Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-06-19
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sunday morning.
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The peculiar mallgnity with
which Roscoe Conkling is being
psrsssutsd by Harper's Weekly
eanset have esoap ed the attention
Of Political observers. There seems
absolutely NO limit to the ill-will
which IL dealt out to a gentleman
who, the other day, was almost the
most henored public man in the
Republican party. The nasty
NAst-an srtistic Hsssian whose
blood 10 simply concentrated virus.
and the fiasst smanations OF whose
genius are ceDesived In pure gall
has been turned Loose on the
Oasida chief. tits to the honor of
Roscoe Conkling that the most
biting things he ever uttered were
directed against George William
Curtis, the editor of Harpers
Weekly. He contsmptuously de-
scribed him - q "man.miiliner,"
- . namby-pamby mouther of
Ane phrases. We bslieve that
CeAklipg correctly appreciated
Curtis's characteristics, and that
he ought, really, to have hit
this carpet knight of period.
ical literature harder blows.
Curtis, ever since the oppor-
tunity has offered, has pursued
Csakling with more than feminine
nalignity. From the start we
have expressed it as eur belief that
Csnkling acted neither wisely nor
we'll In resiRning the Senatorship
In . pet. But 1t should be remem-
bered that Achilles was wont to
sulk In bis tent, but mono the less
did Achilles give the coup de grace
to the Trojan Hector. The "pota-
tees, prisns and prunes" politi-
oians, the men who set their
mouths lab0riously to the utter
anee Of pretty phrases, with fatu-
BUSINESS worthy of undisguissd con-
tempt, really think they have flu
ished COnklipg at blow. They
forget the legend of Tydeus who,
wounded to the death, according to
the classical story, seized his slay-
or ana caswed the top of his head
or while in articulo morris. They
forget, alss. the scriptural tradition
Of Samson. With q lack of saga
city which is q wonder to those
who have believed in the flu
ture of the Republican party,
. lot Of strong Iago like con-
spiraters. of the Blaine pattern,
temperizers of the Garfield
type and "man.millinsrs," of
the George William Curtis
model, have started in to add
insult to injury, hamboyant
and idiotio sxultation to psrfidy, in
their treatment of the stalwarts.
Probably, as respects the whole ad-
ninistration crowd, Blaine is the
enly man who knows what 10
ahsad, and he is the Iago who is
pitting one Republican cham
pion against another, and
who soliloquizss that wheth.
Or Garfield kill Conkling, or
Csnkling Garfield, his plans are rs
far advanced as the malign con-
junction Of the political planets ad-
NIT Of. To Blaine Garfield and
0onklisg are the Michael Cassie
and the Rederigo of his Political
drama.
The Republican who, when he
hears the short, sharp, emphatic
eutgivings of Conkling and Grant,
does not know that q crisis lie at
hand fatal to his party, can be
taught nothing. In an evil hour
the fortunes of that young but his.
toric Political organization have
passed into the hands Of disap.
pointed Political marplot, twice
euchred out of the Presidency,
and Of milk.sops and nincom-
peops, Who de not know that the
hesitation Of the Republican party
In New York in pronouncing in
faver Of the reelection of Couk.
ling and Plat is as fatal to that
party - Paris's malaprop judg-
mont was to Troy. Harpers
Weekly, inspired by the petty re-
sentiments OF George William Cur
tie, may employ the vensl pencil
Of Mast to dscry Conkling. As the
sesend step In the programme, it
will probably be directed against
Grant. But, none the less, the hand
writing 10 % plainly on the wall as
respects the Republican party
~ though u second Daniel were
to-day rsadiag, with Inspired We
hsnsnes and prophetic vlger. the
mystic outgiviDgs which were
blasonsd At Bslshazzar's feast. The
brain and real impetus Of the Re.
pueiioans are new, once and
for oil, against the naturalization
Of their party. The crush of mat.
ter and the wreck Of worlds, in a
political sense, are close at hand.