New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-07
There has been no rupture either ~ the Cab net or
in the imagination OF a correspondent for aw ek.

in the imagination of a correspondent for aw ek.
No man in any party has bigger salvage claim
on Prc.i lent ,rfrld than General Hancock has.
H., celebrated local issue 'ariil interview did
10 carry Ncw-Yurk stare f0r the X puhIcans than
all the efforts of the immortal 800 combined.
Tho Nincompoop wing OF the Civil Service Reform
idoiaicrs contains some curious intellectual specl
mems II there ~ anything they have had an
especial fcar ~ tor the past few years. II Is bo~sism.
They have declamed about u early and lqie rs tie
ore prcrmncnt peril 10 our free inTituti"ns Now
that tie President has made the on" appointment
above all others which ~ most damaging 10 the
Bl,.rs the NncompOoOs wrinR their hands aud say
It is not III accordance with CiYil Service Reform.
Wade Hampton has q bigger claim for salvage
than Conklug has IIis >tqunton SPEECH alone
made llaucocks election almost impossible
A. latest accounts senator Plat had rot " set MP
FOR himself
Judge Robertson saws he will not withdraw,
whcieupou the Con&lIug journals all insist thar It
- The President, plain duty to Withdraw him. The
audacity Of this observation il siupendous. Were
the President to act upon tins advice, he would lose
the respect Of every man IN the United States aud
deserve TO lose H. Even q C0l>iing editor. who
lauVn, ~ cri-s 10 order would have n,thing 1ui
out.npt tnr hin lie fairly Niaie, whether
Guhela or Coukung 1, President. Garfield eau be
dcJrnoed on TO hold up ms end.
II Judge DAVIS we're go h1p back upon th" Demo
crntic party be- might break the deadlock M the
- nate. lie would yet n change. and tie country
would get relief from this Hood of sgcec hes.
Sp,akmg Of this question OF salvage. II should
not be- forgotten that Birnnm has an uucommon'y
large claim ile would probably be willing to take
II out ln mules
This Is INDIGENOUS Somebody has started . ru-
m,rin Washington that the President Will appoint
David DAVIS Collector at Nrw-lork IN the interest
of harmony. Have we ~ respect for "a great mans
dignity left III this oountiyl he Judge has an
nounccd that be Is dsfusted with politics. and that
an .oon rs ms term expires he viii lump down from
the fence hasten HON" tn Bloomington AID build
big hotel Z hat will be good thing ior Blooming
ton for the Judge and Tor politics. Let us have
peace
Postmastcr-Gencra James holds aloof from tho
Roprlt,o ON controversy with just sense of dignity
which might wisely be initiated by tho N!ce-Presi-
dent.
The Presidents backbone IL rieid. and his cOunte-
nance IL srrenc. lie knows the difference between
buster aud a storm
Puck which Is now easily the best comic paper
ever printed IN America. If not equal To any any
where has a cartoon this week which illustrates per-
fectly the situation at Washington. big locOmo-
i've 1, going AZ full speed: very mad bull with the
Ir,ca rand has lowered his horns to butt It off, and
Engineer Garfield in his anxiety to prevent hnrm--
to the bull-has rushed forward from the iootboard
n ,he sde of the LOCOMOTIVES to try 10 borsusde the
enraged animal to get out of the way. The legend
beneath ~ brief but expressive: 1t looks bad Tor
tbe butlN