Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-02
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of shooting and speaking of poll
tics, reminds me. Of Conkling. On
which side do you throw the
weight of your influence? With the
Stalwarts or with the Half Breeds
/ am a Cenkling man, am, and
that's just the sort Of a man l am.
lie resigned his position as United
States senator purely upon my sug-
gestion. He came down to.see me
on the great questions which had
cOnvulsed a nation, and after
hearty salutation, he said Judge
Wiggin l am in a quandary-I am
in a fix, and there's no mistake
about it. have dared 10 beard the
lion in his den, and he shows I'M
mistakeabIe signs Of fighting. /
have incurred the sore displeasure
of the administration by advocating
that which ! believed to be in ac-
cord with the constitution of the
United States, and for maintaining
the principles of civil liberty be
queathed to us by our fathers, and
sealed to us by their blood l inn
mediately arose IN the interest of
humanity and thus addressed him:
Mr.. Conkling' says /, don't mani
fest any anxiety, for you are noble
fellow, having more brains at your
disposal than all the attaches of the
administration put together : and
in proof of this, cited him to the
fact that while others ran to and
fro, hither and thither, in search of
political light, he had come tG me,
the right man in the right place.
Says l /; Mr.. Conkling, go home,
sir, and resign. Resign, sir, and
you will see greater CONSERVATION
in the administration ranks than If
you were to throw a bOmb-shell
into the rank and file of rat brig
ade.' He jumped right up, he did,
and said: Long live Judge Wiggin,
now and forever, one and insepara-
BILE! Hurrah for Judge Wiggin ? l
acknowledged the compliment by a
tolerably broad grin, not too broad,
for fear / should show i'll breeding.
We then repaired TO the usual place
where decoctions are concocted, and
our old friend Dunkerson was wide
awake and served us with his usual
politeness. It appeared to me that
Mr.. Conkling had visited such
places before, but of this | could not
say for certain. If am out of place,
my dear friend, when you visit
this country just call for Judge
Smoot, of GAINESVILLE, and he'll
show you the place.
"You see, now, the result of my
advice to Mr.. Conkling in reference
to his resignation. He's got 'em
where the WOODS short, that's GER
tain. Upon Mr.. Conkling's taking
his leave, l asked him to remember
me kindly to Mrs. Conkling, all the
little COnkhngs and particularly TO
Mrs. Sprague. At the mention of
the latter name he turned to me
and said /: Judge Wiggin, do you
believe all the reports which have
been circulated in reference to me
and Mrs. 5. - l told him certain
~ did. Upon what ground he
asked. Upon the ground of your
proverbial good sense said |, Sin
not declining an envious position,
when the same is rendered to YOU
At this he grinned a pretty broad
grin, and said, mum is the word
/ then gave him the sign, counter
sign and pass grip of an ancient
Knight of York and we parted on
the square.
"Mr. Conkling had not been gone
more than one hour before another
distinguished visitor called for
Judge Wiggin. l fastened out to
meet him. 1 knew his voice. We
went into my Office. We there
shook hands again. 1 was really
right glad to see him. Whom do
you reckon it was No other than
President Garfield himself. After
we took our seats, he said: Judge
Wiggin / am i'm sore trouble, and
dire perpleXity. and 1 have come to
you first, of all men in the nation, in
order to secure your advice in de-
vising ways and means by which /
can foil the arch enemy of repub-
lies, and all Of his unprincipled CO.
adiutors.' Said L: General Garfield,
shake = we then shook. He then
continued Judge Wiggin, l reck-
on / am surrounded by the d-est
set of cusses that ever graccd free
republic, and that fellow COnkling
is the great head devil who is stir
ring up all this strife, and knowing
your honesty, integrity, wisdom
and great national acumen, l am
here for consultation. Said L:
Jim, shake! and shake me hard 2
1 most always call him Jim, not
through any disrespect, but l
thought it would make him feel
more at case to be familiar like.
lie then said, as if in a melancholy
soliloquy, oh, wicked and per-
verse generation, how often would
have'gathered you together as a
rooster doth gather the hens and We
would notv / then said to him:
Jimmy says l q usually called
him Jimmy about rs often as l did
Jim, besides l was anxious to use
that form of address which would
produce the greatest degree of con-
tidence and seeming uniformity of
sentiment, says /: Jimmy, stand
abIshed at the great talent you dis
play, by APPLY quoting Scripture
with the fluency of Il Melancthon
and the depth of one of the Hebrew
fathers oh, said he, that's moth
ing, can quote the Scriptures al
most verbatim from Ezekiel to