The daily gazette., 1877-10-02
OCTOBER ?, 1877.

StSGout TcpTcSonbdtito VI sho hOpuohSoh
party. He has been educated in it and
does not like to depart from the we'll
beaton paths its leaders have SO long trod,
notwithstanding these paths may have
led through ways that were forbidden to
honest people. He stands, therefore, in
the way of such as would make another
New Departure, and carry with them the
strength of the party. Conkling would
not follow the lead of the imam milli-
ners" and the "Pecksniffs," and in the Ro-
chester Convention led two-thirds of the
delegates to deride, defy, and spit upon
the Presidents order and openly declare
they would have nothing to do with it.
This has raised a perfect storm in the
party, and the "mau milliner's" time
seems to have arrived wherein the New
Departu 3 is to take shape and assume
strength, and Conkling's defiance and de-
nunciation of the President and his Or
der hurled back upon him with animated
foIce and vigor.
The New York Union League Club'
fred with resentment, has issued call
for meeting to denounce the action of
the Republican State Convention at Ro-
chester and sustain the President and
his Cabinet. So that from appearances
the Republican party is about to tumble
to pieces in New York as rapidly as it
did in some of the Southern States
Here are the names of some of the par
ties to the call for the meeting to be held
by the Union League Club. We cut
them from the Philadelphia Press, which,
strangely enough, sustains the President,
although it operates with a party guilty
of so many scandalous frauds by which
that city is held in the clutches of ring
almost if not quite as corrupt and dan
gerous as that which Tweed used to eff
feet his robberies. OF the New York
anti-Conkling call the Press says:
"Our readers need hardly be told that
every signer is the representative of large
constituency. Noah Davis is a judge of
one of the higher courts of New York; then
we have Bryant, the venerable editor of the
New York Evening Post Morgan, eX-U.
=. Senator and Ex-Governor of New York;
Dodge, the merchant John jay, late min.
lister to Austria Vanderbilt, the railroad
king Seligman, the banker Richard But
Ter and Roberts, the millionaires; Schultz
leather merchant; Samuel B. Ruggles the
venerable philosopher; Stebbins, president
of the Central Park, and eX-member of
Congress Appleton. the publisher; Sher-
man, the banker Butler, of the house OF
A. T. Stewart d Co.; Astor and Aspinwall
the millionatres, and others of equal po-
tency and energy. The movement is not
in special hostility to Mr., Conkling, but as
all sides seem to agree that his purpose was
simply revenge upon the President, and
that the President was doing his best To
promote honest government, il was started
10 induce all good citizens to come to his
support. 1t was given out that Mr.. Conk-
ling had refused an invitation to meet
George william Curtis, Esq, to arrange
some plan of conciliatory action among
tine Republicans OF New York but that he
had haughtily refused the proposition"
This movement cannot be confined to
New York. The opposition to the Pres
ident's order is widespread it exists in
Delaware, and in every State where dis
honesty has been carried on so openly ant
defantly by the Radical office-holders
They will either continue their wicked
course or tear the party to pieces. Re
form to them means that they shall Ell
joy no more of the ill-gotten emolument
OF the party and in new organization
would have better chance. OF Wha
chance has the numerous Delaware Rad
ical thieves in the Republican party now
They can hope for nothing, and they ar
quite numerous, il we count those VIII
rumor says have stained hands in Wash
ington and other places.
1t will be seen that there are two pal
ties in Pennsylvania. The Camercns ar
just as much opposed to the President
proposed order and reforms in the part
as Conkling is ; but they have been NOR
discreet. For the first time in fiftee
years the Union League Club of Ne
York has attempted to do anything t.
ward breaking up the corruption of IL
Republican party, and it ought to be el
couraged to make powerful fight ia
vor Of the President and Evarts an
Schnrz. But it cannot hope to invol,
any Of the Democrats in the struggl
The members of the Democratic pai
have separate duty. Our party
pledged to government reform and I
trenchment, while Mr.. Hayes friends a
only engaged in an effort to reform Il
most corrupt and odious party that ev
existed-a party which has spread d
honesty all over the land, leading hu
dred of thousands of youthful men, a
many women, too,to commit acts of p,
jury and villainies of the most disrepu
BILE character in all of the States. T
work of reforming such a party is
deed ardnous and every honest III
must wish the President and his sm
mi1liners' and "Pecksniffs" success, n
withstanding Mr.. Conkling has sprt
his peacock feathers and denounced
remarkable order and those who d
favor it.