Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-18

II seems very probable, says the San
Francisco Examiner, that Garfeld's Adj
m;r;stration is to be launched amidst
trouble, opposition and turmoil, and that
ANNOYANCE and vexation of spirit are
likely to pursue him during the whole OF
his term. No matter how he forms his
Cabinet, its structure is bound to create
division and bitterness in his party. The
drawn battle which was fought at Chicago
between the supporters Of Blaine and
Grant is to be renewed and bitterly con-
tiuued during the next four years. That
fact is u~nmistakable. Already the skies
begin to lower, and the whole political
armament exhibits signs of the coming
storm. We know not what the end Will
be. but it requires no very great prophetic
oowers to ~foretell that the warning ele-
ments will bring Garfield some very
stormy weather before he is through.
The New York Herald, which has SEEM
ingly become a Conkling organ, declares
as much in dignified and stately leaders.
The most ~outspoken oracle OF the stall
warts. however, is Gorham OF the Wash
ington Republican, who has lately re-
turned to the Capital from helping Came
ron in his unsuccessful attempt to elect
a United States Senator at Harrisburg.
Gorham can no longer hide his own and
the wrath of his faction, and empties the
bitterness of his soul on the men who, 1t
is said. have carried off the good things
of the new Administration, in this way !:
The Republican party seems to be di-
vided into two factions, one OF which
thinks il ought to achieve victory, while
the other thinks it will thrive best on de-
feat. The former are called Stalwarts and
the latter Reformers. Men compose the
first OF these factions; sneak5 the other.
We warn the President elect against this
pestilent tribe. Assuming, though they
do, all the political virtue extant, he will
find by and by, if he does not know itnow,
that they are the basest of hypocrites and
the most dishonest Of men. The corrupt
and rotten crew which we have but feebly
described have lone much toward disinte-
grating the party since its grand triumph
in November. No art is left Impractical
to ALLEVIATE from the incoming Admins
tration the men who are regarded as the
special friends of General Grant. The
daily gossip is full of pretended informa-
ton which, if half of it were true, would
consign the new President to infamy and
the party to the tomb. The party ship is
drifting ON to the lee shore, and will soon
be beached, unless mutiny and greed are
throttled by those who have been in
trusted with her navigation.
These are the first loud mutterings of
the coming storm, and sound strangely
as ~emanating from the man who engi-
neered the Indiana success, and who was
confidentially housed with Garfield at
Mentor during the first hours of his
great triumph. These open threats are
caused by the knowledge that the reins
Of the next Administration are to be in
the hands of Blaine, and that the machine
is to be run against Conkling and Grant,
Garfield ~repudiates already the treaty of
Mentor. He has not the virtue of fidel-
ity, or the backbone of the average poll
tician. Ever a weak man, who in the
dark daysof Credit Mobilier investigation
was ready to commit suicide, he viii
soon wish he had never been made Pres.
ident, as he once wished, as his friend
Don Piatt tells us, he chad never beer
born" Already the press kilograms in
form us that a Chicago Times CORES,
pondent found him "jaded, worried and
worn, and looking as if he had not slept
for a week" His troubles are just be-
ginning. He can hardly fail to have a
consciousness that many of them are Of
his own making.