Daily globe., 1882-03-01
Letter of Mrs. ScOville to the United
States Senate.
A TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT
OF Conkling and Arthur, the "Acci-
dental President"
CONKLlNG's REJECTION ASKED
In Justice to the Outraged Pub
lic
SENTIMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
SPECIAL Telegram TO the Globe

Especial Telegram TO the Globe.]
CHICAGO, Feb. 2S-The following was sent
to Washington by Mrs. Scoville Saturday:
CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 1SS2-To the United
States Senate-Roscoe Conkling, for the SUI
preme bench of the United States? How dare
anybody give such preferment to the man
who, of all others, should be punished with
the execration of his countrymen, and of the
world, for the untold sorrow and humiliation
we have suffered? Can they believe that the
conviction of poor, crazy Guiteau, 'lynched"
by the process of law, will so cover up their
own nefarious record that the blinded nation
and the world Will no more see their iniquity,
but quietly consent TO bow down submissive
ly to
"MY LORD' CoNKLING
when he shall assume the judicial ermine Of
the highest court in the land-the court of last
resort. If such things are to be, where are
our boasted liberties? Shall politicians be al
lowed to stir up strife over the spoils of office
until the air is full of murder, and until some
poor fool, believing they are about to plunge
the country into civil war, crazed by the
thought, believing himself GOd-commissiOned
to right the trouble and save the country,
shall remove the man they are slandering and
defaming? When all is over, the tragedy
ended; when the suffering soul of
the martyred president has found rest;
when the wicked cease from troubling;
when the poor victim of their poisonous ut
terances, and his friends, have been deluded
by the
MoCKERY OF A TRIAL AT LAW,
wherein the judge, the jury, the experts, the
witnesses, the officers of the court, the press
and the people had already prejudged the case,
every advantage of power in high places, un
limited means and resources being taken of
the weak and dofenseless; when the political
scapegoat is at last condemned to the sacri-
flee; when the bereaved mother, the widowed
wife and the fatherless children have been
Knocked by resemblance of sorrow; when al
most in the same breath with
the signing of these false politicians,
even before the sound of the Garfield memoir
ial eulogy is heard; even before the sad wall of
the requium has risen and died away, there
comes this
ATROCIOUS NOMINATION
of the man who is really morally to blame, to
the highest judicial honor in the gift of the
man who, by the force of circumstances,
finds himself in poor Garfield's shoes. Do
they think by playing this bold game to bluff
the people? Do they think by boldly giving
Conklng the place where he will have the
opportunity to clear his own clouded es-
cutcheon be mercilessly hanging Guiteau?
Ii anything further were needed to fasten
the moral guilt of the dreadful crime more
firmly where all the world feels that it be-
longs, it would be the unreasoning utter lack
of justice and mercy which this administra-
tiOn is showing towards the victims of their
own utterances. Why are they determined to
hang Guiteau, sane or insane? Why was all
the power of
PREFERMENT AND PLACE,
not mentioning the corruption of money, used
to convict Guiteau to chang him." though a
crank, as all example to other cranks. Why?
Because the political situation demands u
"scapegoat'' and poor friendless Guiteau
furnishes a devoted head whereon may
rest their sins. This whole war waged against
the dead president, the outcome of which
looks so wicked now that all is over, that
these noble politicians of the opposition would
fain hide their sins In poor Guiteau's grave.
And will the people submit to all this? Is
the power of the ruling dynasty so strong, so
OmnipOtent, that not one dares to say it nay.
Shall no voice be raised. Have men sold
themselver body and soul to the powers that
be? What is the excuse which men have
found for this black iniquity? Why fOrsooth
that this
"GREAT" MAN IS DANGEROUS,
mischief maker, marplat, an imperious
demagogue, unsafe to the political peace of
the fair state of New YORK, and possibly to
the country, and SO they will put him away
in nice comfortable place where he will stay
quiet. know of mothers who have far diff
ferent way of teaching unruly and refractory
culprits. But seriously, what are we comm e
to when man like Roscoe COnkling with his
attributes, is to be trusted with our dearest
rights and liberties. A veugeful partisan
A scheming politician on the supreme
bench of the United States for life as reward
from his friend, the
ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT,
he owing his power Indirectly to Conkling' IS
faults? What honor could happen to the
country should Roscoe Conkling continue qui-
etly practiclng law in the little town where he
resides. protest in the name of outraged
public opinion that this man shall not be al
lowed the honor and profit, of great political
preferment, while odlum is heaped upon the
poor victim of poltal craze. 1 protest
against thus dragging the spotless judicial er-
mine into the horrible filth of a
political faction which nearly disrepted
the country and caused the terrible excitement
WHICH leu IO Tile ulsdSIrOuS lnHamlng oil an
already distracted mind. l protest, in the
name of the
WIDOWED WIFE AND MOTHER,
whose mourning is thus Knocked by the enc
mics of the dead president. protest agains
he appointment of this imperious demagogue
who, above all others, was the chief cause oil
the degrading partisan strife which culmina
ted in the death which the nation mourns
l protest, in the name of that justice which
should Re meted equally to all, that this maj
shall not be elevated to that high position
which may enable him to pass final judgmen
upon the fate of my poor, insane brother.
(SigneO FRANCES M. SCovILLE,
535 West Monroe street.
Option Deal Obligations Not Binding II
Law.
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