New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-07
Conklng is q striker as well as boltcr. No r
publican can vOte for him.


" Give me a yindication or I'll smash the party
says Conkling. There will be less bounce in him
after the collision, but he will know more.
Plat announces the Conkling programme without
cOnccalment. 1--WE shall be elected" he says, or
else Democrats will be-" There is the threat to
turn the control of the United States Senate to
the Democratic party unless Conkling ami Platt are
yindicatcd." OF course this threat carries with
it a purpose to allow the Democrats TO carry the
State this fall for unless they do carry it Conkling
and Platt would have no more chance of election
than they have to-day. The Conkling programme,
then, is this To keep up n deadlock until an adj
journment is made; then to help the Democrats
carry the State and control of the new Legls
laturc then have the old Legislature reconvcned,
and have Conkling and Piatt appear before II
and say You must elect us or permit the next
Legislature to elect two Democrats, fOrNwe Will al
loW YOU to elect nobody elSe." Does Conklng be
lIcye the Republicans of Ncw-lork Vill stand tins
sort of thing If he does he VIII have the htlief
knocked ont of him So suddenly that he will BE-
dizzy for the rest Of his life.
It is high time for the Republican party Of New
York State to make an cilorta little is enough.
Conklng stands over IL like a mghwayman with
club threatening To strike if he can't have what he
asks The party should lift its little finger, rs 1t
were, and lay out this ridiculous blusterer.
Tommy Platt trots around saying: wen be
sent back, or well sell out the party to the Demo
Gratis" No man can sell what he does not possess,
Tommy.
The sooner the Legislature quits fooling and set
Ties down business the better will il be for every
Il, publican in 1t.
Think Of a Primate turning striker and trying TO
bully IA yindiCatlOn out of Ills party
General Grant makes an astonishing mistake
when hc says he suspects the newspaper rldicule OF
Conkling j. instigated 10y the White House iniiu-
cnce though not by the President himself 1t Is
"instigatcd" By Conklng himself There is not the
slightest need for body To lend q hand. man
who resigns his seat in order TO give the Republicans
Of the Legislature AN opportunity to say what they
think of him. and who when they say they think he
had better stay at home NinZS club and shouts:
See here if you don't send me back / break your
heads cam expect tn be treated with soemnlty.
II is the sacred night of every American citizen Ia
laugh Mt man who makes a public exhibition OF
himself. and they require no lhstgatloh from
anybody 20 indulge II.
Senators Forster and Aston ScemtO have queer ideas
concerning v hat they are sent 10 Albany for. They
have paired till December 81, till the end of the
life Of this Legislature. II one OF them Dem
ocrat there would be some excuse. but very small
one then But for two Republicans to agree to de-
pryc their party Of their votes IN controversy like
the present Is simply criminal w DONG IL both
men work in the interest OF the l'cmocrauc party;
As Mr.. AsioT IL "A COnklng man. tins l. his natural
coursc. but Mr. Forster had taught Republicans To
think better VI his sIgaciy
Conklng says he will eel ont the party TO
the Democrats if he can't have his yindica-
n. What il the Legislature going To do about
th.f What j. the party going To do about 1t The
answer should Ice speedy and 80 fOrciblc rs TO make
lis death comparatively painless.
Mr.. Plat trotting around under the impress
sion that he j. swinging he whole Republican party
bv the tail is "a moderately eXhllaraiing spectacle