The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-04
NEW YORK POLITICS.
Letter from a Man who Wants TO bt
Reelected.
TROY, N. Y, September 9,

Troy, N. Y, September 9,
A letter from Roscoe Conkling to ]. II
Griswold is published to-day, in which
the Senator says that the Republicans OF
the State are not divided upon any prin.
ciple at stake now, or upon any practical
measures, and asks II the Republicans
will desert their cause merely because the
lOaVes have not come TO their baskets or
the fishes TO their nets. A few years ago
1t was an odious imputation to charge that
politics depended upon the spoils, and II
cannot be possible now that men will plot
against the cause because the offices are
too few TO go around. The Senator adds
"FOr my part there Is no Republican
whom ! can't take cordially by the hand
and labor with him shoulder 10 shoulder
In the work before us. am for General
Grant. This would be my position even
without my strong regard for him and
confidence in HIM personally. He has
made o better President than you and /,
when we voted for him, had any right to
expect, and he Is a better President every
day than he was the day before. He has
given us the best practical administration
In many respects,we have had for a quarter
Of u century, and the people know It,
With Gen. Grant as our candidate our
success Is assured. With any other can.
didate success Is not certain, and hence
the denomination and reelection of Gen.
Grant seems to me foregone conclusion
In the State of New York, more than
anywhere else, the path of Republicans
appears plain and their duty urgent Here
Is the greatest free State In ChristGndom
given over to rasCals, u prey to horde Of
thieves, who, in inlestlng our chief city,
are q disgrace TO humanity, and mildew
upon the Commonwealth by their pesti-
lentlal profligacy, Those plunderers have
seized upon the State Government, the
Legislature, and oil the municipal agencies
OF the city of New York; and heretofore
they have tamperel with our party or.
ganizatiOns, and also debauChing and
controlling them. The question facing us
is, whether this degrading, tlagitlous sway
shall cease or be perpetuated and fortified
anew. Every one knows that the iittest
step toward q remedy and reform Is TO
nominate the best men in the Republican
party and elect them to the Legislature
and 10 the executive offices Of the State
And yet men stand talking about Federal
patronage, and differences among leaders,
and personal feelings between individuals
and the like. What have such things to do
with the duty OF this hOurY What do peO.
pie care about ,them2 What should they
care Ofwhat public consequence are
personal aims and objects, and tho mis-.
haps of individualsP For one, II can
know how, by act or commission, have
given just Offense TO any man, ought TO
go, and will go and make any amends In
my power; but | insist that oil who arc
in earnest should go TO work, and keep at
work. 1t Is high time TO be done with
the Improbable things signilying moth.
ing, and productive only Of harm. The
best way TO do thing Is to dolt. Talk.
Ing may be good, but talking about what
we are willing TO do, and what might DO
done, when there Is but one stralghtIor.
ward thing To do, Is not near 40 likely to
help the Republican party as to take
right hold honestly and squarely as men
who believe in what they are about, and
mean II. We shall be all together In re-
deeming the State, ] hope, and many
good men will help who never helped uS
before" .n.a u.u... -..... q,
AN IMPORTANT REFORM MOVEMENT.
New YoRK, September y.