The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-03
TELEGRAP IIC
BROKEN BONDS.
Arthur Manipulated by & New
Crowd.

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Chicago, Ia Washington cores
pondent says there is lutte doubt the
Presidents relations with the old Grant
Conkling crowd are little strained,
Conkling has been here several times
since sum mer, and the President has had
only one formal call from him. New
York City stalwarts find tDemselves
edged politely out into the cod; Tom
Murphy wanders about the city, but is
never seen at the White House. Biglin,
Hess. O'Brien and others of that now
notorious New York crowd are occa. ion
ally here, but if they see the President
they do in the small hours, and never
make any men ion oft; but evidences of
this pulling asunder are found In large
fields. John Sherman is having more
influence with this administration than
be is used 30 having. The appointment
of the unfit Olms for district ccmmis-
sioner Is clearly and openly John Sher-
mans work. Don Cameron has beeL
obliged to co0sent to truce, and see his
er1iEg brother, Mitchell, received with
open arms a. the White House, and
promised q hare Of the patronage. Be-
sides, the pleadings ofstslwarts have been
SO firmly refused that they are no longer
made. General Grant recently refused to
endorse the recommendation Of an Office
seeker on the ground that it could d.
him 10 good. and might do him some
harm. The persistent requests that
Robertson De removed and his place
given to French or Morgan's par ner,
have been denied with the rem ark that
Robertson's term has only sixteen
| r,oNthc 70 WIN and 10 rrorll ~ P.zi-l d. -
| turn him out before that time logon
is clearly out with tue president, though
thu initiative IN this case was taken by
General Arthur. wao thinks Logan
| played the administration s very M can
trick by securing 10 lot Of good appel ut
ments and then hieing away to New
Mexico to let the administration fight
its own battle in November. 0ace IN a
While the President makes 4 domination
or does something that suggests that his
batJer judgment was surrendered ~ his
good nature, but he has in the main re-
sisted the entreetles OF his old associates.
There would have been music enough
had the President heeded them. They
now accuse MIN of going back on the
men thai made him, and assert that be
pays more heed to the reprosches of his
| old political enemies than he Loes TO The
suggestions Of his trusty political friends
Ii would not be surprising If these re-
proaches should blossom out pretty soor
into an authorized publication f the
comments of this or that old friend that
Wall show how far the breach hsl
| widened. The fact is Arthur wants tc
leave the White House to united reput-
licsn party while old stalwsrts want nc
union with the men who asserted then
independence last fell. Arthur is doing
his best, they their worst; but Arthur il
too old a scholar to learn new lessons.
His theories are better than his practices
We shall not have much civil service re
form under Arthur.
The correspon tent says the reason 81
given recently by one of Secretary Fol
gers frie1ds, fJS the coolness existing
between Cohklilg on one ban end Fol
ger aud Arthur on the other, is substsn
TALLY this: When Arthur became Tres
sdent, Conklirg Was asked to accept tht
portfolio of state. This he dec ined OF
the ground that he was out IF polite
and ambitious TO make money, of which
he stood badly 10 need" What did Ii
want? was asked in a tone thst indi
Gated ready compliance. J. h2v,
but one request to make, said he
slowly and with emphasis, l wan
that fellow Robertson kicked GU
Of the custom house. In vain Arthur
and Folger reasoned with him, that i
would be impolitic, they said, consid T
ing Arthur's manner Of succession to re-
move Robertson without cause. AlresdJ
there existed strong prejudice against tbl
administration, and it needed but sin
gle false step Of this sort to array selidl,
against them all the opposition of tn
half breeds. When Robsrtson's tern
expired Conkling should name his sue
cessor."
In this strain they argued for over al
hour, CopkliDg listen ed patiently with
sneer Oh his hAughty face. He never in
terrupted them for a moment. Whel
they had finished he seized his hat ant
left the room He has never gone nea
| than einnn