Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-07
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ROSCOE coNkLiNG.

BtalHarts,
George q. Gorham in the Chicago
Times: The Pittsburgh republicans,
who recently organized u Oohkiing club
and named Roscoe Conkling for the
presidency. have received from him O
letter III which he gives expression to his
unwavering devotion to the republican
canse and his ardent wish that the party
may deserve and win success in the COM
ing presidential campaign. The politi-
cal insects which have been singing at
him and the nameless political quad
rnpeds which have been making them
selves disagreeable to him will regret
the letter. because it makes him under
stood, and they wish that he should be
misunderstood. MIR. Oonklins never
answers ca!umnies and this gives his
enemies q great advantage; but in the
present instance he has by O single utter.
ance silenced a. busy and malicious little
tribe who were ~endeavoring to make his
pntiena and dIgnified silence q witness
against the earnestness OF his republi-
canism.
What cause had ever such an advocate
as republication had in Roscoe Oonk.
ling when at Cooper institute in New
York in 1872 and again in 1880 at the New
York academy OF music he saved it from
Its own dependency and then led it on
to victory?
Ispoke OF his patience. When treason
to the republican party yoked itself with
the democracy for his political destruo.
ton in 1881, and the administration Of
the party he had led to victory became
tho drAsnutrotsnrFp khnt& k.- 49, -
natural coalition-when the senate, pui.
soned with a miserable lust for the official
patronageb by which many Of its republi.
can members hoped to be returned,
groveled Of the feet OF executive pow
er, at such o time the post oil
honor seemed to him the private
citation and he Withdrew from
the senate. His fidelity to friends con
trolled him against his better judgment,
and he unwillingly permitted them to
make him q passive candidate for re-
election. IL was q matter in which only
his own personal interests could suffer
and those he sacrificed at the bidding OF
the men who had SO long stood by him.
The legislature OF New York was openly
debauched both with money and federal
patronage; the ancient caucus usage
was broken up, and the political forces
correctly characterized by him as
%"abhorrent and forbidden" prevailed. He
then retired TO the practice Of the law.
The newspaper files OF the country
would be searched in vain for I'M ut.
terance by Nj. OonkliDg in regard to
these events since their occurrence nearly
aeven years ago. Where, in history OF
romance, can be found another mar 30
SSH co9tsineo, 30 strong IN uncomplain-
ius oAuuteaoe oi wrong Even Grant,
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eu aoEsa nv az q lll-treat.
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Gms. Dus q Woflo never heard MI,
CgnAiings ssofy. fropanls II never
WI. re Was i1Ae 2 brave warrior, stab
pssp1ln s5s npss ioE M9om ne ned borne saf
oluus % passae, ana ior wnom ne hao
nou Ia Suvnales seeneu !or . Time to
noutisn. pus ~ WAs oniy WhsIe holoinG
Nsssa.A ~ tneir own castle. WhSA thes
Wsns Auttl so Datsie they Ihey
oried aloua, WINE ne battle ragged
eaYe ", OonKl,nR, or we SINS. Bul
ny oalne NOV, Why snouid hef They
Wsse gong doWn before tie very mer
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ls,ioWs IN tne wei upon the stalwarts
AFTER tney we're Deaten they raved be-
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