The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-08-26
THE RADICAL CONFERENCE.
A Curious Collection of Patriots
Something TO Cheer the Hearts OF
CiviI-Service RefOrmers.
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Something TO Cheer the Hearts on
CiviI-Service RefOrmers.
[From the New York SUM-
Taken individually and collectively,
the patriots who were invited to this
city to meet the Credit Mobilier candi-
date for the Presidency were peculiarly
adapted to the man and to the occasion.
Ex-Governors, ex-Senators, ex-Secreta-
ries, ex-Commissioners, ex-Ministers,
ex-Generals, ex-Colonels, ex-clerks, and
other extraordinary personages of the
past, together with few present digni-
taries, made up the motley assemblage
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Landaulet Williams, Secor Robson,
Belknap; Banks, now United States
Marshal. and patriot of manv sides !:
Bullock, the notorious Ex-Governor of
Georgia Conover, ex-carpet-bag Sena-
tor Warmoth, ex-carpet-bag Governor
of Louisiana Sypher, ex-carpet-bag
Congressman Orth, the Venezuela job
ber; Storrs, who defended Babcock in
the whiskey-ring trial, and now fifty de-
fends Garfield in the paving job Fill
ley, ex-Postmaster at st. Louis, whom
Schurz pursued to the bitter end; Dor
sey, ex-carpet-bag Senator Pinchback,
whom tie Republican Senate refused to
admit to seat, afterward voting him
1000 for more than three years of
salary; Clerical Error Stoughton, and
other distinguished personages, were
conspicuous IN the throng around the
Credit Mobilier candidate.
Tohn Gbar,,,oo IL
tailed force of Collectors and revenue
officials as his staff, gave festive air to
the occasion, and rendered the olive
branch to James G. Blaine, who was
liberal enough to make two speeches,
and to tell the audience that political
campaign was 4 matter of business, and
not of sentiment or gush. John Logan
appeared in his war-paint, and, with up
lifted tomahawk, threatened to annihil-
ate the old secessionists if they insisted
on voting for Union General who had
taught them a lesson of duty and SUBJ
mission. Thurlow Weed made a noble
effort to excite enthusiasm by referring
to the campaign OF 1910. He fought
his old battles over with great bravery,
and felt confident of carrying New York
if the Republicans could get votes
enough.
The great feature of the occasion was
a hot debate between the Southern pa
trlots, some of whom wanted money and
moral support-principally the former
while others declared that any expendi-
ture at the South would be a waste of
resources. Conover, Hicks, Pinchback
and noble West Virginian advocated
the former policy Sypher and Freeman
took the latter side. This is the first
time in long experience that Sypher
has ever been found against hard or
soft money. Perhaps his antagonism
was excited by distrust of the yirtuous
Republicans who expect to handle the
appropriation.
The appeals for aid and comfort car
ried the day, and Mr.. Marshall JEWELS
conglomerate convention voted to
strengthen the hands of the faithful in
the Virginias, North Carolina and Flori-
da. It is gratifying to know that Con-
over and company have a prospect of
getting their expenses to New York re-
paid, with perhaps chance for some
thing more for the good of the cause.
They will not have another opportunity
very soon, and it is not necessary to ad-
wise them to draw upon the Treasurer
promptly and literally.
Don Cameron sat through all these
scenes like a philosophical spectator,
and neither opened his mouth nor his
purse. In fact, he is said to have clung
to the latter with an exceptionally-frm
grip during an outburst of Conover's
eloquence. He had served with him in
the Senate and knew his dangerous fas-
cinaton.
Mr. Conkling manifested a most re-
| markable interest in the candidate and
in the conference, for, although he
lodged in the same hotel with MI. Gar
| field and near the room where this meet
ing was held, he took pains not to see
the candidate and not to participate in
the conference. Blaine and Sherman
were both grieved by his absence, while
Marshall Jewell, as master of ceremo-
MES, was sincerely distressed at the fail
ure of the New York Senator to make
the greatest effort of his life. Senator
Bruce, who had named his baby after
Roscoe Conkling, was also sorrow-strick-
en- and Respondent.
Altogether this was one of the most
curious collections of politicians on
record