Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-18

The Staats-Leltung does not consider
| their probable reelection by the legislature
as a vlndication for Conkling. In order to
have his course vindicated, it would have
been necessary for Conkling to postpone his
resignation until after the legislature has ad-
journed sine die, and then go before the
| people at the next election of members of
| the assembly.
The Journal of Commerce says: We re-
| gret that a large and respectable portion of
the Republican party refuse to support the
| President of their choice and are not only at
| tacking him in the journals that contributed to
his election, bat seeking, in every possible
| way, to ceerce him into manag ging public
affairs for the benefit of clique of poll
ticians. We trust that honest and patriotic
men, who are not slaves of party, will re-
fuse to lend themselves to such dis
graceful assault on the Chief Mag Strate
| of the Nation. Those who are oppos-
ing him are not acting in benalf
| of his country, but for the interest of a Sec
ton of his late adherents that rebel a gainst
his authority because they cannot control
him as they desire.
The Herald says affairs in Washington
have taken a sudden and dramatic turn
Lord Beaconsield was accustomed to say
! that nothing happened but the unexpected :;
nothing could be more unexpected than the
! resignation of Mr.. Conkling and Mr. Piatt
! from the Senate. Such step could only be
taken under strong sense of duty aad can
| only be SO considered 1t does not belong 10
the mere cunning and waywardness OF poi
ties. Men like Conkling and PIatt would
not take the supreme step of retiring from
the Senate unless it was intended to give
the act the greatest possible meaning. Ihe
truth is, that from the beginning Mir. Gar
field has committed himself irrevocabIy to
Blaine, and in his dealings with Conkling
and Plattss tssand their followers has followed
the policy of dupheity. This is severe
| judgment to pass upon one holding the august
position of President of the United States,
and we write it with pain, but it is the truth,
and the best friends Of President Garfield
are those who tell him the truth Mr.
Conkling resigns from the Senate in the in
| terest of peace. In the interest of peace
let MIR. Blaine retire from the State Depart
ment. He is not suited for the Office; has
neither training nor experience to manage
our forei gn affairs. Other members of
the Cabinet are men without special
value or force, and if they want places
should be quartered in some easy
department. Let the President call to his
foreign Office a statesman like Hamilton
Fish, and to other great Offices men like
Edmunds, Sherman, Boutwell,, Hoar, Free
inghuyson, Washburne, man of patri ot-
| Ism and character, who would serve him. not
for ambition and revenge. but for the best
interests of the party and Nation.
The Tribune captions its editorial A
Theatrical Exile, and says of course no one
takes his resignation. Neither Messrs. Conk-
ling nor Platt has any idea of leaving
| the Senate. There is character in French
comedy who is forever quarrelliag with his
mistress and quitting the house in rage, bu.
he always leaves his umbrella behind MN as
| a pretext of returning aud as mea rs of re-
turning. It is safe to say that neither of our
Senators has given up the lease of his lodg-
| ings. The farce at Washington will be com
pleted by farce at Albany, and they will
have whatever glory they can get out of the
theatrical performance.
CHICAGO, May 17.-The Tribun, Gre
publican) says: After six weeks of val
endeavor to bully and beg the Keg lica Is
of the Senate to aid him in feat ng the
nomination of Judge ho )lrt on, Nil. =, II (
ling now threatens the Re p Ib1can party of
the country with Gefeat. His resignat is
a demand that the Republ ms OF le Ne v
| York legislature shall re-elecU him, that he
may return to the Sc late to defy and en-
barrass a Republican President and a
Republican Senate. He moi ies The leais a.
ture that unless re-elsct ID he vii divide the
party in New York, and thus divide AMI
defeat it in tle coun y. VIII b s re-ele :
| ton keep the party nj ed in New Y .rk or
| in the country? viii the Amer can people
tolerate the inso,en,e and usurpati n thi
man any longer? Will not his support a1d
friendship be fatal to any candidate he may
favor hereafter? Is he, does he want to be
recognized before the country other than
as On open and declared enemy of the
| Republican party? Is that not his future
mission, and is not that the particular M
sion to which his tastes and abilities are be t
adapted? Accepting Mr.. Conk ing theref Ore
in his own selected position as a determined
enemy of the Repu oican party, engaged
henceforth in dividing and defeating that
party, why should the Republicans of the
| New York Legislature re-elect him to
the office which he has never used,
except to crafty a malignant hatred,
engendered by his own Unsuitable van
ity. The New York legislature may
accept the command of Roscoe Conkling,
but the Republicans of the great Republican
state of the country will be no party to the
slavish proceeding They accept his chal-
ienge. They will purchase no peace with
MN. They will brave and defy his threats
and his warfare. They are not disappointed
In HIM His enmity to the party can work
no harm, save to the extent that it is toler-
ated In the party. The best of all methods
to restore peace, harmony and union in the
republican party of the nation, is to make
Conkllng's resignation fnality by the cleo
| ton of Republican to the Senate as his
| successor.
MILWAUKEE, May 1.-THE Republican
says: We suppose Conkling has reason to
feel certain of bis reelection. or he would
not have resigned. We are confident that