Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-21

The Farce Well SetS but the m a.
chInery Out of Gear-The Little
Man from VIrginfa-Wrecked in
POrt-The Sinecure In Atlanta.
WASHINGTON, May 19-The impression is rap
Idly crystalliziog among politicians that Conk-
ling is in pretty good way TO be stamped out,
at least to a certain extent. Beyond very
meagre following in the Senate, not more than
three at the highest figure. all the Republicans
in that body have openly deserted him and cry
that he has made an arrogant mistake, and that
it is true that he should be shown to his fullest
satisfaction that there are other men in the
party than he and Grant Even Don Cameron
has deserted him and talks about him. Post
master General James, who, when he came
here to assume his position as member of
Garfield's Cabinet, made speech from hotel
balcony and proclaimed his allegiance
to Conkling, has withdrawn from
all support of his former
boss, and repeatedly announces in converse
tion that he is thoroughly en- rapport and in
hearty support of the course the administra-
tion has pursued all along 1t would seem that
Conkling is to experience the treatment that
comes to every man who assumes high posi-
tion and great power when he Is longer unable
to exert that power end hold with ut being
shaken in thatpositiop. Everybody is now down
on him here. This seems to be the general
feeling, too throughout the North in the Re-
publican party. His clap-trap and theatrical
resignation is made fun of instead of being re-
garded with awe and feeling akin to such
that might be felt were the very existence of
our government in danger. No doubt
Mr. Conklipg thinks that such
danger really e exists, & and ana " wonders Ln d,s
without his presence as one Of its factors.
Butit does go on. 1t is true that Conkling has
| as yet made no demonstration nor taken any
step since he retired behind the scene after
delivering iu mock heroic style bis little resig
nation. OF course much depends upon what
| he will do 1t may be that many of the men
| who are now deriding and denouncing him
! will be frightened back into his train by the
| first demonstration that the boss may make.
| These politicians be most inscrutable beings,
and you cannot always be certain as to how
they really do stand. Mr.. Conkling
is or rather was, undoubtedly a great
man ia the great State of New York.
| OF that State around in his pocket so long that
| to find himself without it something serious
might happen to his imperial system, and it
| looks very much as II the usual contents OF ms
| pocket would at no very distant day turn up
| missing TheNewY orkL legislature Is in no hurry
| to give him that vindication of his course by
promptly re-electiug him and Platt 70 the
| Senate Such a course by the Legislature was
| a part of the theatricalS upon which Conkling
! rang up the curtain when he and his Platt re-
| signed There is most serious hitch In the
| H.
| know its part very well or refuses to play the
| piece out b cause it is tired of the leading
| actor In other words the, New York Legls-
| lature threatens to refuse to return CoDkllng
| and his man at all and to allow the whole ques
tion of who shall be their successors to 20 over
| until next fall New York politicians here say
| that such will certainly be the action of the
| Legislature, and this to Lord Roscoe. who has
| been generally supposed to own that body or
| able statesmen! Ye gods! What nextP In the
! meantime the ami Conkling men in the State
/
/ petitions against the reelection OF Conkllng
! and Platt, and are working up general feel
! ing OF hostility to the boss: Another Leglsla.
| ture will be chosen in New YORK II
| the present Legislature holds out
against Conking before the present va
| cancies in New Yorks representation
| in the United States Senate can be filed. 1t is
but reason bile to suppose that the anti -Conk-
ling agitation now going on in New YORK VIII
| have it's effect in the election of that Legisla-
| ture The chances of Mr. COnkliDg for holding
himself M appear to dwindle away each day.
Everybody appears to be in pc feet good hu.
NOR about it. No regrets at the prospect OF
! his downfall are expressed. There Is only
| hope that the prospect VIII become a certainty
| It really looks as if some political historian
might begin to write the decline and fall OF
Roscoe Conkling.
WHERE is MAHoNE?
The recent resignation of Conkling and Platt
not only induce an early adjournment OF the
Senate and bad showing for ConkGng, but
also pull from the public gaze Little man
| from Virginia Malone, Virginia, Is the way
| he is better known. Nobody talks about him.
/ and he is no lorger pointed out from the Senate
| galleries He is not near so big man as he
| once was. In fact, he amounts to nothing;
| He is simply a traitor. who cuts very small
figure, now that ne has cropped from
| very much more in obscurIty than he has been
recently accustomed to. The contamination
| of the bargain By the election of Riddleberger
as Sergeant ARMS of the Senate, upon which
| Malone depended so much to make his position
in Virginia one of strength, will not be reached
He will go home without even this to show as
a gain for selling out to the Republicans. In
fact the Mahcne business is about played out
1t has brought nothing but trouble to the Re-
| publicans, and they see no hope of it bringing
them anything else. They nave been beaten
| with little dahone. The ''solid South" which
was to have been broken by this new departure,
| is as solid as ever In Virginia, even, where
thev looked for the light to break, "
the the Malone idea has gone down hill
instead of advancing. 1t was bad job at the
beginning. 1t is worse now. Before 1t Is over
the little Malone Will be smaller 10 poslIi9;n
and infu ence than he is in stature. 1t Is not IN
| history anywhere. l believe, that the traitor or
! his cause finally prosper
suRvEYoRsHIp AT ATLANTA.
The customs officers of the Treasury Depart
meut do not think mnch Of tie business that
will be transacted at Atlanta, on account OF
her being MADE port of entry. They do not
| think that it will amount to anything
at all, except, perhaps as an expert
| ment They say that it will
be found before long that there will be no
necessity for the office Of Surveyor OF the
port authorized by the law, making Atlanta e
port of entry. The pay is not TO exceed $1,000
Der annum and the fees. 1t has been placed
at $500 by the Treasury Department, and one
| of two men will be appointed Surveyor. 1t
will be either Madison Davis, colored, or j. G.
| Hendricks Of Atlanta. The latter would be
appointed if the former would get out of the
| Way. Davis has been asked to take something
else but seems to hunger most after the Sur
- ha fwar1Yr anA 10
| elsewhere he will be made Surveyor of this
port Of Atlanta, an office with such small pros
poets that the wonder is nybody can be found
to take it. POTOMAC.