia Press, May 23:—“There is a floating rumor that General Grant has fairly entered the field, not for himself, bat for Senator Conkling, of New York, as his successor, and that he intends to make a general assault upon all the other candidates. We do not believe it Grant is too wise and too grate- ful for so small a business in favor of so small a poli- tician, History bas not been written in vain on this subject, and even if he had attempted an act of such | supreme folly, his own office-holders would turn agaiast him," Providence (R. 1.) Press:—‘We do not see any evi- dence that Presidential considerations entered into ap- pointments which are good enough to stand on their own merila. Nor do we believe that the President will attempt, by the public patronage or otherwise, to in- fluence the choice ot the Convention in the nomination of his successor. ’? Boston Advertiser:—‘‘lt would seem ‘rom the tenor of Washington advices that the bare suspicion, probably without any substantial foundation, that the appointmentsare an incident in a Presidential com- bination, seems already to have deleated the scheme it is said to have been designed to promote. It ought to be understood by this time that any trade or combina. tion, recognizing or involving the use of the spoils sys tem, is certain to be disastrous this year to the trad- ers, Whom it will help is another matter.” Boston Globe:—'‘-he President’s aid, we imagine, will do Mr. Conkling more harm than good. The fa- vorite of tho present administration will have little chance in the race. If Mr, Conkling were content to rest hisclaims on his own merits they would have a slender foundation, and he can hardly, be said to in- jure his chances by political intrigue.” Forney’s Philadelpnia Press:—“fwo changes were made by President Grant yesterday, and a successor appointed to General Robert C. Schenck as American Minister at London. Mr, J. Donald Cameron, the new Secretary of War, is the only Cabinet appointment | President Grant, since his inauguration in 1889, has conferred upon the great State of Pennsylvania, save the brief interregnum reluctantly filled by Mr. Adoiph E. Borie, FOr this late recognition we are, of course, expected to be obediently sensible. Mr. Taft, the new Attorney General, a citizen of Obio, is admitted to be a highly respectable gentleman and an able practitioner of the law, ter at London, is an accomplighed jurist and geatleman. a natural diplomat, and especially equipped to grappie | with the present complications with the government of Great Britain,” Washington Republican (administration organ):—‘“As | regards the political siguificance of these two appoint- ments, the gossips have much to say, the majority of them assuming that it isa movement in behalf of the nomination of Senator Conkling at Cincinnati, In our opinion, if ithas any signficance beyond a desire on the part of the President to select good men to be his | constitutional advisers, it simply means that the ad- ministration intends to stamp its approval upon the widespread sentiment in the republican party that tho | day for temporizing with hall-way friends and weck kneed conciliators has passed.’? Washington Republican:—“'This latest chango in the Cabinet means ‘business,’ ’” Washington Star (rep.):—“The changes in the Cabinet. positions nomimated to the Senate to-day by President Grant are regarued by politicians at the Capitol as a movement in favor of Conkling’s nomination at Cin- cinnati, The generat drift of the talk is that Cameron has been given the war portfolio in consideration ot swinging the Pennsylvania delegation, of which he is chairman, in Conkling’s interest, and that Hartrantt is a party to the combination, in view of having boen promised a Cabinet position should Conkling secure the nomination and election. The Senate having con- firmed Cameron’s nommation, delicacy will constrain him vo resign as a delegate to Cincinnati.” Albany (N. ¥.) Zoening Times:— So fur as Pierre- pontand Taft aro coucerned, their transfer to other positions 18 probably advantageous, but the appoint- ment of a Penvsylvania Cameron to the bead of the War Department will provoke criticism.” Philadelphia Public Ledger:—“So far all is right. One of the criticisms that will be made upon him is that he has been too mach involved in party manago- ment, With some this will be regarded as a strong ob- Jection; others will take just the opposite view. Party mauagement 18 a mertt or a fault, according to the ob- jects, purposes and motives with which it is wielded, Mr. Cameron has tho talepts and abilities to enable him to make a very serviceable Cabinet oflicer. His record is now to be made for the inspection ofa national au- dience, and it is the part. of wisdom to expect it to be a good one for the nation.”” Boston Post:—‘‘Picrrepont bas done the” President and the party strange but faithtul service in temper- ing the ardor of the whiskey prosecutions, andthéreby proved his fitness (or a foreign miszion, Tatt, having done nothing but revise Belknap’s enormous catimates, is unceremoniously hustled out of the War Office into Pierrepont’s seat to make way for Dou Cameron, and the Pennsylvania republicans are sold out to Conkling. It is all inside the party and largely within the family, and the Senate approved it without winking.” Baltimore Gazette:—‘Sonator Cameron is probably the best and ablest political leader in the country. He has rarely failed in a campaign, and to meet him and overcome him will require aman of equal force and skill und sagacity. ment is the wisest thing he has done for years—it was all that was leit him to do. The old chieftain has, how- ever, undertaken the greatest task of ali his life—to save Grant and Grantism and the republican party. | When he takes the fleld there will be no child's piay, and the gentlemen who’ meet at St. Louis will do well to remember the foo they have to meet next Novem- ber."* M Baltimore Gazette:-—Senator Cameron has great power in Pennsylvania politics, is noted fog the tidelity with which he carries out his political ises, and the unit rale which was imposed upon the Peausyl- vania delegation by the State Convention will perhaps favor such 4 movement; and yet we doubt the possi- bility of carrying it out. Mr, Conkling bas absolutely Qo strength in Pennsylvania; indeed he has been re- garded with positive disfavor by the republicans of that State, and though the task of bringing the delega- tion to vote for him after the withdrawl of Hartranft | may be within the possibilities, yet if Mr. Cameron has undertaken it we think he will flad it most diMcult of | accomplishment.” Norwich (Conn.) Bulielin :—“Thé eminent ability of | Judge Tait will enab'e him to All the post made vacant by Pierrepont as acceptably us he did that vacated by Belknap We only wish that the same excellent judg- ment had characterized the selection of the new Mitsstor of War. Comparatively little can be said in its favor, and tho suspicion will be widely entertained that it wag made in the interest of the Senatorial clique, who have had only too much unfortunate in- fluence with the President already.”’ Scranton (Pa) Republican :—"“All the nominations wore confirmed by the Senate, This will prove a sur- prige to the country, because wholly unexpected. THE BLACK HORSE, To Tux Evitor or tig Henauy:— Who js to be the standard bearer of the democracy ? Will it be either Bayard, Seymour, Tilden, Allen, Thurman or Hendricks? I do not believe that the St. Louts Convention will make a selection irom these distinguished names for reasons that must be apparent to the caroful observer. In the ensuing election the first necessity of the de- mocracy is success. Who 18 the man that will com- mand \t? Who is the man who is uncompromised by any of the questions (hat aro now vexing and dividing | one solid masa these dia- cordant’ have such aone, but unfortunately ho is a soldier. ig one wi record, ewer and ce - Nag aA ae parties that can anite in! elements. The be pehig. Mr. Pierrepont, the new American Minis- | Grant’s surrender to his manage- | ceivt nomination? Shades of Washingto' id 4 of Washington ai inchned to the belie! that the have been speaking will be nomi- thing, 8 certain; if the pomima- tion falls upon him, it will not be because he sought 16 SAUGATUCK. Wasrrort, Conn., May 22, 1876. NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS. THE CONVENTION TO-DAY—SPIRITED PROCEED- INGS ANTICIPATED AND A MAJORITY FOR BLAINE—THE CABINET CHANGES DISCUSSED. Coxconp, May 23, 1876. New Hampshire, as fruitful ag it is of high politreal excitements, was never threatened with a more spirited convention than the one which isto assemble in this city to-morrow for the selection of candidates to the Cincinnati Convention. Delegates have been crowd- ing imto the city all and to-night every hotel and boarding house is filied to over- flowing. The veterans and active workers of the party are here im full force, and ‘among others who have taken pars to lend a helping ‘ hand are Senator Wadleigh and Representative Blatr, | all the way from Wasbington, Chandler, the well | known third house member of Congress, is on hand, in the spterest of Mr. Blaine, and has undoubtedly worked in partnership with Wadieigh in advancing the in terests of the Maine statesman. Mr. Rollins, of Pacific Railroad fame, is also present a qwet, but effective way, in Mr. Blaine’s behalt, ‘The caucussing this eveuing has been lively and pro- tracted, the preliminary meeting lasting until nearly midnight. Leading candidates heretotore dis- cussed have been Blaine and Bristow, but there isa strong feeling -that the recent changes in the Cabinet | are not altogether unconnected with an administra- | Uve attempt to further the interests of Senator Conkling, Whether or not the Convention will take | kindly “to this White House dictation remains | to Be ‘seen, The feeling as indicated on | the surface is about two-thirds Blaine to one-third Bristow, and itis not unlikely that the representation wil be in this ratio by the ten delegates 1o be chosen, although they will not be openly pledged or instructed. Seuator Wadloigt, in a midnight specch to-night, id that tomorrow’s gathering would be ‘atched «=owith terest in all parts of the country, and although he is kuown to radically Blatnist be noped delegates would not be j bound to any single candida’ he seemed to attach onsiderable importance to the late Cabinet changes as a Conkling move, and among others whom he men- tioned as hkely to Joom up were Morton, Hayes and ave William A. Wheel ‘The Convention Is not ikely to be very harmonious, ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS. PREPARING FOR THE STATE CONVENTION—A LARGE ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES—BLAINE THE FAVORITE—EFFECT oF THE CABINET CHANGES—THE PROBABLE STATE OFFICERS. * -' SPRINGFIELD, May 23, 1876. About three-fourths of the delegates 10 the Repub- lican State Convention of to-morrow are already here. A very large number of spectators and politicians from every quarter of the State are present, and thore isa promise of the largest State Convention ever | held here, ‘The prospects to-night verify the | prediction made by me im the Hexap last week— to wit, that the sentiment of the Conven- | tion will" bo most decidedly in favor of Blaine for the Presidency. There are a tow Bristow delegates, but itis safe to say that the firrt choice of five-sixths, at least, is Blaine, It is barely possible, however, that ono or two of the Cincinnati delegates may be for Bristow, as they aro to be selected by the Congressional district delegations at their preliminary meetings to-morrow forenoon, und some of these sent to Cincinnati will be selected for personal reasons. But the sentiment of the Convention, it not expressed by direct instructions for Blaine, will be indicated by @ resolution recommending his nomination. A quiet effort is being made through the revenue collectora, and supervisors, officers to secure a few Bristow delegates and to prevent instructions. Bluford Wilson was in the State two or three days ago, and is anxious to be accredited to Cincinnati from the Nineteenth district, | his old home. Fatling in that ho desires to be a dele- gto at large, but he wiil get neither, Supervisor jaithews wants to bo a delegate, and also and, as 8 of I, of the Chicago Collector ‘Merriam, matter sent to Cincinnati; but they wlan 8, course, Joseph Medill 1 dead set to repudiated emphatically. The resolutions will dodbt~ Jess be a reiteration of the party plattorms of years, and will avoid as pgenlowty as possible.a ‘expression upon’ and the | feeling in favor of Blaine 16 iclent evi- agence that even the soft money republicans of Illmois do not propose to. make the money question the shibboleth of party allegiance: ‘here isa very general return to the republican fold of the liberals who retirea im 1872, including Horace White, | Leonard Swett, Herman Raster, Jesse K. Dubois and | other old leaders. Lyman, Yrambull still keeps his { own counsel and staysawfy. The German clement, | which almost as one man voted with the opposition in 1874, is now claiming full fellowship, and is sending its delegates to the Convention as ot yore, H ‘TS NEWS OF THY CABINET CHANGES | yesterday struck the assembled delegates with aston- | ishment, but it was finally agreed that they had no Mitical significance except that the giving of tho War portiolio to Don Cameron was equivalent to giving Pennsylvania to Conkling at Cincinnati, THE STATR CANDIDATES, Ag to the State candidates there are indications that Hon. Sheiby M. Cullom will nominated | for Governor on the first ballot. There | some fear among his friends that he may not quite reach the majority on this ballot, but they freely claim it upon the next, and general report says if be should fail oma second batiot he will noc be nominated atall. ‘This contingency is not expected, however. He is expected to obtain 320 ‘votes out of the 614 on tho firstcall, Beveridge will have scattering. Tho ramors in regard to Cullom’s want + of aVailability in the cause of sup; connection with | the whiskey frauds, and the defatcation of Collector | | Harper have not been traced to any relivble sotirce and have beon promptly denied by Mr. Cullom himself in a | published card. ‘Bluford Wilson hurried back to | Washington and did not wait to attend the Convention | to urge what ho has written to so many friends, viz., | the defeat of both Cullom and Beveridge and the bring- | of a new man under the prestige | ot the Bristow-Wilson influence for Lienten- ant Govérror, The contest to-morrow will be between A. M, Jones, of Jo baviess; Judge Benjamin, of | McLean, and Andrew Sherman, editor of tho | Chicago Journal, Which of these will Ve nominated | | depends somewhat upon contingencies yet undeveloped. | | For Secretary of State, Colonel Harlow and George | Scroggs are making a very exciting race, with no appreciable advantage to either, Harlow probably atead. For Auditor, General C. E. Lippincott and | Colonel 7. B. Needles tii] tho leading contestants, | | with triends of Needles the most confident. Bx-Sevator | Hampton and Dr. Powell are candidates with a smaller | eapport. The State Treasurersiip is in much doubt. Edward Rutz, a former Treasurer, and E. Hamburger, a clerk of the Sapreme Court, are the lead- ing candidates, with Ruiz now in the lead, The Attoraey Generalship will doubtless go to J. K. the present incutabent of the office. although -Senator Cantieid 18 closely contesting the ground. ‘The tirst Repablican Cougresstonal Convention of tho | canpaign was held to-day ut Lineoln. Jadge Thomas | F. Typtoa, of Bloomington, was nominated for Con- ing out ress, | & The temporary organization for to-morrow will be as | tollows:—Chairman, General Green B. Ruam; becrota- nies, John Summerfield and N,N. Perking, It is probabie the fonr delegates at large to Cincin- Nati will be Senators Jobn A, Logan and Richard J. ont Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and General James artin. WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS. A DELEGATE TO THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION CHARGED WITH ORINE. MiLwavKER, May 23, 1876, Internal Revenue Supervisor Matthews, of Chicago, is expected to arrive here on Friday to make a com- plaint against E. W. Keyes, chairmen of the State Repablican Committee, in connection with whiskey frauds. The charge is conspiracy to deiraua the gov- ernment. ti Said Keyes is‘a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Cincinnati, and now declares jor Bris. | tow, being hitherto credited to blame, Itis uuder- stood he will take several votes with him, CONKLING: AND THE COLORED VOTE, Utica, May 23, 1976, The State Committee of the colored men held a meet- ing im Association Hali to-day, Three del elected to the National Republican Convention to lay botore that body the serious evils to which freedmen | are exposed through democratic supremacy fa some of the Southern States, | _ The tollowing resolution, indorsing the candidacy of | Senator Conkling tor the Presidency, was adopted “ieoteot, hold Roscoe Conkling i | mens. : in grateful mem- ory fur being une ‘fest friend of ar Kente. present to the Congress of the United States bayer aed ooking to tion the luch ime when the fuer othe wets ot ear rcgand tah Ratton wes thandering within sound of the hole / a in hebs pawns ate, Ai - ey Ween Me gttribaten sri paca ly “as him for the al offs, present choice "tue Presidential ” A the fal Fepebiices resident Cue re j ia Bird’s-Hye View of the Whole Field. A BOLT AT ST. LOUIS CERTAIN Ola Bill Allen in His Triumph é and Glory, HIS MAGNIFICENT NOSE. Views of Greenback Men Generally. THE REPUBLICAN LOOKOUT, Significant Political Statistics. Conumavs, Ohio, May 20, 1876, There is every i@dication of an open belt in thedemo cratic party of the West incase a hard money candi- date is nominated at St. Louis, the greenback men call- ing @ new convention and setting ap a third ticket, just as was done at Buffalo in 1848, by the free soil demo- crats, who, being disappointed in the action of the National Convention at Baltimore, nominated ex- President Martin Van Buren for Prosident and Charles Francis Adams for Vice. Thig ticket carried half the democracy of New York and led to the overwhelming success of the whig nominees. The East is not yet fully posted on the exact proportions of this green- back movement, In the late Convention the fight wag largely sectional, the strength of the hard money men being chiefly confined to Northern Ohio, which is more directly affected by Eastern influences. The green- back strength musters in Central and Southern Ubio, particularly in the manufacturing counties where irom and coal are elements of industry. In those counties they say they dosire a radical financial change because their torges are not going and there ts no business do- ing, and any change would be welcome. Iron hag fallen in value nearly half, and all these enibarrass- ments are blindly attributed to the one cause—the want of more paper money. WHAT THEY BUILD UPON. The Allen men lay great stress on the importance of the October elections in Ohio and Indiana. Pennosyle vania has ceased to be an October State, and now all the interest must centre in the other twe, They argue that if the candidates selected at St. Louis are not satisfactory to the Allen democracy those States muss go republican in October and have the moral effect of sweeping 1n New York by November. Consequently they build high hopes on the nomination of Allen, and still higher hopes, if defeated, in carrying the country West, South and Southwest by a bolt and an indepen. dent ticket on a purely greenback platform, BILL ALLENS TRIUMYH. ‘The triumph in the Convention at Cincinnati of Ola Bill Allen and the greenback idea is still and must con- tinue to be for some time the talk of the whole State and possibly half the nation. Everywhere in towns and villages, on trains and in hotels and taverns, noth- ing else 1s talked of. Common, cheap looking fellows standing on street cornerg, that you wouldn’t think ever gave the greenback question a solitary thought, may be heard discussing the results at Cincinnati aé i¢ tnoy had a grave porsonal interest in it. The inflation heresy 18 unquestionably strong in two States, Ohic and Indigna, and is not without a namerous following imallthe Western and Southwestern States—where- ever, in fact, thero are people in debt to the East wha Fr it to get away from their full and duo obligations by discharging them in depreciated rag money. i “THE PRESENT CONTEST in tho West in the intensity of its personal and political bitterness would remind an old New Yorker of the democratic feuds from 1847 to 1854 between those fac- tons of the party known as honkers and barnburners and afterward as hards and softs. As far as I have travelled in this State 1 have met at almost every step democrats who declare they will vote for no other plat- form than that of 1875, which the country knows is a Tag motey platform. Fur several years Ohio and also Indiana have had greenback platforms, and the inflation ‘virus has so fully inoculated a considerable element of the people that they decline argument and resent as ap insult to their common sense any appeals favor of a contrary financial policy. | Take such intelligent men as Goneral Thomas E. 4s | Ewing, whom 1 motat Cincinnati the other day. He ‘Was actually as rabid aaa mad dog in fly time in die coursing of the subject. I should hardly say he dis coursed at all—he fairly yelled forth his convictions | like tho faith ofa lunatic, and there was an end on’, Tho East amounts to nothing in this people’s eyes, about 150, Ridgway. ubout the same, and the remainder | Speaking to ex-Governor Allen I remarked that it ap- peared to mo as if Judge Taney’s decision in the Dred Scott case might be used in a political sense to indi- cate the growing feeling among bis people, and that the East had no longor any rights that the West wae bound to respect Mr. Allen replied:—“Tho sir, has becbme a mere ornamental margin of the mighty West, aud ig, but a pygmy dictating to or bullying 4 giant,” 4 REMARKABLE NoaR. We hada long conversation. The old man'sat dows or walked around the room as the fancy took him. Ht “was fali of life and hope, and greeted his friends, whe constantly kept calling on him, with impressivé warmth, About his being indorsed by the State and nominated by the National Convention he had no doubl * whatever. In any miscellaneous assemblage of men he would be sure to attract notice if only by the ag- | gressive and ponderous character of his nose, which le as remarkable in its way as tho Duke of Wellington's, It is like the nose of an anvil that poluts out straight at you without turn or equivocation. It isa noseos which Napoleon would have conferred promotion, for it suzgeats a determination to conquer or die Ifyou © | can imagine a nose of the kindI mean, g hike an awning from a straight built forehead over mined mouth and chin, rigidly braced up bya black stock around the neck, « stiff shirt collar rising hall way up the cheeks, tho head surmounted by a ful growth of white hate, the figure over six feet, well pro portioned and erect as a drill sergeant’s, and the whol man dressed and patterned after the fashion of forty years ago, you may have some idea of “Old Bill Allen," Bat it is be INCORRECT TO RECKON. HIE OLD, ’ as old age is nowadays measured. He was born in 1807, | which leaves him only sixty-nine, His friends clain | that he is three years younger than Disraeli, ten year younger than the Emperor William, seven younget | than the head of the French Cabinet and twelve | younger than Gortschakof, Thurman, who is hig nephew and named after him, is only six yoars younger, yet there are people who, on account of the relation- ship, would try to make out the uncle quite an old boy. Thurman was elected to Congress in 1844; Allen ‘wns elected in 1832 by @ singlo vote and (remarkable: cotncidence) by a single vote also he was subsequently, tn 1836 and 1887, elected to the United Statos Senate, Im 1873 he was elected Governor of Ohio by a majority of only 700 on @ vote of 450,000, while every man on the ticket with him was beaten. So “Oid Bill” is rather @ remarkable SPRCIMEN OF THE POLITICIAN, For many years he lived in retirement, reposing om the Jautels won in his early manhood, and im Obilll- ‘cothe, where his home is, every man, woman ant child knew and loved him. In 1873, at the urgent im portunity of his neyhew, Allen G. Thurman, whom Sonatorial prospects were involved in the tissue, be consented to become a candidate for Governor uf thr | State, though he bad repeatedly before dectined tht honor. His efforts to save his nephew were success ful, Allen being the only man chosen, and | with him a small majority in the General a enough to insure Thurman's clection to the | States Senate, Now wo find the and nept | ADtagonized, and the former coming to shatter the prospects of the latter for the J ton at 3) Loum 6 far as personal fecling Is ov