Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-21
The Co,,kltng Ro,U.


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Tho Co,skling Row.
To the Editor of the Globe.
differ with the GLOBE on the Conkling
row.
First-Because the President was ig.
noring and violating his civil service pro-
fessions in making the appointment of
Robertson to pay for party services SIM
ply.
Second-Because this appointment was
against the wishes and protests of the
New York Senators, who have right to
be consulted, and the same right tu object
that the President has to appoint. All
appointments are to be made "by and
with the advice and consent of the Sem
ate."
Third--Because the President, in an
nouncing that he "would have
to be introduced anew to such
Senators as refused to confirm Robertson"
was using his power to bulldoze and CO.
cree an independent and CO. ordinate de-
partment of the government, and had no
right to attempt such dictatorship and
one man power, the worst kind of
"Bossism.''
Fourth-Because the appointment Of
Robertson was in violation of the Presi-
dents express or implied agreement to
consult the wishes of the New York
Senators and others of the Conkling side.
I predict that Conkling will come out
ahead in the contest, whether returned as
I1oifod Sfofnc Sonofnr q rnrQa0nf MT
and that Mr.. President has bit off more
Dental election. NJ.
The Parrot-Headed PedaOo0ue of Mentor.
o the Editor of the Globe.
On what grounds should Democrats, in
this conflict between Garfield and Conk-
ing, stand up for the administration?
You know low every Democratic paper
in the land, before the election, arraigned
and convicted Garfield of the basest acts
while in Congress-his little 1929 Credit
Mobilier bonus-his more extensive S., 900
De Golyer pavement criminal perquisite.
You know the nefarious means that
secured his election, and the late develop
ments that are dragging to light his own
completely in all those wicked and unlaw-
full schemes You know that, except
when Haunting the bloody shirt, he has
been, like a denagogue, as he is, on all
sides of all questions he has ever espoused,
and that even when shaking up the terrors
of the bloody shirt he has been
but poor, school boy-like imitator Of
Blaine or others of that like. You know
he lent himself to the petty electioneer-
ing trick of prosecuting poor devil for
pretended libel in forging the "Gar-
field Chinese letter." while he never at
tempted to invoke the law against such
libels as the Credit Mobllier and De
Golyer's pavement bribery charges. If
these charges were not true, why were
their authors not prosecuted, as were the
alleged forgers of the Chinese letter? And,
if that letter really was forgery, and
not merely an electioneering ruse Of the
wicked perjurer in that case, now, after
election, so soon at large?
Do you not know that Garfield is neith-
er lawyer nor a statesman? That he never
originated anything, but some election
eering trick, or Congressional sophistry,
and that, as compared with great men,
he is nothing more than a sophamoric,
hypocritical, canting school master in
fated with self-conceit and low, personal
ambition? That phrenologically, as well
as mentally, he resembles a parrot his
frontal aspect, from the tip Of his nose to
the crown OF his head, forming a.qnad-
rant, with the center of the ear for the
right angle. He may be justly styled,
"The Parrot headed pedagogue of Men,
tor"
And have the Democrats so soon for
gotten all these things? Have they forgot
ten that that it has been accepted as an
orthodox scheme of Garfeld's administra-
tion to do everything and anything to Sc
cure to himself second term? That one Of
his pet plans is to divide the solid
South? Another to reconcile all factions
of the Republican party? And,
finally, by appointing such un-
posterous nobodies to the highest offices,
that the people ;will become so familiar
with inferior1ty and maladministration
that 1t will be possible for Garfield to in
flict himself again upon the nation, for a
second term.
With such Republican demagogue in
the Presidential chair, guided by such
principles and purposes, how can Demo-
Gratis be called upon to aid such designs,
by impeding opposition to them, no mat
ter from what source or from what
motive such opposition may spring7 The
struggle between Garfield and Conkling
is simply for the mastery of the Repub-
lican party, in New York, in 1884. The
duplicity and deceit of Garfield, together
with State pride, will create strong
sympathy in New York, for Conkling.
In any event the rupture will be
o wide one, and is fortunate
and providential for the New York
Democracy. When rogues fall out
honest men will get their due" 1t is not
to the interest Of the Democratic party to
heal this breach. The Republicans never
volunteered to heal the Tildenite and
Kelleyite breach. The maxim of the
Democrats, just now, should be, master
ly inactivity" They should practice the
patient impartiality of the old woman in
the fight between her husband and the
bear-with Conkling for the bear. If
they do interfere at all, it should be only
to help the bear. DEWITT G. COOLEY.
ST. PAUL, May II, 1881.
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