New-York tribune., 1882-02-20

oublican that the President then sald, assui"o
the responsibility myself" good deal OF feeiing
has arisen over some of the Post once appoihV
rents. The appointment of William II. McCleary to
be Postmaster at Pttsburg was at first resisted py
Senator Mitchell. who afterward allowed 1t to be
confirmed. McCleary was appointed at the soci-
tation of Christopher L. Magee, OF the 3o6, VINO
is powerful in the Republican organization, and Is
said to control McCleary completely. d Il. Gar
rothers was appointed Postmaster at Mcheesport'
against the protest of the Congressman from the avs
trct. Mr. Bayne. Carrothers Is one OF the lew
Stalwarts i'm district overwhelmingly antl-Oraht,
and was appointed it is universally beoVed, on Tue
reouest of Senator Cameron The Wilkes
boTre Post Office caused n long dispute
which has not ended yet. Congressman Scranton,
an anti-Grant Republican, secured the appointment
of A. s. Or. Governor HOyr came all the way 10
Washington TO oppose the appointment, and sue
ceeded in getting a motion to reconsider the con-
frnation entered in the Senate. The case is sus-
pended with the prospect that Orr will be defeat
ed The Governors candidate was Douglass Smith,
The present incumbent--a Grant Stawart Gov
ernor Hoyt's appearance here 10 contest post
Office nomination excited a good deal OF adverse
comment.
Frank z. Case, who was appointed Collector OF
Internal Revenue for the XXIld, District OF
PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburg is pronounced Stalwart,
ana Nau nuC0 10 uC Nitu tlcCllhS piHii' "N'N@"'
TO Chicago The Collector who was removed,
Thomas W. Davis, had served many years, ana
had established reputation one of the best Col
lectors in the service. 1t is stated that he would
have cherrfully resigned if he had been requested
to do So taking the ground so often
taken among the politicians, that he had
enjoyed lucrative Office long enough; but
he was not given an opportunity TO do 80.
1t should be said, however that this was a
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matter of which the President probably had no
cognizance. William j. Pollock, who was appointed
internal Revenue Collector in the 1st Philadel-
phia District, was one of the 500. The Pcnnsyl-
yania appointments cannot be dismissed without
recognition of the fact that Senator Cameron is be-
Leyed here to have established closer relations with
the President than any other Senator The apparent
sympathy between them, and what seems TO be
sometimes an intimate concert of action have been
the subject of much remark.
BALTIMORE AND CINCINNATI.
Altogether tho fercest strife of the session has
been over the Baltimore appointments. The city Is
20 near that delegations could come and Invade the
White House, and go-all in a few hours; ana the
name of them was legion. The feeling aroused III
this controversy was direct outgrowth OF the at
tempt TO nominate General Grant for third term.
II will be remembered that the sentiment OF the
Republcans of Maryland in 1880 was believed TO
be overwhelmingly for the nomination OF Mr..
Blaine and that although it found expression in
resolution adopted by the State Convention
by vote of 80 10 II, Mr. Blaine at no time
received more than seven out OF the sixteen
votes of the State most of the ballots received
only five. and on a number only two. 1t has al
ways been charged by Mr. Blaines friends, and was
fully shown in the newspapers at the time that this
result was accomplished by an unfair manipulation
of the Convention. Blaine delegates whose seats
were contested were excluded from the temporary
organization on that ground, while Grant delegates
whose seats were contested were admitted. This
enabled the Grant men to control the body and elect
their chairman, Henry Clay Naill II also enabled
them to put on the delegation men who could be
taken away from Blaine at Chicago; at the same
time 70 conceal the true nature of their operations
and 10 make a show of Difference to the sentiment
of the State they allowed the Blame resolution 10
pass with little opposition. Another ilct tending
to embitter the contest over the appointments here
was that the remarkable Republican gains at the
last election in Maryland were, as the Blaine Re
publcans claim, in that section of the State where
the party is all of their way of thinking
Every Republican elected to the Legislature, they
say is a recognized adherent of Mr.. Blaine. Yet
these very gains were Osed as arguments with the
President why all the Baltimore Offices should be
put into the hands of the Grant-Stalwarts headed
ty ex-Postmaster-General Creswell The President
has appoiu ted Henry Clay Nail above referred to.
Surveyor at Baltimore; Edwin III. Webster, who
was promaentin in the Grant movement, Collector;
as Naval Officer w. K. Wilmer, OF Charles County,
the only county in Southern Maryland which sent
delegates to the State Convention for Grant and
has reappointed, as United States Marshal, }. NJ.
McClmtOck, who not aDtagonized by the Blaine
element and as Distrct-AttOrney A Sterling jr,
pronounced Grant-Stalwart. Both the latter are
regarded excellent officers, and Nj. Sterling has
already served twelve years.
The Cincinnati controversy nvaed that Of
Baltimore in the number of delegations and the de-
gree of political palpitation that accompanied
it, Here the President accomplished the remarka-
BILE feat of pleasing both sides-both being
auparently apprehensve of defeat. and both appar-
emily relieved to find how well they had come Out of
the struggle. Leopold Marks Brett, who was APP
pointed Assistant Treasurer. was once law partner
of President Hayes, and is a relative and busl-
ness associate Of Fred Hassaurek. the veil
known German editor of Cincinnati. He was Op
posed to Grant in 1850 and in favor of Sherman.
William II Taft, who was appointed Internal Reven-
ne Collector is young son Of Judge Taft Attorney
General under Grant. Amor SIN tn. jr, who was re-
moved from tlis place, although one of the young
est Collectors in length of service in the Union,
had succeeded establishing the reputation of be-
ing probably the best of them all He seemed how
ever to have made himself unpopular by his politi-
cal course, though the rectitude Of his motives was
universally acknowledged, S. A. Whitfield who
was appointed Postmaster. has been Assistant Post
master, " as a Sherman man in 1850, and strongly
opposed to- third term. There is little
70 remark in the other Ohio appointments
save that the wishes Of the Congressman
seem TO have been complied with. Abram d.
Wilt appointed Postmaster at Dayton,
is brother-u-aw of Major Bickham. Editor of
The Dayton Journal, who has long been Jealous
friend Of Senator Sherman Lorenzo ID. Myers