The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-19
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
THE wAR THAT CONKIIvG Rw vss
WAGE ON THE NEW Sis fEW aws
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The "DemGcrat" as "a Reprp as suxafJxxe
Of Southern Sentiments ana rassa-
Especial Correspondence ". o. Democrats
New YORK., Aug. IL, tsgx.
AS you have already been advised by tsfasss
Of brass bands and aoolntnations Of Ctshanr-
House clerks In New York,
CorR1ISa HAS RETURNED.
F, The favofite son Of the Empire Stafs ban
| come back from his travels and not astgv
| was the fattsd calf killed. for him, but he vzm
met at the pier by whole drove u easw@.
/ fntand isan who, unfortunately for soefa4w,
| perhaps have not been killed 1t ia sad tss
think that the devotion Of the New YawE
| Custom-Houss 10 Conkling, which erstwySss
burned with such unseliish fervor must ns@w
be chilled by the untirneiy frosts of eivfa
service reform And yet wbsn ws
come to further reflect thas san
| frost aforesaid Is under the control aT
John Sherman, we are eheered by tho egHH~
seiousness that it's chill OF reform will nnt. asp
acute enough to hurt much.
| Ths temptation TO poke fun at Jonkling III
always irresistible; for that supposs aEss
| ridiculous side OF his character is aIwayH
| carefully kept by him most prominently i'm
view. And yet those who have enjoyed ogb-
portunity to know Mr.. ConkIing well realazss
| that there is no public man now living in taiss
country whose character, as q whole, In raaIsw
deserving OF more serious consideration ar sE
more sober, earnest regard than his Tzss
superficial observer undoubtedly sees in tAs
lofty Roscoe nothing but s'magnifiesnf
torso animated chiefly by the inpuls1a
Of arrogance and vanity. But the ezosy
student Of his character dseerns some Of EAss
elements Of real greatness and many attsz-
butes Of substantial superiority, rather osfdyv
and amusingiy yelled by something of faBs
perry and q good deal Of shirt-friIl.
| 1t has never been my fortune to agree wffs
Mr.. Conkling respecting any public topic.
Most of the time during the last eight yesrz.
which is the entire period Of my familiarity
with current politics, Mr.. Conkling has sesm
the priest, If not The prophet, Of all TINT IL fys
me heresy and hsterodaxy In politics. Aga
yet can truly say that to none Of my poifzE
cal opponents, or, indeed, to pery few Of @y
associates either, have accorded 50 prosoaHA
O personal respect as 10 him. 7 wDM
tell why Mr.. Conkling is always respees=s
Bile to me: For the Same reasasn
that, during the war, made Robert E
Lee, Stonewau Jackson and A. r. Hill obisesa
Of my admiration and respect, tf0ugl. snsy-
mics In the field because there never wae agSy
Il doubt about his status, never any easii as d,
his attitude Whatever he did was done aG u.
fullbfooded man always does things, gyew
though his cause be bad In Senate or on nss
stump his voice was always diametrfeany
against what / thought was right and pseas
! but he was
4 AN OUT-AND-OUT MANLY ANTAGONIST
one who never resorted to mean subtsrfnssss
or foul tricks, and ono who never failed to as-
cord to his opponent the same scope es
thought and the same liberty Of opinion tsa&.
he claimed for himself. Above all, he newer
denied and never lied. / rernernhss-
once, when he was being assailed snr
arguing railroad tax cases beEwa
, United States Judge and against Disessfs
. Attorney Of his own appointing, asking hisw
, IL these charges were strictly true.
He said he didn't know that 1t made aav
difference whether they were Or not. The
! point involved was whether the Judge ARID
] District Attorney did their respective duties:
3 in the premises. He was certain that he did
! his duty by his client, and If be thought age
3 Judge and the District Attorney failed n
theirs to the government, he should feel eaTtss
1 upon in his political capacity to recommends
! : their removal or impeachment.
2 From this / inferred that he had no deniaaz
: to make and no apologies to offer; and Fxz
know q man who stands in that manner upoz
o his acts, defiant and self-suGicient, always
q commands the respect Of men who respeez
0 themselves. Conkiing is no political Juasp
q ing Jack like Blaine, always ON the Iook0st
d for some soft spot to light on; nor Is he
a A PROFESSIONAL REFoRMER LIKE gcBfHz;
, getting rich by preaching gospel Of hones
g poverty, and getting office by pretending taz
d he doesn't want it. But he is at all times
= bold, square man, In every sense Of the woxz
: when he espouses eause he takes it for heG
II ter or for worse, neither exultfng overEues
g In victory like Blaine, nor whining like
- whipped cur over defeat as SchHrz In fS2z
h. For all these things Mr.. conkIfng claims ri
re respect, which is as freely given him In IL
< most diametrieal antagonism as ft would =
=. in the most complete accord And from whx
RI know Of the men who direct the DEMOCzas
1t and Of the community who read it, am sgzag
% fed that my sentiments on this subject W.
a. find abundant liberation In it's Office s1
g among it's readers as q mass.
ar ara conversant with the meaning of
- THE LATE CoTRLrNa DEMONSTRATIONS,
n. and can assure you that it has no bearsr
le upon the Southern policy Of Mr.. Hayes
y, y think may safely assert that it is no part
n. Mr.. Conkling's political programme to ausas
is onize that particular feature Of the present Il
q ministration. But you may depend upoa
l. that his batteries will be early trained 95e
10 that glarfng compound of monomani& zz
r. "diIlittante-ism-for the want Of betzs
- - word-which is known az
q. CIVIL SERVICE REFoRM
Id under the necromancy OF Carl sehurz- In
ut Aoe L. nae .tfA-.aee. +rfao II la nE.,zicrrr.