The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-28
DISSATISFIED.


seem to have acted with any of the adver
tised force of soothing syrup on the dis
cordant factions of the republican party
Complaints are being steadily poured il
from all sides, and the entire half breed
heart is bowed down with weight of woe
He however, raises his plaintive cry and
says to Arthur: How could you do itf'
The nomination was undoubtedly mis-
take considered from a political stand
point and an outrage from legal one II
is the first time that the Supreme Court
has ever been turned into repository fol-
broken down politicians; but it has been
the general opinion that when a man was
nominated for the highest judicial position
in the land that he should receive that
nomination because acknowledge of law,
generalities, uprightness of character and
judicial temper qualified him for the po-
sition. 1t is a new thing to put a man
there because he has been successful
politician and the President desires to pay
and lucrative position. However it
is one more of the effects of
Guiteau's pistol; one more prize drawn
in the lottery of assassination. 1t il a
bitter thought that the Senate that viii con-
firm him for this high office, set yesterday
and listened to an eloquent memorial adj
dress from Mr. Blaine upon the life and
service of our murdered President, and
screwed as they listened, and yet his
death was the logical outcome of the deeds
of the man whose nomination they will be
debating, and without his death the nom
nation would never have been made. In
speaking of tho appointment the New
srk ,TsbsH1e comes out boldly and says:
fRuiteaa has made Supreme Judge as
well asa President, and he is not yet hung.
There is not a human being in the country
SO ignorant as to believe that Mr.. Roscoe
Conklng would have been awarded to the
highest judicial office in the gift of the
President if cold-blooded assassin had
not murdered the President whom the peo
pie elected For that horrible murder no
living is thought by the people of the
United States more responsible than Mr..
Conkling himself. Mr.. Conkling has no man
standing at the bar to-entitle him to even
Supreme Bench. Mr. Conkling is unfit.
for the Supreme Bench, or any bench,
because he is not man Of judicial tenn
per. Everybody-friend and foe alike =
knows him as an intense, red-hot partisan,
who never seees or can ever see more than
one side of "a question. This nomination
is grossly unfit, because it is fragrant
abuse of the appointing power to use the
Supreme Bench to pension broken-down
politician who has made himself to the
last degree odious to the people
Z The Chicago Tribune is not so out
spoken but it declares its temper in unmis-
taxable manner and in its telegraph head
lngs puts in this remarkable one Garfield
is in his coffin, Guiteau in bonds and
Arthur has paid his debts" The Chicago.
evening Journal. half-breed republican, is
of the opinion that there is nothing in the
appointment to be surprised at. as it was
national sequence. but still regrets it.
1t delivers itself after this manner:
Washington dispatches state that the
knowing ones In that city were COM
pletely taken by surprise at the nomina-
ton of CenklIng for Associate Justice of
the Supreme court. The knowing ones
must have very short memories. When
the proposition was first made, some
months ago, to retire Ward Hunt, it was
then strongly intimated that the vacancy
would be offered to Conkling, but that ii
he refused it, it would he rendered to
Judge Folger, and Conk1ing would take
the Judges place in the cabinet. The
chief effort of the successor of President
Garfield thus far since mis- accession to of
flee, has been to provide the active third
term 7stalwaEtS' with places of honor, trus.
and profit. and he is doing SO as rapidly
as circumstances win permit, in the mean
time utterly ignoring that formidable ele-
ment of the republican party-the large |
ma ority-which has not a particle of
sympathy with -Stalwartisrn.