The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-24
CONKLING ON POLITICS.

The following are extracts from the
ling in New York last night:
After an eloquent allusion to the grand
eur and blessings of the Republican
party, Conkling said:
The Democratic party is the Demo
cratic candidate, and am against the
ticket and all its works. The general is
sue confronting US, in itself and in Is
bearings, is sectional. Would it were
not so, but il is so. In twelve states of
the Union the approaching election is to
be no more than farce, unless, as has
sometimes happened, it turns into trug-
edy. In several of the southern states
there Is light Republican majority.
But all the southern states, without eX-
ception or doubt, are relied upon to
count for the Democracy and TO score
one hundred and thirty-eight electoral
votes. There is no free debate, no equal
rights, no true expression in these states,
and yet he who discusses these
questions must be told in coarse parlance
Of that day, that he valves the proposed
count in some southern states founded
| on the last census. Then read
Gen. Grants recent letter, in which he
/ saws that in the Democratic party as now
constituted and controlled, | see not a fit
party To trust with the control of the gen.
| eral government, and went on to say that
| the south controls the Democratic party,
and that in congress southern members
| held absolute sway. Should controversy
arise and the presidential election be
thrown into the house, there the vote be-
ing taken by states, the south would cast
nearly all the Democratic vote, and in
the senate the vote for vice president
would come from the same source. In
the event of Democratic success, the
southern end of the Democratic party
must be To the northern end as n lOcomo
tive is 20 the tender, as a horse to a cart
| This is as plain as any truth in gravita
ton or arithmetic. The south has con.
troll of all the working committees OF the
senate. In every committee there is q
majority of Democrats, and this majority
in all cases consists of southern senators
The same condition prevails in the
house. There are forty two committee
chairmen. OF these twenty-five arr
from the south. All of the committees
are SO constituted that majority arr
| Democrats, and of this IN tjority NOR,
than half is southern. During the TIVE
wears which this absolute power in boil
houses has been so logged, how many cx
pectcd bills have not been introduced
and have not been pressed. Some tina
have been pressed have run against sucl
obstinate opposition as To secure presen
J postponement or some modification, bu
whenever you put the veto power il
Democratic hands, put there by south
ern votes, whatever the solid caucus dC
sires will be written. That caucus viii
be controlled by those who represent les
: than one seventh of the population ant
no more than one four-tecnt
, c. she producing, commercial, industrial
tax-payIng and property interests of tn
n country.
e The senator read official figures of III
a bureau of statistics 10 prove this asse
ton and said these facts are not recite
with pleasure but deep regret.
3 The next point discussed was the trad
:. of the Mississippi river, and upon tn
q point Senator Conkling said that ii
river commerce of the southern Missi
l. sippi is regarded as a great tie of int
I. est, great safe guard and assuranC
/. against purposes of sectionalism, and
large foundation for claims set up f
&C southern influence in national affair
r This theory is far from true. The trea
4 of man in all ages has been lines of LAT
"a tude, not longitude. The rivers an
g mountains on this continent run mort
u and south, east and west. The constru
D ton of railroads has revolutioniZed ira
n fic and transportation, and the gre
r. companion and competitor to this tran
continental movement is the lakes al
the Erie canal. The commercial fore
l. of seven great cities have grasped tn
a vast carrying trade and hold the props
n lers between New York, Philadelph
and Baltimore at the east, and ST. Lou
Chicago and Cincinnati at the west, al
&c commands the machinery and the oil
ST lets and inlets through which the pI
duce of the United States reaches q
markets of the world, and through WIFI
IN the merchandise Of Europe is broug
" here and distributed. Could scien
deepen the mouth of the Mississippi IN
O. the Great Eastern could load at {
1t wharf of the Crescent City, achieveme
v would no more arrest or divert the mo'
ment of commerce and the populate
- of the east and west, than it could &C
a troll the tides of the sea or change {
c. course Of the stars.