Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-13
The National Republicans" Abuse
of Garfield.

We do not exchange with the Ndte0nGg
Republican,, of Washington, of which
Mr.. George C. Gorham, the Mahoneite
candidate for Secretary of the Senate, is
editor, and which is the recognized or
gan of the Conkling ultra stalwart fac
ton of the Republican party. We see,
however, from Washington specials to
certain of our exchanges that the paper
is directing its attention daily to bitter
editorial and geographical attacks upon
the President In Its issue of few days
ago it characterized Mr. Garheld's
action in Withdrawing the New York
nominations as "weak, ill-tempered and
petulant," as ian unseemly invasion of
the Senate by the executive power, and
as ga fragrant attempt at executive usur-
patton of the constitutional functions OF
the Senate" Going back to the Chicago
Convention, it declared that the princi-
pie of opposition to the unit rule was
principle which gave "the nomination by
the accidental caprices of mob to one
who had scarcely been thought of in
that connection" The circumstances
attending the nomination were spoken
of as 'the mad orgies, in the midst OF
which storm happened to drift the
debris of two beaten armies over to Gar
field" The President it declared to be
animated by an unseemly lust for
power, which will destroy the party
unless the Republican Senators by
united action avert the danger, and save
the President from the pit he has digged
for himself.
The mere fact that Conkling organ
is so abusive of Republican President,
of itself, amounts to nothing more than
that it is a confederation of the fact that
the impending war between Garfield and
Conkling is to be relentless and bitter.
That this abuse should emanate from
a paper edited by Gorham, however, is
very significant 1t indicates that
the Malone coalition has signally
and finally failed of its object. Gorham
would never be so reckless otherwise.
He knows that without the support of
the friends of the administration in the
Senate, he has no possible chance of
being elected Secretary of that body,
and now that he has, recklessly and
desperately, consented to ALLEVIATE the
administration and its friends from him,
it is quite positive evidence that he has
abandoned all hope. The only conclusion
to be arrived at from his course is that
the Republicans in the Senate have
decided that, having unsuccessfully
striven to the best of their ability to
carry out the bargain with Malone, they
will make no further efforts so to do, es-
pecially-as was doubtless the case with
Garfield himself-that bargain has al
ways been distasteful to many of them,
and was only entered into with the hope
of deriving therefrOm some political and
partisan advantage.
The probabilities further are that Cor
hams attacks on the President will not
only drive the latter to entirely abandon
the Malone coalition, but will make him
and his administration more than ever
hostile to the stalwar;s of his party. The
effect of this must be the promotion of
conservatism, and the destruction of
deplorable sectionalsm, for both of
which the Democratic party has ever
constantly striven. This is Why we think
the Democratic Senators should uphold
Garfeld's hands in his prestnt warfare
with Conkhng