The daily gazette., 1882-03-03
TRIDAY MARCH 3. Iss2.

bAS AcpuoAhCou koAuoHbs many Vi
them are anxious now that Mr.. Conk-
ling shall be shelved until their party
difficulties are healed in the great
State Of New York, imagining kim
TO be the cause of tbe difference and
the break in their ranks in that State,
without the vote of which there seems
no hope Of the Radical party holding
its enormous power and controlling
the hundreds Of millions Of dollars
which flow into and through the
hands OF over q hundred thousand
government officers.
We have no doubt the President
wac desirous of healing the difficult
ties Of his party in this way. But
the indications are that it will be an
entire failure, and win only serve to
show that the differences had far
deeper root than in the personal re-
quests Of Mr.. Conkling. In fact it is !
quite evident that the Republican |
party was effectually divided in the
Cincinnati Convention, and that the
anti-third term men having triumphed
over the Grant third-term party, and
elected their candidate believe they
are entitled to the official patronage
belonging to the Presidential Office.
They come 70 this conclusion on the
principle that under this government
men ought not to expect to secure
life-tenures, and that the Grant party
had had its full share of offices in the
past ten or twelve years. For really
great number Of the men who vent
in under Lincoln continued through
both terms of Grant, and also the
term under Hayes. The latter was
afraid to make changes, sand those
he did appoint were mostly men who
had helped at New Orleans to steal
the Office from Tilden under the
guidance and protection of Grant.
Another evidence of the effectual
division Of the party is to be found in
the denunciatiOn of the leaders of
the one faction by the leaders Of the
other. They really seem to try which
can say the hardest words of the
character and conduct of each other.
Mr. Hoar has actually gone 80 far in
his place in the United States Senate
as TO assert in the presence of Mr..
Conkling's friends that the great New
York leader is dishonest, and bis pri-
Vate character as well as his political
character such as would soil the
srmine, and indirectly attacks the
President by asserting that the nomi.
nation was one not tit to be made. II
the President is the high spirited man
we take him to be he will not permit
Mr.. Hoar to come in his presence after
the use of such language about hii
greatest and best friend and his OWE
unsought act.
But in further proof that the party
has been "pulled apart" we may in.
stance the election In the late Sena
tor Wagoner's district in New Yorl
which had been carried by that gen
tleman by majority of 5000 and wa
carried by the Democrats on Thurs
day by 1000 majority.
There is scarcely hope for tn,
salvation of the party. Now tina
Mr.. Conkling Is out of the way, if b,
accepts the JusticeshIp, the fight will
be moro severe and unrelenting thai
ever. His efforts to calm the trouble,
waters will cease of course and tn
struggle for Office will grow more in
tense than ever. The men that ar
out will have to be accommodate,
with Office, and they cannot be unles
q Stalwart is turned out.
But beyond this the fact that the Re
publican party officS-holders have be
come 80 corrupt that tits growing in
famous in the opinion of the people
The New York San OF to-day in a
editorial takes the solid ground tina
The party has ceased except in name
1t says:
"The Republican party has been il
power SO long that it has ceased to b
Republican except in name. 1t ha
no longer any higher aspiration thai
to hold Office and digest patronage; n
policy but that Of Capitalization, wit
the natural incidents of jobbery an
corruption upon a national scale. Ii
great leaders do not contend with on
another over questions of sconom
or Of constitutional construction. The
are simply divided over the distribu
tion Of the common plulder. A grea
principle, one Of the most sacred ira
ditions of American liberty, was, it
true, involved in the struggle at Ch
cago; but it can scarcely be said t
have been met by the overthrow {
Grant. Opposition to third tern
pure and SIMPLE, had very little to
with the defeat Of tho Old Guard
the narrow majority arrayed against
after many days Of doubtful conflict
Even Mr.. Blaine never committe
hirnoalf naaauivnooIlw .