Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-03
Jhe FREEMAN.
MONTPELIER VT.
WEDNESDAY. OCT 8, 1877.
The New York Machine.

The New York Machine.
The convention at Rochester last weel
was owned by Roscoe Conklng and die
his bidding. The outcome If it was not. il
is plain. what the owner of the property
originally intended, for instead of main.
tanning the dignifed attitude of reserve
which james G Blaine was at the Maine
convention able to preserve for himselGtbo
New York senator was forced by George
William Curtis to get off in very quick
time the political fence which he had
erected.
The convention was condemnation of
President Hayes, both as to the southern
question and rs 10 his civil service order
1t was made to attack his cabinet and TO
sneer ut his work generally. This was
done not so directly in Conkings own
speech which was more largely devoted to
apersonal attack on Mr. Curtis, as in the
remarks of Th"mas,C Plat, the chairman.
and of Lyman Tremaine of Albany.
Mr.. Plat is the tool of Conkline whom
the latter desired Mr.. Hayes should make
postmaster general instead Of namno
Evarls secretary of state. Mr.. Tremaine
who displayed such warlike enthusiasm
against the south is the same ALBANY law.
yer who after the southern States hal
begun to secede, look part in the lannon's
copperhead meeting at Tweddle Hall and
afterwards displayed the most wonderful
agility In becoming u most rampantrepub-
llcan. His son Granville by the WAY wos
placed by this same Rochester convention
on the republican state ticket rs candidate
for encouragement
Mr.. Conkling himself is like his broth
er'ln-lhw, Horatio Seymour, THOROUGH.
bred politician and an aristocrat wbo
sometimes does those things most natural
~ to he expected of u demagogue. Like !
the buckets in IN old WELL when one goes Il
down empty the other comes up full and q
" democratic victory crowds honors nm a
Horatio while republican success places il
the laurel on Roscoe's famous curl. II
MIR. Conkling is man who will rule or q
ruin II he can. His great ability is known !.
10 no one US weilas to himself and his in .
suderabe arrogance was once such th,t ;,
MI Blaine OF Maine MORALLY and forever
offended him by calling him turkev-
COCK The epithet was unparliamentary.
but Mr. Blaine had great provocatiop II
perhaps more than Senator E,lmunds h,d
when he limited at the identity of the New
YORK senator and IL windmill. And fur- I,
this man who has never vet
ceased to wonder why he and not H.yoy
was the republican candidate for president NJ ",
who suIked with sore head instead ,f in
IL vulnerable heel, in his tent durino ,bo W
last campaign-has been the chief mono. III
ger OF machine politics for the republicans t Tn
IN his state for the last ten years. He has tn
in making caucuses and elec- tn
lions the expression of his own will. A
system Of official rewards and punish. of
Ments had been created 50 that the pollnn d.
OF votes in that state merely Indicated y
which ring should control state politics. W. W,
lammany or the Custom House. R,
Tammany WAS more bold and unscru,r of
Gus when Tweed was Tammany than the st
Justom-llouse ever became. But the M
Itlcal principle OIL which the two worked Je
was the same. The Rochester Convention N,
d last Wednesday was controlled by Mr. We
0onkllngs workers who had quietly mn, fee
nto operation their skill in maninuI,,iro MI
''ucuSeS. And yet in that convention p 'a
mere were nearly Il third who openly sus- ella
AIMED Curtis. That Curtis and not Cont pa
ing represented the disinterested republi.
IAN vote OF the state is seen in the com. pa
nents OF republican papers on the convep. Or
ION, In the action taken bv callinc ma.t- r,,
hSs 10 condemn its course, and in the Th
,oVe OF county conventions of republican ho
delegates. ca
1t is well that Mr.. Curtis made his bold inc inc
protest. 1t is too late 10 "bul-dozo y the
linking republicans into continual say.
ng OF "ditIo" to the words of such lenders ar,
$ Oonk'ng' Plat and Tremane, whose Az
9h'ihS patriotism glows us it did not in me-
Inc OF war, and whose zeal that the voice nd,
the poor federal officer Shall NOT ba ~.
Titled in the land is because that voice is .
ways for them, ro,
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