Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-29
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War Clouds.

War Clouds.
Mr.. Conkling is reported to have said
the other dayto a few of his friends /:
50 I suppose if the wind is going to blow
from that direction, 1 might as we'll re-
sign my seat in the Senate, and that
Judge Robertson had better be chosen as
my successor" Yesterday the New
York Republican Senate, which had
without discussion or opposition passed
a resolution approving Robertson s nomi-
nation and asking for his prompt con-
firmatiOn, reconsidered the resolution
and emphatically laid it upon the table.
To-day the New York Times, the stall
wart anti-Blaine Republican organ of
the Empire state, proclaims that the
presidents position is one in which he
will not have the moral support Of the
people; and it plainly accuses Mr.. Gar
field of breaking his pledged faith to
make no appointments without consult
ing the New York senators, and of being
influenced by Blaine to reward his
own and punish Conkling's friends in
New York.
This means a stubborn contest not
only over the confirmation of Robert
son, but for the supremacy of
Blaine in national politics. It means
the beginning of such a warfare on
the administration as was made
upon Hayes's. 1t means the alienation
of the Stalwarts. Mr.. Garfield will not
retreat. He cannot. He sugar-coated
the bills which he administered the Stall
warts, but they were bitter under the
surface and leave a had taste in their
mouths. 1t is not to he expected that
they would he swallowed without
grimace, but the matter has gone be-
yond Mr.. COnkling's sense of disgust.
His opposition is aroused. He means
fight.
What such a contest would result in
it ispretty hard just now to determine.
The Stalwarts are weaker than when
COnkling engaged with Hayes and Gar
field, backed by Blaine's fertility of re-
sources, is stronger than the executive
was in the previous conflict with the
New York senator. Mr.. Conkling, has
now three votes in the Senate instead of
one he is the undisputed leader of the
entire Stalwart element of his party /; he
is the hope of all the opposition to Gar
fields reelection or Blaine's succession,
and the onset which he will head, with
his text from Garfeld's inaugural, will
he strong charge.
THAT politics make strange bedfel-
lows is being vividly exemplified in the
increasing turmoil of local Republican
complications. The so-called Reform
faction, which really lost all reform
features before it had organized for its
first victory, finds itself de,ei .c,. -
those whom it elected three years ago,
and its own leadership transferred to the
commander of the late Bull Ring forces.
The services Of the political caricaturist
are likely to be called into requisi
tion soon to depict the anomalies
of the present situation. 1t is not so
strange Il spectacle that the Examiner
Office should afford refuge for Mcneil
len, Mentzer & Co., rs that the Little Ma
poleon should repose so comfortably on
the bosom of his ancient editorial assail-
ant. and that Eshleman and johnson
should he pottcring around in the same
polit ical kitchen. Let the circus begin.
ADAM BADEAC-WhO was asked by
Garfield to give up the fat London col-
sulate and to take the lean Denmark
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