The daily gazette., 1881-05-21
SECOND EDITION
From the N. Y. Star.
The General Break-Up of the Re-
... publican Party.

Aho 1eueEAA break"Dp OI bne ne
'..r publican Party.
1o Another piece of The Republican
wreck has broken off and drlfted away.
General Grant is only straw nova
mere tobacco leat--but his drift shows
the direction Of the current. Senator
Jones has done Grant an i'll service by
publishing his letter from Mexico. II
is folly to go ON arguing after case is
decided and Grant is placed in pre-
cisely that position. What he has to
say is not only not new. and not true,
but it is also too late. His letter only
repeats the argument used by Conk-
ling in his explanation Oh his resigHa-
tion, viz. /: "Without New York, Gar.
Geld could not have been elected. We
carried New York for Garfield. There
fore, Garfield ought to give Us control
of all the New York Offices" The
people are as utterly ignored in Grants
letter as they were in C0nkling's s.
One would suppose that Grant and
Conkling had dine all the voting, and
had constitutional right to all the
offices. The ingra ned impe ialism OF
these men is evident IN every utter
aDcc.
Grant comes to The rescue of Conk
ling too late to save him, but just in
time 10 perish with him. The account
between Grant and ths county was
recently settled in full of all demands,
and SO receipted. The understanding
between Grant and tile people is per-
fectly definite, though tacit. They re-
gard him as soldier who has lived
them well, and been we'll rewarded /;
as an ex.President who has tried to
serve them very badly by demanding
third term, and been contemptuously
forgiven for it, and persioned off lib
orally ON condition that he should
never offend again. Grants account
with the American people is closed /;
the debor and creditor sides balance.
AS politician he is no more aud it
Is gross impertinence for him to at
tempt TO reappear ia politics, like the
ghost of Bamlet's father, 10 urge Conk-
ling to revenge. 1t is more than an
impertinence-it is a tlagrant violation
of The agreement under which he is
paid so much year " attend to his
own business, out side of politics. He
has no longer his fame as soldier to
excuse him /; for he has besmeared
that fame with the mire of PARTISAN
ship, and forever beclouded it by his
disgraceful treatment Of General Han
cock.
Indeed, the few friends whom
Conkling eau now muster declare that
he would not accept a reelection to
the Senate. 1t is no secret that he
hopes to lead party of his own, with
Grant as his Lieutenant General and
the Stalwarts as his officers. Let him
not lay this tiatteriug JUNCTION to his
stricken soul. There is no room in
American politics for third party,
and, above all, for a personal party.
The ground which Conkling has men
tally marked out for himself is already
occupied by the Democracy. He, who
has despised the people, cannot now
turn demagogue and champion the
peoples rights as against corporations
and monopolies. On the contrary,
every one OF the Stalwarts upon whom
he relies, from Grant up or down, is in
the pay or in the power Of some cor
pOLdblOh VI monOpOly' Auo beut
Gratis, whose hands are pure, whose
skirts are clean, and whose leaders are
will fight out this battle for
the people. The wreck of tue Repub-
lean party gives them their oppor-
tunity; but the Stalwarts, who have
and blown up the ship, can
not expect to be treated Otherwise than
as piratical outlaws, either by the Ad-
or by the Democrats.
open letter to Senator Jones,
in which he insolently states that it is
my wish" that Badeau "should be
kept where his office would support
him until he finishes some work"-the
work Of writing "My life"-''he is
now engaged upou," comes quite
ipropos to remind the American people
Of the imperialist dictators who have
Just been SO severely rebuked in the
person of Roscoe Conkling-one of the
l'prominent leaders" who are "openly
friendly TO Me"-and who can never
again return to power in this free
,euntry without another Civil War;"