Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-27

nomination as Collector of Mr.. Robert
son, so far as the public can see, attests
the determination of those who opposed
General Grant at Chicago to "crush
out" in the Republican party those who
supported General Grant. While the
Garfield Administration was still in the
first flush of power, General Arthur.
with unmistakable sincerity, flung him.
self into the front of the supporters of
General Grant to resist this process.
After the resignation of their seats by
Senator Conkling and Senator Plat he
threw himself into the battle between
the half-breeds and the stalwarts, and
in manner took command of the war
upon the new Administration. During
the long illness of the President Gen
eral Arthur withdrew with great pro-
priety and delicacy from this prominent
position of hostility, but the stalwarts
never for a momentrelaxed their efforts
to retain possession of the Republican
organization in New York and IN Penn
syivania, with a view to controlling the
Republican conventions in both States
There is not much sympathy or senti-
ment as a rule in faction fights where
the spoils of office are involved. The
struggle which the death of President
Garfield has only suspended in the Re-
publican party is struggle for SUI
premacy in the Republican National
Convention of 1884. Whether Mr..
Conkling will seek or accept an Execu-
tive appointment under President Ar
thur remains to be seen. But it may
as well be understood that his course
in this matter will be decided by his
own judgment as to what will most pro-
mote a triumph of the ''3O6'' in 1884.
That the stalwarts will now control the
New York Republican State Conven-
ton can scarcely be doubted. A Sena-
torial vacancy for New York will occur
in the natural order of events in 1885,
MIR. Conkling may elect to do battle
either for the Senate in that year or
for the Presidency in 1884, and wheth-
er he will accept a Cabinet place under
President Arthur will depend, as we
have reason to believe, on his deliber-
ate estimate OF the political outlook
for the intervening period. At this
moment Mr.. Conkling is undoubtedly
detested by great majority of his own
party In the West the Ohio Republic
J ans have not scrupled to couple his
name with that of Guiteau, so savage
is faction, and in the East his resiyna-
|, ton of his seat in the Senate has
caused him to be likened to Jefferson
Davis and Mr.. Slidell. Mr.. Conkling
, is a man of courage and ability, who
J can look facts in the face, and he may
, deem it wiser on all accounts to keep
in the background for a while
, and work from behind the throne
, which he has reared. But that he
J means to be felt in the new Administra-
} ton, and that he will work with it or
, through it with the same fearless loyalty
} to the interests OF General Grant and the
, "3O6'' of Chicago which commanded
J the admiration there even of his oppo-
nents, cannot be doubted by any man
of sense. AS little can it be doubted by
|, any man of sense that President Arthur
will keep his faith with those who
fought with him for General Grant at
: Chicago, and that he will make no
: terms with any recreant stalwarts who
skulked or hid during the struggle at
: Albany. 1t does not follow that he will
leopard the public interests by break
ing with the Secretary of State, for ex-
ample, who has won so strong hold
on the public confidence and respect by
his bearing during the long illness of
President Garfield. Mr.. Blaine to-day
is undoubtedly the strongest Republic
an leader in the country, and the most
ordinary consideration of the interests
of the people requires the new Presi-
dent to make no sudden changes in the
Cabinet. especially of Il sort which can
be attributed to personal feeling or fac
tious passion on his part. But, clearly,
the main body of the Republican
half-breeds must expect to take those
back seats in the party to which Presi-
dent Garfield invited the friends of
: Arthur, Grant and Conkling. Sooner
10 RI t, .ioC IF "a
must become the test OF Republican
loyalty Half-breed politicians and
journalists who during the struggle at
, Albany said bitter offensive and de-
grading things of Arthur, Conkling
and Grant must expect to see those
things rise up in Judgment against
2 them. Meanwhile the people may be
thankful that the outlook of the country
is so tranquil at home and abroad. That
the happiness and the welfare of the
people of this land depend chiefly on
, the thirty-eight governments of the
several States is a lesson of incalculable
value which, since the second day of
: last July, every man and woman in the
United States has had good reason to
. learn. The most pressing work to
be done at Washington now is a re-
form OF the Civil Service, and that work
uo CIA AOhS3 NSitbF ~ AduotSl
how hard he NAV try to prevent it.
! The chances are that President Arthur
heartily wishes this work had been al
ready done. If the ignoble army of
Office seekers knew that he could do
nothing for them. either directly or in
, directly, either openly or secretly, he
could rest more securely and work
, more calmly. In the flash of the pistol
of Guiteau the White House under the
, spoils system has an ugly look of
dynamite mines and the Russian Winter
Palace. N \. World.
, One of the most successful, as well
. as the most dangerous, operation ever
undertaken in the way of submarine en-
cheering in this country, or any other,
was performed, says the Winnipeg
Times, near Rat Portage, last week, in
, the lifting of eighteen cans of nitro
glycerine, belonging to the Hamilton
, Powder Company, from the bottom of