Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-06-23
Discussions in the Republican
Party.

Oul Republican friends have their
sore troubles in The very beginning of
the administI alton of the scholarly and
amiable Garfield. Discussions and
divisions appear on every hand. Ma
hone, k,ddI4berger, Gorham, Dorsey,
Blaine and CNnl:llng, are forced to the
surface in rapid succe ssion as trouble
some factors, disturbing the peace and
lsrmony of the party. If matters COL
tinue at the present rate the party it.
self will soon fall to pieces from want
of cohesion, rottenness and utter cor
ruption, just now; Ex-Ser ator Conk-
ling is the rock on which the turbu-
lent waves break ard divide; and to
show how widely the bosses diverge
we quote the New York Tribune and
Gen. Grant, as representative authori-
lies of tie two leading factioTs. The
Tribune says:
Consider for a m n ent Mr.. Conkling's per-
sonal character, his relation with his iellw-men,
his hshitof command, his affeetasion OF 1su-
periority, his lofty carriage, his dictatorial
manners, his belhyerent disposition, HIS touchi-
ness and his implaca bility-coad .anything be
mcre asstrtlthan to present such nan TO the
pablo for sympathy as one who had Eeen cob
spired agains., ridiculed, and abused! The
country is beginning 10 get some idea OF the
value Of Conkling's service TO the Republican
party. lie gned his Set. in the Senate,
ordered Mr.. Pidtt 10 resign his, and turned the
control OF that body over to the DemocfatIc
party. lie then came to this State and devoted
all his energies to beSpatterng the Republican
President and the Republican Secretary Of
State with lies and SANDERS, going far beyond
all DemccrSfic efforts In that direction.
After giving ConkliBg sHch a baa
character bill the Tribune rather nm
Willingly confesseS that this very
bold, bad man has ruled the Republi-
can party with imperio power foi
the last eight years. Hear what it
sayF:
Through two Presidential terms he had \
| surfet of Federal patronage, was the equal IN
power Of the Preside Mt and stronger than Cab
inets his dictum was law in the Senate and the
rule Of social life in the White House; 1T his
| Genest little men were put forward and great
| men degraded; he bore magnificent sway.
From those who had the audacity to Odiffer with
him he withdrew his imperial social oStraciSm
| toward the unfortunate who had incurred his
resentment he was uncompromisng and i'm
| pacablc. He tolerated no approach except
L Kha 1aI 2
To an administration tha, by its purity and
dignity and goH1 works raised up his party
from disaster IN made its triumph fpossible he
| accorded only Yue eminence Of deserving his
contempt. Toa great party that had meekly
endeavored eonciiate him for the offence OF
differing with him as to who ,u!d be its can.
didate for the first place, by giving the second
to his nearest friend, he yielded frsI suen ac-
| quescenCv and then loftily, and upon what l.e
claims were condi ions. a reluctant support
| He was bl lted, as he might well he, with his
| own Importance.
So far the II Ti,jane. Now hear what
Gen. Grant, who for eight years was the
petted AID pampered idol of Lis party,
and who to-day has a stronger person
ii following than any man in 1t has
to say On the subject. In an inter
view by G Chicago Ners reporter he
delivers himself as fo,loRs:
"If } ou want to know what think of the
1 manrer in which M. Conkling has been treat
| ed by the Pre- sident will tell you without any
hesitation. Think 1t 1s most outrageous, and
| ifyou want TO know where istAnd In the
present contest will tell you that an with
| COnklini id Plat Mr.. Corkiing is my friend.
He has been wa.m supporter f mine, but for
al, that do not owe him so much to-day as
| Gar6e.-. 1t is true Mr.. ConKling did not sup
port Garfield in the Chicago CONVEX ion, but he
saved him In November. Without New YOrl.
safe Mr.. Garfield could lot have been elected
and without Mr.. COnhline New York state
would not have been republican"