Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-03-23
TIE PURCHASE or MALONE.


How brazen ii was IN Conkling to
arraign bis Democratic colleagues
for pressing the organization oI
the committees Of the Senate and
demanding that they should delay
them until the arrival Of Republican
Senators could make the purchase oil
Malone oflectivcl So far as the Dem
ocratic Senators knew, they had II ina
jority OF the Senate when it was full
Conkling knew otherwise. Malone
has been brought into the Republican
fold by men allied to him. The Phil
adelphia Press has been the Malone
organ and is a Conkling organ. Cor.
ham, who was working for his old
place as Secretary OF the Senate, was
the negotiator. He gets his reward,
Malone gets his, and Conklng his,
Knowing that by this purchased vote
the Republicans we're to secure the or
ganization OF the Senate, Conkliug had
the supreme impudence to charge par.
tisanship and uniairness upon the Dem.
ocratic Senators for simply seeking TO
proceed with the business Of the Sen
ate and to form its committees rs il
was their right and duty TO do by vir.
tue OF their being in the majority,
A Sun reporter interviewing Mr..
Samuel Wilkeson as to his disastrous
connection with Henry Ward Beecher
in the Life Of Christ, drew from him,
as illustrative of his opinion Of Mr..
Beecher's moral character, q statement
once made to him by tho famous law.
yer of Albany, Nicholas Hill, about
Caleb Gushing. He described him as
man OF great intellect, who was "or.
ganized without a conscience" The
description applies to many OF our pub.
lie mon, and conspieuously to Senator
Conkling and Senator Blaine. These
men, personally enemies, drawn awk
wardly together by party ties, unite
to secure by utterly indelensiblo means
the advantage to their party which
they expect from the organization OF
the Senate The President, whose or.
ganization has a conscience but nota-
bly, elastic and accommodating one,
aids the scheme with the promise of
the patronage npon which it is based
He sends bouquet of flowers to Ma.
homes desk; the Republican Senators
cover him with the perfume of sweet
words Of commendation, in which task
the Republican press undertakes to
help them. But the stinliingness of
this bargain between Malone and the
administration is too pronounced to be
disguised even in the concentrated es.
senco Of altar of roses. Republican
oratory and writing is inadequate to
the task of persuading the people that
this bargain is a decent one and hon.
orable to any of the high contracting
parties.
The Democratic party can more
easily bear the loss Of the Senate or.
ganization than the Republican party
can afford to have gained it in such
manner Here at the very outset Of
this new administration is its charac
ter exhibited, and the fact demonstra
ted that it is ready to adopt any
method to secure its aims, regardless
of its decency. The tone of the ad.
ministration is fixed and it will occur
to every one that it is naturally fixed,
and just as might be expected of an
administration in which Garfield and
Blaine and Conkling are the elements
in the mixture The President per.
jurer the Secretary thief, the Sena
tor an adulterer Lancaster EnteH.
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