The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-14
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
THO UGHRS or EDITORS ca UGHT w
DER DIFFICUL TIES

George weddcrburn Going W.st-Vosc
nkIing's boom Against Gould's Mo-
popoiy sullivan In His Dungeon Cell.
spring Poet Nipped -rr. Ingalls,.
A Washington correspondent says thai
delegation Of Baltimore business men
will visit Washington tomorrow for the
purpose OF calling upon Secretary has
| 10 recommend Major Weiderburn II
that city 10 the appointment OF Indian
agent at Pima, Arizona
Major Wedderburn has the indorse
mcnt Of the entire Maryland delegation
Pima i situated on "A volcanic range IN
the extreme southwest corner OF Arizona,
and borders directly on old Mexico. The
last Indian agent at that post was
scalped and killed by wild Indians from
Mexico
The climate is very hot. the mean Their
mometrical range being 81 degrees, and
reaching rs degrees in the summer.
Soldier camping in that latitude IN Au
gust place beefslcaks on the end OF Their
ramrOds. stick them out in the sun, ami
they broil through beautifully. Three
volcanic eruplions occurred in that re
gion last year. and the agency home was
partly dismantled.
No one was hurt, however, ~ the agent
had been killed three days previously.
No doubt these surroundings explain
why Major Wedderburn has an open field
in his race for this post of honor and dan
ger, though more OF the latter than The
former The MsjOI's appointment seems
quite assured
Major Weddcrburn was formerly well
known in Virginia as the editor Of the
Euquirer.-ED THE TINES.
There is not newspaper in New ! ork
State which has not made an effort 10 in
duce Mr. Roscoe COnkling, very stall
wart gentleman, who bounced himself
out of politics some years ago and has
sill &c been making barrel of respectable
size 10y the practice Of law, 10 allow him
self 10 be interviewed concerning what
role he intended to play during the forth
coming campaign Mr. Conkling has
been. to this extent, given fictitious
value as President maker. But no
doubt exists that there are those who are
very anxious 10 know where lac OF the
Hyperion curl stands, and none more 50
Than one John Sherman OF Ohio.
\ Washington correspondent 10 the
Philadelphia Times has AT last corralled
Mr. Conkling and procured an cr pa,tc
statement MI Conhling in word de-
clarcd tina; he was again ready To take an
active hand in the councils of The Rcpub.
lican party, and that Mr Blaine's retire.
menl ~ had made it possible for him 50
| to do
That Mr.. Conkiine has a childlike and
bland faith ia Mi Blaile's sincerity it is
very evident And Mr. Conkling, in
stating that be was again 10 get into
party harness, means hat he must have
the chief plum or none at all Mr.. Conk
ling has always been restless factor in
politics He has always chaied under an
other dictatorship, and has, In his SUI
preme egotism, imagined himself a Bru.
ius whose effective daggering of the 1881
Julius Caesar entitled hun to the plaudlts
Of the citizens as soon as the mOmcntary
shock of resentment at his well meant
trcachery should pass away. But Mr.
! COnkling NAV have over-estimaled his
ability to whip in the Republican lictors.
In this Times manifesto Mr.. COnklng
unquestionably enters himself a. can
didaie for nomination hOnOrs. He viii
| have "a following without much doubt
But will not Marc Antony upraise his
voice at the Chicago convention and weep
over the scars of the annihilated Blaine !:
-Blito Press.