Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-30
MR.. CONKLING AND THE NEW YORK
CUSTOM HOUSE.

President Hayes is all the time profering
a sort of superhuman goodness. The con-
ception of the civil service reform with which
he is credited contemplates political millen-
mum under whose benign influence there are
no friends to reward, no enemies to punish,
no spoils and no victors among whom to
divide the spoils All is to be passionless,
serene and soothing, emphasizing and perfect
ing the Era of Good Feeling. Such are the
professions at any rate. If bad men, moved
by the evil temper of politicians, should
choose to smite President Hayes's policy
upon the one cheek it would meekly offer the
other that it might be smtten also. Such
have been the givings out; but our contem-
plation of this pleasing picture is rudely inter
rupted. We find President Hayes selecting
the most pronounced Hayes men for Office.
When he does not select a Hayes Republican,
he selects Hayes Democrat. The majority
of the party-the radicals so-called-are
wholly ignored The actual temper of Mr..
Hayes is illustrated in the following which we
copy from the New York Sun of October %:
lakes to the ocean, it would be difficult to find
three men more hostile to Roscoe Conkling,
than Theodore Roosevelt, Edwin A. Merritt,
and L. Bradford Prince. And yet Messrs.
HAYES and Evarts have selected them for
Collector, Surveyor, and Naval officer res
pectively of the port of New York. Mr.
Roosevelt went to Cincinnati and did his ut
most to defeat Mr.. Conkling's nomination for
President, and on that occasion made bitter
speech against the Senator to a noisy crowd
in the streets. He is said to be confidential
friend of Mr. Evarts, and is conspicuous
among that class of Republicans in this State
who are determined by every menas to pre-
vent Mr. Conkling's election to the Senate,
and who work night and day to thwart and
stamp out his Observation-Disclosures During
the four years that Mr. Fenton was Governor,
Mr. Merritt was a Quartermaster- General
He was understood to hold closer relations to
the Governor than any other member of the
staff, and has ever since been credited with
rejecting his opinions and sharing in his hopes,
and seconding his designs and sympathising
in his animosties When Gen. Grant
became President, Mr. Fenton, then Senator
in Congress, procured for his friend Merritt
the lucrative position of Naval Officer of this
port. When the subsequent rupture between
Grant and Fenton broke out and Conkling |
took advantage of it to decapitate his foes,
Merritt's head was one of the first that rolled |
in the basket And now Mr. Fenton gets his |
old-time friend and Mr. Conkling's long time
opponent back in one of the chief seats in the
Custom House. Mr.. Prince, rather loose
fish IN legislation, is yet an admirer and fol- |
lower of Mr. G. W. Curtis They have re-
sided in the same Congressional and the same
Senatorial district for many years. When
Mr.. Curtis ran for Congress his warm sup
porter was Mr.. Prince; and when Mr. Prince
ran for the Senate his firm friend was Mr.
Curtis They have often appeared in the
same State Conventions; and on such occasions
they have pursued the same line of policy in
regard to men and measures, Mr.. Curtis
leading and Mr.. Prince following This was
their position in the State Convention at
Syracuse in March, 1876, which sent delegates
to the Cincinnati Convention. Mr. Prince
listened to the bitter philippe of Mr.. Curtis at
Syracuse against Grant and Conkling, and
applauded with the loudest; and he was re-
warded for his zeal by being appointed
fellow delegate with Mr.. Curtis from the
First District to Cincinnati At the State
Convention last year at Saratoga, when Curtis
assailed Conkling and Cornell so vehemently, .
Prince shed an approving smile over the scene.
And finally at the recent Rochester Convention ,
Mr.. Prince appeared as delegate from
Queens, and all through the tumultous sit
,ings he cheered the speeches of Mr.. Curtis c
md voted against the resolutions of Mr. G
Jonkling. And these are the gentlemen who S
IRE to take the places of Gen. Arthur, Gen. c
Sharpe, and Mr. Cornell! The people of this c
State will watch Mr. Conklings course a
With great interest when the names of Roose- t
'elt, Merritt, and Prince reach the Senate. c