Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-27
TIE ADDRESS OF TIE ALBANY sTAL-
WARTS

1t represents the country as having been
plunged in gulf of dark despair because
of Blaine's failure to carry Maine, and as
being lifted out of this slough of despond
and into q region of ecstatic Joy and hope
by the noble exertions of Messrs. Conkling,
Grant, Plat, Arthur and Cornell. These
gentlemen, it is asserted, saved the situa-
ton, and they ought to have been allowed
thenceforth to have their own way in all
things. It is somewhat singular that the
" stalwarts never realize that their lead
ers only did their plain duty in the cir
cumstances, and that they could not have
taken any other course without openly
abandoning their party and with it all their
own political expectations.
But the Grant Cub declares that all the
trouble is due to the wicked Vaccinations
of Blaine They say with the most
unworthy motives, James G. Blaine has
"sought to nislead the President and
"strike blow at the representatives OF
g the Republicans of New York" Now,
as far as the country knows, there is no
warrant for this assertion. On the con.
trary, the Presidents nearest friends have
declared positively that he acted in the
Robertson case entirely on his own judg-
ment, and that Mr. Blaine had nothing to
do with the matter But the Grant Club
are determined to go to war with Blaine,
and so they proceed to say that " he seeks
" his own advancement by encouraging an
" internal war in the ranks of the Repub-
" lican party, and by attempting to break
" down the influence and power of those of
" whose brilliant and triumphant careers
" he is jealous and envious, chsgrined as
&" he is over his own most miserable failure
" and defeat" 1t may be observed in
passing that this kind of reckless and ma
levolent imputation is eminently calculated
to promote harmony in the ranks of the
party, and shows how profoundly the
Grant Club "stalwarts are impressed
with the duty of putting the interests of
the party before everything.
They proceed: Governed by hone IA.
I" bic self-respect, and guided by a plain
sense of duty, your Senators have re-
I" signed their trust" 1t is curious that
the public have so entirely failed to per-
ceive what "plain sense of duty" or
honorable self-respect had to do with
the designations OF the New York Senators
So far it has been impossible for the most
earnest diligence to discover plausible
excuse for their action. Dirty certainly
did not prompt it. Inordinate and over
weening vanity may have had very much
to do with it. But inasmuch as re. election
under existing circumstances cannot imply
vindication, all pretenses Of this character
are necessarily futile. The Club further
allege that In obedience to the demand
sand solicitation of thousands who delight
tto follow where Roscoe Conkling leads,
''he and his late associate appeal to the
Republican party for viudication and
approval" Where are these "thou-
''sands who are said in this turgid and
toploftical style to demand and solicit
the reelection of the Senators? Assuredly
none of these demands or solicitations have
been made public up to the present time.
Every scrap OF evidence tending to show
how public opinion among the rank and hle
of the New York Republicans goes, indi-
Gates that the party does not wish the
Senators to be re. elected.
The Grant Club wind up their boyish
and frothy production with a stump pero-
ration of the most inferior sort. They
appeal to everybody who in reality is
interested in the failure of their ma
/" chine" tricks, to help and sustain them,
and, evidently with dim perception that
they have made themselves ridiculous,
they shrek out, Let no man be ashamed
of the name of stalwart." Whatever
men may or may not have been ashamed
OF heretofore, whoever possesses any sense
of the ludicrous must certainly feel
ashamed of these 81 stalwarts." Through
all their windy rhetoric they have, In
fact, failed to advance single reason
which appeals to the intelligence for the
reelection OF Conklipg and Piatt. They
have done their best to widen the chasm
in the party by making unnecessary and
indecent war upon Mr.. Blaine, but as he
is not factor in the controversy it is clear
that all this only tends to obscure the real
issue.
What that issue is everybody sees now.
Conkling and Platt ask the Republicans of
New York to re-elect them on the express
understanding that they viii fight the Ad-
ministration. The real question therefore
is, whether the New York Republicans
prefer Conkling and Platt to their party !;
for most certainly Garfield represents that
party, and Conkling and Platt do not.
The Grant Club stalwarts are misnamed.
They are in truth deserters, not stalwarts.
They propose to disrupt the party rather
than that couple of bosses should be
deprived of autocratic power in New York.
That is the naked situation, and what
Conkling did or failed to do last year has
nothing to do with it. If this address is
the best showing the "stalwarts can
make of their case, it is bad one indeed,
and the general opinion of the country is
shown to be the sounder And there are
many true Republicans who will be dis
posed to think that few more exhibitions
like this of the Grant Club would 60 far to
destroy allegiance to the organization un-
der which these kumiliating displays of
sycophancy and folly have become possible.
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