The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CEN


The country has little cause to doubt
that President Garfield will prove fully
equal to the emergency which he has
been brought to face by reason of the
disaffection of Mr.. Conkling and his
followers ON the one hand, and Secretary
McVeagh and the element which he rep
resents on the other. The appointment
of Mr.. Robertson, as collector of Gus
toms at the port of New York, and that
of Mr. Chandler, as solicitor general,
are, in the abstract, eminently proper
ones, and no one has ventured to ques-
ton the entire fitness of either of these
gentlemen for their respective positions.
The head and front of President Gar
fields offending, is, as the public under
stand it, that he has exercised his own
judgment in sending the names of the
parties in question to the senate, instead
of deferriDg to the opinions Of Others,
and has failed to delegate the preroga-
tives of the Office to which he was elect
ed by the people, to his would-be bosses
and managers. This may not be strictly
in accordance with the views of the
New York member of the senatorial
syndicate which assumed the province
of running the Chicago convention, or
harmonic with the theories of the dys-
petic gentleman from Pennsylvania who
presides over the portfolio of the attor-
ney generait But it does meet the ap-
prevail of the people, whose servant
President Garfield is, and it is endorsed
by the Republican party at large, which
placed him IN power to promote the
general interests of that organization
and the country, and not to further the
ends of any political faction.
| Every step of the new executive,
from the delivery of his inaugural adj
dress up to his latest official act, has
given evidence of his desire to harmon
ize all the conflicting elements of his
party, to recognize all just claims of
locality, TO conciliate all shades of poll
tical faith, and to render the Republican
party harmonious force for the attain
ment of those grand triumphs of peace
which await its united and earnest &c
ton. 1t was in pursuance of this high
motive, that McVeagh was called to the
cabinet, as a reasonable concession to
the Independents, and that the stalwart
wing of the party was recognized by
the selection of such executive counsel
lors as Secretaries James and Lincoln.
In the dispensation of the federal
patronage, President Garfield has sought
to observe the same judicious line oil
action, and in The face of these patent
facts the country will be disposed to re,
gard with but limited forbearance, the
belligerent attitude of Senator Conk
ling or the morose disaffection of Mr.
McVeagh, toward the new administra
ton. The arbitrary caprices of the for
mer gentleman have been overlooked, to
large extent, in the past. in view Of
his valuable services to the party in
times of pressing need, but 1t is
possible for even so brilliant &
politician as Roscoe COnkling, tC
crowd the margin of popular clemency
especially at time when he stands GU
as the prominent obstacle to achieve
ments which would add new and unfad
ing luster To the great Republican party
In the contest which Mr.. Conkling hal
precipitated, the people are with tn
president of their choosing, and the,
hope and believe that he will make nj
concessions to the turbulent element
which are seeking to rule or mar his ad
ministration.