The daily gazette., 1881-01-01
EDITION
HvARTs AND coNKLINa.
THE sEcRBTARY OF STATE PURsUINe
TEE LORDLY ROSCOE.


zHR sEcRBTARY OF STATE PURSUING
TEE LoRDLY ROSCOE.
Washington Special.
The true inwardDess touching the
changes already made In the New York
federal offices, and those in contempla-
tion has now leaked out and the Ne
mesis who 10 pursuing My Lord Conk-
ling is none other than William Max
well Evarts, counselor at law and secre-
tary OF state. Evarts bates Oonkling as
the devil hates holy water. His reven.
ges are mean and pusillanimous, lack
ing all the good points of an open enemy
who strikes from the shoulder and never
hits below the belt. The history Of the
m latter 10 just this: 1t is ABOUT conceded
shat, unless q counter irritant of rare
strength presents itself mong the faith
iul, Roscoe Conkling will name the SEN
tor to succeed Herman. The Legislature
OF New York will elect Ksrnan's sue
cessor within . fortnight. Meanwhile,
to cripple Conkling, Evarts has pursua-
ded the president to allow him TO distrlb-
ute tie patronage Of New York-that is,
30 far as the filling Of the offices which
expire between now and the date OF the
meeting Of the Legislature. So far only
two appointments have been made, and
1t 90 happens that In these two Conkling
takes no special interest. When Con-
gress again assemblies, Evarts, through
Hayes, will send in new name for the
United States marshal Of the Northern
district OF New York, and for United
States district attorney Of Brooklyn.
The flrnt OF these Offices Is held by Clint.
McDougall, warm, personal follower
Of ConkliDg and the other by Stewart l..
WooAford. ANY new name which the
president will send TO the Senate for
these Offices Conkling will fight. 1t 80
happens that he 10 member OF both the
judiciary and commerce. committees of
tbe Senate, whore the nominations must
be referred In due course. There is a
sort OF q custom among senators, regard
less Of party, to consult the wishes of
the senator directly interested In the ap-
pointments In his own state. Hence 1t
is certain that these nominations will be
referred to ConkliDg, and as matter of
course he will see that they are strangled
in the committee of which he Ia q mem
Der.
The real funny part Of the business is
that Evarts anticipates that Conkllng
will succeed In defeating action by the
Senate on the new nominees. He will
have no special interest In the appoin-
tees other than to use them to make the
point that the president has presented to
The Senate the names Of good men for
the places soon to be vacant, and that
tue New York senator has no other rea-
son for antagonizing their confirmation
than the fact that they are not his hench-
men. Out Of this Evarts expects to cre-
ate q division among the Republican
members OF the New York Legislature,
and circumvent, II possible, whatever
may devalop to be the Conkling plan
for the succession. From these tactics
of the crafty Evarts has been builled
the stupid story of an estrangement be-
tween General Garfield and the Stall
wart wing Of the party. As far as this
story goes, 1t is so stupid that it Is vexa-
tious to talk about it. General Garfield
has no more TO do with the Vaccinations
OF Hayes and Evarts against ConklIng
than has the Khedive OF Egypt. All
there is Of 1t is that Conkling, having
treated Eyarts as q mere cipher In New
York state politics, the latter, like
blue-bottled fly, Is now trying 10 annoy
him, and to make the matter a shade
more interesting, the president is lend
ing hand. Conkling will beat both of
them in this new crusade made against
him, and will, meanwhile, dictate the
senator to be elected In January by the
New York Legislature,