Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-11
TOMMY NICHOL.
He Gets Interviewed, and Says!Some Spite
full Things About Conkling.

He Gets Interviewed, and Says!Some Spite
full Things About Conkling.
New YORK, May 9.-The Tribune reporter
found Thos. NJ. Nichol at the hotel yesterday,
and asked his views on the prevailing topic of
political interest. the contest between Senator
Conkling and the President, or particularly on
the Presidents action in withdrawing the
New York appointments. Nichol said the
President did not make the quarrel. He had
a right to make the appointment. The quar-
rel is made by those who oppose the President,
in a quarrelsome spirit and manner. Gen.
Garfield is not a quarrelsome man. He is the
very opposite. Senator Conkling has quar-
re led with more of his associates than
any other man in public life. Look
over the best public man that Conkling has
either quarrelsd with or publicly and con-
temptuously sneered at-Blaine, Sherman,
Hayes, Schurz, Evarts, Foster, Fenton, Curtis,
Hoar, Burnside, Bayard, Lamar and many
others. Besides whole life of such notorious
insolence and disregard of the common cour-
tesies of a gentleman, as no other man ever
was tolerated in, and he won't be tolerated in
it much longer.
"You don't seem to be ar admirer of Conk-
ling?"
'No, sir; am notan admirer of any bully
or tyrant."
Here Nichol paused and said: "Now have
said harsh things; such things as never ought
to be said unless they can be fully sustained,
and then not unless there is great provocation
to justify them. But for one am heartily
tired of the strange Difference paid to this
mans place and conduct in public life. He is
a vicious, uncertain, disagreeable, disturbing
element of doubt always. For nearly three
months last summer nobody knew whether he
was going to support the Republican ticket
or not. He left Chicago without saying TO
Gen. Garfield anything of his nOmi-
nation and when Garfield visit
ed Washington and happened to ask
Carl Schurz to ride few blocks with him,
when they were both going on an errand in
| about it as though it had been an act of high
treason. He did not answer respectful note
that Garfield had addressed to him because he
went out riding with that professional foreign
er. Now his friends magnify what he did in
the campaign and tell US that if he hadn't
helped, Garfield would not have been elected
and he is entitled to have his wishes regarded.
he carried the country, etc. That is, he
ought to be thanked and paid for being
treacherous after he considered the matter three
months and had concluded it wouldn't pay.
Why'don't somebody say that Blaine or Sher-
man is entitled to special favor because they
were not treacherous, or Gen. Logan, or Mr..
Schurz, and yet ConklIng and his friends talk
about perjury"
ado you wish to be understood as saying that
Conkllng contemplated treachery in the cam
paign ~
81 do wish to be understood as saying be-
lieve that very thing, and believe it, on evil
dence too"
docs Garfield believe so?" sI don't know
that andlI don't predict to speak for him, but
he knows all the facts to which have alluded
and, more too, l suspect he appreci-
ates them. ''Of one thing,'' said
Nichol, in conclusion, 81 am very certain. The
people of other parts of the country are heart
lily tired of these incessant chickering's about
New York affairs, and of the fact that needful
legislation for the whole country should be
made to wait on them, and pretty soon they
will place the seal of their displeasure SO en-
phatically upon the man who intrudes his
own interests or selfshness in the way of public
business and interests, that though he were
made of brass, he will step down and out from
the position of leader of the Republican party"