The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-26

TnE New York ErepiDg Post, n Republican
paper aud the Hcra % well as other papers In New
York, condemn IN vigorous terms Senator Coukllngs
attempt IN his late speech to Keep alive sectional strife
aud to cmbicr the feelings Of the people or tho North
against the South. The evening Post says Of the
speech
IT was Throughout insdiouS assault upon the hest
character. purposca, aud hopes of the Republican
party, AMI under pretence VI vn,licating and lie
fcnhiug II PUT the argument In such shape that the
effect of " must he L" 'cpc every man of generous
feelings and honest logic 10y Whom II s carefully read.
Its only object to revive aud reinforce that
olious. and malignant sectlonalism against which all
the better members of the party have been struggling
FOR the last years. 1t says In so many words that
the Issue of the present campaign IL sectional and only
sectional and In order to prove that II frames what
burke thought to 10 Impossible "tie Indictment of
whole people, In the lowest spirit of the carpet
ba.gcr aud the dcmagogue. The eutlre AMI
mus o Mr.. Conkling' reasoning Is that the President
should he elected by the chine and when elected
lie controlled hy the machine lie Is not to address
himself I" IAN impartial administration of the duties Of
his oiCc according to certain fixed political ptincl
pies, hut he Is to become the instrument of predom
inaing Interests or of those parts Of the nation where
production, consumption, building, titled acreage,
railway trailc, postal returns etc, happen to l
the ascendant. hut that Is not tho spirit of Con-
stitutlon. The Constitution fixes with great miuute-
ness of detail the modes of elections, and when
an election is closed u regards the result MS
the act Of the whole people. In order to
get an expression of the manhood Of the
nation each vote counts as one and Is as good as
any other vote. AMI ~ Mr. Conkling himself says In
~ nlh aUutcSH, thc the fina,
only peaceful arbItcr Is the ballot box. In that
should be gathered and from 1t should ic sacrely
corded the conscience the Judgment the Intelligence
OF all. y. Eut no. argues MIR. COnkling, afcrwail II
Is not the votes that ought to he considered, but the
places that the votes come from. If they put IN
by the South which s unfortunately impoverished by
long civl war AMI many years OF carpet. bag cNtor-
ton aud riot they are bad and dangerous votes: but
II they put In by the North. where commerce. in
dustry, and manufa,t lures thrive and large revenues
are paid. they are good and wholesome votes AMI
titled to the rule.
The Herdld predicts that II win do the Republican
party much harm. After quoting General Garfield,
speech In Congress- in which he deprecated sectional
controversy, and after referring to the conscIvav,
attitude in the early days of the campagn that paper
says
The Republicans alarmed AMI uneasy at III,
aspect of their canvass. The result in Maine was
surprise to them because II revealed unsIgpectr,
dsaecion In their ranks. The result In Indians
and ohio they believe to lie entirely uncertain. l,u
| they have themselves 10 blame. The American pco.
pie are not fools or blind. When they u poiIca
party, conservative In May, wheel around to the ex.
treinest policies In September; when they caudl
date, long committed In the most positive t.
wise and national policies, suddenly and publlcl,
abandon the conservative position which alun,
| gave him the popular confidence and goodwill AM
become the ally OF the EXTREMIST BouThonism OF hi
party. how can all this fail to shake the confidence
the voters and hll them with suspicion aud disgust