Daily globe., 1881-05-17


statesman in America who excels our own
Senator in getting into quarrels without
cause and out of them without dignity. He
has kept the country in hubbub and the SEN
ate in state of nervous agitation for nearly
three months, because an excellent gentleman,
who was opposed to third term for Gen.
Grant, was nominated for collector for the
port of New York. Neither he nor any Of his
| friends ever made the slightest imputation
against the ability, integrity and high per.
sonal character CT Judge Robertson. The
sole and only objection to him is President
Galf field did not properly ask Mr.. Conkling's
tsxt the Senator has declared war on the
President. He Is an inveterate maker
of phrases, and his phrase for that
was, "The President forces me to commit
murder or suicide. ] choose murder" eo to
do him Justice the Senator hasdone all he can
to keep his threat. He left no resource I'm.
tried Of menace, of intrigue or SANDER, to
weaken the administration, to gain recruits
tie t'' ranks, but but eve every "isasp. wsap.
op(has broken in his hands. Confronted by
the certainty of confirmation Of Judge Rob.
ertson at the first moment when
a vote could be had on 1t, Conkling
cast about for means to save appearances In
his defeat. There are things which Don
Quixote cannot do, and Sancho Panza must
act. Senator Platt was therefore put forward
which was imminent, by asserting that means
OF compromise had been devised which would
be satisfactory to everybody. The caucus
once more courteously adjourned to wait for
the mysterious development promised. We
had them yesterday forenoon in the farce of
the designations which the knight and squire
presented to the Senate. 1t is safe to say that
neither OF our Senator's has given up the lease
OF his lodgings. The farce at Washington
will be completed by the farce at ALBANY. We
are inclined to think that no objection will be
raised anywhere in the State to playing out
this opera bouffe representation. Our Sena-
tors have made themselves rather ridiculous,
but the people who elected them once will in
due course elect them again and send them hack
to serve out thu ir terms. II only the Senate
Will not permit so shallow trick to interfere
with the dispatch Of public business in their
absence.
The Herald: Nothing could be more unwise
than to consider the situation in the angry
spirit which has marked most of the advice
given the President by his counesllors and
fresh in office, with &C, 900 offices in his gift.
Flattery has never gone beyond
the point of what has been visited upon Presi-
dent Garfield. Mr.. Garfield has been treated
as though he were demi god-as sovereign
whose will was law, and to disobey whose
mandate was as much of crime as it would
be for the Ottoman to challenge the
divine right of the sultan. Journalists
who argued the favor and independence
posed Gen. Grants nomination, exhausted in
vective upon Conkling when he resents insult.
Conkling has rights which every President is
bound to respect. He is an older and better
soldier in the ranks of the Republican party,
than the President. He is a loyal
Republican. His career is distin-
gulshed by .eloquence, sincerity, purity
and q chivalric sense of honor and
answering devotion to the principles of the
does Mr.. Garfield owe his election. The truth
is that from the beginning, Garfield has com.
mitted himself irrevocably to Blaine, and in
his dealings with Conkling, Grant and their
followers, has followed the policy of duplici-
ty. This Is severe judgment to pass upon one
holding the position Of President
of the United States, and we write it with
pap pnd the bes e friends i Of NJ Garfield tSs tFSs Soss
who tell him the truth. He stands in criti-I
car position, full Of menace to his party, his
administration and himself. He cannot ex-
cuse, he cannot explain his administration
thus far, except upon the theory of absolute
surrender to Blaine-a surrender as complete
and, in the end. sure to be as
fatal as that OF Faust TO Mephistofeles. The
degrading alliance which Blaine has offered
him will end in the bottomless pit for himself
and his party. Ii Garfield proposes to carry
on the policy of ostracism and revenge he
must make up his mind to the ruin of his ad-
mlnistration, the ruin of his own career, and
of the Republican party. If he had the cour-
age of Jackson, the wisdom of Lincoln, verac.
ity of Grant, he may even now rescue himself.
To do this, however, he must resolve upon
policy as bold and sincere as
fiss He should at ono once ask Mr. Blaine to o7as retire
from the cabinet. Conkling has resigned from
the Senate in the interest of peace. Let Blaine
retire from the state department He is not
suited to the Office, has neither training nor
experience to manage our foreign
affairs. The other members of the
cabinet are men without special
value and force, and If they want places could
be quartered in some easy department. Let
the President call to his foreign Office states
man like Hamilton Fish, and gather in the
other great offices good men like Edmunds,
Sherman, Boutwell,, Hoar, Frelinghuysen,
Washburn, men of patriotism and character,
who would serve him not for ambition, but
for the best interests of the party and nation.
ALBANY, May 16.---The Evening Journal
says: lhe purpose OF lne reslghatlOus Is
doubtless to secure a personal vindication from
the legislature for the course they have pur.
sued in their opposition to the nomination Of
Judge Robertson. They doubtless fancy they
have sure thing They place themselves In
the hands of a jury they believe they have
already packed to render a verdict for them.
The Morning Erpress says the letter is one
of the ab1est and most powerful dissertations
of public rights ever issued, that 1t denotes
unyielding determination from the Senator
from New. York to maintain the dignity and
honor of State representive, and the body to
which they were commissioned. They have
acted manly and honorably in the past, and
will be sustained by the people of the State.
Republican Caucus.
WASHINGTON, May 16.---The Republican
Senator's held caucus this afternoon for the
purpose of determining what course shall be
adopted, with aview of taking action on Rob-
ertson's nomination and other contested cases,
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