The daily gazette., 1882-03-07
CONKlaNeusaa In OHIO.
HOW THE PREsIDEET Is INJURIN
TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 7a
A special despatch from Cleveland
says - .1.
The administration OF President
Arthur was accepted in this Radical
Republican district on the basis of
much unspoken hope. The Albany
visit OF the Vice President was for.
given in the manly course of that
officer when Garfield was shot. and
when Arthur took possession of the
Presidency there was not one man in
each hundred Of Northern Ohio Re.
publicans disposed 10 throw pebble
in his way or hold him responsible
for anything that occurred before he
took the Presidential oath. The past
was blotted out, and there was great
hope for the future. As time went on
and the President showed a cool and
calm intention of his own to do all
things in order and at his own time,
the hope was strengthened that he had
come into office intending 60 be q
leader of the whole Republican party,
aud not the partisan of a faction.
The nomination of Folger was ac-
cepled as proper, as the people had
come to look upon him as a good man
for the place. There was some
uneasiness as the olher Cabinet ap-
poinGments were made, and when Mr..
Howe was finally proposed, a few
muttsrings of distrust were heard.
When, at last, Nr. Conkling was
nominated for the Supreme bench, the
feeling that had been held down in
fast decreasing hope burst forth, and
the move was almost universally de-
nOunoed. The part taken by Mr..
Conkling ia the fght ON Robertson
had so identified Conklibg with what
came afterwards that the people, right
or wrong, cannot dissociate his name
from connection with it and they had
come 10 look upon his elevation by the
administration to any position of
power as notification to the country
that Conklingism was to be one of the
great powers underlying the admins.
tration. Nine out of ten Republicans
were hurt and indignant, and such
expressions of favor as have been
heard have come either from the
politicians or from such newspapers
as have political ends to serve. One
Ohio editor has Post Office and ap-
proves the nomination. Another has
just had a brother in law appointed ID
q large Post Office, aud he approves it..
Another has sou i0 law connected
with an important legation and an
associate editor from his paper in q
Consulship, and be approves it. The
onIy Republican newspaper in Gar
fields Congressional district that has
not denounced it is edited by a man
engaged at present in Washington as
clerk Of a special committee.
The result upon the coming State
election would be hard to predict.
Much depends on the course of the
President in the next four months.
The people care little because Ohio
men are moi appointed, but they find
significance in the fact that SO far the
enemies of Garfield have had the chief
honors. They have a habit Of res
naming at home on certs n occasions,
and already the Democrats are claim
ing that the elevation of Conkling has
given them tho State. The assump-
tion that this nomination will take
ConklinR cut of politics has little
weight, for the feeling here is hat a
| principle is involved, and that any
recognition Of Conkling by the Presi-
dent or party gives hin that which he
of all men, should not have. The best
friends of the Republican party of
Ohio are examining the situation with
no little anxiety.