Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-14

tainly not reckless or INSCRIPTIONS
iournal-says of the Albany situation :
Mr.. Con1ling is reported to be very
"proud man. It seems to US that man
"with even a trace of proper pride would
"refuse to countenance the state Of affairs
cat Albany, even if he was wholly free
from responsibility for bringing it about
Gin the first instance. In the actual
circumstances Mr.. Conkling's position in
&c the fight is simply indecent. Heknows,
everybody knows, that he has but to
''give the word and the body guard of
"members Of the Legislature who have
surrounded him for six weeks will dis
"solve, conference of the Republicans
twill be held, and before sunset two Sena-
tors viii be chosen for the State of New
York. He refuses to give the word.
"What but coarse insensibility and a
"mean and narrow egotism which is Mt
terly inconsistent with worthy pride
''seals his lips:''
The same journal says farther that while
the anxiety concerning the state of the
President il universal, and almost as uni
versally humane and unselfsh. there is a
single notorious and shameful exception.
In one place-fortunately only one place
from Maine to California-interest in the
"question whether the President will live
cor die turns on the probable effect of the
event upon vicious and vulgar struggle
" for the spoils of Office. Wait and see,
"say these party machinists, stool pig
icons, bribe-givers and peeping Toms,
"' what happens at the Washington bed
ca side. Ii the President gets up again
our schemes for gaining favor with a
"' new Administration will miscarry. If
Arthur comes in it behooves us to
6" stand ready to worship the rising sum-
"And so they protract the disgusting con.
test and hurriedly open their telegraph
envelopes, not in sympathy with the
'pitiful case Of the strong man suddenly
struck down by dastardly bullet, but
with trembling anxiety as to the votes
"they have already cast in Joint Conven-
ton, and perplexity as to the votes they
"shall hereafter cast" There can be no
doubt that this is the true view of the
" stalwart " situation at Albany and it is
the most infamous and disgusting exhibit
ton Of political brutality and meanness
the country has ever witnessed
And Conkling thinks it no shame to tell
the public at such a juncture that he
twill never surrender" Does the man
think that his revolving and indecent
egotism is concealed from the eyes of his
fellows? Have they forgotten how he de.
clared that he had decided on "murder
Gin preference to suicide, and how xfully
significant these words have been made
to appear by subsequent events? He is
waiting now, like vulture, fer the issue
of the Presidents wound. He has been
determined from the first to take every
advantage of that execrable deed. His
only public remarks on the event were
devoted to most indecent and fulsome
eulogy of Arthur, and half-contemptuous
reference to the possible death of the
President. 1t would be impossible for any
public man to behave worse than he has
behaved since the assassination, and at
this moment he is still clinging to the
poorly disguised hope shat Guitteau's
bullet may after all make Arthur Presi-
dent
Unfortunately there is no room left for
doubs on this head. It is by this time
certain that the maintenance of the dead
lock since the shooting Of the President
has been due entirely to this abominabc
speculation. The signs of Generalization
which have recently appeared in the
stalwart ranks have been caused by
the steadily favorable accounts of the
Presidents condition. Were it absolutely
certain that he would recover there would
occur stampede at Albany Should his
case take a turn for the worse we should
expect to see the "stalwarts recover theiI
solidity. They and their leader are liter.
ally gambling upon the Presidents life,
and it is an atrocious proceeding. It show;
to what a depth OF degradation polite:
may be carried by the kind of men who
are brought to the surface by the spoils
system. It would be gross calumny tc
say tina. Conklings henehmen at Albany
are typical Americans. They axe nothing
of the kind They belong to the vile venal
brood that is Matched out by that system
which Conkling lives and breathes through.
They are the products of the machine, .
aad their present conduct should serve &c
convince all self-respecting men that the
system which produces such vermin must
be destroyed.
It is evident also that neither Conklina
nor his wretched followers possess the faint
est sense of propriety or even decency.
They carry on their detestable speculations
upon the Presidents chances of life as
cooily and methodically as though they
were engaged in a perfectly honorable and
even praiseworthy occupation. 1t is such
cattle that the spoils system puts in public
life and makes legislators and Congressmer
and Senators out of. Conkling himself i:
living proof of the brutality and shame
lessness which may be engendered even il
an educated man by constant manipulation
of and dependence upon the machine,
but 10 worse specimens of % machine" poll
tics than his followers at Albany have evel
been exhibited, and it is to be hoped that
their outrageous conduct will move the ma,
ton to deal justice upon the system which
is responsible for them.
TIE CONDITION OF THE PRESIDENT