Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-23
Representative staIwart's Opinion.

McCullagh, the editor of the ST. Louis
'Otooe-DemrcFdt. is representative stall
wart leader, and his opinions about Gar
Reid and Blaine emphasize the manner
In which those names were treated at
the meeting of the New York stalwarts.
under the name of the Lincoln Club, the
other evening. In a talk during the
fall OF 1880 with General Garfield about
the statement that Grant men would
have to take back seats under his Adj
mInistration, McCullagh says that he
said to Garfield: The Grant men were
beaten at Chicago, and they know it.
They went into the fight to win, and
they lost. They don't expect to occupy
the boxes. but they would like to have 4
fair show in the dress circle Even if
they should be pushed into the back
seats or crowded into the top galleries
they will stay through the circus, but
after that they will do a heap OF kicking
if they don't get good treatment.
General Garfield laughed and said he
did not know exactly what | meant. |
explained to him at some length the an
linus which seemed to dictate these at
tacks, which were mainly directed
against Grant and Conkling, and |
wound up by saying that we did not pro-
pose to have it regarded as Il penitcn-
tiary otfense to have supported Grant
at Chicago or to regard Conklng as one
of the accredited leaders of the Repub-
lican party. General Garfield looked at
him Tor a moment, rose from his seat,
put his hands on his shoulders and said:
My dear fellow, YOU don't know me if
you think that with my consent the
services of Grant and Conkling can ever
no for iI-
iican party. l know these men well; I
know what they have done. and know
that If am elected will owe as much
TO them as to any two men in America"
+pll this time. says McCullaGh, Gar
field was making league with Blaine
for the humiliation of Conkling. which,
not without reason, McCullagh pro-
nounces -'insincere. Ii was done by
Blaine's .'rnagnetism'-th magnetism
by which 4 snake swallows a bird. Me-
Culiagh's opinions OF Blaine are nearly
as bitter as those which Grant holds of
that statesman. are in fact probably an
echo OF Grant and the stalwartS. Blaine
IS - incapable of disinterested friend
Ship he is "a public man who has
been ON the make during his public
career. advancing from Il pOOr-hOuSe to
n palace on 4 salary which never paid
his expenses" rs to his friendship for
Garfield, Blaine told Il Democratic mem
DrI of Congress from Missouri-who
said iaughingly that he was looking for
documents defending Garfield in the
Credit Mob;lier and De Golyer matters
that he (Blaine) was looking for
something of that kind himself. but he
coul&nt find it. Blaine's foreign policy,
says McCullagh, ought to be good for
iy,t bn
hour in the State Department 1t is
Beaconsheld's lingo policy with mon
ey IN it. james always has his eye to
the main chance
McCul.ayh was. in 1876, as hot-headed
Il champion of Blaine for the Presi-
dcncy, aS he was of Grant in 1880. On
being gently reminded of this, he re-
marsed that Mcdill. of the Chicago
1JituRc. and HaiStead. of the Cincinnati
Commercial, suddenly sprung Il record
on Blaine about which his supporters
knew nothing when they went into the
fight. But all that Mcdill, Haistead
and the rest did TO ''spring a record
was to publish the record of the
Mulligan letters, which was already
perfectly well-known incident in Mr.
Blaine's career Ii Blaine's supporters
never heard of this until it was sprung
on them, they did not read the papers;
it is strange confession, certainly, for
a newspaper man like McCullagh to
make. 1t is one OF the strange contrasts
o! politics, and proof of "a want of
principle and conviction on their part,
that while many of Blaine's supporters
in 1876 were, like McCulagh. Grant
men in 1880, Blaine's critics of 1876, |
like Medill and Halstcad. are adoring
worshipers and defenders of Blaine now.
1t is curious in the light of all this |
fierce contempt and hate OF the Stalwarts |
for the Half-breeds and of the Half !
breeds GOODNESS toward Arthur and the |
Stalwarts. to learn from McCullagh, who |
rs one of the most savage and unspar-
ing of them, that Arthur's Adminstra- !
ton is very successful and that its |
tendency is to unite the Republican |
party. If Arthur can - unite Blaine !
TO Grant, Storrs to Medill. Reid to Nc !
Cullagh, Chaplain Newman to Carl
Schurz. he can unite the Republican |
and Democratic parties and be President |
by unanimous vote the rest of his |
National life.-Detr0I Free Press.
A Subject for Philosophical Reflection.
It is well for purposes of history and /