The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
ECHOES FROM THE PRESS.
ROSCOE AND OLIVER.

PRESIDENCY.
A washington letter to the Chicago Times
has this inimitable picture:
Conkling has displayed magnificent ca
pacitv for ignoring great subiscts and scuf
fiinO with minor ones this session. There IS
method IN his slyness, and he has his cum
ming reasons therefor. lie has been triton
in the sea of small items ever since the forty
third congress convened. lie can Dluster
longer and louder over the necessity Tor re-
trenchment, when S12 pension for some
locked soldier is under discussion, than any
three men in the senate. The payment OF
a lust individual account calls MS latent
laundering for economy 10 noisy lie, anu
that is about the only thing that does start
him His has been novel role the entire
session. Every ambitious child or the
people in hrs neighborhooo has tan
gled himself in the meshes OF an
expressed opinion on some VeNed
question. Sherman, SchnIz, MoItou, ndo nIILl'
Carpenter Edmunds, Thurman, Cameron,
and the rest have tied themselves, lneNtrlca-
blv to some scheme or plan. Conkllng Is as
free from any such alliance as the day his
red hair entered the senate champer. lie
has been as prominent as theyi put mas
built no ugly precedent. Wpen tne neXe
convention meets TO nominate cdhuud'S
for the presidency, no man can arise and
saw Roscoe Conkhng did thus and so; made
this blunder in the finance debate, commit
ted that great mistake in the bankrupt ACT,
took the wrong stand In the LOUISIANA pIsi-
ness was in error on the tariff question. Ills
record will be that of pure heart, earnest
only to prune away extravaganza. lie plays
RoWerv bow no longer to Sumner; laughs
full well with counterteited gee, at any
democratic ieu d'esprit, and Is suave
and conciliatOry TO every senator,
new and old. except Oliver z. Morton. When
CARPENTER worries Morton with constitu-
tional law, Conkling is at Matthew's elbow
with many a venomOus suggestion. Al
Schurz sticks pins into any of Morton
financial bubbles, the glib Dutchman mus
COnkling behind him with paper OF extra
fine points. Does sherman taunt Morton
with his incorrect knowledge OF WHAT the
west really wants,
CoNKLING sI.oUCHEs OVER
to the Ohio man with stack of corrObatory
western newspapers. When AIcCreery rid
died Morton's lying double-trapeze act in
the Louisiana matter, Conkling Uttered the
heartiest of any listener. When Morton |
proposes, Conkling objects; when Morton |
reasons, Conkling sneers; briefly, these lead |
ers in the jaunty republican team pun
no longer together. When the aggrayation |
comes in the sharpest 10 Morton, IS IN
the obvious popularity OF Conkllng With
Grant. If Babcock ambles into the
senate with an executive communication, he
tarries for a little chat with Conkling, TIP
ping the cutest OF "good-mornings" to Nor
ton. Frequently he enters in subdued haste,
creeps into Conkling's ear an instant, ana
then both slide in ostentatious silence from
the chamber, and are seen no more Tor the
day. Morton takes on cameleon hues, Ior
he knows that it means rum, JOY, and seven.
up at the white house. Special invitations
for official consultations call at Conklngs
desk and home continually, while Morton
has not been asked up 10 give his private
opinion to Grant or a government iiunky Tor
a month. The saddesI evidence OF the rup-
ture is that the female Conklins and Mortons
have ceased to hitch. Mrs. Conkling, like her
husband, first showed skittishness. Indeed,
all OF this melancholy hostility has been
one sided. Morton was content to remain
Damon, but Conkling would be Pythlas no
longer. Chang is sure he can live without
Eng, but Eng has never been 50 certain
thai a sepai alton would not finish both.
Mrs. COnkling first ceased to drop In at the
Ebbitt house, and presently acquired wo-
manly way OF staring over Mrs. Morton's
shoulder whenever they met sewhere. Mrs.
Morton was soon very certain that Mrs.
was uninteresting trump, and
that there was quite too much impertlnence
in those Conkling girls. The polished horde
of society was quick TO note the flaw in
jewel, and to divine the strong
est side. Up to the dawn of dismal ash
reception at the house of the
COnklings doubled, in attendance and bril-
liancy, any soiree du Morton.
THE PARTY FUTURE.
THE TOME OF cONGRESs-sHIFTING SUITS To
CATCH THE POPULAR TIDE-A SIGNIFICANT
HINT.
A competent Washington correspondent
writes: Tine republicans in congress, in
spired by their party triumph in Phila-
delphia. begin to see their way more clearly
before them than it appeared to them even
two weeks ago. In conversation with
some OF them this morning they gave as their
opinions that large majority of the people
in a large majority of the states are still with
Us, and will remain with us in the elections
OF next fall for the forty-frst congress if we
only keep near shore with our legislative
measures this session. The repeal, the alb
solute repeal, as far as possible, of the in
creased salary and back pay bill was politi-
cal necessity. We had to do it to stike our
enemy's gun, which was effecting consider
able mischief Now, as we shall have to
stand upon the record of this session before
the people in the fall, and as they have be-
come watchful over our expenditures, we
must cut them down to the lowest practical
figure. We must avoid initiation, and we
must avoid contraction in order to {
avoid any financial disturbance in the
We shall, moreover, have to
cut down our regular and incidental appro-
priatiOns as far as we can, in order TO avoid
taxation; and all great jobs IL the I
way of internal improvements, steamship
and telegraph subsidies, will have to be put q
off TO more convenient season. And ye | .
on tea. coffee, tobacco and whisky we may
have TO put on some small taxes that viii
give us fifty millions additional revenue. We
may have to do something for the western
oranges, in the way of cheapening theiI |
to the east, but a committed
Of inquiry on the subject, as the lasi
resort, will serve for present purposes.
but with or without new election