The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-05-19

The Administration of President Garfield has last-
cd only two months. Roscoe Conklng has been
fourteen years in the Senate. Yet deny
that the President has done mere to promote the
welfare and prosperity Of the country in only two
months tims than Senator Conkiins mas ever done
wont to call him q statesman Nhat does that
word Statesman meant What enc thing has Mr..
Conklng done, during all his years of service,
to make his country more prosperous What one
measure has he originated. or advocated with suck
force link his name with it in the Nations his
toryf His friends dumb Not one Of them
one solitary thing that Senator Conklng has
done In his fourteen years in the Senate to build up,
develop. strengthen or honor his country. or to
title him to the name Of statesman From first to
last, he has been nothing bat office jobber There
j. not the slightest evidence that his soul has
rissn above pap and PairSn.se: Ihs 'tI,rssmanshiP
suter passes for n General. Mr.. Conkling may rank
Statesman. As usual. his whole time during the
past two months has been spent in wrangling about
ofees- And yet this patriot of the fesh-pots ehal-
lenges comparison in public opinion between his
selfish scramble for spos and the splendid trinmphs
Of the Administration in high, honorable and useful
President Garfield and his Secretaries have hardly
had time to get fairly acquainted with their respee
tive fields Of duty. They have been pestered, day
and night, by Of Office hunters, and thwart-
cd in important aims by she angry loud voiced and
interminabe wrangle about Offices in the Senate.
But they have found time, and possessed the ability
and patriotism, to do the country inestirnabe
ice already. President Garfield and his Secretaries
bern T attending to the au.e; S Of govern
Blaine has already fixed the attention Of other ni
| tons BY checking unwarrantabe interference with
exports of domestic products, and by strongly de
Tending the rights Of naturaiiled citizens, IL: Ad
ministration has already the gratitude of large
classes. The financial achievements of the Admins
tration have surprised the world. Within two
months time, the fiscal position Of the Government
has been completely ievOlutionized The plan which
Secretary Window submitted to the President and
his Cabinet, contained more craftsmanship than can
| he found in Secretary Conklingis whole career
Wisely matured and ably executed, this policy has
now become magnificent success II will reduce
| the interest the five and six per cent. bonds
which month ago amounted to s34 So 57I 80
yearly to not more than 80 600 and probably to
sls,115Oo thus saving to the people for all time
come about slI,J 900 year An that Senator
Conkling has done, meanwhile, is to involve the
| country in needless expense by prolongng strife
The Postmaster General, in his remarks Mt the
banquet of the Chamber of Commerce, frankly stat
ed that it under the orders Of President Garfield
that great reform in the Postal Service has been
commenced. But great credit is also due to Mr.
James himself for the ability aud real shown in this
| work. vast system of fraud has been broken
open. Threats do not the President; ISLANDERS
do not cause him 20 hesitate; he simply orders the
Postmaster-General and the Attorney General to
| spare not a single man who has been plundering
Day after day. as the investigations advance some
new raseality is uncovered, and another theft of
| many thousand dollars is stopped. Before all is
done, the President and the Postmaster r. General
| mean to save for the people several millions yearly
which have hitherto been stolen, and hope to make
the postal service self sustaining. Meanwhile, all
and papers implicated in these frauds to vilfy the
President because the Offices not fixed precisely
| TO suit him.
No other Administration in the history of the
try, believe ii may be truly said has ever accom-
piishod so much for the public welfare within its
first two months, as has been accomplished by the
Administration Of General Garfield. IL has honored
| the Nation abroad, guarded its foreign commerce.
protected it's credit and saved it s4 900 yearly in
interest purged branch of its service Of great
scandal, and stopped great leak In all this,
ability, unhinchng fidelity pure and earnest patri-
otism have been shown by the President and his
| Cabinet Genuine statesmanship, the quality that
makes a country more prosperous and more hOnOred,
shines through all the splendid record of these two
months of public service. Meanwhile, Roscoe Conk
ling has been showing his self.hness ard bad tenn
per- his insolence and vanity his indifference to the
public welfare and his absorbing and Unsuitable greed
Of power. Sturdy blows are dealt for the nations
honor but not by him. Great deeds are dene for
the public prosperity. but not by him. Grand
achievements by the President and his Cabinet kin
die the admiration of thinking in this and other
lands, while Roscoe Conkling, true his nature al
| so, is pushing and erowdins, graspng and gruntng
over the feed through of patronage The contrast is
not much to his credit. But he forces the country
| to make it.-y Y. Tribune.