The daily gazette., 1879-08-16
WILMINGTON DEL. SATURDAY, AUGUST le, 1879.
: Voices In the AIR.
Boston Post (Dcm.), A ugust 1911


Boston Post (Dcm.), August 10
Whatever may be the facts In tie mat.
ter of the Narragansett Pier scandal, both
Governor Sprague and Senator Conkling
in refusing to be interviewed on the SUBJ
ject exhibited commendable reticence
The ventilation of family troubles in
what Is called high life, has become alto
geth"r TOO common, and Of doubtful
utility to the cause of morality. II the
Governors wife has been too fond Of at
tention from others than her husband, 1t
Is one of the many illustrations of the
danger which always surrounds An attrac-
tive and accomplished woman Who moves
in fashionable circles. In oil such cases,
however, and in those Of family difficult
ties In general, the fault is seldom con-
fined to one side.
fRaleigh Observer (Dem }, August Is
care you armed, sir?" and Conkling
replied, "NO, I'm not ~ "Then," said
Ex-Governor Sprague, 81 will give you
five minutes to get off these premises,
and II you are not away will fire at
you" And the daughter Of Chief-Jus-
tice Chase stood between her husband
the ex-millionnaire and Ex-Governor of
Rhode Island, ON the one side, and her
friend, the leader of the Republican par
ty and the fierce hater Of Southern re-
spectability on the other, and then order
ed her children and her trunks to be sent
to her at the hotel. And now we say
had this thing happened at the South and
among Southern people, there would be
no end of aratuitous Insults heaped upon
us by Senator Conkling and his abettors
and we should have been told by mil
lion of Northern voices to mend our
| plantation manners.
GCincinnat Commercial REP. August 13. ]
A tremulous note is heard that the
Conkling-Sprague scandal must be hush
ed up, as it might harm the Republican
party. Mr.. Conkling some time ago
ceased to be the personifica ion OF the
party, and the scandal was hnshed up
for long time. Now that it has broken
forth 1t must have its fun. There is
nothing new about it, with the exc .ption
of the Introduction of the solemn shot
gun.
[Freeman's journal, q operstown Dem }
Aug. IA
There are not a few anti Conkling Re-
publicans in this county who will vote
for Governor Robinson, II he and Mr..
Cornell are in the field for Governor this
fall. The country Democracy take little
or no interest in the local political quar-
rels always prevailing to a greater or less
extent in the city of New York, but if
Governor Robinson should be renOmina-
ted and the Chief of Tammany refuse to
support him, the Democracy of the rest
of the State will no longer recognize
Tammany as the regular Democratic
organization of the county of New York
and its days will be numbered. The re-
suit is inevitable.
| MIR. Bprague's Remarks.
The Chicago Tribune publishes the
following from correspondent at Mar
ragansett Pier:-
Your correspondent is personally &C
quainted with Ex-Governor Sprague. Ht
was at The latter's residence last evening
when the following conversation oc-
cured:
Visitor-Your trouble with Mr.. Conk-
ling is the talk of the whole country.
Mr.. Sprague-[a am not surprised.
Visitor-Did you command him to
leave the house.
Mr.. Sprague-I did, and I ought to
have done so before.
Visitor-Have you had any personsl
difficulty with Professor Linck, who has
been teaching music in your family?
Mr.. Sprague-None whatever. So far
as know Lnck is gentleman and de-
cent man. Conkling is neither.
Visitor will you be offended if ask
you if you had been drinking previous to
your recontre with Mr.. Conkling?
Mr.. Sprague-So that IS part Of lht
story now, is itP Well, tell you, hon
estly, had not a drop of wine or othel
} liquor in me at the time. ! was not un
der alcoholic influence. Had l been
should have given Conkling five minute.
to leave the premises.
Visitor-Once more, Mr.. Sprague, will
you say explicitly that you ordered Mr..
Conkling to quit this house, and threat
ened to shoot him ii he did not immed.
lately complyP
Mr.. Sprague-Fhat is precisely what
did.
Visitor-Shall you publish any state
ment of the affair over your signature ?
Mr.. Sprague-I shall not.
Mr.. Sprague Ibid not ask wheter thi!
conversation was to be published, ant
no pledge was given to him that il
should not be. His statements are Civ
| on varhatim