Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-16
Some Reflections on the Peculiar
Situation Occupied by Ex-
Senator COnkling.
cLEvELAHD's NEW CABINET.
No Members lust For The Honor
Of II
SnnriaI 70 he Rs1iSter.

for this is the era of uncertainties with the
politicians and those dependent upon them.
By that time they win have quieted down
and found their level, ike water after dis
turbance.
Blaine's "Friends" and Managers.
1t is now very apparent to all who are
not blind that Mr.. Blaines friends were one
thing, during the campaign, and his man
ayers were another No man ever had
more devoted friends. His generous, i'm
pulshe nature, his unaffected cordiality, his
omniscient eye and his unfailing mtmory-
all these made for him staunch friends and
true friends. But as it is the world over,
the very qualities which drew men towards
him repelled sthers. These latter were,
however, comparatively few. Again, there
were, among his most apparently devoted
friends, very many insincere and even
hypocritical followers whose devotion was
commensurate with his prospects of success
and the power he would have after success.
The very best of the republican party,
Edmunds, Curtis, Wadleigh in the Fast,
and such as Thad C. Pound in the West,
folded their arms and remaided passive or
took up arms and became active, from the
very moment that Elkins and the like took
charge. These veterans who had fought
rebellion and slavery and were proud Of the
record and the traditions Of the party Of
Lincoln snd Seward and Sumner, could see
no fitness in surrendering to an ironmonger
of Pittsburg as general manager, simply be-
cause he had money; something Lincoln
never possessed, with Territorial jobber
as chief cook and bottle washer.
Surely" they said, I'VE have fallen upon
strange times. What manner Of men are
these? Has the Republican party, with its
grand scroll of glorious achievements, come
to this, that 1t is to be managed" like a
circusg' And so George William Curtis
went out, and Beecher, the greatest of all
intellects, went out and Shurcz, always up
right and scholarly, went out and ten
thousand others went out-all because Of
Elkins & Co. being at the head. The con-
tract was too great The surrender was too
sudden.
Conkling.
Conkling was missed more than any
other man, though ne never opened his
mouth, yet how patient was his silent in
huence See how the wheels turns around,
Because Of the stone that was rejected. the
whole structure came down.
1t was but the melting out Of poetical JUS
tice. Mr.. Conkling was never unfit for ex-
alted position. His character was always
above reproach, his record was ever clean
and clear, and gave strength to the party.
His ideas Of public duty were lofty. He
was a proud man, as we'll he might be. |
nave always admired him for being above
80 many and so much, for being out of the
zach and sight Of fellows who roll in the
Dirt, and live on the reputation Of their bad
cdors.
Poetical Justice.
Mr. Copkling had added so much to the
strength of his party; it had so often been
honored BY him, and so often had it felt the
reed of such help as he gave it, that the very
rffort made at his distraction, from within
,be party, was nothing short Of madness.
II could not but tend to general disaster and
ruin. it was like tearing away the very
corner stone of the structure.
1t will never do to revenge yourself upon
ore who is greater, legitimately, than you
are. Because you cannot reach up to him,
why should be come down to you? There
is no justice. no sense in suPPosing he
should. Conkliag never did violence to any
law, principle, code, standard or rule OF en-
hghtened society by being and remaining
in the Senate, for the reason which, alas, 80
few can give-that he was eminently and
pre- emineRtly an honoV to the Senate, hon.
orable in the Senate and credit to the
State which sent him to the Senate Was
he not there legitimstely theRH Was his
pace filled by one of greater talentsf Did
q less give way for greater Or was 1t
the greatest being supplanted by the least?
See the farce of the thing.
One of the Conundrunss.
Iara but showing my readers bow easy to
explain one OF the many couundrums Of
this late campaign, viz Why M. Coukling
was silent? | think he manifested true
masnanimi,y by being silent. An attempt
at murder cals for gratitude, does ite Most
of us venture 10 afirm, have not been so
instructed.
As the election Of able and honorable
men for representative station never fails to
rebound to- the honor Of q people OF OF q
commonwealth, sothe rejection Of such men
for lesser cannot bnt heio to bring shame
upon tkose who reject them Who are they
who have made, the Senate Of the United
States alustriousf The men Of wealth and
-nelAing elsef Are they the standards? :?
Was il the mar who paid six times his year
ly salary to get thesef Was 1t the fellow
Who after he gos there, dtdu't know as much
of he English language as the Page
4Just for the Honor of the Thing"
Who waited upon himl Was it the tel
low who wanted 10 90 there, Just for the
honor Of the thinsf The man who oxnel
the lumber millf TIE chap who played it
/ fine?
If So history is wrong. and my exps-
rience has been at fault. No; it has no:
been any such fellow as I've been deseri5.
| ing who made or helped in any way to
make the Senate illusirious. Far from it.
They have helped 10 make it notorious,
however. In. every instance nearly the
great men of the Senate have been poor
men. They were sent there by a wise con
stitueney. :,
And such man was Conkhng Ne4
York was always proud ofhim and he was
l know, proud Of New York.
/ President Cisveland's Cabinet.
It's, and it is not, very earlE tine K
discuss President Cleveland's cabinet
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