Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-14

In the press dispatches we find the follow
ing.
Washington, June Ex-senator Conkling,
who was here for four days, procured his pass
port for Europe through subordlnates OF the
State department, as his relations with Secre-
tary Evarts precluded personal intercourse
with that gentleman. During Conkling's
stay here it is said by his intimate friends
that he did not call at the White House, and
further, that he has abstained entirely from
recommendations in behalf of persons who
seek presidential favors, leaving himself free
to oppose or support the President when Con-
gress meets, as he may fit.
The rills which feed the great stream of
telegraphic news are so easily polluted with
the drift and discolorations of idle and mis-
chievous rumor that one is constrained to a
habit of cautiousness in accepting, in the
light of unadulterated truth, such statements
as the foregoing. If we of the MORNING AP
PEAL believe it true, the wish that it should
be so is father to the thought that it is. We
have very great respect for some of the
traits and possibilities of Mr.. Conkling's char
scter He is very able, very nice-minfed,
very largely gifted with language and very
acute lawyer. We hardly know what states
man is but Conkling comes close to our
crude notions of what a statesman is and
ought to be. His arguments show clean, judi
cious, critical scholarship and very large ana
lytical powers. His grasp is instant, mascu-
line, strong. His manner of presentation is
caustic and incisive There is great elabora
ton but no sacrifice of solid ideas to words
His structure is ornate, but the substance Is
solid He combines elegance and something
like ruggedness in an admirable degree. The
faulty side of the mans character is his con-
slant and undisguised pride He is as naughty
Us prince of the blood royal. His enemies
speak of him as vain man; and the popular
mind has been taught to regard him as a strut
ting peacock. But this is a mistake. He is
too proud to be vain, as he is too largely and
loftily self respectful to be susceptible to the
petty dishonesties of the political peculator.
He is most admirable Senator and very
skilled and useful legislator. This latter is
faculty among public men-even public
mon of long standing The toll and bust
ness, the attentiveness and constant participa- |
the character of true w-maker, these are |
not at all common traits among Senators and |
members of the House of Representatives. |
Mr.. Conkling deserves the rank he holds
among the Senators of the Republican side.
He has been consistent, faithful and strong.
He stood by the administration of President
Grant with all the courage and heroism of his
nature No man is more valorous and indif-
ferent to danger or calumny than he when Oc-
casion requires His loyalty to the third
term possibility had much to do with decreas-
ing his chances for the Presidential nomina-
ton at Cincinnati. This man is the furthest
possible remove from a demagogue. He has
a manful way of standing by his political
friends and supporters all healthful-minded
and loyal hearted men always have; but he
cannot debase himself The present Admin
has, with unprecedented meanness
and want of the chivalric instinct, ostenta-
tiously ignored him and his claim to be consulted
and recognized as leader of the Republican
party He has the first right, as the distin-
guished Senator of a great State and as a
VI ZIG pd4 y hlIlC1I Ahl' I
the President to be counseled with and lis :
tened to- Instead of being treated with the a
consideration to which he is entitled, the
President selects for the head of his Cabinet
man whose course has been personally of
iensiye to Mr. Conkling. The elements who
have conspired against the Senator in his ma
i've State have been led by ex-senator Fenton.
The difference between these two is irrepara d
DE. William NJ Evarts has been Extensively "
with Mr.. Conkling's enemies, t.
'ivals and detractors in the Republican party h
lie sided with Andrew johnson. He has %
never been heartily with the Republican d
,arty His attitude has been as offensive as 81
hat of Carl Schurz His presence in the u
1abinet is a conspicuous affront to the Sena g
or from New York. We greatly admire the o.
ighly self-respectful attitude of Mr.. COnk- A
ng and we believe him so thoroughly capa- X
le of deporting himself as it is limited in the OF
bove he is doing, that much inclined ic
, believe the statement to be true in sub "
.ance. to
Our printer friend Hon. c. L. Perkins has -
cen keeping saloon at Tuscarora. The az lr1
Their day he sold out. As he was travelling -
oward California he was arrested ON charge 80