The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-25
SENATOR CoHKLING SPEAKS.

90 SuCn tnlnES III the STulnaTy way Nhci
he has anything to utter he wants picket
audience TO hear him, for il is not at all in hi
style to speak from vulgar stump to rude
Ipromscuous rabble. He must have the fines
hall in New York Ci,y-the Academy of Mu
sic-and none must be admltted except sucl
as can come by special invitation with their
tickets to present at the door Such was thu
AUDIENCE picked audieace of wcllclad mel
and stylish women, to the number of 1000
that heard Roscoe Conlling i'll New York
city last Saturday evening,
The speech, however, came far from meet
ing the expectations that had been wrough
up for the occasion. 1t is true, IN manner anC
style it was, like all Conklings speeches When
he lays himself ont for a great effort, gor
geous in language, keen IN sarcasm and brll
liant IN flashes of wit; but in matter and sub
stance miserably atteEuated and lacking N
body and pith. Think of a man of the repu
tatlon and elan Of Roscoe ConkIing spending
three mortal hours 10 prove-first, that the
south is lndolent and slovenly and miser&bly
deficient IN all the elements Of material and
commercial prosperity and without any O, the
necessary get up and vim" for advancement
IN these regardS-that, IN point of fact, instead
of increasing, her industries and commerce IN
the last 20 years have refrigerated; ana sec
ondy that in spite of her wrctched ana SINK
ing condition the great danger to the country
is that this poor, miserable shiftless, retro
gressive south, through the triumph OF the
democratic party, threatens to attain such an
Overwhelming powcr-such SUPREMACY IN
short in our government as will endanger the
| Liberties of the great north and west and crush
them down with intolerable burdens OF taxa
ton by the payment Of numberless conieder-
ate claims, The oppression of the negro, The
creation of new democratic states, and the ne
constructon of the courts OF the country IN
the interest of the bourbon democracy! Such
was COnkling's great eilort, "a positively SICK
ening rehash Of the theme worn threadbare
months ago by thousand republican stump
ers all over the north, and which all the indie
pendent papers of the country and number
of the better class republican papers have not
hestated ever and over again to denounce as
miserable electioneering swash and rubbish
But, after all, 1t woald be dong the gorgeous
Roscoe great injustice to state that the above
was all he had to say. At least two hours and
fifty minutes of his three hours flood Of rhet
ORIG may be called the deliberately carved and
glitterngly painted and adorned but inordi
nately bulky casket in the center OF which was
concealed very small and precious Jewel
The fact Is, Conking had appeared before
that brilliant audience for purpose, and thai
purpose was to say what would not occupy
| him over ten minutes, and all the rest OF his
speech was mere sham and tinsel. In word
the whole intent and meaning of his appear
ance before that audience, after all that elab
crate advertising and preparation was, frst
to show his contempt for Garfield by damning
him with faint praise; second to euloglse his
friend Chester A. Arthur and wipe from his
skirts the foul aspersion Rutherford g. Hayes
had fastened upon them when he sent thai
message to the senate, In which he SAID
"With deep sense of responsible obligation
imposed upon me by the constitution TO take
care that the laws be faithfully executed | re-
gard it as my plain duty to suspend the OH
Ger in question Chester A. Arthur in order
that this important Office may be honestly and
efficiently administered; !" and lastly to show
the utter disgust and contempt in which he
l. held the said Rutherford b. Hayes, who had
thus maligncd his dearest friend; and these
are the bitter, biting, singing words in which
he dad 1t:
A candidate, ii he be an honest, genuine
man, will not seek and accept party nomin.
alton to the presidency rs Hayes did and al.
ter he Is elected become law unto himself
Few things are more despicable than ilrst 10
secure elevation at the hands OF party, and
then in the hope Of winning prctentiou non
partisan applause to affect superior sanctity
and meanly to imply that those whose sup
| port and confidence were eagerly ana defer
cntially sought are wanting III purity patrl-
otism, or some other title to respect Ap-
plausc. The higher obligations among men
are not set down in writing, and signed and
sealed. They reside in honor and good faith.
The fidelity of nominee belongs TO this cX-
allied class, and, therefore, candidate of a
| party Is but the exponent Of party.
And that was Conkllngs specch-a eulogy
of Arthur and an ebulltion OF bitter scorn and
contempt of poor old fraud Hayes. No won
der neither Marshal Jewell or any member OF
the republican national committee went near
the meeting How could any honest party
leaders and engineers imbued by or endorsing
such sentiments toward Hayes support Gar,
field, who was the very agent adviser and go.
between through whom the gigantic fraud
was accomplished which made the same
Hayes President? No friend of Garfields
could patiently hear such a speech. Does
Conklng, as pretended supporter of Garfield,
call that backing his friends,