National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-16

memoryW Is it not by the Tribune that
the recollection of it is deliberately kept
alive and tho cmbers ianned2'
1t is only occasionally that the Tribune s
vllainous conduct in thus tanning the
embers of an old FIRE is met with words
of reproof 1t has the field to itself most
Of the time. But the living have claims
rs well as the dead, and if Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid, or any of his kind, winds lie
around both, which has eulogy for one
and defamation for the other, the public
sense of justice will cut it, and compel
eulogists of the dead to cease stabbing
the living in their eulogies.
If the motive of the Tribune is sought
for the course il pursues, the following
further extract from its Mondays edi-
torial fully explains it,
The success Of President Atthur's administra-
ton and his rcnomination II he desires II, in 1881
depend not on the Conkling fight being romem-
bered and Conkling himself being vindicatod
against the memory Of the dead Garfield, but upon
the quarrel being forgotten upon that factional
issue disappearing upon President Arthurs
ability to smooth over the rough places which his
own friends have made, and establish harmony
In the party.
There is no evidence to sustain the in
timation that the President desires the
nomination in 1884, but the above is alb
solute proof that the Tribune would OPP
pose it, if he did, with its accustomed
malignity and mendacity. But "the
success of President Arthur's admins
tration is, we are told, also dependent
"upon the quarrel being forgotten" As
the Tribune persistently keeps that quar-
rel before the people, and seems to have
no other thought or idea which it seeks
to impress upon the public mind, we are
at liberty to conclude that il is as hostile
to the success of the Administration as il
would be to General Arthur's nomination
and election in 1884. We cannot gather
| figs from thistles The Tribune advertises
its own wares in the above, which are
malice, hatred, and all manner of un
charitableness. The way to overcome il
is to believe its own confession of it'
quarrelsome purpose and look in it fol
nothing else.
President Arthur's ability to smooth
over the rough places and establish har
mony" is more and more manifest every
day; but the assertion that his owr
friends made those rough places is un
true. The conceit of Mr.. Whitelaw Reit
and the scurrility of the New York
Tribune are rough places which could only
be smootbCd by the President at the ex-
peDso of his own self-respect and the
J utter destruction of the Republican
party.
The Tribune pesgrossestinsul to the Presi
dent is its intimation that he offered tho
Supreme Judgeship to Mr.. Conkling in
order to remove that gentleman from tho
political arena. The character of the TIVE
men lisa sufficient answer to all who know
them. and the words of Mr.. Conkling'
declination is enough for all others. /
is an appropriate occasion for remarkinl
that Mr.. Conkling has no desire for DO
litical activity and no thought of re-en
tering public life. This we state fror
personal knowledge. The constant us
Of his name, therefore, in the Tribune
impertinent, uncalled for, and practic
unusual in decent journals.
The charge that any who opposed
General Garfeld's' course last sprin
have ever sought or desired to kee
alive the memory of those days, or tina
they have ever Extensively reiterated tn
opinions they then honestly expresses
and still honestly entertain, is pueril
and false. 1t has its only parallel in tn
fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb" j
which we are told the wolf complaine
that the water which he was drinkin
from the running stream was being muC
died by the lamb, although the latte
was drinking far below him.