Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SATURDAY. MAY 14, 1927 MEMOIRS OF UNCLE JOE CANNON As Told to L. WHITE. BUSBEY, His Confidential Secretary for Many Years. CHAPTER XIIL. 1 € OU might say” went on| / Uncle Joe, “that President | Garfield 10st his life and | () Arthur became President f because Roscoe Conkling couldn't do | to Garfield what he had done to Presi- | dent Hayes. ay even be said that | this was President Cleve- | land three d turned the | Republican party out of office for the | first time in 24 vears. “It was the insistence about the collectorship of the port that split the men talk of Conkling's imperial as- sumption in the naming of the New | York collector, and praise President Garfleld for making an appointment offensive to him.” (Copyright. 1927.) time; seemingly Hayes was the least| “I don't see how Conkling could unlikely of all men to go out of his|{be blamed for taking the Roosevelt way openly to defy Conkling. appointment as a declaration of war. g 1t has long been the custom for the Ioamtrhialy Sorwin of Eveuts. President to consult Semators That defiance léd to a remarkable | political appointments to be made in Fhdotroianisie s train of political events. Within four | their States, since the Senat years of his remqval as collector of | confirm the appointment. Even the port of New #ork, Chester A. SMITH PLANS TRIP, tors of the opposition party have in- 3 Arthur was President of the United | sisted on being consulted about home | Now York Executive May Attend States; within 24 years from the time | appointments, and I have known a when the Senate refused to confirm |nomination to be rejected on the sim- Governors’ Conference. Roosevelt as collector, his son s\nle statement of a Senator that he did' NEW YORK, May 14 UP).—Reiter President. Both men crossed g |not like it. Speaker Reed could not)ating his intention of avoiding trips to the White House; Arthur succeed- |obtain the appointment of the collec- | o "oe'No York State that might he ing the murdered Garfield, Roosevelt |tor at his home city because Presi- - i | the murdered McKinley. The parallel |dent Harrison accepted the recom. |SUPect to political interpretation, Gov. | zoes further. Garfield did not | mendations of Senators Hale and Frye, | Alfred I. Smith, arriving here lasi | Arthur on the ticket with him as vice | though they lived in other parts of [ night for a week’s visit, said he might | | presidential candidate; McKinley not |the State. I have never in my long | make one trip, which would t- to the | | only opposed, but tried to prevent |service been able to get a Federal ap- | conference of governors in Michigan, Roosevelt's nomination for the same |pointment in my own district without | July 27. ! office. Two New York men became |the indorsement of the Illinois Scna-| He has received an invitation to at. | Presidents by the assassination of two | tors, e: t the postmaster. With|tend the conference, but will accept. Ohio Presidents. e stone rejected |this universal custom, it seemed | o said, only if he is not compelled to “see THIS PETWORTH 'NEw HOME HUNDREDS BUILT—ONL Y ONE LEFT! Beautiful Tapestry Brick;' 6 Rooms and Tiled Bath with Shower—Big Porches—Brick Pantry—Hot Water Heat—Automatic Hot Water Storage Tank— Only $8,950! Biggest Bargain in Petworth! 5013 7TH PLACE $250 CASH “Northwest 569.50 Monthly —_—— ‘\\\\i\\\s‘ SR AN SN 0 _—m ha SNt NS Open Sunday 11 AM. to 8 P.M. Also see 8-room new corner home with 4 rooms and WSS SN SRR - N iro = S S == == That is the ac- | cepted story of Garfield's assassination, | Arthur’s accession and the overthrow | of the Republican party in 1882 and 1884. And it is true as far as it goes. But what is never mentioned, and what you are going to mention now, is that this fight did not begin with Garfield and was no sudden outburst consequent upon his inauguration. It | began with Hayes why it did not instead of 188 0 the Democrats was that in time Conkling got away with it and in | Garfleld's time he didn’t. Garfield out- witted him, a thing Hayes could not do, and in his rage Conkling resigned from the Senate and smashed up the party for a dozen In the melee Garfleld was murdered and Arthur and Cleveland, neither of whom would otherwise have been President, came successively to the White House. Holds Conkling Right. “The curious thing is that though Conkling was blameable for a fit of passion which brought about such tre- mendous results, he was right and © Garfleld ‘wrong on the .principle of ! the thing. It was Garfield, not Conk- ! | ling, who started an innovation in ; politics. Hayes had tried to start il. Conkling's autocracy and imperial ar | rogance are always spoken of, but | ' if we are to look at the deeds of the i men and not their manner, it was Gar- | fleld who tried to be autocratic and Conkling merely stood on his rights. “Strange to say, this fight, already | several years old when Garfield be- came President, began over that very Arthur who was destined to become | President because of it. When it be- gan Arthur was a local Republican | boss ‘in New York City, running a | machine patterned after Tammany, ,@nd never dreaming. of national fame. Before it ended he had crossed Gar- ! fleld’s grave to become Chief Magis- trate of the United States and officially ' the head of his party in the whole ( Nation. “The trouble, as I say, commenced | with Hayes. He was the first civil | service reform President, and Conk- ———— = —~ R oo S "HE MOST DOMINANT FIGURE IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF HIS TIME. Arthur’s successor. Conkling was not the man to submit meekly to his rights being invaded or his dignity affronted by an Ohio cabinet officer. He defeated Roosevelt’s nomination when it came before the Senate. After Congress had adjourned Hayes aave a recess appointment to Edwin A. Merritt, and after a stiff contest he was confirmed when Congress met in December, 1878. Conkling did not like it, but Merritt was not his per- sonal enemy and he did not split the party over it as he did three years later over the appointment to the same place of a man he hated. So began the great factional fight that wrecked the party. “Arthur was one of the principal lieutenants of Senator Conkling, and the Theodore Roosevelt who was ,ling, a Republican Senator and boss‘ ' of New York State, hated such reform- iers.. He called them ‘man-milliners’ and ‘Miss Nancys.' But Hayes' ideas {of civil service reform were peculiar, || | to say the least. That reform meant , the appointment of men to office for * fitness and not through influence, but | Hayes came from Ohio, so did his , Secretary of the Treasury, John Sher- ||| ! man, and it was notorious that if a || | man came from Ohio he needed no other recommendation to get a job |/ * from Sherman or Hayes. I Sherman Given Patronage. *The immensely important political patronage: of the Treasury was placed . in the hands of Sherman; all the most lucrative appointments were reserved { for Ohio, and neither the President ,nor his, Secretary of the Treasury uld see beyond the borders of that |/ tate when they talked so eloquently || about the necessity of introducing the i civil service system into the Govern- ||| {ment. Some of the dissatisfied Repub- , lican Senators did not hesitate to say | that President Hayes’ idea of a civil { service system was a scheme by which || «every Ohio politician could be put on !the Government pay roll and kept ;there until he died. It was assumed as a matter of course that no Ohio politician would ever resign. 4 “The feeling created found its ex- pression even in the cabinet. At a meeting early in the life of the admin- ,istration the President announced three or four personal appointments ' he intended to make in the diplomatic service. He had not consulted Secre- tary of State Evarts, and the an- ! nouncement took the Secretary by surprise. He calmly replied, ‘Mr. President, I have never had the good fortune to see the great Western re- serve of Ohio of which we have heard 80 much.’ The President did not catch the quiet sarcasm of his Secretary of State until some of the other members of the cabinet smiled and then all broke into a loud laugh in which the President belatedly joined without much sign of merriment. Senate Rejected Roosevelt. “Early in the administration Sher- man removed Chester A. Arthur as collector of the port of New York. 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