Show How the FJeht Began New York Tribunes Washington Wash-ington The fact which decided the President to nominate Mr Robertson Robert-son as collector has at last become known and it must remove the doubts of alarge number of those who have questioned tho policy of n Draf1a fla + of aU hU 1 f n u supporting him since against the course taken Conkling It appears ap-pears it had been determined to appoint ap-point Robertsonto some prominent office in New York and this conclusion conclu-sion had been reached before the first batch of nominations for that state was made Just at this time the President was given to understand under-stand ia i a way which admitted of no mistake that Conkling would insist in-sist upon controlling the customhouse custom-house appointments whenever a change should be made As soon as the President became convinced of this he decided to make a change in the customhouse custom-house at once and have the fight out on the threshold of his Administration Administra-tion rather than have it injected into the middle of his term as it would have been had he waited until un-til term had expired |