Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-10
CoNKLING AND THE INDEPEND-
ENTs.

Et A6s
The Nation-regarded as perhaps the
best representative of independent jour
nalism in this c~ountry-has the following
in a recent issue
There are some points in Senator Conk-
ling's speech which Independents would do
well to note. One is the prominence which
he gave Gen. Grant, and the frequency
with which he quoted some very common
place utterances of the Generals as the
words OF o wise statesman. This indicates
clearly enough that the Bosses mean to try
their luck again with their candidate il the
party should in November secure an
other term Of power. Another, is the Bit
terness Of his reference to Mr.. Hayes; and
third, the almost insulting commentator
he bestowed on General Garfield. He gave
him q character such as might properly,
with hardly the change of a word, be Of
fered to a worthy drayman applying for
the carriage If a dry goods house. These
| things furnish a fresh illustration Of the
doubtful character of the service which
the Senator renders the party.
As we remarked a few days ago, we
do not believe there is the slightest dan
ger to be apprehended from the third
| term business hereafter. 1t has been sat
down upon in a way which forbids the
hope of successful, or even troublesome
resurrection. Nevertheless it is a note
worthy fact that the men who are run
ming the Republican side of the campaign
most vigorously, have been and are most
thoroughly identified with Grant and
Grantism. 1t is hardly necessary TO say
| that these men would not work as they
are now working unless they had suffi-
cient assurance that, in event of Republi
car victory, they would practically run
the administration. They are not ''cut.
ting a stick to break their own heads
with" and if they had the smallest rea.
son to suppose that their principles and
practices would be repudiated by a Re-
publican administration, they would &c
to their tents and remain there till the
battle is over. They have bought Gar
field with their indispensable aid, and
will assuredly use him if he is elected.
The Nation might have said, with a.
much truth as propriety, that Nh. Hayes
richly deserved just what he got from
Conkling. Hoping to appease the
wrath of the New York Senator, he
literally ate his own words by officially
declaring that one of the two persons
whom he had officially declared unfit te
remain in a Custom-house, was pre-emi
nently fit for the highest Office in the
first State in the Union. If Conkline
had respected Hayes before this abjeci
submission, he despised him afterwards,
and was perfectly justified in giving pub.
lie expression of his contempt at the
first convenient opportunity. He ha.
much the same justification in Garfield's
case. The submission of the Republican
candidate has been as abject as that of the
Republican President. He has allowed
himself to be saddled with a colleague
who shared with Cornell the expulsion
from the Cu~stom-house, and he has al
lowed the sectional flag to be hoisted il
his behalf after solemnly repudiatine
s~ectionalism as a political issue. Thai
Conkling should damn him with faint
praise, is just what Garfield might have
expected and no more than he merits
As for "the character of the service
which the Senator renders the party" we
beg the Nation, for the sake of the De
mocracy, to say no more about that
Conkling is doing the best sort of work,
and plenty Of it. By all means let him
go on.