Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-16
NEW YORK NOTES.
Centering in the MetrO3Olis-SOme of the
Unwritten History of the Late Campaign
Roscoe COnkling's Boosted Eide ity to
His Party.

| -ESOScOe COuklluS , 11OdSIcu Eluc Ivy ~
His Party.
Especial Telegraph to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Although idlers
and politicians are counting the next
presidency a year and a half before any
convention, the general public is thinking
on far more serious things. There is a
certain fatigue alb out the kink of prosper
ity we have been having, which has made
SO many men rich and yet hardly swelled
the aggregate of American pride in the
irmness of our institutions and the secur-
ity Of our liberties. The paaic following
1873 was by no means the most disagree
able portion of recent history. 1t restored
steady habits partially to the country, and
these habits nave not yet been broken
throughou. the general length and
breadth, but only in the nervous centers
of the country where speculation has had
full swing.
The Republican party met with its first
rebuke in the midst of prosperityIpartly be-
cause its example was felt to be d%epraving,
and in this city of spectators the reproof
was administered with the open hand,
sim ply because the men who are speculat-
ing here are not themselves confident that
they or the country are much better off
than during Hayes administration. The
large operations conducted by individuals
in railroad purchases somewhat alarm
the common pulse. The diction has been
followed by an immediate private invesi-
CATION of whatever is going on around Us.
| Opposition TO the great chiefs of specula-
ton and monopoly is very manifest, and it
is strongest among those Republicans who
gladly witnessed the downfall of Arthur's
pretensions. Because the Republican party
failed to approach any of these bloated
evils and pull them down to the level of
citizens, there was a desire to dismiss the
party and let the young, indignant sprouts
in the Democracy produce a policy, the
Republican party having failed altogether
to present one.
No example of oar history has lasted
longer with the people than that of General
jackson taking the government deposits
out Of the United States bank. The tam
ing he gave in that day to an Institution
| which is not paraIieled in our time by
Vanderbilts millions for relative power,
was one OF the saving recollections which
| carried last Tuesdays election. It was
thought there might exist in the Dem
ocracy that sympathy with the people to
bring some of these Caliphs to their
knees.
The evils the people on the Pacific coast
| appear to be suffering from the very rail-
road which the government paid for Il
9 lriched the projectors of, exceed those
which made the rebellion il the colonies a
century ago. The merchants on that coas t
are tied up in contracts which forbid them
to use the ocean, the common element of
mankind, lest the railroad might have a
competition. 1t is believed that no.
where in this country is there such a case
of tyranny as that of the Central Pacific
fornia threw out every n of the
Republican congressman, and presented a
solid Democratic delegation, and there is
one case where the policy of investigation
and relief might be prompt. Fortunately
for the democrats they have two years be-
fore them in which to do work in the differ
ent states and citiesiand during one session
in congress works of reform properly done
may give them the confidence of the peo-
pie. Actual reforms and not promises or
professions will be needed to accomplish
this. Of course, if it is seen that the Dem
ocrats are sincerely determined on such re-
forms, it will undoubtedly gain for them a
large following from thu Republican side.
There is a strong desire in this country
for less intensity of partnership than is
now seen. During the last campaign
hardly a word was said in disparagement
of the personal abilities and graces of
Judge Folger, yet he was beaten as badly
as if all the gutter spouts had dro pped
scandal.
In the next congress a speaker is
| wanted without animosities who can rise
| above his miserable self and distribute
the men in that body with IN eye single to
the hopes and burdens of the people and
the problem of bringing order out of pros.
perity.
Among the big current schemes is one to
consolidate all the patents for laying un-
derground wires in cities.
The city debt of New York is now nearly
sos, 10000. The city expenditures are
conducted on a scale of magnifcence that
has no parallel. Police justices are paid
larger salaries than United States judges.
The emoluments of the sheriff amount to
more than the salary of the president.
The county clerk receives more in a year
than all the members of the cabinet put
together.
Dwight Townsend, whom Perry Belmont
beat for congress-, relates as follows: 81
met Roscoe Conkling in the corridor Of the
Fifth Avenue hotel. He addressed me in
quite an indignant manner and informed
me, in the presence of my brother, that he
did not approve of the Republicans in
dorsing me, and should not only strive to
elect Perry Belmont who, in his opinion,
had made IN excellent representative but
should exert himself to defeat me. I told
him that for me to retire would
| not only he cowa rdice in me- hut wonld