New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-12
4 BfGONE ISSUE.

4 BYGONE ISSUE.
In one OF his most eloquent speeches Prcsi-
dent Garfield once appealed to the Young men
OF the country not to tie themselves Ia obsolete
ideas and tendencies, and cried Don't make
your home among the dead" The same advice.
i'll the Same earnest words, will be of service to
those who still look to Mr.. Conklng as their
leader. Mr.. Conkling and the Stalwart faction
have gone the way of all the earth, and Will
presently be heard Of no more. Men who
doubt or deny this are making political mis-
take to their own hurt. The first requisite for
q successful or useful politician i, that he shall
he able to recognize facts. Shutting the eyes
to unwclcomc facts hurts 10 one except the
man who is wi'fully blind.
President Garfield has become the true head
and leader Of the Republican party Officially,
he gained that position when he WAS nominated
and elected. IN the hearts of the people, he
has gained it by his noble bearing in n terrible
trial. II he lives. as the whole Nation urays
that he mag, no faction in the party can resist
BIS influence, and even the - .mOcracy itself
Will find that il has lost strength strangely. If
he dies, on the other hand, thc love and honor
Of the Nation will follow his memory, enshInc
his teachings, and support his friends. No
man, 10 faction that has tried to blaci,en Che
name OF General Garfield with mean SANDERS
ana foul imputationS viii ever be able to lift
the head again i'll this country. If any lnan
doubts this, let him repeat in the helrinc 81 any
company of Republicans the scandalous and
abusive things which Mr. C0nkling and other
so-callcd Stalwarts were sowing broadcast over
the land fortnight ago. Let him. or anyone
who continues identified with him. come before
any convention of Republicans hereafter. if the
President should die and there will surely he
somebody to quote these sayings. ANY man
who would learn what the temper OF Republi-
cans would then be, can get some idea 10y
repeating these ISLANDERS before Republicans
to-day. Is this uniust7 1t is not. There
ought to be enduring punishment for ISLANDERS
SO unjust, so ungonerous, and so mean. As
long as the authors last the people will see that
the punishment lasts, if the President is
aiken away. In that event, within n year
any man who wants honor of any kind will
be hunting aflidavits to prove chat he was
never much Of Stalwart."
If the President lives, he is tho last man TO
seek personal revenge for assaults upon his rcpu-
tatiOn. But the people win insist that his
hands shall be supported by men who are in
hearty sympathy with him. The power will
gradually pass altogether to that class of Rcpub-
leans who act with him in future most closely
and cordially. This. again. is rs inevitable as
warmth that follows sunrise. The splendid
career upon which the Administration has en-
tered will be pursued with increasing glory.
The man who wants to fight the Administration
will have to take himself into the Democratic
camp, and even there VIII be regarded as n
creature ruled by soured and disappointed
ambition or vanity, and not by any principle.
Mr.. Iorklmg is slrcwd enough 10 see thN.
Probably he has been as sad any man in
| America Tor Che past ten days. Guitcau missed
| the life Of Tie President, we all hope, bat his
ball marked die close of the political life of
the principal "Stalwart OF the Stalwarts0
Whether Mr.. CondinS viii try to satisfy vim
dctyc feeling by taking himself over to the
Democrats or vii! return to what was probably
his original purpose, and abandon politics, will
probably be shown this week. In either event
the mcn who wait fox lis san TO .iao again have
a night before them longer and darker DIAN
Dr. Hayes ever saw in polar regions.
1t il Il question tlat comes home 10 every Re-
publican worker to-day: why should make
my home among the dead p This Stalwart
faction has gone out like candle leaving be-
hind only the bad smell of gross abuse Of a
| noble President 1t viii never be remembered
with honor o. favor. When the stubborn SUD
pOrters Of General Grant left the Chicago Con-
Venti"n, they felt some pardonahc pride be-
cause Of the persistency they had shown, while
there was nothing disgraceiul in the position Of
the candidate they had favored, or in the
methods to which tlcy had rcsortcd in the
Convention. But the Stalwarts of Newly orl
have a very different position. 1t cannot be
said Of their leader that he has not abandoned
public trust, surrendered the Senate to the
! Democrats and betrayed his party 1t cannot
| be said of the Stalwart faction that il has re-
| Trained from gross abuse and SANDER of q noble
| President. The career of such II faction is
| closed Fortunately henceforward can bring no
, honor, but only add odium.
| Let it drop out of sight the sooner the better
| for the men who are identified with it, The
country will think less of its offences. if il is
| permitted no longer to arrest public attention
and to bar the way to Republican unity and
| success. The right course for any patriotic and
| intelligent mau who has been identified with it
is to seize the first opportunity to cease to be a
| Stalwart and to become II Republican.
Il RUSSIAN REFORMERS FATE
| IN man with q conscience has suddcnlv