National Republican., 1882-04-26

variance with the Secretary's opinion.
He favors the bill generally, but does not
unreservedly commit himself to the pro-
posed reduction of the penal sums of the
warehousing bond. His letter will ap-
pear in our columns hereafter.
The safe way is to hold the distillers to
the terms which seemed to them so de-
sirable two years ago. Let them not OBJ
tain for their great gambling operations
in whisky more from Republican Con-
gress than they dared to ask when that
body was Democratic.
The Massachusetts, Senators and the
Boston Collectorship.
Since Chester A. Arthur became Presi-
dent of the United States there have be-
come vacant and TO be filed from the
State of Massachusetts, five important
Federal offices, to wit One Associate-Jus-
ticeship of the Supreme Court, one United
States sdistrict-attorneyship, one collector
ship of the port of Boston, one naval
officer, and one surveyor at the
same port. As to all these five
offices the President has respectfully re-
ceived the advice of the Massachusetts
Senators, Messrs. Hoar and Dawes. In
four of the five cases the men nominated
have had their joint senatorial recon.
mendation. As to one of the five, how
ever-the collectorship of Boston-the
President has disregarded their advice,
and, instead of renominating the old col
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nominate Colonel Roland Worthington,
the senior editor and proprietor of the
Boston EUening Traveller.
Whereupon the Massachusetts Sem
ators have arisen in their wrath, and are
now eagerly engaged in canvassing With
their senatorial brethren for votes to de-
feat the one nomination out of five in
which Stalwart Executive has dared to
recognize a Stalwart Massachusetts, Re-
publican. 1t is truly strange spectacle
which we have here presented of the
two Senators who stood foremost in the
attack upon Senator Conklipg in the
Robertson contest, and denounced " sem
atorial courtesy" as an usurpation, and
made fierce and almost frantic defense
of the constitutional prerogative of the
President to nominate to important Fed
eral offices free from senatorial dictation,' ~
now going around the Senate Chamber
saying to Senators on both sides: "The
President has nominated collector at
Boston who is personally offensive to
both of us, and we ask you, in the sa.
cred name of senatorial courtesy, to help
us defeat his confirmation"
Messrs. Hoar and Dawes both admit
that against Colonel Worthington's per
sonal character they have nothing to say
They cannot. He has been a lifelong
Republican; is the publisher of one ofthe
leading Republican papers of his section
went to Boston forty years ago a poor
man, and has made for himself, by hon
orable industry and enterprise, an indie
pendent fortune, so that he doesn't come
under the head of "needy ofiice-seell
ers :" and has served his fellow-Citizens
in representative capacity with honor
and integrity, both in the government oi
his city and State. What is there about
this man to arouse the Indignation OF
Messrs Hoar and Dawes2 Why, he has
been and he is Il Stalwart, and not q
Reformer. "Simply this, and nothing
more" They have had four out of five
offices for their friends, and now they are
angry because the fifth is given to a mar
who, though Of highly reputable char
acter, a solid business man of the Hub, o
irreproachable record, is nevertheless no
of the Hoar and Dawes element of poll
tics.
Now, these two particularly pur
young men" from Massachusetts may Of
may not succeed in killing Worthingtor
by invoking the courtesy of the Senate,
which they denied to Senator Conklng
but, in any event, the Republicans o
other States need no longer be deceived
as to the real sentiments of the Massa
chusetts Half-Breeds on senatorial
courtesy" and executive prerogatve
and other cognate subjects. The cour,
tesy of the Senate" is villainous thing
in New York, but is the eminently
proper caper" in Massachusetts At the
last Republican State convention (lSSl) II
| hdNshtllu0tNlS, lltll Nv w OINChlcT, In'
home Of the Hoars, series of resolution,
were adopted, drawn up by Mr., Allen, {
Half-Breed journalist, who correspond
from this city for the Boston Adncrtise,
and is, at the same time, Senator Dawes
secretary-so that he may be regarded a
an inspired wrter-in which this fin
E passage occurs;
We turn confidently TO the work remaining
be done, and set forth as among the measures {
present desire and urgency the following:
thorough reform Ia the methods Of maxim
and obtaining appointments to the civil servic,
The needed reform will comprehen
these aims-vZ. The maintenance Of The cons,ittt
uonal prerogatiDe Of he President 10 make nomino
hons upon his sole responsibility The reih
and e5cl,lsOR Qt members Qf The legislative branch FRO
Ge business Of selecting Q0lech0lders IN he deparme
Of administration
: Now that is the latest utterance of tn
. Massachusetts Republicans in conventio
, assembled, formulated by the confider
. tial secretary of one Of her Senators, an
| promulgated from the home of the othe
. and enjoying the distinguished approvi
t of both. But then that platform wa
G drawn with an eye to the then recent cas-
+ of Robertson, of New York, and with n
4 thought of the then undreamed-of case
= Worthington, Of Boston. "Consistenc,
q, ! tl,,,, n,t a t,uya1