The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-07
C0NKLINGiS CONVENTION.
CONKLING's GREAT TRIUMPH AT
ROCHESTER, OVER CURTIS. EyARTs.
SHERMAN. sCHURz a co.

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Opposing CenklIng, the Expiring
Gasp Of spurious Wcformers.
Especial Correspondence of the N. o. Democrat. ]
UTICA. N. Y, October /, 1877
Have you heard from the Union League
Club 7" was propounded to Senator Conkling by
one of his personal admirers. If not ono of his
political friends. an hour or more ago.
ibid you ever read of the King of France
who maneuvred on a certain celebrated occa-
sion with 10000 men !" was the only reply that
could possibly be pumped out Of the magnin-
cent Senator.
MR. CoNKIINa
is the picture just now Of serenity and salts
faction. He has taught the piddlers and diet
tamil OF his party who their leader and master
ia-a lesson they have long known by heart but.
until last Wednesday. have refused to admit
They have at last accepted the inevitable. and
recognized In the person of Roscoe Conklng
the lion whom they must destroy in order to en-
JOY their iackals prey secure from Interrupt
tion. Let us look at Conkling for moment
with an eye single to fact-waiving
for the moment all political feeling.
We see in this light the greatest man
the Empire State has produced since Silas
Wright. Greatest la all the senses In which the
term Ia employed, but more particularly with
respect to force of will and that magnetic power
over his fellow men which is the first essential
of genius in a man of public affairs. Say what
the professional reformers may about the
spois system" and the machine" there Is
something in such a spectacle as l saw a.
Rochester to extort the admiration of any man
who respects power of mind and values force of
character. 1t was the spectacle of one man
tramplng beneath his heel host of frauds.
pretenders, jaeklegs. knaves, political shysters.
oily hypocrtes and highly respectable nincom-
poops all at one fell stamp of his imperial foot.
Roscoe Conkling standing up there as
THE REPRESENTATIVES, OF GRANTIsM.
may not have been an imposing spectacle-or
II imposing, not agreeable to look upon. But
Roscoe Conkling In the role of a Schurz pune
turer. an Evarts destroyer or n blower away of
George William Curtis as with one puff of his
breath was sight worth the attention of self
respecting men.
Conkling dared to do what Blaine and Morton
and Taft have sbrunk from whenever the OPP
portunity to act has confronted them. He has
more courage In his little finger us well as more
discretion in one hair of his head than the
whole three of them hold in their whole worth
less carcasses. 1t is to-day a thousand times
better for the country that
THE ROCHESTER, CONVENTION
should have been controlled by Conkling and
should have done what It did, than had it been
controlled by Curtis with the natural conse-
quences. 1t is of the highest Importance that
there should be some sharp definitions in the
politics of the country. A gang of bushwhack-
ers have seized the national government and
nothing will avail to root them out except the
straightforward drawing of party lines and the
rigorous application Of the rules of party logic
The past six or eight years has been period
OF political chaos, out of which has arisen
RACE OF REFoRMERs.
whose plan of reform consists in getting them
selves snugly ensconced in office and whose
subsequent scheme Of publication is limited to
keeping themselves in. So long as they are out
of ONCE they want to reform everybody and
everything regardless of party and watch their
chance meantime to glide into some fat office |
with equal unconcern "a to what party organ
ization they use as a sliding place. Then as
soon as they get in. their cry is for general
fusion, break up or break down of parties and
to look out for the mlllenium-the said millen-
ium cons isting of single ticket to be unani-
mously elected: always. of course with them |
selves for the nominees.
Patriotism" in Sam Johnsons time used to
the last resort of frauds seems to be Reform
Schurz Evarts. Curtis and John Sherman may
be taken rs the collective personfcation of that
type of reformers. They are in office or in
favor now and no political programme will be |
pure that does not involve their own perpetual
ton. Their "ciyils.erv reform" is pretended
crusade against a "despotism of Office holders
In fact Ii is subtle scheme to create
AN oFFIcEHoLDING ARIsToCRACRY
with themselves for the ruling dynasty. Be-
tween the ofliceholder whose tenure is at the
mercy Of some managing politician. and the
oficeholder whose appointment carries with il |
a sort of divine right, as the Schurzian system
contemplates, the genius of our institutions is |
overwhelmingly in favor of the former, and no
Haspes's Heektg can root the fact out
Well, when man like Roscoe Conkling rises |
in the majesty Of simple manhood to antago-
nize such coter lie and such product in poll |
tics. he must receive the sympathy of all men
who do not recognize the infallibility of Schurz,
and who reject the 'uniqueness and delicacy''
of Curtis In other words he must receive |
sanction, for the sake of general principles. at
the hands OF all who believe that party organ
political structure, There must be either fish
or flesh. The simpler the issues the healthier
the political ne condition OF the country. When
ling lead, the issues will always be simple and
direct Butyugglers and observation-disclosures like
befog the situation and bedeyil the public mind.
hoping to break into office somewhere under
cover of the confusion. Such are the common
foes Of honest and conscientious men in all
parties who value settled principles and set
stone by defined convictions. They are pirates
upon the high seas of politics, their hand is
against every man and every mans hand-that
is to say every honest and sincere mans hand
should be against them.
These are in substance
SENATOR Combines VIEWS.
and believe they are shared by the entire body
polite of both parties. 4 he cry should be: Let
us first extirpate the pirates then we can at
tend to our regular warfare.
see have been led into long DEPRESSION.
THE ACTION OF THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB
mar be regarded as the expiring gasp of the |
spurious Reformerss who were crushed at !