The Portland daily press., 1877-10-09

to be done, to render such vast and varird ser
vice OF every name, nature and degree to all
sorts OF people, that he must be om-
nlsclent and omnipresent to comply with
their requirements. Our Senator hasn't
the least faculty for making peopls
believe he is achieving prodigies for them
when he is really doing nothing at all. nor for
promising what he does not intend to perform.
or if he does understand the art he ia TOO
honest to practice it, The consequences is that
there are some men in the club who have
grievances, or think they have, and are always
ready to avail themselves of any occasion to
avenge them. There are others who are ac-
customed to pin their faith upon what they
read in the newspapers, and every victim Of
that hallucinaton is possessed with the delu-
sion that Conkug must be the embodiment of
chicanery, trickery and sinister pnrpose.
There is third and much larger class who
neither know nor think anything about 1t or
about anything else except trade and projects
for trying to make money. They are very glad
to escape the exertion of forming opinions Of
their own by accepting the ideas and following
the lead of somebody else.
1t is not supposable-and to tell the truth
don't know that it is desirable ether-thst
among seventy-fve men of these various types
Senator Conkling should have large number
of ardent friends and admirers. He has
friends enough in all conscience, good. strong,
hearty ones. Aud the best of it all is that he
never gained one by fawning or insincerity.
he acts as he feels, with perfect independence.
If people don't like it is all the same to him.
But somehow there is a certain manly instiIc CT
in human nature which accords the need of
appreciation to the personal dignity and self
respect which are made manifest by neglect
to propltiate anybody's favor through affecta-
tion or artifce 1t is q pity for their own
sakes that the newspapers exhibit such spirit
of rancor and malevolence towards him, 1t s
not possible that they can fly in the face of
facts in their eagerness to misrepresent him
without greatly impsirIng their influence.
They have been following this disreputable
course with substantial unanimity for several
years and the result seems to have been to
make themselves weaker and him stronger.
And indeed any one who has read the strict
ures of the city press which followed the
Rochester convention without being intensely
disguised at their untruthfulness, coarseness
and ferocity may we'll look to it to see If his
moral sense as well as his sense Of decency has
not become hopelessly blunted.
Happily no disaster is likely to befal the Re-
publican cause on account of the momentary
craze which grew out of the fabulous accounts
of the doings of the State Convention. The
little knot of gentlemen who made all the rum
pus only count one vote apiece when they get
sufficiently excited to go to the polls on cleo
tion day, and there are not more than three
quarters of them who can be counted upon TO
do that. They are ap. to forget to register,
particularly in an off year. The country people
on the other hand have been pretty thoroughly
stirred up by the events of the past nine days,
and as they have convictions and principles and
patriotism it will be more difficult to keep
them from the ballot boxes than it would have
been if everything had passed off quietly.
YARMOUTH.