The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-28


his devotion 10 principle and
To party discipline and party welfare. That
his Iud gment was ~ fault In the course he
pursued, tbero can DO no question, but In
following bs judgment we cannot but think
no WAS striving in behalf Of mis- party, and as
he felt, therefore OF his country. For
partisan purposes that no wac often unjust to
the south in his campaign and 10 his senator
rial speeches no one n esinsay, but was he
80 In his acts as senator? But II was not our
intention when we commenced this article
to say 80 much concerning ME-. Conkling'
our purpose being merely to consider briefly
the results of the labored efforts Of the New
York legislature to choose successors to
Messrs Conkliug and Plat. These abdics'
ted senators have cert4inly failed ofvindicas
ton in so far as the legislature is concerned,
but the grand tribunal to which they yet
have an appeal, the rank and file of the re-
publican party of New York has
not yet passed upon their case,
and that they will carry the contest
is we'll nigh selfevident They have nothing
to lose and all to gain by such course.
OF Mr.. Miller, The gentleman elected to
succeed Mr.. Plat, we have already had
some little to say. He, as member o:
congress has made record for himself and
one too, as does him little credit and tn"
party that has made him United States
senator, still lesa. He is not regarded rs OF
much more than mediocre ability and is not
accredited with any great degree of learning
to Fl. him for the responsible duties that will
be- incumbent upon him as United States
senator. He does not even rank high as an
tute politician, and certainly has no claims
to craftsmanship. He is paper manu-
facturer, proteclionist, and as member
of congress he lobbied against a bill to re
duce the duty on wood pulp, an Ingredient
largely used 10 the manufacture OF paper
because he owns patent for lis
manufacture and has a monopoly of its sale
in this country, which the importation OF
wood pulo at reduced rate of duty would
greatly interfere with. To lobby in bis own
private interest, although member of con-
gress, and to bulldozs congress that be
might fill his private Golfers At the expense Q
of the people, aye of the very school chill
dren of the land, seems TO be his idea OF he
official duty and his Obligations as member
of congress to his own constituents and to the
country at large. b it said to the credit OF
his own party papers in New York they DEF
nounced his action a. the time in unmeas-
ured terms, but his republican constituents
re- elected him to congress. and now the
republicans have sent him to the senate in
lieu Of Mr.. Platt, which itself, cons
sideriDg Mr.. Miller's record, is dire
vengeance for that gentleman. The other
senator elect, Mr.. L.pham, is not so we'll
known 10 the country at large. Hs Is repre-
sented as being lawyer of eminent attain
men,s and distinction, but as Legislator hos
little experience and no repu alton. AS
both these senators are the choice of the
anti. Oonkiug or shalt breed" caucus, it
may reasonably be inferred thst they will
enter the senate in strict accord with the ad-
ministrs.ion. The senate in December will
stand about as it did during the extra session,
other than that the status of the vice.
president on administration questions msy be
considered doubtful. He now belongs to
the stslwsrt wing aud bis predictions have
all been that way, but as the stalwsrls have
evidently gone to the wall for the time
being at least, will not the astute ard WHY
Blaine plscste bin and initiate him into
the administration wigwsm? He pro-
badly will be shrewd enough
to trim and to shift his ballast and keep an
even keel until he sees how Mr. Cohkling
viii fare before the people when he gets his
question there, SO that he can run with the
hounds lift is not safer to go-as-you- please
with the hare. To sum up, We think the
personelle Of the senate, in so far as brains
is concerned, has been worsted, the sdminis-
tration has triumphed on the senatorial eonr-
esy question, that is as to whom belong the
spoils, that the woundng Of the president
has given him an abnormal popularity that
will probsbly enable him to have his own
way, and last, but not least, that Riddle
barger is the desdest kihd of duck. ami that
Senator Malone is seemingly barely visible
through the mists In the background, and
that Mr.. Conkling has possibly gone by the
board, political Jonas, who may perchsnce
be cast up on propitious shore and proph-
ecy 1t the hesd Of new political party.