The daily gazette., 1878-12-17
The Littlenoss Of Great wen.


guished co league, Hon. Roscoe Conkling,
who no latter than last month waved
1.-THE bloody shirt" most vigorously in
the face Of voters from the stump, sat at
his desk, ostenta' iously engaged in the
revision of the proofs of legal argument
which he is to deliver to-day before the
! United States Supreme Court. The
subject of Mr.. Blaine's address was one
that just prior to the election seemed to
, absolutely absorb the feelings and SYM
pathes of the eminent Senator from New
5 York; he could not sleep o. nights for
thinking of the intimidation, fraud and
violence that were being visited upon
!, his suffering colored brethren of S. c.,
and Louisiana his manly soul was filled
= with anguish as he contemplated their
+; hard condition, and from every stump
that he assembled he flung loose the folds
of that bloody shirt, and demanded that
b all who beheld IL should vote for his
4; friends upon the republican legislative
= ticket of New York, who were all plejg-
ed to vote for his reelection to the Sen
}. ate, if they desired to put stop to the
continuance Of the Southern outrages up
): on the black men. His hearers voted
for his creatures like one man, and moth
:. ing is moro certain than the reelection
n of Senator Roscoe Conkling. But the
questions become inevitable, Why did
not Mr.. Conkling, who loves his down.
o' trodden brother OF the Sodth better than
himselfor his white brother of the North,
" ~ ioin with Mr.. Blaine, on Wednesday, in
demanding justice for him9 Why did
he remain silent, correcting his proofs,
while Thurman and Lamar were pour.
ing hot shot into Mr.. Blaine Why did
he leave Blaine to fight the Democratic
Senators single-handed These ques-
y tions, remainil unanswered, greatly agit'
- ated the minds of the friends of the great
statesman OF New York and also serious
mt ly troubled them.
=: But, fortunately for their peace OF
as mind, they are now answered. A Wash
,et ington correspondent OF a morning con-
IN temporary who daily blows Mr.. Conk
D ling's trumpet for him from the steps o
the Capitol, and notes with friendly
. hand whatever or whenever the great
man eats, or when he sleeps or when h,
. rises up or when he sits down, on Satur
- day tel, graphed tina. Mr.. Conkling is TO-
n day to make 1" the greatest effort of hi
-, life" before the Supreme Court " in ;
- case that gives him good opportunity
,d which he will improve, to venIilate thu
MT. g Anit. I'M fln
reason that Mr.. ConkliDg did not in hi
. zeal for his colored brother rush to TIN
support of Mr.. Blaine in the Senate Of
mt Wednesday, was that he meant TO deliVe
An attack on the South in the Suprem
nd Court on Monday he was not jealous c
md Mr.. Blaine, he did not mind being plaC
ed in the position Of playing second tic
ar die to Mr.. Blaine by supporting meai
va ure that that gentleman had originated
md nothing of the sort he was only maui
facuuring his own particular thunder
eeh explode in another place and at anothe
nd time; his silence did not mean that b
loved his colleague or his colored brotht
less. hut that he loved his own opportun
lty more. Besides, Mr.. Conkling is
y cautious man. In the Supreme Cou
he will no be opposed by such hard, frt
=, OF hitters as Thurman and Lamar, and /
un ,in can strike at the South as hard as
nlease without the fear of any one stril
$. ing back. There are o or two things hoy
ever. IN connection with this busine
nm that are not clearly understood. One
Di- what does Mr.. Conkling, Senator OF u
or United States, do in the supreme Cour
an. % making speeches for client, while 81
ary Senate is in session, and to which 1t
II a snpposed he owes all his time and labo
on He is hired to discharge public busine
in Washing on, not TO do private Du
mes. Again, in the name Of all leg
: fathers, what has the. condition OF
q fairs i'm the South, the outrages upon |
Tfii colored brother, 10 do with debit al
credit case, purely commercial one,
the Supreme Court. :,
Roscoe Conkling posing and curli
his ambrosial locks before Senate g
lery, the hour before rising to make l
Ex- first or ten-thousandth greatest enort
III his lite, looks like great man; but ~
buy coe Conkling turning his back upon
and blaine, while the latter was speaking
a great public subject, pretending to
-. or really absorbed in something ell
= presents the spectacle Il very iit
. man indeed, consumed with vanl
dumb through jealousy; pitliui spec
=, Gle Of a frog trying vaiuly to swell to
nronortions of the OK. Tomorrow
Washington lackey who toots for
,ows Conkling will tell us of that great spec
INV the greatest speech of bis life, deliye
ions, before he Supreme Court. But nobc
10 will be deceived; everybody will kn
n it wa. only the same old speech Of
a m, bloody shirt, the same old Conkii
49,. posture-maker and political triekster
'iens' sham statesman, a vanished chro
stuck in a silver-gilt Frame &. gr
], s8s. man to those who do not know him
,or. very little one to those who DO XII
pm. him.
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