Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-05-16

Conkling made a five minutes speech.
1t was chiefly in eulogy Of his friend
Grant. but contained one or two polit-
references. lie predicted a Demo
cratic victory in the next Presidential
election, and sneeringly remarked that
the country had been put back ten years
by the action Of the bosses" at the
Chicago Convention.
Mr.. Conkling's speech is interesting
from several points. 1t shows clearly
enough what the spirit of the Grant
Conkling- Camera Hogan crowd is. They
must rule or ruin. They had grown SO
big in their own estimation, and had
acquired such power in the control OF
affairs, that they disregarded the source
Of their temporary and vicarious author
ity in the Government. They overlooked
the fact that they were public servants
only, not rulers.
And there is talk of "bosses" and
disregard Of pledges in MIR. Conk
ling's post prandial address to the chief
OF his defunct coterie. How aptly
might the now Aourishing half.breed
change the names used and tit the charge
to the speaker and the stalwarts whom
he eulogizcd In the whole history OF
this country has there ever been an IN
stance Of more fragrant prostitution OF
the public service to the promotion OF
personal ambitions than that furnished
bv the stalwarts? 1t is they that disre-
gard the pledges that are OF unwritten
law. as between the people and their
representatives in this Republic. 1t
was under their eight years OF rule tina
the opprobrious epithet of ''machine,
as synonymous with government in the
United States, was made familiar to
foreign ears, and served to bring our
Wanted free institutions into reproach
and contempt abroad. Had MIR. Conk-
ling been endowed with the gift that the
poet Burns invoked the gods to confer,
he would not have spoken SO clearly OF
himself and his friend Grant.
But the point Of overshadowing inter-
est in Mr.. Conkling's five minutes talk
is the light it throws upon the politics OF
the near future. 1t shows that the feud
between the two recognized factions OF
the once solid and ~splendidly- disciplined
Republican party are irreconcllably at
variance. The chasm between them Is
as deep and as wide as that across which
good old Horace Greeley invited the blue
and the grey to shake hands when the
clouds of the great civil war had hardly
yet rolled by.
In this irrepressible conflict lies the
chief assurance enjoyed by the people,
that in the Fall Of 1884 they will be en-.
abled. through the failing out Of
thieves" to get IN honest Government.
Mr.. Conkiing went to the root Of the
whole matter, and wrote history for the
future when he predicted victory for ths
Democratic party next year.
He and his faction throughout the Uni
ted States will Join the Democrats in the
next Presidential battle rather than con
tinus with those whom. though in power
they snssr At and despiss.
The Salt Lake Tribune thus unmistak
ably voices the half.brssd sentiment d
revolt.
'Ths speech did not last Eve minutes,
but il was q red Gag shaken in the face o.
the bulls Of tbs halt -hrsed press. They
are wild in their dsuunoiations Of ths
man who made il; declared that tbs
people have repudiated him and that be
has been retired to the obscurity which
he deserves. Their anger shows that they
do not feel seoure in their triumph, over
him. Ho has been out Of politics for well
nigh two years now; under their inces.
SAINT abuse he has made no response;
they have not permitted him to practice
his profession in quiet, but have snsered
d the fact that following his professional
duties he has appeared to argue cases be.
fore the Supreme Court and the Secretary
Of the Interior. Surely, il any man has
: right to hurl his taunts At the scoun
drelI who have numerically assAiled him,
1t il Roscoe Conkling. But what particu'
larly hurts his enemies il the fact that
he occupied = place from which to dis.
lodge him was repeating the death Of
Samson. He led the Republican hosta
10 victory in 1880. He and Grant, who
had given the country better service than
any other two men it eve had, though
abused like two pick-pockets, in 1880,
spair, came to the rescue and did more to
cause the election Of Garfield than 500,
600 men besides. Before Garfield had
been three months President he precipi'
tated : wholly causeless and unnecessary
quarrel upon Conkling and bulldozed .
cowardly Senate to vote against their
convictions Of right. Then came the a..
sassinAtion. which was { more cruel
wound upon Conkling than upon Garfield.
for il left him defenseless and surrounded
by foes who had the insufferable mean
mesa to charge that his striking back in
defense of his own State and his own
manhood, was the indirect cause Of the
act Of the lunatic murderer. Of course
Conkling's voice wa stilled and has been
ever since, except 1t the meeting Of .
few gentlemen ct dinner = week ago. But
how IL it with the men who concluded to
run or to wreck the party? Are they
proud Of the present showing, with Con-
gress given over to the Democracy; with
all the old Republican States. except
three or four, transferred to the party
which they have pretended to oppose for
five and twenty years? Are they conf
dent Of their ability to sound . slogan
which next year shall call together the
scattered bands and carry them to VIC
They have had their own way for
two years; how do they like the
position into which they have brought
the country And what is it to them
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