The Weekly Elko Independent

The President's Declaration.

The President's circular addressed to Federal officials, which has just been issued by the Executive, in which they are strictly prohibited from taking part in the management or control of political organizations or election campaigns, is producing great consternation among the prominent politicians of the Republican party. A special to the New York World from Washington says: "As to its effect on the Fall elections, they all agree that it will be quite disastrous. One ex-Congressman says the States of Maine and Massachusetts will go Democratic—certainly the latter. As for Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Republican politicians are few and far between here who expect anything else in these States but a Democratic victory. Another Republican of prominence here says the President's attempt to strike down the machinery of the political organization in a republic like ours is absurd, and it will only result in an overwhelming defeat to the Republican party. 'Why, sir,' he said, 'Hayes carried his own State entirely by the political assent and the work of men in office. He cannot deny that, as he knows it was only by the greatest effort that it was saved from the Democrats. To turn Wyckoff, Chairman of the Republican Committee of that State, out of office if he does not resign from his committee, is base personal as well as political ingratitude. In the old border States, like Maryland, Virginia and Missouri, it is the concurrent opinion that the Republican organization will be entirely broken up.'