Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-19
HOLDING THE FORT.

HOLDING THE FORT.
ALBANY, July 1S.-Notwithstanding
the fact that the stalwarts have resolved
to fight Lapham to the last, it is believed
his election will take place tomorrow or
Wednesday, Still Conkling's twenty
nine supporters may hold out for another
week. They are not reconciled to the
election of Lapham, and hold out two
other propositions: First, to adjourn with.
out the election of the Conkling success
sor, so as to allow Conkling to present
his case to the people; second, to secure
the substitution of some other stalwart
acceptable to Conkling for Lapham.
The first plan can only be carried
out by combination with the Demo-
Gratis, and seems hardly probable at this
stage of the contest. If the second is
adopted it is understood that the stall
warts would put forward Hamilton Fish.
He would be very acceptable candidate
to the administration, but no move Of
this kind will be taken unless Lapham
voluntarily withdraws from the fight
AS long as he is candidate he will re-
ceive the full vote which has been cast
Miller and of his friends. His election
will only be question of time. The
stalwarts this morning in conference re-
solved to stand firm for Conkling. Lap
ham this morning said he had learned
that Conkling says he (Lapham) must
not be elected.
PLAIN TALK.
ALBANY, July 1S.-The joint conven-
tion proceeded to vote to fill the vacancy
caused bv Conkling. When Tuthill's
name was called, he proceeded to defend
the stalwarts for demanding a regular
cancus. as
In the course of Tuthills speech he re-
ferred to Conkling's letter of resignation
and said it would be read when the vile
traducers of the illustrlous Senator were
dead and forgotten, and continued as
follows: If the United States Senate
were to-day called together it would be
Democratic So it would have been on
the day Senator Blaine resigned. So it
| would have been when Window resigned.
So it would have been when Senator
Kirkwood resigned, and so it would have
been when General Garfield re-.
signed, but no faction or
Republican legislature of Maine, Mime
sofa, Iowa or Ohio undertook to over
throw time honored usages. All parties
proceeded in the usual decent and orderly
| way. Individual preferences were sub
mitted to the arbitrament Of the caucus,
|and harmony of choice promptly ensued.
So it would have been here. One hour
of common fairness and honest methods
would have saved us these weeks of con-
tentiOn and the
DISGRACE OF THE PAINFUL AND DAMNING
DISCLOSURES
that have been made.
When vigilant and unprincipled lobby
by black art and bribery had taken the
field, and thousands of dollars were traced
from the banks to the pockets of their
co-laborers, with all the attendant sus-
picious circumstances, it was time to ad-.
journ
When the grand jury, on ample testi-
mony, had relieved an investigating COM
mittee of the painful duty of indictlng
half dozen of the very leaders in this
unholy crusade, for offenses punishable
by Imprisonment in State prison, it was
time to call a halt-it was time to ad-
journ.
When certain candidate, while vet
holding majority vote of the Republi
can members, was SO smirched with brib-
cry as to render his support impossible,
and the trick of an irregular caucus.
with secret purpose of his withdrawal,
was played, it was time to adjourn.
When the contest has so completely de-
bauched certain participants and they
had become so low and degraded as to be
willing to allov themselves to be adver-
tised as
A sTEP-LADDER FOR sNEAKs AND TRAN
SOM PRYING PIMPs,
in order to give color and currency to
weak invention and base SANDER upon an
honest citizen, it was time to adjourn.
This infamy was never surpassed, except
perhaps by those who pledged their word
at Utica and bartered it at Chicago, only
that they might vent their spite upon the
most illustrious soldier of the
century, whose only fault was,
and is, that he possessed
that intense common sense and intrepid
valor which enabled him in the dark days
of supreme trial, to be the savior of his
country. Why not adjourn? Can you
not trust your governor to call you to-
gether if need be, after reason shall have
resumed its sway? If not, cannot you
trust the people? When did you learn
you could not trust Roscoe Conkling to-
go to the people? Were you afraid to
trust him to go to the people last
autumn? Were you afraid to trust
him before the people of Ohio
and Indiana in their critical October
election when every Republican heart
yearned for a much needed victory;
when it was everywhere confessed the
electoral vote of New York, was abso-
lutely essential for the election of Gar
fieldi Were you afraid Ito give the flag
into his keeping? Did he not bear it to
victory and return it to you unsoiled and
resplendenta l insist that the response
bility of this long continued farce shall
be placed where it properly belongs
While so insisting let it be confessed
that some results of priceless value to the
commonwealth have been acicved The
notorious headquarters and
DEN OF CoRRUPTIoNIsTs, GAMBLERS AND
LOBBYISTS,
where legislation has SO long been bought
and sold, has been invaded by the strong
arm of the law, and several of that cor
rupt gang have been indicted for, their
crimes by jury of their countrymen.