National Republican., 1882-10-03
The Bourbon Republican Organ

Our voiatilesand versatile morning con-
temporary has its hands as full just now
rs the juggler who keeps six dinner plates
dancing on their edges all at one time.
1t rants against Republicanism as the
sum of all villainies at the same time that
it demands all creatures to bow to James
q. Blaine, whose Republicanism it de-
clares to be of the very first water. Then
it howls against Malone as a monster
and says the President is his pal. Never
theless, in its fonder moments it
declares this very same President
to be the most comparative,
rascalliest, sweet young prince" 1t
declares that the murder of Garfield was
ga result of the fierce war waged on
Presi dent Garfield by Mr.. Conkling and
his StalWdrt dllieS," although it well knows
that the only public utterance ever made
by Mr.. Conkling concerning his relations
to President Garfield was his letter to
Governor Cornell rendering his resigna-
ton, which letter was Endorsed as true
over the signature of that model Gar
field Republican" Thomas L. James, then
and afterward Pcstmaster-General. On
Friday last it accused the President of
clubbing Republicans and bribing Demo-
Gratis and of fighting reliable Republican
"with many thousands of public funds
and thousand positions at the public
feed-box" in single Virginia Congress
sional district. But on Monday, in reply
to criticism on these unjust and injuri-
GUS assaults upon the President, it meekly
and demurely remarks:
It is not true that the Post has INDUCED i'll harsh
criticisms on President Arthur. Our enterprising
and able contemporary will search the files of this
paper in vain for any harsh or abusive language
toward the successor of President Garfield.
On Friday it said, "the Stalwart war
on General Garfield" "induced homi-
cidal vagrant to murder the President"
and that "the minority" came into
power as result of the assassination"
but on Monday, after its words have been
complained OF, it says Z" it is true that Mr..
Conkling and his friends were not re-
sponsble for that awful tragedy" but
that "the line of action followed by
Conkling and his associates was altogether
unprecedented" All the time that this
nimble journalistic acrobat is leaping
back and forth between Blaine's shoul-
ders and the Presidents, eulogi2ing the
latter despite his share in the Stall
wart war which it says induced
the taking off of Garfield, and
spreading fattery an inch thick on
Blaine while battling with us for ques-
tioning his fidelity to his party, it
throws kisses at its faded love, the
wrinkled old Democratic wanton, and
swears undying devotion to her, lest per-
adventure she may come again into her
old kingdom. Now, there are few things
more charming in this world than a
ycet temper, which our morning con-
temporary thinks we lack; but out of
its own superabundance We beg that it
may draw enough to deter it from
any more of such unjust abuse as it in
dulged in on Friday last las above
quoted) lest it "induce some homicidal
Vagrant 10 murder the President" Those
who pretend to believe that hostility TO
one official appointment made by Presi-
dent Garfield caused his assassination
must expect TO be accused of desiring
the assassination of President Arthur if
they continue to denounce all of his APP
pointments as bribes and clubs, and TO
represent him as making hundred Off
cial changes where he has made but one.