Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
CONFINES LATEST KICK.

It takes sixteen and half inches ii
one of the telegraphic columns Of Sun
days Kansas City Journal to tell what
Ros. Conkling told an interviewer who
met him soon after the Senator, Chat
Ros., had landed from the ship which ha6
brought him over from Europe. Conk
ling must be misrepresented. He Ger
tainly has not gone crazy. The interview
or represents him as talking fiercely
against the present New York state Re
publican ticket, denouncing Blaine with
his old-time ferocity, and stigmatizine
Senator Evarts rs "the venerable and at
tenuated icicle' Conkling is repre-
sented as being singularly severe on
Ira Davenport, the Republican candi
date for governor. Listen at him
"Neithey could ii be expected that a man in fA'
position .shitA sfdsd to DazxnSoyf 7sOHlo
be called UPON by any argument to aid in III,
election. The thing is preposterous; a
man who, while my friends were fighting
battle for me in the legislature, did
everything in his power as legislator,
and doubtless spent thousands of dollars
to accomplish the defeat of my reelection
to the United States senate, certainly
would, if he has sense enough, know
that no words Of mine could be uttered
to en- OH; aye honest and upright people
in electing him to a post of hoaor second
only to that of chief executive OF the nation.
No person in his senses would or could
make such demand for personal stultifi-
cation, and no man, friend or foe, has yet
had the temerity to offer such an insult
to me-"
Conkling could not stop until be de-
clared that the Republican state r]a.fo
is "a IS of nothingness, vapidi y and
monumental vacuity." :
II the fool interviewers would let Conk-
ling alone in his glory, the country would
be just as we'll off as it is. There is no
fairness, from political standpoint or
otherwise. in Conkliny' rs now abusing Ira
Davenport because Davenport, as men,
Der Of the legislature, opposed his return
to the United States senate in 1881, un-
less corrupt means were employed. Conk-
ling does not really seem to know whether
any such means we're used by Mr.. Daven-
port or not. Again: Conkling, as repre-
scented in this interview, presumes that
the people of America are incapable Of
detecting the crookedness of his COMPARE
sons. We aim to assert that Ia Daven-
port nor no other member of the New
York legisl ture in 1881 acted in manner
un-Republican by opposing the return of
Dictator Conkling and "Mee Too" Plat
to seats in the United States Senate; be.
cause other men who were Republicans
were supported. When Conkling now re-
pudiates the Republican ticket of York
state, he, with the same stroke, repudiates
the Republican party Of that state.
We repeat: He must be misrepresent-
ed. He has, at least as far as his position
toward Republicanism is concerned, gone
crazy if the words of the interviewer are
true. In this case Conkling verifies fully
the claims of his enemies, that his plat
form is rule or ruin.
It is time to drop him!
LATER-BEHoLD! 4
The New York Times of last Sunday
contained this editorial, which we came
across the next day after having written
the foregoing criticism. WORLD readers
can now sit as sovereign judges in the
case:
The New York Sans fabricated inter-
view with Roscoe Conkling was very
clever fraud. The Intelligent and &C
complished" young gentleman whom the
San employed to do the job has evidently
studied the distinguished ex-senator's
flatulent style to some purpose, though it
can hardly be called Q good purpose.
Many OF the expressions attributed to Mr..
Conkling are amazingly like him, and are
quite in the vein OF the remarks be is said
to have made privately about the Repub-
lcan party and the Republican ticket in
this state. But MI. Conkllng repudiates
the interview altogether and we are forced
to conclude that it is from beginning to
end purely the excursion of an magma
ton untempered by conscience.