Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-07
The Impending Conflict.


We gather from specials to Eastern
papers that the whole machinery Of
the Republican organization is to be
utilized against the Presidents appoint
ments to office. While no form,l ac-
ton has been taken by the Senate eau
Gus on the subject, word has been sent
out to the State and local committees
to prepare and to formulate objections
to the different nominations. Every
case of any consequence which directly
or Indirectly involves change for
political reasons is to be resisted resO-
lutely.
The main ground of attack will be
that the removals made for offensive
partisanship brand the dismissed Re-
publicans with a stigma OIL their char
acter which the public at large will
not understand, and which may Sc
riousIy injure their credit and standing
as citizens.
Politicians tho were rewarded with
Office for the worst sort of partisan
service, and who were notorious i'm the
communities where they lived for the
most unscrupuldds work, are to be
held up as martyrs and canOnizrd as
saints.
A part of the proposed plan is to call
for the papers filed in the departments
respecting each nomination that is t"
be contested. With this information
to guide them, Senators may easily
put their agents on the track OF discov-
ering motives and connections that
may be valuable in opposition.
The President has perfect right to
refuse these papers, but he is not likely
to adopt that course, 0r to exercise any
Executive discretion at his command
to thwart inquiry. His theory is. if
the nominees cannot stand investiga-
ton they ought to be rejected. He
does not take much stock in most of
them.
But having organized the new polit-
ical dogma of offensive partisanship'
as a cause for removal from office, the
Republicans intend to hold the Presi-
dent to his theory, and to make the
most of their opportunity to harass him
with it.
All the professions of good Will to-
ward the President individually, and
Republican Senators, who have objects
in making them, are cheap and insin-
eere. The ''era of good feeling" which
is said to have existed in Mr.. Monroe's
Administration, has not returned. The
two great parties confront eaeta other,
one of them looking to continuance in
office after long exclusion, and the
other to q restoration TO power after
rejection at the end of six Presidential
terms.
Both Democrats and Republicans will
do their best to gain these ends. The
politician must be very yerdant who
thinks the Senate will not take every
possible advantage, within the reach
of its majority, to perplex and to injurs
the Administration. This course is re-
xarded as political duty, and the Re-
nublican managers need 40 instruction
how to perform it, for they have been
thoroughly trained in all the arts of
opposition.
If there be any credulous Democrats
xsso believe that the Republican lead
ers have been transformed into meek
and lowIy allies of the Administration,
they will soon recover from that de-
lesion. The enemy's forces are now
drinking for formidable onslaught on
the persons and policy composing H.
The first point of attack will be chs
nominations, and if it be determined
to adhere to the old rule of discussing
them In executive session, the secrets
will not be kept even as foosely as the
practice hitherto has been.
While the indications up to the pres
emit time are regarded in some quarters
as promising quiet session, they are
no more reliable as an outlook thaa
most of Gen. Hazen's speculations on
the weather have proved to be. Con-
press has been enjoying the holiday
season in the usual fashion OF doing