The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-18
MIR. Conkling.

Mr.. CONKLING's vanity is insu1eraDle ana
unlimited. He is completely enveloped In
il. As SAYCHo PANzA said OF sleep, II COW
ers him all over as with blanket. IL has
caused him TO write such letter In denun-
citation Of Mr.. GARFIELD as can only De
compared 10 the impudent speeches OF the
Disseminated ACHILLES to the king OF
men. MIR. Combines impudence is still
greater. He, without being conscious
that bis language condemns himself, ap'
meals 10 the Constitution OF the United
States and the senator's oath-be who every
DIV forswore himself in his efforts 10 de-
prlye the President Of bis powers and rights
under the Constitution-be who had IN
dnced a caucus of Republican senators to
avree TO confirm all OF his (CONKLING's) ap-
rointmepts and reject all OF the Presidents.
Yes. ne, 10 the face Of his record-in con-
tempt Of these facts and OF the Intelligence
of he public-appeals TO the Constitution
winch be had himself daily trampled in the
dus,. The very sin which lie lays at The
Presidents door is the sin OF which be has
himself been guilty. and OF which the Pre-
sident Is as innocent as the child unborn.
We regret that the pressure upon our
columns deprives us CT the opportunity to
give to our readers full particulars OF the
quarrel as it stands aud OF what Is said
about 1t. We give few lines from each OF
several journals.
The resignation OF Mr.. Conking's two
seats In the Senate is farce. 1t Is, IN Tact,
the most farcical performance that has ever
been perpetrated by distinguished
statesman" and attempted to be palmed OIL
a. 'politcal strategy" Mr.. Conkling does
not propose to appeal to the people OF his
State. lie dares not do 1t. He simply in
tends to be reelected by his Legislature,
now In session at Albany, and to come back
10 the Senate "vindicated.''- Washington
Post.
ltlsa theatrical exit like that OF a French
lover who was continually Quarreling with
his mistress, and leaving the house, vowing
never TO return, but always leaving his um-
brella In order 10 have an excuse to get back.
Copkling don't mean to leave the Senate I;
neither has he given up his lodgings. The
farce at Washington will BE- completed by
the farce at Albany. -Neu York Tribune.
The Republican party of New York will
stand disgraced in the sight OF all men II
the Legislature OF New York fails to take
Plait and Conkling at their words, ere
spec,iyely," and sends the two men back
10 the Senate OF the United States. Nelc
York World.
MIR. Conkling is a man who is great
among q lot of small men. He is consd-
cred great because be stufis bis self.esteem
down peoples Threats and throttles them II
they say nay to him. He has bad his own
way 100 long, and now as be has met politi-
clans, In Blaine and Garfield, who are his
superiors in everything but prettiness, he
is nonplussed, and, like an overblown blad'
der, has bursted.- General SickteS.
In politics, as In art, great climax de-
msnds q fitting prelude. Aniignoble diem
ma does not lend Itself readily TO heroic
solution: a petty struggle over patronage
and place cannot be appropriately waged
with weapons which ought to be held 10 re-
serve for contests which have a continent
for their theatre and nation for spectators
As the curtain falls on the caroiuIly-pOsed
figures Of Messrs. Conkling and Platt cast.
ing their senatorial robes from them and APP
pealing to the arbitrament OF the power
which makes senators and presidents, there
is audible only the multitudnous echo OF
the puzzled query, What does 1t all mean
The representative OF the State OF New
York In the United States Senate evidently
intended 10 formulate challenge and de-
fance TO the Administration. They have
merely penned clumsy apology for an ACT
equally without precedent and without eX
cuse.-Ne,o York Times.