The daily gazette., 1877-12-22
From the BdLto. Gazette.
RIGHT BEFORE POLICY,

The New York Sun, in season and out
of season, has been the most constant
supporter of Senator Conkling that the
great man has ever had. 1'bus it has
praised Mr.. ConkliDg for securing the
rejection of the New York appointments,
which were certainly unobjectiona
while it neglected to condemn The sena-
tors failure to oppose the Baltimore ap-
pointments, which were notoriouSly bad
and 1t has insisted that all the democrat
ic senators should have followed Conk-
llng's lead. 1t now goes step further
and says: "How it would have rung
through the country If some democratic
senator, when the question on the con-
tirmation of Roosevelt was pending, had
delivered speech substantially like the
following:
Il am certain that the man who sent
this nomination to the Senate was not
elected President, but, on the contrary,
obtained his office by the greatest of all
possible political frauds. Nevertheless, Il
am compelled to recognize Mr.. Hayes as
the President de fdctO. He has sent us
the name of Mr.. Roosevelt for collector
of the port of New York In place of Mr..
Arthur the present collector, whose term
has not expired. Mr.. Arthur was APP
pointed by General Grant, who whatev-
er fault we may tind with his administra-
ton, was legally chosen to be President.
No charges have been made against Mr..
Arthur which are worthy of the slightest
consideration. In such a case shall not
come to the support OF man who OBJ
tanned the presidency by fraud, and aid
him to turn out an incumbent of an Of
legally elected. l shall recognize the
present occupant of the White House as
President only under circumstances
wherein | am absolutely compelled to do
so; and shall new sr, by any act of mine,
condone the great crime whereby lie got
his office. Therefore, l shall not, by my
vote, advise and consent to the appoint
ment of Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt as col
lector of the port of New York.
ROW the Gazette has been quite as re-
lentless in condemningthee electoral fraud
as any journal in the country, and it does
not intend ever to forget or cOndone it !;
but it certainly does not propose to hold
the authors of that crime less guilty than
the man who has protited by it. On the
contrary, it believes that both should
share in the infamy of that conspiracy !,
and that no distinction should be made
in that respect between the thief and the
receiver of stolen goods. 1t has, there
fore, always urged it to be the duty of
true democrats, should any conflict arise
between the President and the politicians
who counted him in, to actindependently
of both, unhesitatingly sustaining all
good appointments, and as resolutely op-
posing all that seemed unworthy. The
time will surely come when the Conklings
and Blaines of American politics, with
the man they helped to count IN but
could not afterward control, will be
swept from power forever by the same
omnipotent will they dare to defy for Il
moment, and until that time comes dem
ocrats have only to cleave to the right
and abide the issue. And it is this senti-
ment, rather than the Sans, which the
Gazette would have expressed in the Ser
ateof theU nitedStates and which indeed,
that pure and patriotic statesman, Sena-
tor Bayard, of fDelaware, did substantially
utter in his eloquent reply to the great
man of New YORK.