The Republican journal., 1881-05-19
The WOuld-be Dictator.


OF such an enemy, too, refuse to stand by their
cause which is in effect to desert to the other
side, merely because loaves have not come to their
baskets or fishes to their nets! Why, only few
years ago it was an odious imputaton upon man
to charge that his politics depended on spos and
he cannot have deteriorated much that men
will plot against creed and cause now only because
the offices are too few to go round, Satan cannot
entrap men with so coarse and bad snare as this
Every one knows that the tittest step toward
remedy and reform is to nominate the best men
in the Republican Party and elect them to the
Legislature and to the executive offices of the
State: and yet men stand talking about Federal
patronage and differences among leaders, and per
sonal feelings between individuals and the like
What have such things to do with the duty Of this
hour! What do the people care about them =!
What should they care! OF what public conse-
quence are the personal AIMS and objects and mis-
haps of individuals
1t is difficult to believe that the utterel
OF such sentiments ten years ago, is the
Senator Conkling of to-day, a man whose
public record is limited to struggles for
the control of the "loaves and fishes, 7
who never eXerts his great abilities eX-
cept in such struggles, and who is never
at peace with the other leaders of his
party. He is not on good terms TODAY
with a single Republican leader Of ability
and prominence in his own State he has
for years maintained a deadly feud against
Mr.. Blaine he was for four years a thorn
in the side Of President Hayes, and he is
now making war upon President Garfield.
In 1876 he sulked over the nomination of
President Hayes, and during the exciting
and perilous time of the electoral count
he rendered his party no assistance. IN
deed it was whispered in Washington,
and generally believed, that it was his
intention ''to make the greatest effort OF
his life, and in formal speech espouse
the cause OF Mr. Tilden. Last year he
sulked over the nomination of Mr.. Gar
field and it was not until the eleventh
hour that he was induced to take part in
the campaign to the extent of making 4
few speeches. 1t now appears that he
expected to be paid for those speeches
10y controlling the entire federal patron
age for the great State of New York. 1t
may be said here that modesty is not one
Of Mr., Conkling's characteristics The
Boston Herald pertinenty remarks
If the quality Of Senator Conkling's Republican
ism is correctly Indicated by the general tenor OF
his speech i'll the caucus-and bis whole career
indicates that such is the tact--he is i'll a very
poor position to sheer at men who belong to IA
party little He it appears, only belongs to the
party on the condition that the party shall belong
TO him The case stands this way Roscoe Conk
ling has been kept in office by the Republican
party ever since he came Of age, Without ever
having furnished the party with living principle,
or devised any measure OF practical statesman
ship. or even having identified his name prom
nently with any bill or policy that has redounded
to the glory of the party or the benefit Of the
country, he has literally had honors heapcd upon
HIM for the past twenty years.
And now he threatens the President
with Impeachment, and his party with
the loss Of New ork. because he was not
consulted as to the appointment Of 4
collector.
We print on the first page Il sensation
al account OF emigrant horrors on ship
board, with the comments of the New
York Herald on the story. The agents
OF the steamship lines emphatically deny
the sensational statements Of Miss o.
Brien. They say the sleeping hammocks
of which she wrote were never seen on an
ocean steamship. and some of them have
been familiar with steamships for many
years. The agent of the Anchor line
suggested that Miss O'Brien wished to
arrest the vast emigration from Ireland
by depicting the horrors Of life on ship
board suggestion also made 10y the
New York Herald. The truth of the
matter is that the Storage is not the
place one would choose to make a pas
sage in, provided they We're able to
choose, but it is not quite So bad us it i
sometimes painted.
George Alfred Townsend has been
maligning the women of the South, which
leads the Mobile Register to remark that
he will eventually end his journalistic
career by meanderlng unWittingly into
the cess pools OF the Police Gazettes
Townsend who is Il Bohemian utterly
void OF conscience, yeracity or principle,
and coward withal, will regard this rs
a first class advertisement OF himself.
The Pail Mall Gazette, Of London,
says: "No one can take even curSCry
glance at the social and political move
ments in progress across the Atlantic
without being impressed by the Roadway
which Prohibition is making in The South
ern and Western States"
"Alr. Conklng and his friends are
threatening the President with impeach
ment. Who are Mr. Conkling's 'triends Y
And, by the way, we do not remembe that
the Constitution makes a refusal to yield
to the dictatioh Of Nh Conklng ground
for impeaching a President
Scratch Judge Robertson and You will liid man
who Is for Blaine in 1881. Boston Post
Well, why don't you scratch him
You will find a good many men who are
for Blaine in 1881 without scratching,
however
Postmaster General James in his remarks at the
recent Chamber of Commerce banquet in New
York said. in speaking of the Investigations now
IN progress in the Post Office Department by di
rection Of the President
Let me say that they are aimed at a system and
not at men, but if this inquiry should disclose that
any persons have been guilty Of corruption and
fraud they will be handed over to the Department
of Justice (Great applause
Second. the country may be assured that no
mail service necessary to the welfare of any com
munity will be abolished or curtailed, while all TN
necessary and wasteful expenditures shall be re
lentlessly cut oft. (Applause} In other words
II is proposed that the postal service shall be con
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