The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-14

I'VE nave NJ TINS moment" exclaimed |
Martin l. Townsend, "a man of The very |
drst qualities the abest young man that |
New York has had, in Roscoe Copkl'ng" |
This tribute from man of &C., himself |
no servitor, but a bold and even biash |
talker, to person nearly young enough to
be his son, seemed to me to be worth no.
ting.
"Conklng," he continued, lis always
just and broad In his views. He will keep
large place for integrity and intrepduy
and for humanity in our history. He is as
open and bold as Marcy, and his associates
in the senate of equal fame admit his SUI
periority."
remarked that there was some catholic
iiy of appreciation in Mr.. Townsend, and
referred to Van Buren, and Silas Wright
again.
Wright" said Mr.. Townsend, twas a
good speaker and debater but his goodness
was what made men love him. lie was
the follower of Mr.. Van Buren,, whom he
admitted, and The people admitted, TO be
his superior. Mr.. Marcy, in my Judgment
surpassed Van Buren,
"Did you know Van Buren, ?"
quite well. He lived after his retire
ment in 1S4S calm and graceful old age
at the village of his nativity. The worst
act of his life was yielding TO the entreaty
| to write a letter in favor OF Buchanan.
But when the war broke ont he was far re-
moved from human ambition-a poor old
man tottering near the gave"
ROSCOE ooNKL1Na's LEADERSHIP.
"You do not believe, then, the impress
sion sought to be made that Mr. Conkling
| is a corrupter of men and things?"
"No," said Mr.. Townsend; 'if he was
such an upder-reacher Of the times do You
suppose he would let the New York news.
papers remain unpurchas ed? II will be
written to his credit that when everybody
had 10 have an organ ard organs were
cheap, Roscoe CoDkling never gave dol
lar or an office to buy or conciliate a news
Paper in the city of New York where he
had all the patronage and was every day
abused without stint"
do you app'ebend, Mr.. Townsend. that
Senator Corklng will come to The ate
convention on the 2l,t, as some pr' diet,
and endeavor to force into nomina ion Mr..
Cornell or somebody elsc?'
mo, sir, do not believe he will do tn At
or any thing else to belittle his characI or
or injure the national objects of tie cam
paign. Nor am | worried out the con
cord that will prevail in the Saratoga con
venton or about the candidate. We sha !
he sure to fud, when we me t, a candidate
that will please us all These premature
anxeiies are meat for our enem ca. Mr..
COnkliug's intentions are learn, dy dis
cusscd amongst his opponents, but he is S
plain and asserting a republican as any OF
u.s."
| said that Gov. Morgan was Mt tie
United States no el, and tina, he and Fen'On
appeared to be cooperating against Coik-
ling.
THAT ia very queer" said the Trojan
wag "a few years ago they were spt nj" G
more NOM agar S. each other than was
, yer seen IN our state spilled in polllic'.
From Tween's c. ffers to distant corpora
tions the ribue flowed and Fenton beat all
Morgan's money bags. Now they are b tt
retOrmers and want to reform onkiing,
whose elections did not cost cent
MIR. Townsend says that Fenton YVES ar
obliging man in Office, snd got along very
well until he lost his part of the patronage
, around New York city, when he dragged
in Greeley AMI killed him, and put every
thing askew.
You are not bugle blower on refolm?'
, said |.
REFORM he said. 'has got to be too
cheap when Tilden s its apos lie. Upther,
; at Williams college, wher,. WAS lent
see that the president. Mott, h IS u, {
bulletin on reform and pr duced To ait
HIM Mark Hopkins, the venerable TX
PRECEDENT. Now, If you will look at thu
t court of claims, you will find the VIII II
' Mott family inhabiing there-judge. clerk
=. reporters, eLc.-and all for lite, put Their
by the anti-nepotism of the family. 1t il
generally 80 when any body is goIg d Ii
/. thinks the rest eat too heartily AL thu
1 trouble in this state about Conkling's man
r agement is here. There are hot enough
. lclts TO suck.
MoRRIssEY, COX AND TILDEN.
/, said that Troy had produced one emf
d nent man whom Mr.. Townsend probabi,
+ never had exM ed to see a state IN IN ala,
o a refoTmer. Jonn Morrissey.
''Well, be is more genuine man thai
d Tlden ur any of these democratic leaders,
t said Martin /. Townsend. "John Morris
% sey was brought up in Troy, aud he was
l. good workman at one time and an enter
I prising rough. He would hardly So 'p t,
c some of Mr.. Tilden's manipuauUns of tn
u skin games"
1t was said that Mr.. Townsend laid on
n Sammy Cox.
, Cox" exclaimed Townsend. "provoke,
me by abusing the negro members on tn
J. floor, who are modest and wel-behaved
r and have never been assalltd by any per
h son in congress, rebel or Bourbon, excep
: Cox. They are exceptionally decoruu
Il men, and l cannot tuink that the Amer
4 can people, having pered their exis enc
). aud lost their sons and ntighhors in so re
ent and SO vast a war, are going TO let III
IA to the government the brutal cbivali.
e which would insult these quiet coloIe
l. members and make pandemonium q
II Washington. Mr. Cox has no origina
principles. Mounting a Iahble prejud c
s h.. plays the pers. cutor lkea Tapper,ll.'
q You went to Troy good many year
u ago. SIR
" "Upwards of 40 1t was place of 10
d 600 people thtn, with suburbs of 500
Now It's crap of influence is on 100, 90
q souls"
n He said that John A. Griswod was
II Trojan of prominence in public life be
n cause he had been elected to congress
p democrat nd abandoned the cession TO
rs loving of TIE party. He was not perso
Is If more than mercantile ability.
y MIR. Townsend was born in Han
:, cock, Mass, just over the line fr 1
n Lebanon, N. Y, where MIR. Tilden wa
n horn. If Tilden's version of his age is co
"a rect-wbich many doubl-Mr. Townsen
Z is four years his senior. Townsend an
ID his brother possess 600 acres Of Ian
Ne around the region OF his tirh He is as
D. u large landholder in Iowa, and is repute
y to be land poor. He is fine lawyer, an
as one of the best public speakers III the stat,
If talking with force. c,mpsclness and h,
3, NOR He il of direct descent from & p
d Miles Standsh in the seventh generaIioI
B. and is crossed with The blood derived h.
l. Samuel and, think, John Adams. Hees
" presses no doubt of The election Of Have
Is and Wheeler and sweeping republican vic
tory in New York. GATH.
rs The Ireland Case.
w. II. Ireland, father of w. G. IRELAND
/ of Boston, who dsappeart SO my steriousl
!. wetk ago, writes to friends in Vernon