Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-10-31
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FALL or LHE TRIU YRS.

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FALL or I,HE TRIUliVIRS,
Conkling was the last of the triumvirs,
Morton, who succumbed first, accepted
his price in the appointment Of Tyner
and now lies morbund. Blaine, who
was expected TO make "a magnificent
fight with the Administration, and
who led off in the Senate with a dash.
ing attack, came TO grief in the Maine
Convention, and, instead Of leading 1t,
was really carried by it as helpless as
monkey on a hand-organ. All is
now peace between him and Hayes,
but not a loving peace. But tho mag
nifccnt Roscoe Conkling was cornercd,
and fought it out to the last--because
he found that he had no hope in sur
render. So he set his back against the
wall and defed Mr.. Hayes and all his
works, his pomps and vanities, his
Southern policy, title TO office and Civil
Service Reform. The superb Roscoe
seemed to win the victory. The Con.
vention, or a majority Of it, thought
and felt and acted as he had dictated,
and the magnificent fight against the
Administration which Blaine was com.
PEELED 10 abandon was contested single
handed by Conkling. But II isno now
thing in love or war or politics Tor
man to perish by what would seem his
victories. SkObelefl, who the other
day stormed the bloody slopes of Plcvna
and took the Turkish redoubt, lost so
many men that he was too weak to
hold the fort, and so was driven out
again, his army first shattered by its
victory and then annihilated by its de
feat. Thus it is with Conkling His
men IN the packed Convention were
too strong for Mr.. Curtis, but the moral
advantage of the combat was with the
} defeated faction. And now the Union
League Club of New York are about
to hold meeting, which will wrench
the victory from Roscoe and leave a
barren sceptre in his grpe. In short,
Conkllng will be "sat on" and will
come back to the Senate worse
whipped sore-hcad than either Blaine
or--or If he be still alive--Morton.
Does anybody suppose that it is Mr..
Hayes, or Mr. Evarts, or Mr. Curtis,
that brought Roscoe Conkling to dis
comfiture ? 1t is tho spirit of the
times. Hayes represents the idea of a
reunited, whole country, and States
restored TO their constitutional rights
he has been endorsed by New England
Conventions, and cordially welcomed
by the New England people and he
has been received by multitudcs Of
Southerners with cheers and enthusl-
asm. 1t is not love for the man that
prompts this, but the era of hope that
he represents. His Civil Service Re
form, though it has produced no posi-
tive results, has at least placed on
record an official condemnation of tho
office-holders oligarchy Of Grantism,
and the people thank him for even that
much. The politicians who still seek
to run the old machine are pulling
against the steady resistance Of the
voters of the country, and so the tri-
umvirs Conkling, Dlaino and Morton
fall. Surely if ever there was poetic
justice administered it is by this. If
Tilden, who was rightfally elected, bad
been inaugurated, the Republican party,
purified by adversely, would have been
strong for 1880. But when these very
leaders conspired to put Hayes into
Office by fraud and force, they not
only made the chances of their party
hopeless, but drew upon their own
persons its concentrated odium. They
disgraced themselves to serve their
party, and now it repudiates them be-
cause they are disgraced.- Baltimore
Gazette.