The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-02-02
CONKLING,S GOOSE COOKED.
The Significance Of BIaine's Com
ing Elevation.
A Terrific Onslaught by DOnn
Piatt On the New York
Senator,
Washington Special to the Chicago Times.

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Some of Gen. Garfeld's MentC
, friends are of the opinion that Gel
Garfield had nothing to do with th
present raid that is being made upo
, Conkling in Yew York. Mere proS
unity to the President-elect is nc
the finest basis in the world for abso
lutte information. It is a fact tina
Gen. Garfield has made one reques
about these New York appointment
that clearly indicates his position to
ward them all. Among the appli
cants for the appointment to succeed
| Stewart L. Woodford, present United
States District Attorney for tn,
Southern district of New York, il
one Col Sheppard, who has acquired
prominence in New York State poll,
tics by his fighting Conkling. Gen,
Garfield has requested that Col.
Sheppard be appointed, and there ia
no doubt that his name will be sent
into the Senate at an early day.
President Hayes himself has not
been anxious TO make these anti
Conkling appointments. He has
felt great delicacy about seizing upon
those positions which properly be-
long to the next Administration to
ill, and had he not been certain that
he wss acting in accordance with tho
desires of Gen. Garfield, no action
upon them would be taken this win
ter. Secretary Evarts, who is the
Presidents confidential adviser in
al doubtful matters, has been main
ly instrumental in deciding upon en-
ergetic action in these New York APP
p0intments. He has seen his op-
portunity to score a most effective
point on his ancient enemy, Conll-
ling, and as a shrewd tactician he
knows that now is the time to secure
the combinations. Beyond this it is
enough to know that Mr..
BLAINE Is TO BE PREMIER
of the coming Administration, and
if any one thinks that Mr.. Conkling
will get very much from an admin
istration where Mr.. Blaine is the
principal adviser he must be a very
credulous child Of nature. A very
prominent Senator tonight, in dis
cussing this New York phase of the
said everything depends
on Mr.. Blaine's attitude. If he
should be in favor of these offices
going over to the next Administra-
ton, there would be no trouble. If
ono can imagine Mr.. Blaine's meet
ing with Mr.. COnkling in asking to
have nominations hung up in COM
mittee-rooms, then one could predict
their failure. Otherwise not. But
Mr.. Blaine's being in favor of the
COnkling could not
muster a cOrporars guard against
them. Blaine has been given by
Gen. Garfield to understand that
when he enters the Cabinet he shall
be Secretary of State in the full ac-
ceptance of the word; that he shall
be the principal adviser of the Presi-
dent, and be considered in every
question of policy of the incoming
Gen. Garfield himself is
supposed to be not fond of rough
and-tumble fighting Mr.. Blaine is.
No man has ever done more for Gen.
Garfield than has Mr.. Blaine.
DON PIATT's EDITORIAL ON CONKLIEG.
Dom Piatt, who is one of Gen.
most intimate friends, has
an editorial on Lord Roscoe which
is to-day the sensation of the town.
This editorial is as follows:
This scandal, although affecting a
husband and wife widely known,
and once leading lights in the fash
enable world, would lose its interest !
n the proverbial nine days, Mrs. !
5rundy to the contrary notwith- |
standing, were it not that the con
raj figure is a tremendous swell of |
he political world The fact is, all ,
light minded, sound-hearted people
would hasten to forget the painful
natter but for this central figure.
iVm. Sprague has past that en-
iears him to the popular heart. He
vas q gallant soldier duriug the late
var, and as a Senator, although q
he marked his efforts as
law-maker by sympathy with and
u effort to benefit the labor of the
0untry, and he is the only man Of
hat grave body, through all time
ince its organization, who has left
IS a speech condensed into a sem
ence. He did this when he said
There is nothing
LORE CRUBL, DEsPoTIo, AND SELFISH
han a million dollars, unless it be a
lillion and a half" Mrs. Sprague
the daughter of one of our great
st men. She is what is left US of
almon P. Chase, and the beauti-
ii, charming, and accomplished
Late Chase. The men whose vul-
ar tongues and dirty mouths are
oisy with her poor name are, some
them, men who have been seen
oeaking in her presence with bated
reath and awkward humility, as if
| the presence of a Queen, crowned
Y nature with loveliness, as by ,
ght divine, with power born ;
trough many generations Of king !
2 lineage. The fall of these two
-ould make all men who respect !
leir mothers and love their chill
rem turn sorrowfully away with
osed mouths to wipe it all out, as
too painful for human
bought, but for the brazen-faced
reich who is the sole cause of all .
lis shame. God might have made
MORE DEsPIcARLE WRETCH THAN
ROSCOE CoNKLING, ,
at he never did. There have been
men, but never one who
,vered his wickedness with such ]
and cowardice. These
rords are not written in the inn
atience of anger. They are selec-
ID and printed advisedly, and re- !
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