New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
SHOOTING DESERTERS.

The Administration clique i'll the Senate, hav-
ing at last disposed of Mr. Summers resolution
and ordered a committee of investigation, is
now ready we suppose, to begin slaughtering.
The first victim will probably be the inquiry,
which the Senators have betrayed an unmiS-
taxable desire to sufiocate by sitting on it.
Then they will have leisure to execute the
threat of their little Quarter -Sale-or-
Toilet Handful, and shoot the dcserters.'
Mr. COnkling has already got pair of hand
cuffs for Mr.. Sumner and dungeon for MIR.
Schurz, and has given distinct notice that he
will spare no man who exposes corruption in
the Republican party, or presumes to
have an independent opinion respecting
the next Presidency. Here are Republi-
cans all over the United States clamOring for
an abatement of the scandals of the New
York Custom house before the party goes into
the Presidential campaign Shoot them"
cries Mr.. COnkling. Here are respectable poll
ticians in the New-YOrk Legislature dcnounc-
ing the proof reading bill of Clerk Terwil-
Tiger "Shoot them" says Roscoe. Here are
people asking about Senator Woods bank
account and Cushmans postage stamps, and
Clerk UnderwOod's transactions at Albany !;
raucous voice of the New-YOrk statesman
brays in reply, Shoot them" And now here
come several distinguished members of the
United States Senate, asking an inquiry into
some very suspicious transactions between the
Ordnance Office and certain French purchasing
agents, and to their demand we have still the
same answer, " Shoot them"
What pleasant spectacle it will be Charles
Sumner, for instance, is one of the fathers OF
the Republican party, man hOnOred wherever
liberty is loved, the foremost figure now as he
has been for years in the Congress OF the
United States. Mr. COnkling is going to shoot
him first. Lyman Trumbull has been respected
as one of the ablest and truest of the Western
Republicans he must be shot too. Carl Schurz
is the greatest orator of the day in Washing
ton, and a politician whose career has been
both honorable and brilliant But Mr.. COnk-
ling is going to shoot him. FentOn will be
shot of course, and his body will be abused
afterward. Tipton's grizzled locks will be
"steeped in gore :" and over the mangled
remains of Logan and Ferry Mr.. Conkling
will pare his finger nails while Nye dances
comic hornpipe. Outside the Senate there will
be bloody work to do among the newspapers.
ms Journal VIII pIOOdDly IulHlSh NiotlIho Iol
at least one full mornings work. Cincinnati
will add to the pile the cOrse of Murat Hal
stead Tho Tribune of Chicago will be de-
stroyed and Massachusetts, will lose Mr. Samuel
Bowles and The Springfield Republican.
1t may be asked what will be left when all
these are gone, and really the inquiry does
not seem unreasonable. To supply the place
of Mr.. Summers dignifed craftsmanship, Ne
vada will send her Humpty Dumpty. Instead
of the elOquence of SChurz we shall hear the
vehemence of Morton, and to offset the loss
of Trumbull we shall have the venerable and
risky Gilbert, who got elected Senator from
Florida one day while he was visiting that
State for his health, and who never takes the
liberty of voting without first running to
COnklng for permission and advice The de-
struction of Mr.. Fenton will perhaps not be
felt because the other Senator from New
York has style enough for two. And in jour
nalism have we not John Thomas, whose faith
in his master never can be shaken, and the
Blatherskite who makes it rule to agree
with everybody and take everything back the
next morningH With COnkling Nye, Morton,
and these two newspapers, backed by Horace
Porter, Ingalls,, and the RemingtOns, what
more do you want to constitute state ?