Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-04-13
GoVERNMRNT CASUALTIES.

now and Garfield is the name. Col.
Forney, who used to tramp around
Washington in war times, knows all
about 1t, and recently he has through
his Progress undertaken once more TO
keep "an open eye on the Capital, and
in his issue OF the I'd inst, be has this
to say;
president Garfield and Mr.. Blaine
are now realizing how difficult ii is to
feed a great many hungry mouths
with a very little food. There are few
offices and ten thousand ravenous ap.
plcants. For every mission or consu.
late there are twenty candidates, posi-.
tive and contingent. A Clerk in the
State Department informs me that in
Pennsylvania alone there are from fl.
teen to twenty newspaper men wild to
go abroad, while in New York, Bos.
ton, and the West. the greed for place
is SO great that the President is as
much beset as il ho had just been
chosen by a new party, pledged to turn
out horde of old placemen. Some Of
these candidates for Office are not only
incompetent, but the most of them are
ignorant, inexperienced, and raw sew
eral cannot speak right or write their
own language Of the country to which
he aspires. Meanwhile if they were
all as fit as they are unfit there is no
place to send them. The former nd.
ministration had very few political ia.
vorites. To the credit of Mr.. Evarts
it must be said, that with rare excep.
tions his consuls and ministers were
good men. As they were all Republi.
cans there was no excuse for turning
them out; but this fact does not ad.
monish the candidates, who are still
hanging around the hotels and annoy.
ing the President and Mr.. Blaine.
"Roscoe Conkling, the New York
Senator in Congress, seems to think
that when Mr.. Garfield was elected
President he abdicated to him, and so
when he placed Mr.. Chester Arthur in
the Vice Presidential office aud elected
Mr.. Platt as his colleague, that with
these three votes he had only to order
to be obeyed. There are two men,
however that Conkling has never been
quite able to master; one is President
Garfield and the other James G. Blaine,
Secretary ofState. The first he would .
hardly recognize after his nomination
at Chacigo in June Of 1880; tho sec.
ond he had spurned like a dog in for.
mer times in Washington. He was 80
hostile to both Of them, that it requir.
ed concerted effort TO force him into
the Presidential nomination last year
and as il TO add to his arrogance, when
was finally elected by terror.
izing the people, the cry went forth
that the toosin of alarm had been
sounded by Conkling alone. Blaine
had lost Maine in September, so that
he was almost counted out of the strug-
gle, and he returned broken.hearted
from tho canvass, leaving the field TO
the dictatorial Senator from New York.
Unfortunately for Conkling, he can,
not leave his bad manners at home,
30 that he has as many enemies in
as he has at his own
You recollect that he
not only refused TO look at Blaine in
Washington, but that when Garfield
came to New York after his nomina-
ton he turned the darkest frown upon
him. Unnecessary TO say that both
these men, Garfield and Blaine, have
good deal OF pluck of their own, and
so, after being thoroughly kicked by
this New York master, they proceed
responslvely to kick back. 1t is anus.
ing to see how this ostentatious pre-.
lender, Conkling, has been spoiled.
He reminds me of travelling opera
singer, who, because no insists upon
special devotion, terrifes honest peo.
pie into giving it. We have had
naughty leaders before, but then they
had the magnetism of genius and of
heart. Henry Clay was an eminent
dictator, but even his enemies loved
ais courage and his incorruptibility.
Webster was another, and all parties
Yielded to his magnificent intellect. |
Thomas II. Benton would thunder at '
power, but everybody respected him |
because of his intrepidity. Yet one {
'fler another these men were broken l
lown, and so will it be with Conklng, {
md Logan, and all the superficial poll. I
icians who call themselves stalwarts. !
Mr. Garfield gave Conkling Post ]
Master General and some other i'm. 4
'ortant offices in New York. He 7
llowed him TO name tho Minister to {
rance, Mr. Morton, but when it came S
0 other distributions he selected his
wn friends, and these happened, of
curse, not to be the slaves of Mr.. G
And now we are TO have
bis man Conkling do what he has !
ono in New York for many years, :
nd what he has been doing in Wash. :
lgton at his own will and pleasure. /,
low we are TO have an open denunci.
tion of those who do not obey his or. : :
ers' Like all tyrants, Logan and 7
onkling can only exist when they =
ave their own way the slightest do. ., !"
ancc or resistance ends them. Hated
home by their political antagonists :,
I'D by half of their own party, WELD. :,
g power only by office and ostracism, /.
lving nothing either of good man. Il Il
srs or generous natures to attract dis. 9,
terested support, they fall when they .,
fall like Lucifcr, never to rise again. a
ich leaders would annihilate the :.
rongest party in the world. They =