National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-27
The "Trihnnc,sN Assnnlt.

GuiteAu has made Supreme Judge as well as n
President, and he is not hung yet. There is not Il
human being in the country so ignorant rs to be-
licve that Mr. Roscoe Conking would have been
awarded the highest judicial office in the gilt of
the President If cold -blooded assassin had not
irSt murdered the President whom the people
elected. For that horrible murder no man living
is thought by tho people of the United States
more responsible than Mr. Conkling himself.
And now the man whom Gui-
tcau made President makes Roscoe Couklng a
Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.
These the simple, historical facts known to
everybody undisputcd by anybody. We recall
lhCm now merely to set this appointment IN the
light Of the attendant facts. II the nomination
were otherwise fit one, something would be par
doncd to the personal friendship and personal
gratitude of the late Vice President But the
nomination Is, on other grounds, VIGOROUSLY
unilt-NelC York Tribune.
The above is all we care now to notice
of the TribmeS rawlings upon the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Conkling The remainder
relates to the controversy Of last spring
between President Garfield and the New
York Republicans, to which it would be
manifcstly indecorous to reply to-day, il
NJ all, and Mr.. Conkling's fitness to be a
Judge, the opinion of the Tribune editor
hllpll Mllltll 10 VI llO consequence.
In every line we have quoted, and be-
tween them all, is deliberate and cold
blooded malice and u desire to incite
deadly hatred MS well against the Presi-
dent rs against Mr. Conkling which
shows the writer in his true character.
TO such infamous utterances there is nc
need for reply. The mere republication oi
themisth severest notice they could have
Their foul venom returns upon the writer
and rs his performance is commented
upon by the press generally he will be
amazed to find by how few his words are
tolerated.
The late President Garfield never had
more merciless foe than Whitelaw Reid.
lie was never more cruelty reviled than
he was in the New York Tribune long be-
fore he was President, and after he was
President there was no human beingwho
did more TO trouble his life than White
law Reid.
Reid has some of the characteristics
Of Guiteau. For example: He is equally
egotistcal, and fancies that his utter.
ances in the Tribune will settle politics
as firmly as Guiteau expected theology
to be settled by his book called "Truth." :"
lie has shown GuteAu's malice without
his foolhardy defiance of danger For
instance: When he desired the "re-
moval" of President Grant he did not
buy Il bulldog pistol, as Guiteau did, but
he published in the Tribune of Janu-
ary 0, 1875, letter signed with the
initials j. II. H., calling loudly
for Grants assassination. He is
infamed with his own consequence
He is more thrifty than Guiteau, and if
his incendiary publications were to lead
to crimes for which he could be held to
responsibility he would be better able to
employ counsel.
The Tribune has been in the habit for
some time of chasing as Garfield Repub-
licans those who rely upon it for political
information. These have seen the Presi-
dent honor every officially expressed
wish of his predecessor. They have seen
him rise superiO or TO old factional lines,
and have found him direct, true, prudent,
and kind. They can have no other feel
ing than that of disgust at the coarse and
vulgar assault upon him in the paper
founded by Horace Greeley.
fthe Tribune represents only its mali
cious, vain, and pompous editor, the
sooner those for whom it has been speak
ing in the past make this known the
better for their reputation. If they sus-
tain it they will not hold it up, but will
only be themselves pulled down by it.
If there is to be a party on the plat
form of personal hatred of General Ar
thur and dsfhnchisement of all who
ever, upon any subject, dissented from
General Garfield during his lifetime, it
will be a small one. The Tribune will be
its organ; who will be its leader?