Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-26
-rHOsxGABINEr CHANGES.

THOSxEABINEr CHANGER.
We on Friday morning, expressed
an opinion, based upon such dis
patches as had reached us, touching
the recent changes in the Cabinet, that
such changes had probably no polit-
ical Significance. Our Judgment was
founded upon the information that
was communicated ia us..S OF Nc
Donald Cameron, the new Secretary OF
War, we, As we then said, knew moth
ing. He lives some three thousand
miles from US, and has eve risen
sufficiently above his local horizon to
attract our notice. We, IN good faith'
were inclined to commend the action
of the President in replacing Schenck
by Pierrepont, and Pierrepont by
Judge Taft. We gather, however, from
the kilograms in the Gold Hill Neus OF
Tuesday evening that, in the opinion
of the Eastern press, the changes were
pot devoid of political significance,
and hat each change is but a link in a
chain now forging by the Administra-
ton to bind the Cincinnati Convention
to the interests of Roscoe Conkling,
the household statesman. The Meas,
editorially, is Inclined to attach little
weight to these speculations Of
the New York press; but when
the Times (straight-out Republi-
CAM, San (anti administration Repub-
lican), and Herald (nondescript), con-
cur in representing this new Cameron
as a skillful wire-puller who controls
the Pennsylvania delegation to Gin
cinnati, and who has ~bargained for a
seat in the Cabinet for himself, taking,
IS something in hand the whilst, the
position of Secretary Of War under
Grant pending the nomination and
election Of Grants friend Conkling to
the Executive chair; when all these
diverse opinions unite in considering
these changes as a Cunkling move
ment, we cannot but attach weight to
them. The Herald is less bitter than
the others, and we quote 1t:
The Presidents action yesterday is
an order from headquarters to combine
the Republicans. Every n of these
new appointments, though made ON
impeachable grounds of personal fit
ness, will contribute to the success OF
Conkling's Taking them in
their order, and beginning with Judge
Pierrepont, j: is welt known that this
gentleman has not favored Conkling's
nomination. He now goes aoroad
where he can have no possible in.
~fiuence. Taft, who was supplanted
last year by Hayes, does not favor the
Presidential hopes of his successful
rival, and the Department of Justice is
in the hands of an able lawyer, who
will indorse the Presidents choice,
which Pierrepont did not. But
the most significant of these APP
pointments is that of Don Cameron.
whose own influence, and that Of his
s~agacious father, will be actively ex.
erted in favor OF the New York Sena-
tor. Fifty-eieht delegates of the great
State of Pennsylvania a now be as
securely counted on for Conkling as
those Of New York. The President
can control nearly all the Southern
delegates, and after the first ballot or
the second, they will all vote in a body
for ConklinE. The knowledge thai
this il to be the case will help him In
the West, and insure him a majority
on the third or fourth ballot.
That Island the entire press as
far as reported is agreed-General Gram
will cas- the entire influence of the Ad,
minlstration at Cincinnati in favor O.
Conkiing. Buchanan did the same
thing for Breckenridge as against
Douglas in 1860; with what advantage
to Breckenridge history has told, and
with wha. advantage to his own good
name, we, all of us, remember.