Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-09
RoscoE CoNKLrNc looms up a


ROSCOE CoNKLINo looms up as
The very foremost Republican
otatesman. He is as eloquent, as
fertile In resources, as bold in lead
orship, - Blaine, and incompara-
bly, the latter's superior in personal
Integrity and elevation of soul.
Blaine once said, with that csustic
vfvAclty natural to him, that Conk-
ling reminded him of q turkey
e0bbler. The only drawback about
She great New York Senator is his
strut and the pardonable vanity
which leads him to sport single
Olymplan auburn curl on his mass
I've brow. But nan so supplied
with fslbles or worse as Blaine is
should have been more lenient in
rsviewing the weaknesses Of an
other. At the State Convention of
the Republican party, held at Sar-
atoga the other day, Roscoe Conk-
ling made what in fairness should
BE- called q great speech. Previous
to making it, however, he donned
: very highly colored pair Of Re-
publican spectacles. He drew
graphic and Imaginative picture of
the South "bull-dozed" by Demo-
cratic rufiians. He practically as.
sumed that the negro belonged, alb
solutely, without any earthly quail
i0cation, to the Republican party.
The Republican vote, according to
Mr.. Conkling's obvious method of
calculation, could be ascertained by
simply looking at the negro census.
The Republican party has felicitat-
Cd itself upon having nominally
freed the black man. In reality it
has not aimed to free him, but to
attach him as chattel to the char
lot wheel of the party. There is a
reverse side to Mr.. Conkling's pic
ture Of Democratic terrorizing of
the late slave. For years and
years herds OF carpet-baggers from
the North hocked into tue South,
sat up>p white and black alike as
an incutqe, instilled into the mind
Of the lately emancipated slave
hostility oFards. and distrust of,
his late masser. The carpet-bagger
was really the Mephistopheles of
American politics. With a devil
ish ingenuity, he employed him.
self In continually wrenching open
the wounds of the war. He en-
acted the role ascrlbed by Milton to
: Chaos,
Who umpire sat
And by decision more embroilel the
fray.
These worthless, in conjunction
with their ignorant, and, because
Ignorant, innocent allies. the late
slaves, made the South hell upon
earth. Unconscionable State,
municipal anl county debts were
piled up with II prodigality that
made the owners of Southern bonds
and Southern lands s'and aghast.
Oissension and strife were culti.
waited as an art. The heart of the
carpet-bagger and his Northern
abettors was never so glad as wher
. crop of murders, to be used in
"aring the Northern heart" could
be telegraphed to every hamlet in
the Union. AS long as this vicious
system could be preserved, the cap
ttal of Republican stump ora tor
and newspaper editors held out
Now that harmony and prosperity
begin to return to the South, When
the trade of the murderer and the
occupation of the schemer may be
truthfully said to be at an end, to-
gether with the mal!gn sway of
the carpet-bagger, Mr.. Conkling
lifts up his voice for a return to the
old regime. We confess that his
attitude surprises US, and we have
the charity to believe that he is re-
sorting rather to the artifice of the
politician than expressing the
honest impulses of his heart or the
matured purposes Of his will should
the political whirligig give him
power to resurrect the mischief so
happily laid-to Reopen the Pam
d0ra's box which we had hoped
was closed forever, with the full
consent Of the intelligent AMI hon
orable public men OF the Republi-
can part-.