The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-20
orN,RAL raEss REVIEW.

Judge ,bertsoD, tee new coi'oSs' oA Wv
mort of New York, IL an honest man, IS the
fact that the Chicago Inter Ocean so bitterly
onno,sa his confirmation. The following
brief sketch, from that paper, OF his po'i'cai
career, is proof conclusive that he cannot 90
made to endorse the wrongs, irAuas anu
cofruptions of his party
The more that Judge..R obertson's political
record is examined into the more plain
sppesrs that the republicans of New YORK
are justified in their Indignation at his nom'-
nation. He has never acted with the repub,.
lien party, excep, with the prospecs OF
nersoosl gain. He has bolied his party
Nominations throa times, and has repeatedly
accepted nomination upon al Independent
ticket after filling to secure republican
Endorsement. He supported the democrauc
national ticket 10 1872, and before the Chica>
90 convention repeatedly announced ms
intention 10 support il again In case Grant
was nominated He represents democratic
district in tho state sens,e of New York, and
Is tolerated by the republicans of that dis
lrict because no other republican could BIO
elected there. Judge Robertson secures his
election every yosr BY the aid of the New
York Central railroad, which employs sever
al thousand hsnds, mostly democrats, in his
county, and compels them TO vote for him as
tho attorney of that corporation in the state
senate, Ha 80 ,ures his election as delegate to
state :and national conventions by the votes
of these same dtmoc ats AT tho republican
primaries BY the lid of railroad Influence
he Is miniaturr "Ross."
Th.Louisvile Courier Journal thus speaks
of the journalism of to'day
According to the statistics furnished by
the census bureau, the people OF the United
States pay considerably more for newspa'
pers than for all other kind of reading mat
ter. The aggregate circulation OF the daily
Newspaper approaches 100000 copies, and
the annual income derived from this source
exceeds $35 100000. This is exclusive of
the weeklies and semi weeklies, to say moth
ing OF the various forms of periodical ltera
ture Appealing to tho same class Thus, in
material fortunes journalism and the journa'-
LIST have made great progress in the last
twenty. five Year,. The old crude methods
have given place to vast enginery and
an elaborate outfit, and, instead OF a luxury,
the newspaper is become popular neces-
sity. 1t is as a cup Of coffee in the morning,
a cup of tea in the evening, and no. house
hold feels itself complete without it. The
father of the family studies it, and shapes
his talk and builds his theories upon its con
tents; the mother seeks its ample pages, not
for tho news of the day only, but for its
fashions and gossip; and the school boys
and the school girls dsbbe in i. and daily |
with itsts,esmen and granddames in embryo.
The preacher ia his pulpit, however eloquen
and learned, Is no. nearly SO influential,
because no cannot by any possibility be go
far.reaching and incessant. In q word, the
power of the press was never so great as II
Is in this year of eighteen hundred and
eighty.ono.
The Louisville Courier-Journal character
lies the resignation of Mr.. Conklng and the
other party as farce, and thus speaks of it
American politics, with all It's humbugging,
ha, rarely, if ever, produced mora trans
parent sham than that which Mr.. Conklug
and his double, Mr. Pl,tt, sought yesterday
to put upon the senate and the people. 1t
takes the country by surprise only because
no reasonable person could anticipate so silly
and 80 tlimsy an expedient from anybody ex
cept tho clown of "a circus or the end-mrn of
q minstrel troupe. The proceedings of the
extra session have been funny enough for
comic opera. But the dullest of dull farces
could hardly survive this stupid piece of
Cheap Johnery. Tha! Mr.. Uonkling, with
his theatrical instincts, should 50 miscslcu-
late tho intelligence and temper of the pub.
had his Sancho Panzs, not wholly bereft of
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else, was suspected of having little common
sense.
The Chicago Times never minces words,
but invariably speaks what it thinks. Its
opinions rarely over command the highest
market price. So far as the public is con-
cerned, however, the case may be otherwise,
but anyhow, it says of the Conkling side
show, as follows:
Mr.. Roscoe Coukling has asserted his
''primacy." Ho has given notice to tho
country that hs considers himself larger
and politically more Important man than tho
president. Upon this declaration of himself
he has "gone to the country" called Nav
York, taking with him his assistant, MIR.
Piait. Doubtless. The object of this theatri
cal exploit is to get himself and his assistant
returned to the senate, with grand flourish
and "popu'ar indnr5emant" of the party in
New York, which Mr.. Conkling assumes to
own by title in fec SIMPLE. The Nav York
legislature Is still in session, end could, and,
If duly notified of tho vacation of his two
seats in the senate by Mr. Conkling, prob
ably would, proceed TO Gil them. Blu
that would hardy suit the purpose
of Cnnkling. To have h mself and
his assistant returned to the senate by tho
present legislature would be no vindica-
ton of his "primscy" by popular voice
To obtain that he must go before the peop o"
in the canvass for the election of a new leg
islature next fall upon tho issue no has
elected to make by his fight against the
president. An entirely new legislature, in
both branches, together with all tho state
officers except the governor, ara 10 be chosen
In November next. I Is probably Mr.
Conkling's programme TO carry the assertion
of his "primscy" against the president into
the New York election, with tho expectation
Of reappesring in the senate next winter. with
his assistant under his arm and the "broad
seaPof the province imprinted on his broad
cat part. |, Is a programme of which the
outcome cannot be so confidently Anticipated
as probably Cobkling believes. Though he
has tho "msch,ne" In NV York comole,ely
under HE command, so deliberate and ridic
ulous an attempt to set IN his "primscs" in
the matter Of spoils against tho .consti,u.
tional prerog.tive Of tho president whose
Atlniinistratiun sepinp that he ca,not. r,,ia /,