The political climate of the Gilded Age surrounded James A. Garfield, a newly elected president in 1880s, in the corruption of the ‘spoils system’. It was ran by Party Bosses, which were political leaders who got people for vote for them by favors, that seemed to be the faces of this time period. For example, Stalwart and Half-Breed Republicans they were described as political patronage. Roscoe Conkling led the Stalwarts, and this fraction of the Republican Party favored more of the spoil system where if someone did a favor for you, you returned that favor. Conkling was considered as the most powerful man in America at this time because of two reasons: he was the senator of New York, adding on that New York belonged to him in a sense, and