The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-25
C0NKLING ON GRANT.
NeD York Sun.


WASHINGTON, January lit is perhap
$ natural that Senator Conkling should b
one of the main props Of the movement t.
make Grant the candidate for third term
if he himself should not be in a condition
, to expect nomination at the hands of tn,
Cony ention next year, as now seems quit
probable. The relations between then
were of the closest confidence and of tht
most cordial friendship, especially during
the second term of Grantism, which fal
exceeds III enormities those of the irst.
There was no honor in the gift of his
Administration which Grant was not willing
and anxious to confer on the Senator. He
offered to make him Chief Justice, when
the appointment was conferred on the pres
ent incumbent, who had never tried case
in the Supreme Court at the time he re-
ceived this unexpected compliment, and
who, intellectually considered, bears no
comparison with Mr.. ConBling. And the
comparison might we'll be extended in a
/ professional sense with like advantage to
/ the latter.
Although the technical rank of Ambas-
sador does not exist under our laws, it is
authorized by the Constitution in the clause
relating to the President, which says, "He
shall nominate, and, by and with the ad>
vice and consent of the Senate, shall ap-
point Ambassadors, other public Ministers
and Consuls." BY way of emphasizing his
regard, he proposed to make departure
in diplomacy for Mr.. Conkling, by nomi-
mating him as Ambassador to Great
Britain. Having declined life appoint.
ment on the Supreme Court, it did not re-
quire mnch self-sacrifce to refuse this
place, which could have conferred no real
distinction on the Senator, and would have
invited harsh criticism from its exceptional
pretenions.
No man, in or out of the Cabinet, stood
nearer to the unqualified trust of Grant
than Conkling did, while lie was President |
or does now when he is seeking to break
down the honored traditions which the
fathers established in an absolute limit of
two terms. and which no President from
Washington to Grant ever sought to exe
ceed.
If personal consideration alone were to
be consulted in connection with great
public responsibility, Mr.. Conkling's devo-
ton to Grants ambition might be justified.
But this third termproposition carries withit
the purpose of a restoration of Grantism,a a
return to the past and revival of all the
rings and corrupt influences by which the
country was dlS8raceu ana The treasury
was robbed of hundreds of millions Secor
Landaulet Williams, Boss Shep-
herd, Belknap, Babcock, Zach Chandler,
the whole tribe of elected carpet-baggers
the solid South Of Republican jobbers and
rotten officeholders the desperate specula.
tors and schemers in annexation and war,
crowds of thieving contractors, Indian
agents who stole annuities and supplies, and
that vast multitude of hangers>on who prowl
about the public departments seeking
are all loud for Grant. John
Logan was running as a candidate
for the Senate from Illinois on the platform
Of third term, backed by the old Whisky
Ring, which he did so much to sustain
when a Senator before.
This is the sort of company in which a
Senator from the great State of New York
ought not to be found, and this is not the
business IN which he sught to be engaged.
third term of the very best President {
would be a most dangerous precedent to {
but third term of Grantism, d
With all its grossuess, vennality, and fla
grant violations of law, would plunge the L
country into a condition of chaos from [
which recovery would be difficult =