Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-05-17
EASTERN. DISPATCHES
Opinions OF Leading Men and Poll.
ticians in New FORK on tho
Conhling Resigualion.

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Conhling Resignation.
New YoRx. May 1.-THE designations
Of Senators Conklipg and Plat continues
to b the topic Of general discussion In
this city. Joseph q. Choats. Of the Law
Arm Of which William n. Evarts u q
member. said: ~ An very glad to hear
It." william z. Dodge. Jr., said: 1.-THE
news 10 . great surprise to me. and Of
oourss I cannot express an opinion Of
hand. do not train With followers Of
Conkling. and therefore Am not bowed
down BY this information. can form
no idss what Conkling's motives In thus
sending In his resignation were, bat I
think the general feeling among people
Of this Stats will Be one OF eratituds.
B. B. sherman, President Of the Ne
ohanios' National Bank, was very much
surprised, bat thought the country was
In no danger thsrsffom. "Do you think
the cause suggested was Q good reason
for rssieningf" mot for anybody but
Conkling." said Nj. Sherman. "Hs ID
Q hish-toned fellow, you know" ~ am
much surprised ct what has taken place,
although ! thought there would be
trouble when the President selected
Blaine ~ ons OF bis advisers. Foreign.
ers don't think much Of . republican
form Of government, and II We 60 on
cutting up In this way they will have
less confidence IN Il.
]. @. Mills. we'll known IN Wall
street. said tonight that the Conkling
and Plat designations had no more bear
Ing on Wall street than . drop Of water
In the ses.
Thurlow Weed expressed great sur
prise. He thought the action Of the
Senators had not improved matters.
John Kelly expressed the following
opinion : The resignation Of Conkling
will show o~onclusivsly his strength In
the Republican party. I do not believe
his and Senator Platt's designations will
DO accepted.
II Senator Copklips's resignation b
accepted. do you think his political
power will b injursdf
There have been such cases In the
history OF American politics In which
some leaders have managed 10 regain
by their own personal influence and
prestige the position 10 Q party Of which
they were deprived by loss Of patronage;
such men - were Henry Clay on the
whie side and silas Wright on the other.
What Senator Couklins's chances : 10
do this. ! do not know.
Abrsm 8. Hewitt said although be
thought II would be good party policy
for Democrats N aid In confirming Bob.
srtson, he bad been inclined 10 sympa.
thixs with Conklipg In this matter sim.
ply because be favored anything which
seemed like Q check upon the growing
power OF the Executive. Hs himself
was approached during the last campaign
BY the representative Of . man who
offered $3.50, 900 to the Democratic pam.
paign fund II he was promised the place
Of Secretary Of the Treasury. The
reply given was that the Democratic
party was not fighting for that sort Of
thing but to destroy just such practices.
he sympathizsd with Senator Combines
position a. tending to preserve the bal.
anes Of power. The President should
mot make bargains with Senators, but In
this particular case . bargain was not
made and the Senator wss resisting
executive power already greater than
wss desirabls.
General woodiord. United States Dis
trict Attorney, when informed OF the
resignation Of Conkliua and Plat, turned
pale. then red. and finally decidedly
green. His eyes opened wide. hs stared
ct the reporter. and with an effort and 9
nsrvous twitobiug Of his fingers inquired
10 . suppressed tone: .'Ars you positivsi
Can there bs no mistaksf" THE news
has been confirmed; there 10 no posi-.
bility OF . mistake" answered the 70.
porter. WELL" said the General,
looking out Of window, ~ am surprised
and shocked"
Collector Merritt said be would like TO
have the report confirmed before q.
pressing an opinion, and when the M
porter said sfioial information had bssn
received from Washington, he said II
would bs better not to talk on the sub
jeet, % hs was too much sstonishsd 81
the news.