New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-06

A.. .cboes which come back to Washington from
"A reone of the State seem to show that,
=. usna the popular sentiment is stronger .usn S'
s.,,irent among Congressman. The PRESIDENT
b.. made sixty-nine appointments 10 oinceS
.-;,hin Nev-York state since the session opeuco'
nbont one-thrd of which were reappoh'ni0",
These do not include, Of course. appointments VI
ew.yorkers 20 outside positions, like that OF MI.
'T,on,tno 70 the Supreme Bench. but only those OF
men selected to fill places within the borders Oh tue
State The most important of these sxty-hine ap-
poiptments were the Postmasters at Ding
hamton Auburn. Peekskill. Ithaca, BROOK
Iyn. Saratoga, Kingston and "a'er-
town: the Collectors of Internal Revenue
mt Rochester and Albany; the Collectors OF
Cnstoms at Niagara and Oswego the Superlntend-
ant Of the Assay Office the Assstant-Iressurer ana
the Pension Agent at New-York; the Surveyor OF
Customs at Albany. These are all, by the way os-
tinctively Stalwart appointments, with the e.cep-
ton of the Ithaca and Brooklyn Post Ounces anu tne
Pens;on Agency at New-York none of which is
shonght to have had any political bearing. Du' eVoh
these and the general Stalwart character OF the
other and less important appointments throuehou'
the State do not account altogether LOT INC icene
.oward the President. 1t is less what he has done
than what it is feared he may do, which canses uh
certainty and q lack of confidence among the Gar"
ga Rennbrcans. They see no ground in what
the President has already done for an inference tha
when the more important appointments come 10 DC
made there will be a broader party policy. he"
,veeks apo prominent Republican IN Central new
York wrote to one of the Congressman Tor MS WE'VE
This was the brief response: You ssk iho io' n'
view of the political situation 1t Is TINS tna' 'no
President means TO defeat Governor Cornell at all
bazards and to crush every Garfield hepuDncal
who won't surrender" 1t is feeling Ike TINS
H. flCfQ ct
the Administration than the appointments that
have been made The President has not succeeaeu
in winning the confidence OF many OF MS I S
political opponents especially IN ms own o.a az
Whether this be his fault or the faut OF othels n5
be the subject of dispute but the TACT is as rea anu
as patent as the dome of the tapltol., inese Ie"
feel that that there Is nothing "hlcn she a-ont
his neImjtting a general warfare upon the re-
personalities of the majority IN the chicago ooiis
yention of 1880 and tho New-fork CohVenuon oi
last vear if the pressure from the Stalwart pollf
clans should become greater than ne c9.lu IesiS
Naturally, such situation does not tehu 10 ieP"o
confluence in the Administration , :.
If is an interesting fact that while IL is Salu on
the one hand that the policy OF conclnauon has yet
10 begin II is SAID the other, among some OF Ihe
Presidents friends. tbatit has been usu, anu ' M
IL has failed because the CARRIED element III tno
party won't be conciiiated Ihere nav eroH ooeu
rumOrs that this policy, which the otheI s.ue Say
has not vet made its appearance. is to oe aDai-
0onedD The view taken by some OF the tresiuents
friends regarding the situation IN fenhsyIvanid,
for example is interesting. Said one OF them The
other day: Senator Mitchell has grown very
brave very suddenly Why hasn't he shown sSe
Snrius the last eight monthsf Why didn't he
go to the White House when Cameron was
demanding appointments, aud oeaI upon liie
gates, aud cry aloud, and say H. TOO, req,
resent the Republican party OF Pennsyt wanna
/ know that the President has meant TO DE lalr mas
wanted to be So aud know that with that olsposi-
tiop all that Senator Mitchell needed to DO was 10
be as pertinacIous as Don Cameron and To keep AT
the President just as he did To the man who asks
So rixy in uolIf as IL
achievement for Senator Mitchell afteT having sat
meeky i'll his chair for year 10 shGuey Gu IN
PENNSYLVANIA IN two. What does lie expect 10 DO
You can't have two Republican parties"
The President ought 10 have credit lOr having re-
sisted a great deal of Stalwart pressure upon hn
for Office Probably no one knows Just how much
of this there has heen and how much hrinhes s IL
has taken to meetit Garfield was hardly uead before
the rush of office-seekers began, demanding ry-
thing from the New-York Coneetorsmp down. Inc
dificulty has been In a number of cases that, IN
steal of making his resistance final, the President
has finally yielded. thus succeeding only I'D VeAus
his friends by delay at the same Iliig t,a a, lie
meeting that his action would sooner or
later be what his political friends de-
sired. The Smyth appointments at Albany,
where Smyth, according TO common report
was brought to the verge of mutiny by the aeisy
but finally carried his point Is an instance ~ o
this kind still unsettled, are hanging over tne heaus
ST tue party IN New-York, with no certainty thaV
they VIII not finally be decided In the same way
las the lack of confidence referred TO-
The complaint is often made by TRENDS OF the
President that he is criticised for doing Things
which In former times have been taken as
a matter of course. There seems TO be truth
in this Some OF the slarpest criticisms that
have been passed upon hun have dealt with
acts winch a few years ago would probably have
been accepted as part OF the CUSTOMARY dlstrlDu-
comnlain1 do not seem to realize that the change is
in the times rather than in the critics There Is ul-
questonably growing sentiment against pohtlcal
removals of efficient public officers he SUBJECT OF
the reform the ciyll service occupies more ana
more of the attention of public men here, and IN
some Eases of men who a few years would prob
sbly nave glyen no thought to II. The g machine
politicians of the strdlghtest stripe snow Tine ln-
1uence of thI, sentiment. They pay more atten-
ton than they dld the records Of Ofilce-holdeTs
whose PAGES they want Tor their Land no Que can
talk louder than they about removal Tor " cause
when they have a lar pTetext. The issue OF ClVll
Service reform Is evidently growing one. And 1t
would great source of strength 10 the Republican
party future If the Administration vi fIeSl,
dent Arthur would lake aud main tain high ground
that subject ID D. l.