Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-12
Let HIM Speak.


The following has been extensively pub
lished on the authority of the Hon. Lewis
Lawrence, Of Utica. It was about the
ana fraud by the electoral commission
''One night was.with him i'll his room
silently smoking while COnkling walked
up and down like 4 raging lion. At last
he broke out: Lawrence, l can't keep
company with this riff raff-any longer.
They are rotten with corruption. and, after
having taken everything else, they arc
bound to steal the presidency. Sherman
reeks with plumber. Wheeler is y virtuous
log roller. Stanley Matthews would sell
his soul for office. AS for Hayes, he is
simply pious sneak, ready to give money
to be president, and to drop OH his knees
in tears if caught at it. have great
mind to get up in the Senate and denOunce
the whole thing tomorrow, and call on
honest Republicans to give the election to
Tilden, to whom yOa, rs we'll rs !, know it
belongs told him it would drive him
into tho Democratic party, and he said,
Let it drive: there are more gentlemen
and fewer hogs than with u.s. These were
just the words"
II these were Mr.. COnkling's sentiments,
and there can be no doubt of it, whether
this particular incident occurred or not,
why did he not cast himself loose from
the evil and corrupt fellowship? Why did
he falter and go back when his feet were
fairly over the party line, and his best
friends were advised and he was ready to
rise in this place, denouncc the electoral
fraud and lay bare tho villainy opposing
the declaration of Samnel }. Tiltlen's
election? MIR. Lawrence attributes his
failure to an influence which we shall not
mention, because We do not thing Mr..
COnkliuS'S intellect was ever controlled by
it. But that ''piOus sneak Hayes" has
very recently declared that tho late Sena-
tor Morton, being alarmed by Senator
COnklins's threat to review tho infamous
judgment, and knowing we'll that it could
stand no such test, found out = way to
drive COnkling from his purpose and force
him to smother his convictions.
What was that? Morton was ono of
the cOarsest Of coarse leaders in
that mOnstrUus fraud, whom Mr.. COnk-
ling spoke Of to Lawrence as a drove of
ravenOus hogs" who had stolen every
thing else they could reach, and were then
about to steal the presidency. What
special power could such a man have had
over the proud and elegant senator from
New York.
Mr.. COnkling owes it to his falno to re-
open that mysterious chapter in our his
tory and let the country know why, when
he had both the power and the inclination,
ho did not save it from the shame of q
fraudulent president. Ho has no longer
any decent excuse for silence. He has
been read out of the /" Republican party as
ut present constituted" In the nation
and in the state it is waging 4 relentless
warfare upon him, and it is no less his
duty to do now what he failed so singular
ly to do in February, 1877, nanRely, to
''denounce the whole thing" and "call on
honest Republicans" to sustain him against
party which fulfilled its mission, lost it's
true leaders, discarded its principles, and
is rotten with corruption"
When Mr.. COnkling secs fit to do this,
he will find al audience as wide as the
United States. Men will forget tho petty
strife at Albany and hear with attention
that which deeply conc ,rns every Amcri-
can citizen.