Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-15
FLUTTERING THEIR VOICES.

Blood will tell! Loyalty, courage, open
dealing, these are ever the victors in the end
Duplicity and the arts of the demagogue and
the wiles and smiles of the hypocrite may pre-
vail for a season; but their end is confusion
and defeat. The President, assuming with
offensive ostentation purity of motive and a
holiness of tone which conveyed at once his
distrust of the great body of his partys repre-
sentatives, took upon his office the tone of a
Dictator His manner in dealing with Sena-
torial consequence and prerogatives is as harsh
and grating as ever was JacksOns bearing to-
ward his bitterest opponents. AS a candidate
for the reputation of a purist he affects the
tone of those mean detractors of simple great
ness who have so long snarled at General
Grant When Conkling resented these i'm
pertinences at Rochester the whine which
came from the White House was in servie
imitation of those priggsh words of Addison s.:
''More true joy Marcellus exiled feels than
Caesar with a Senate at his heels" Pointing
at public men of blameless lives and useful
parts, the tone has been of that other famous
line from Cato: 'When vice prevails and i'm
pious men bear sway, the post of honor is the
private station. As sturdy old Martin Town
send said, the President deals with the Radi-
cal Republicans in Congress as if they were of
that sort of disreputable people with whom
respectable folk cannot afford to associate.
Conkling resents the slurs put upon himself
Ho bo
Senator of great State, and battled for the
dgnites and rights of the distinguished body
of which he is member He is the master OF
the situ;t on. He dealt with the pretentious
humbuggery of Civil Service Reform upon its
own terms and routed its disengenuous cham
pions and abbettOrs. The young men of all
parties, irrespective Of politics., are to be con-
graduated upon having gallant leader as
the splendid statesman from New York. The
lesson presented by Hayes's humiliation is
worth needing. 1t teaches the folly of such
courses as ALLEVIATE friends without conciliating
enemies. 1t teaches the value of polieness,
of consideration, of personal and political
fealty. The chief facts of the case under con
Washington, December 13-Nothing was
talked about in political circles last night but
the &C ton of the Senate conc erning the New
York Custom House nominations 1t is gen
orally regarded not only as great personal
victory for Conkling, but as an unmistakable
proof that the President will hereafter have
to take advice in regard to local matters from
Senatorial representatives of the Republican
party, or else be altogether without follow
ING of any practical strength in the Senate.
This estimate of the sifnifcance which should |
be attached to the election of the New York |
nominations is doubtless correct to q great ex
tent, bnt not wholly, for the contest yesterday |
turned mainly upon the question whether the |
proposed removals were iustifable from a |
atandpoint of good of public service. The |
question whether these nominations were &C
ceptable to the New York Republican Senator |
was not brought into discussion by their ap- |
pointment except far as it might be consid-
cred capable of throwing light upon the utter
propriety or necessity of making the proposed |
The speeches in support of the
failed to exhibit any sufficient
public motive for the Presidents action, or
any allegation that Arthur and Cornell had
been found lacking in faithfulness or efficiency
their retention in office could
not be consistently refused upon the civil ser
vice principles, and his expectation that the
Democrats would unitedly and practically
manifest a desire to crafty his personalwishes
proved to he signally unfounded. In addition
TO four of their number who openly opposed
his action there were several others who alb
staiued from voting to support it, and the
break thus made in their party ranks is much
more likely to be widened than to be closed
if the President does not, as he probably will
cease to court their friendship.