New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-27
THE ADMINISTRATION.
r,,p FORK OF THE ROAD.

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<,,e,,ornt of the Presidents reputed intention OF
place in the Cabinet to some man who
15 Ia a nositye representative If the majority
:: tha Convention at Chicago, Il causing
,nnch discussion among the politicians OF the
C,nital. good while ago they st February as
.I Ultimate date for changes in the Interior and
Navy Departments, or at all events. for decision
whether there should be charges or not. but 'haV
dote las passed and nearly four weeks in adj
diton and still there is no sign OF an end 10 inc uh
cc,taiuty This situation causes anxiety to
number OF prominent Republicans who, though they
have been conspicuous opponents OF that faction
of the party with which the President has he2n
identified believe that it is the duty ef every Re
pubc n to support him, and are sincerely deSirous
that his Administration shall be successful. They
te that if the time is ever TO come when the PTcS
dent will show by his moro important appointments
that he means to do all i'll his power 10 harmonic
the party. it must come now. Five OF his CaDihct
are taken from his own wing OF the party; 10Y.
whatever may be said of the relative degrees OF
Stalwartisln exhibited In President Arthurs Cabl-
ne, apponcc, there is question that they are all
thoroughv in sympathy with that faction wmch
has somehow managed to appropriate the name oi
Stalwart. Secretaries Folger and FrellnGhuysen,
postuastcr-G General Howe and Attorney
General Brewster. all belong to this school
in Republican politics. Secretary Lincoln
whose tenure of the War Department is never dis
turhed even bv a rumor and is generally considered
70 be as secure as he had been nominated by fres-
dent Arthur himself, makes the fifth member OF the
Cabinet representing the minority at Chicago. NOW
saw the class of Republicans referred to above 1t Is
a5Jut time for the harnonizing process to begin Ii
the President is to go and fill the remaining
places in his Cabinet with Staswarts, lie Will dis
regard the example set by his predecessor who was
careful to give those who had opposed lin III the
mast liberal share of representation in the Cabinet.
No declarations of an impartial purpose on INC
Presidents part would then weigh against the TACT
that the majority at Chicago had ceased in ye'r
from the beginning of the new Presidential tCrm 10
have any voice in the Administration.
Theau-stion of time is also becoming an element
II some Republican # aggressive record IN oppos-
ton TO the bird Term hal been put into the CaDl-
net WITHIN week after Mr. Blaine had retirei
President Arthur could have pointed to that fact as
proof that he meant all that he said when he
promised TO be the President of the whole party and
not of a faction But week after week goes by, and
nothing is done in this direction. The time is fast
approaching when such an appointment, even when
made may he regarded as without significance IL
will he s,id Of il as was said when Franklin Pierce,
finally and long tame behind the age made an anti
slavery epcech-that it was Late, reluctant ana
unimportaut." In the opinion OF number o1 the
Presidents we'll wishers he has only TO wait d few
weeks more before making such nomination, or
nominations TO have his action regarded not as a
genuine effort toward party reconciliation, but
merely as an attempt 10 remove the impression
that bis Administration Is 10 be wholly devoted To
the interests of the Stalwarts The nomination of
Mr. Conkliug for the first judicial office now IN the
Presidents gift certainly does not lessen the neces-
sitv for showing that the Administration means to
work for the reunitpg of the party. The fact that
Messrs Krkwood and Hunt still remain in the Cab
met is regarded as concession to the Presidents
former opponents, but policy adopted for hs
own convenience.
There is another feature In tie situation. The
President has thus far made only one diplomatic
appointment of frst-cass inportance-that of Mr..
Sargent, n pronounced Grant Stawart. There are
several other important foreign Missions to be
filed. These have been awaiting action long
time also, and it has been expected that they
would be closed up at about the Same date
with the undecided Cabinet appointments. 1t Is
the Presidents misfortune-it certainly cannot be
said to be his faut-that only names mentioned
in connection with these prominent diplomatic
places seem TO be those of Stslwarts Of radical
type If these places well as the re-
manning Cabinet positions. are filled with
men all OF the same school the
men already put into the Cabinet and
The Minister sent to Berlin. an impression will 90
ont to the country which President Arthur could
probably Iever remove-that his Administration
was irrevocably committed to the service of tho
Grant faction. If such belief should once become
fixed in the minds of the whole people,
could have any doubt to the Ultimate fate OF the
Administration, not perhaps i'll the verdict of
Congressman so many of whom ara all things TO all
Administrations for the sake of procuring appoint
mcntS but in the verdict of the great of the
party, who care nothing ab ut offices, but who do
not want TO sec the hands Of the clock set back
where they were before the rule Of tho bosses WAS
smashed at Chicago.
Such suggestions as these do not come from those
who are hostile in any respect 10 President ArthuT's
Administration, hut the contrary from those
who are doing their best to sustain II and really
shall succec3- They feel that it has
JrlCDrd what may almost bv Called 0Tj5is-tlo
fork of the road Tins far the conntry has wanted
Administration. There scoIus to have been aispo-
tation TO acqNiesce IN one Statwart appoiutment
after another to tho Cabinet the ground that the
Pre6iaeRt had an gna9a9tteeaa right TO eA999ss 9S
0w0 z0F1S0IS, 3G0 r WSS R2}01T1 S92@ re S0"1l2
take majority of his Cabinet as President Gar
fc,d did from his political friends Bat now that
Tho new mach,y in President Arthuls Cabinet is
even little larger than tho other majority
IN Prcsiden: GaTield's Cabinet, the feeling
Is that it has grown as lArgcas President Arthur
can afford to let it grow and The appointment of
lr. Conklng is leading a good many to ask when
tie Stalwart procession Is 10 be interrupted
Meantime the dissatisfaction Of the extreme Stal-
warts with the President is sad to be steadily on
thc4ncrease. They are impatient for removals. He
declines as a rule, to make any They are
hungry for appointments. and these come very
slowly. 1t is tho common talk of Washington
that Mr. Conklng, Mr.. Plat, Senator Logan and
others have been much discontinued with the eau
tous and deliberate policy of the President, and