Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-09
Republican Factions Disgruntled.

Republican troubles thicken. The
new President continues to ignore the
friends of Garfield and to appoint only
members of his own faction to office.
His motto seems to be, Put none but
Stalwarts on guard. OF course. the
Blaine or Half-breed wing of the party
is Disguised and angered ut this course
of Mr. Arthur. and breathes out
threatenngs and slaughter against the
adherents of the Administration. The
Star-route trials must 90 on in some
sort, and while the guilty principals
who are favored in Administration Cir
Giles are likely to escape, some of their
tools will be convicted and punished.
1t is plain enough that Mr.. Arthur
would be only too glad if he could have
avoided inheriting the Star-route prose-
cutions from his predecessor. AS it is
he finds himself between the devil and
the deep sea-with the danger of the
revengeful luminosity of Dorsey, Brady
& Co, on the one hand, and the
peril of popular condemnation on
the other. So he proposes to himself
to compromise the difficulty by finding
few insignificant Scape-g goats
on whom will be laid the sins of the
chief conspirators. The new Attorney
General, Ben amin Harris Brewster, a
man most susceptible to the blandish-
ments and batteries of Washington poll
ties. has been selected with a view of
letting down gently the Stal-route
friends of the Administration. George
Bliss. the principal attorney for the
Government in the prosecution of the
mail contractors. is better known for
his adroitness and trickery in manipu-
latin@' elections in New York City than
for learning and ability as q lawyer.
What Mr.. Bliss does not know about the
crooked ways in which criminals may
escape justice would be hardly worth
any quarter sessions lawyers while to
learn. Ii he cannot prosecute the Star
route conspirators without causing any
serious Inconvenience to Dorsey and
Brady it would be useless for any other
living legal practitioner to try. But in
spite of the peculiar organization of the
Department of Justice which the new
President has effected. he vii! find it
difficult to deceive the public if the prin-
cipal offenders in the Star-route frauds
90 unpublished.
Speaker Keifer. too, is in peck of
troubles. He succeeded in offending a
large number of Republican Congress
men by ignoring and snubbing the
Blaine or Garfield element in making up
his committees and open war has been
declared against him by the disap-
pointed and Inundated statesmen. Our
tele@raphic columns have already told
the story of the vehement onslaught
made upon the Speaker by Godlove S.
Orth, of Indiana. More of the same
sort of thing may be expected during
the session. Meanwhile the staiwart
leaders are not slow in recriminatiOn of
the chiefs of the opposing faction.
Blaine is denounced for his lingo"
policy in South America and for having
brought on the war between Garfield
and Conkling. MacVeagh is charged
with mismanagement of the Star
route eases and with having
left his office in unseemlv haste.
And now the prince of refOrmers, eX-
Postmaster General James, is held up
to the Indignation Of faithful Republic
ans as an imposter who, during the last
hours of his official life. filed the clerk
ships of the Post-oflice Department with
his own friends and fayOrltes and left
his successor legacy of a deficiency in
the lapse fund.- after paying his late
chief clerk a month salary in advance
which he had not earned. Thus the
implacable hatreds of the Republican
factions are working to the surface of
politics. and if only the trite saying
that ..when rogucS fall out honest men
get their dues shall have verification
in the Staiwart and Haif-breed quarrel
the country will care very little which
of the belli@erents shall get the better
of the other. - Har7iSbmrgh (Pd.)
Patriot