New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-05
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GORH4M'S VAIN AlfBITION.

former, whom Hartmann and his mistress
sought to blow into atoms.
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GORHAMS VAIN AMBITTON
1t is not unlikely that Mr.. George G. Gorham
labors under the delusion that he is the continu-
ing candidate of the Republican Senators for
Secretary Of the United States Senate. Indeed.
the Washington newspaper OF which he is said
to be the editor spoke of him day or two ago
as " the present candidate for the position and
adds that "his election was only deferred
through the deadlock which characterized the
extra session of the Senate last spring." We
infer accordingly that Mr.. Gorham is still a
candidate--in his mind. Whether any of the
Senators who have voice in the matter share
in the delusion Or not we are unable to say
We should hope not. Still, the Senate is such a
singular aggregation Of eccentricities that it
would not be remarkable if, out of the whole
number of Republicans in that body, there
shou Id be found some one so entirely out of
relations with the Administration, with his
party, with the country and with common sense
rs to vote for Gorham. One thing is reasonably
certain: that in the present state of feeling in
the party throughout tho country, no Senator
could commit such folly without exciting at
once the righteous indignation Of his constitu-
to the attitude of the party toward the Presi-
dent, there is none now. 1t is an Administra-
ton party. If Gorham is anything except a
conscicnceless adventurer-which may perhaps
be doubted--he is an anti-Adminstration man.
That of itself ought to, and 10 doubt WILL settle
the business.
Aside from that however, this person is unfit
for the station to which he aspres. He has
held the Office before, it is true, but he was
elected under peculiar circumstances, as a rep
resentative of the Republicans of the Pacific
coast, and when he was comparatively unknown
His iDcumbency of the place gave him promi-
nence and influence, and we have had occasion
to see during tho past few years to what use he
put his opportunities. The occasion cannot be
recalled when he has not been in active and
miscellaneous alliance with The worst elements in
his own party, with more or less open under
standing with the traders and lobbyists of the
opposition nor has he ever failed to do his
party what mischief he could by advocating low
policies, and endeavoring to degrade its aims
and belittlo its motives. Even while holding
from the party an Office of high trust he had the
brazen assurance to put himself publicly on
record in opposition to policies to which the
party stood committed and measures il had ap-
proved. 1t is fact so well known that it
hardly needs be referred to here, that in his
own State of California at the important cleo
ton preceding the Presidential, when the neces-
sity of Republican success for the prestige and
momentum it would give in the Presidential
strug lie was everywhere recognized, this pre-
tended Republican deserted to the opposition,
not only voting their ticket but actually labor
ing on the stump through tho campaign for the
candidates of tho "Honorabc Bilksr Democ-
racy. And even after this he had the impu-
dence to act on the Republican National Com
mittee and to appear at Chicago as one Of the
most active and INSCRIPTIONS of the gang who
undertook to take possession of the Convention
and stite the voice of the people
How he ever came to be brought fOrW ard last
March as the Republican candidate for Secre-
tary of the Senate, is one of those mysteries
which only Senators under stand. The gorge OF
the people rose at the sudden announcement OF
it. But it being supposed to have some mystic
rous connection with tie Malone Riddleberger
alliance in Virginia, by which party interests
were to be advanced in the South, there was no
cutlery over it. 1t may be said, however that
the one thing that reconcilcd the public to the
long delay of business by the deadlock was the
fact that 1t was keeping Gorham out of the
Secretaryship, and that the perfect sgnation
with which Republicans accepted his defeat mt
last grew out of tho belief that it was the end
of GOrham's aspirations. 1t is not necessary to
recall the conduct of this notorious person dur
ing the past three or four months. The news
paper of which no is the editor was for a long
time filed with tho grOssest personal abuse and
most filthy blackguardism of the President, the
Administration and all who supported them; it
coarsely and vehemently took the side of Conk-
ling against the President--whie Gorham HIM
self actively engaged in the contest for the re-
election of the resgning Senators-and it is the
organ and defender of the Star Route pecula-
tors. 1t is with such character and such n
record that Gorham has tho assurance to present
himself as the candidate for high and i'm
pOrtant Office of the party which he has abused,
maligned, deserted and betrayed.
But if there is any one thing more certain than
another in the future it is that Mr.. George Cor
ham will not be Secretary of the Senate
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THE AUG UST MEETINGS.
The great summer religious assemblies have
opened this week with larger crowds than