Show PROBABLE consequences according to sentiments attributed to ex senator conkling ding as exhibited in our dispatches that gentle man Is is preparing the country for the installment of mr arthur as president in the event of the demise of mr garfield the utterances give the impression lahat that such an event is strongly anticipated it is true that the constitution makes the provision in such an emergency as the demise of the duly elected incumbent of the bial chair chairs that the vice president shall occupy the position for the term this was inculcated in the sacred instrument f for or the purpose of preserving the government intact in every conceivable exigency that might arise it is a grave question however whether in such an instance as the death of the present head of the nation a powerful pow erad public sentiment f would dissolve even before a constitutional provision there can be no doubt regarding tl the to present strong popularity ritT of mr garfield it is almost a self evident fact As an inevitable consequence those who are re bitterly antagonistic to the administration mastbe must be proportionately unpopular in f fact act for the time being at least this feeling in regard to conkling arthur et at amounts almost toa to a positive and undisguised andl dislike another consideration in this connection is the prominent fact that mr arthur being one of tho the heads of ofa a meagre minority section odthe of the republican party could not by any possible means represent the party as ft a whole the logical result of the installment of the vice president would therefore be a virtual if not actual expulsion of the party as a whole from power the lines of the party division are BO so strongly and distinctly drawn that hat t fraternal amalgamation would bo be nearly if ihnot not quite impossible besides there is nothing so contemptible temp tible or humiliating to the tile american people as a puppet president somehow the idea has become deeply rooted in the public mind that mr arthur is a creation of mr Con klings that when the latter pulls the earing string the former jumps A comparison of what has been with what might be leads to the strong supposition that if mr arthur were to go to the white house he lie would bo be the figure head lead and mr conkling the manipulator of tho the highest official position in the land that the present cabinet so apparently parent ly devoted to mr garfield could possibly work harmoniously with mr arthur cannot reasonably reas bo be expected the installation of the th e latter would for that and other reasons involve important charges in high places among the other reasons would be the pressure of the prominent members of the conkling faction for official places there are gome some powerful men in the cabinet probably the strongest of whom is secretary blaine who together with a host of others would make inake a determined fight against an administration of which arthur would be tho the official head bead such a contingency tin gency as the assumption of the presidential position by that gentleman would be fraught t in any event with imminent danger to the government but it is needless to speculate beyond an attempt to place mr arthur in the chair at the white house should the wounds of president garfield have a fatal effect there is a strong probability ty that the assumption by the vice president nt the position thus made vacant would meet with a very strong resistance from whatever direction the situation is viewed it is pregnant with gloomy we might almost say probable revolutionary phases As ai there is no direct assurance of the ro recovery covery of the pr prostrated ostra president a very fiery ord ordeal eal for the country that would thoroughly teat test the strength of her in in is among the possibilities of the near future |