Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-05

The New York Sun gives some hne
pen pictures of the men who betrayed
Conkling. That paper asks: Why was
Il that, in the recent canvas for Senator,
ConkIing could never get one-third OF
the Republican votes in a Legislature
that would have been lost TO that party
except for his efforts, And why was it
that some noted Republicans Of this
State who were under singular obliga-
tons to him. deserted him, and even
lifted up their heels against him!
1t would appear that Mr.. Conkling
has not always selected his friends with
the forethought and judgment BETTING a
statesman who aims to lead a great party
in critical emergencies.
Alonzo B. Cornell is one of the most
conspicuous Of these people. Is there a
man in the State who does not know that
Mr.. Cornell owes to Mr.. Conkling every
step of his advancement in politics from
the time he was made Surveyor of the
Port down to the present day. Is he
not indebted to him in a very peculiar
manner for the office Of Governor! Yet
the support Of Mr.. Conkling by Gov.
Cornell in the Senatorial contest was
from the start less than half-souled. In
deed, all through. the proof was abund-
ant that the willy and beartless Governor
was plotting to get into the Senate him.
self. In every ballot until the half
breed caucus, Cornell received a good
many votes, both for the long term and
the short term. Urgent appeals were
made to the Governor to stop this voting
for him. and to exert his influence Tor
Mr.. Conkling. Does anybody doubt
that an explicit request from Cornell
would have arrested this voting for him ,
Indeed. is there any question that. If he
had really desired it, he could have per-
suaded two-thirds of his supporters to
vote for the Senator?
General Sharpe is another OF the men
whose course was not satisfactory. he
had always been a close follower o!
Conkling. He urged him to stand for
Senator, and pledged him his earnest
support. He admitted that he vas in
debted to Conkling for the Speakership
Of the Assembly. This post gave him
great influence, which, for a time, he ex.
erted for his benefactor; and then he
turnedsagainst him in the full belief that
enough of the stalwarts in the Assembly
would follow him to insure the election
of Lapham and Miller on the very ballot
when Sharpe himself went over.
Levi P. Morton suddenly rose tt
prominence in the political circles Of the
country. Many well-informed Republi
can magnates wondered that they had
never before heard of a gentleman who
aspired to be Secretary of the Treasury
and was hardly willing to accept the
mission to France. The mystery wa
solved when it was learned that he was
rich banker, who, under the manipula
tion of Mr.. Conkling. had been trans
formed into a great statesman. Morton
made a poor return for this service whel
he threw a stumbling block in the wa,
OF Conkling's reelection.
And Thomas L. James. Who put VI
the ladder and set him thereon by which
he climbed into the Office of Postmaster
General? And he hastens to send con
gratulations to Mr.. Conkling's enemies
Years ago Mr.. Conkling offended tn,
bar of Northern New York by lifting
Richard Crowley over its leaders into tn.
place Of United States District Attorney
He afterwards astonished the State b,
making George G. Hoskins Lieutenant
Governor out of whole cloth. And
finally. Crowley and Hoskins rewarded
him by obstructing his path at Albany
and soliciting stalwart votes for them.
selves for Senator
So it comes to PASS that those who
were indebted to Mr.. Conkling for their
standing in the Republican party, are
the first to sacrifice him /; and in all their
work they have been bounded on and
sustained by men who. but for Mr.. Conk-
ling. would now be sitting at home pom
dering on the administration of Mr.. Til
den or General Hancock.
The spectacle and its lessons must be
highly instructive to a philosophic mind.