Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-25
Press Comments
CLEVELAND, o., HERALD.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 24.-The Herald
will editorialiy say, tomorrow, under the
heading, ga Disastrous Step" that President
Arthur yesterday did an act that was a sur
prise and modification to those republicans
who placed confidence in his good sense and
who refused to believe that in his official
course he would defer to The dictates of an ar
rogant and discredited clique rather than
conform to the wishes of the great mass of
republicans and regard the live interests of
the party and nation, He nominated Roscoe
Conkling to the supreme bench of the United
States. There are obvious reasons why the
nomination should not have been
made, why its announcement is painful
shock to the representatives who
have the interests of the party
at heart. The circumstances of his disap-
pearance from public life need not be recalled.
They are still painfully fresh in public mem
DRY. A few short months is not sufficient
time in which to forget the childish and
petulant course of Mr.. Conkling in the senate.
The long continued and disgraceful wrangle
at Albany, the dark tragedy which accentua-
ted and closed the struggle, and the long
silence of Mr.. Conkling when the whole world
| was sending its messages of sympathy, hope
! and coincidence to the stricken family. Nor
| are the circumstances of this temperance
more likely to commend him to the favor of
the great body of Republicans, or o1kthe peo-
| pie as q whole. The fulsOme eulOgies of
Parson Newman, the atroclous insult to
| the Republican party in the billingsgate at
tack of Emory Storrs on the last Republican
administration, the significant silence
concerning Garfield, contrasted with the up
roarious enthusiasm which every reference to
Conkling evoked, the carefully prepared and
widely published SANDER, by one of Conkling's
| 5rass-medalled clique, upon the memory of
James A. Garfield, declaring him to have been
| sweak' and 'insincere," and charging HIM
with deliberate falsehood and treachery to
Roscoe ConklingAthese were all deliberately
arranged previous to the act of yesterday,
and illustrated the meaning of that act.
Conklingism is triumphant and Garfield Re-
publicanism is Inundated. That is the only
construction it will bear. There is no posi-
| BILE excuse for this proceeding. The friends of
Mr.. ConkliDg have deprecated any unfriendly
alluson to him because they said he was not
medGling with politics, but was peacefully
pursuing his law business. The republican
party and the nation would gladly have him
remain at the work in which he was said to
be engaged. Why was he dragged from his
law office and Extensively thrust upon public
attention by his little knot of partisans and
toadies? Why is it proposed to take him from
his alleged lucrative legal practice to place him.
in position that pays less than One-third of
his reported income at the bar, when by the
circumstances surrounding that appointment
outrages the republican sentiment of the
nation?
President Arthur may have gratifed private
friendship and satisfied personal obligations
! by the nomination, but has he right to do so
at such destructive cost to the party whose
claims in him are far greater than those of
| any individual, or clique, or faction? We
know we speak for the Republicans of
Ohio. We know we do for the whole Repub
lcan party, when We say emphatically "No.'-
CLEVELAND, o., LEADER
| The Leader will say editorially tomorrow;
President Arthur seems bound to surprise the
people by his nominations After the news
paper men had got it all fixed for John c. New
to 90 as American minister to st. Petersburg,
he is suddenly pigeon hOled in
the place of first assistant secretary of the
treasury. After hanging on the ragged edge
of uncertainty as to whether he would or
| would not be made secretary of the interior,
ex-senator Sargent, Of California, has been
bundled off to Berlin as ambassador of the
United States at the court of Germany, but
the browning surprise comes after one set of
news mongers has been predicting that Ed
munds would benominated to fill the vacancy
| on the supreme court bench and another set
has insisted that FOlger would be the coming
man, in the nomination for that place
of Roscoe Conkling. Wedo not regard it as
probable that Mr.. Conkling will accept the
place, unless his health is so poor as to COM
pei him to retire from active service at the
bar. He can certainly make five times more
money year by the practice of law than he
would receive as Judge of the supreme court;
His acceptance of place on the bench would
of course involve entire retirement from po-
Ilitlcal activity, which would doubtless prove
attractive to a man who has committed polit-
ical suicide as thoroughly as Mr.. Conkling
has.
NEW YORK SENTIMENT.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-The nomination of
Conkling to the supreme bench created
genuine sensation and considerable space will
be devoted to discussion of it in the morning
papers. The weight of opinion on the street
| and in editorials, is that the appointment is
commendable one in many respects, but it is
NOT free from criticism. Doubts are expressed
as to his acceptance. but the idea prevails tina.