National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-04
Schurz on ConkIing.

| regular RepuDlIcan machine IN Missouri.
He had row with Senator Drake in the
State convention, and the result was a
split and two machines. Then Boss
Schurz asserted his boss-ship in loud
terms to President Grant, and demanded
"a monopoly of the spoils for his wing OF
theparty, with which to carry the election.
The President inclined toward the other
machine as the more regular. This made
Boss Schurz very angry, and he became
| an anti-Grant man. Joining with Boss
Fenton, who had failed in debating the
collectorship in New York; with
Boss Sumner, who had been un-
able to dictate a Massachusetts mar
shal and Minister to Greece
with Boss Trumbull, who had been de-.
feated in an internal revenue office in
Chicago, and with some lesser ones of the
Senate and House, he and they withdrew
from the wicked Republicans and repaired
to the cave of Adullam, where they were
joined by the oft-whipped and much
bruised Democracy. They put up Greeley,
the old original protectionist, on tariff
reform platform Greeley, the sore-headed
office-seeler, on a civil-service reform
platform, and Greeley, the abolitionist, on
a conservative platform. The butternut
secesh element, the hair-parted-in-the-
middle ddettarti, the Ku-Klux, some of
the long-haired underground-railroad
abolitionists, who were railing at not be-
ing fed with Office, and, in short, the fag-
ends of politics generally, rallied
with Schurz, Fenton & Co. to the grand
music of" Dixie" and TO the overthrow of
the Republican party. They failed. Their
fasco separated the elements, and back
to the Republican fold there drifted the
hunted with the Democratic banditti
solely for piunder, and who now were
ready to find shelter under the roof Of
the Hotel de Hayes. Our friend Schurz
was made sort of high steward and all
his sins were forgiven. He ate freely Of
the fatted calf, and has been lording it
over the elder brother ever since
He has an especial animosity for
Conkling. Now he has news
paper. 1t may not generally
be known that the New York Erent1lg
Post, which was some twenty years ago
Republican paper, is still published.
Copies of it are seen in such counting
houses in New York as neglected to dis
continue it when it ceased to be interest
ing or reliable. Well, Carl Schurz has
recently tied himself to that Post. In
Thursdays issue he treats of Stalwarts
and Democrats" Among other things,
he says:
What does it mean to "stick to Conkling?' 1t
means to prevent the Republican members OF the
Legislature from uniting their votes upon any
other candidate for the Senatorship; it means end
less balloting without result, or a dead-loc it
means either a coalition of the Conkling men
with the Democrats which would involve the
election Of at least one Democratic Senator the
posponement of the election of Senators until after
the State election next autumn: it means
then united Democratic party in the canvass, q
Republican party torn TO pieces by fierce internal
quarrels, and a sweeping Democratic victory; it
means, perhaps, after the State election, attempt
TO force Mr.. COnkling upon the State again at an
extra session of the Legislature, called for that
purpose before the term of the newly-eected Leg
islature begins. which attempt will inevitably
be brought 20 nothing by the embittered passions
efthe quarrel; it means, finally, two Democrats
from New York in the Senate of the United States.
This is most characteristic of Mr.. Schurz,
who is in his politics always foxy and
disingenuous. Nobody knows better
than Mr. Schurz that Mr.. Conkling's
friends have insisted, and still do insist,
on a caucus of all the Republican mem
bers of the Legislature Of New York for
the purpose of uniting their votes"
upon candidates for the Senate He
knows that it is brutal insult to the
Stalwarts for him and his Half-Breed
friends to propose, as he does in the
above, that "Gny other candidate for the.
Senatorship" may be united on, but Mr..
Conkling cannot. He knows that it is
indecent for him or his kind to say that
the anti-Conkling men must meet by
themselves and agree on men to be sup
ported by the Conkling men. with whom
they refuse to confer. 1t is the merest
trickery of language, IN which, of course,
Mr.. Schurz Is an expert, to say that the
wicked Stalwarts must vote as their
enemies command, but must not be as
sociates Of the latter in preliminary con-
ference as to candidates. In short,
the claim that men who do not feel Sc
cure enough of their strength to risk it
III party caucus are entitled to be
obeyed by the men they fear is ras-
cally confidence game, and its authors
are political Jeremy Didders. If the
men were numerous
enough to eject the case would be differ
ent. They would then be independent.
But it is gross impudence to propose
that candidates shall be made for them
by men who have refused to confer with
them, and it is too silly for belief that
any sane person should expect them to
aid in the election of such candidates.
No man is proposed yet for Senator in
New York on the Republican side who
has as many votes as Mr.. Conkling. The
against each candidate is
larger than against him. Is there any
that? Is he not constitution
ally eligible? Let the weaker oncs retire.
Civil Service.
In the last issue of Huper's Weekly, in
the chief editorial, is the following pas
sage: If the President asks the advice
Of Senator he Will probably give it. If
he volunteers his advice, as Mr.. Conkling |
did. he will probably listen and decide