The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18
g-atihed because they generally regar- il {
tokening rift in the party.
DECIDEDLY PoR coNKLENe.


DECIDEDLY PoR coSKLING.
New YORK May 16.-The following is from the
Herald: Nothing could be more unwlse than 10
consider the situation in an angry spirit which
has marked the most of the advice given TO the
President by his counsellors and friends. II is
easy to fiatter the new President, fresh In
Office with co 600 offices in his gift. Fattery has
never gone beyond the point Of what has been
visited upon President Garfield. Mr.. Garfield
has been trea'ed as though he was worshiped as a
sovereign whose will was law, and 70 deny whose
mandate was as much OF a crime as II would DC
for an Ottoman TO challenge the divine right OF
the Sultan. The Journalists who argued in favor
OF the independence OF a Seuator when schurz
and Sumner opposed President Grant, nog ex-
sents an insult. Conkling has rights which
even the President is bound to respect. He
is older and better soldier in the ranks of
the Republican party than the President lie
is a loyal Republican. His career is distinguished
by elOquence, sincerity, purity ciivalric sense
OF honor, and answering devotion to the prin-
ciples of the party. To him, more than TO any
other political leader does Mr.. Garfield owe MS
election The truth is that fror1 the beginning Gar
field has committed himself irrevocably to Blaine
and has dealings with Conkling, tPlatt and theiI
followers has followed the policy OF duplicity.
II is a severe judgment to pass upon one holding
the august position of the President OF the United
truth, and the best friends of Mr.. Gar
field are those who tell him the
fni II Of mensuce to his party his Administrstion
and himself. He can not excuse. He can no
explain his Administration thus far except upoI
| the theory of absolute surrender TO Blaine.
surrender as complete in the end. and sure 10 b'
as fatal as that of Faust to Mephistophelc. Tit
| degrading alliance which Blaine has offered him
will end in a bottomless pit for himself and hi
party.
II Garfield proposes to carry on the policy o
| ostracism and revenge, he must make up hi
mind to ruin the Administration, the ruin OF hi
own career and of the Republican party. II h
has the courage of Jackson. the wisdom OF Lin
coin. the veracity of Grant, he may even nov
rescue himself. To do this. however, he must re
solve upon policy as bold and sincere as that o
our high-spirited Senator'S.
BLOW At GARFIELr.
ST. LOUIS, May 16.-The Globe-Democra
will say:
Mr.. Conkling has done what every HONORABLE
man would do in similar circumstances. Findin
4 a quarrel forced upon him by an Administrator
which he did his best to elect. and hndin
that administration overwhelming him by tn
mercenary artillery of Federal patronage, he ha
surrendered not TO Mr. Garfield and his mercena
ries but to the representative body of the peopl
| from whom ne holds his commission
He says ne ceases 10 pe re- . senator a,,Ir,
/ of New York shall say whether the President o
the United States who. in this case, happens t.
be the tainted product OF fifteen minutes craz
| in the Chicago Convention, will have the righ
to use his patronage to humble and humiliat
| Senator of the United States who has never ye
| failed to receive the cordial Endorsement OF hi
| people and his power. MIR. Garfield came int
| power after campaign in which large part o
| the oratory on the Republican side wa
/ devoted TO proving negative as to SS29. and J
was not only expected but agreed that all .he eli
Ciled, especially as to Mr.. Conkling.
was stipulated that policy OF recog
milton should be substituted for tn
policy of insult to which he had been subjecte'
| by the previous quadrennial accident, but it re
/ mained for Mr. Garfield 10 give us what the Gel
man philosophers call 1.-THE grand disillusion."