The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-05-17
JACKSON. OHIO. THURSDAY. MAY II, 1888.

an opportunity to strike at the latter.
and, as editor Of the Harper's Weekly,
had ample opportunity to crafty his
taste. He kept up an incessant war
on Grant, seemingly for no other rea-
son than that Conkling was friendly
to him. He bitterly opposed the can
didacy Of Conkling at Cincinnati, and
made his opposition unnecessarily
prominent by his public laudation of
Bristow
So far as known, Senator Conkling
bore all these attacks in silence, SEEM
ingly disdaining to answer them, but
treasuring them up against a day Of
settlement, which it seems finally
came. He evidently went into the
Rochester Convention prepared for a
fight, and resolved to do whatever he
had to do openly and courageously,
making no attempt to saddle subnrdi-
mates with responsibility, or hide be-
hind the skirts of any minor person.
age. Your correspondent, who was a
delegate, well remembers the scene.
Mr.. Curtis made two speeches, elo-
quent and fowery, but containing al
lusions to Conkling that gave the lat
ter an excuse for bitter rejoinder.
Curtis intimated that Conkling and
his friends had endeavored to keep
him Curtis out of the Convention as
delegate because he was an Admin
istration man; and in declaring that
no eminent Republican hoped to car
ry the party against Hayes policy
looked Significantly at Conkling,
and added: unless he be intoxicated
with the fattery Of parasites or blind
ed by his own ambition"
Then Conkllng's turn came. It
was the story over again of the fine
haired lap-dog worrying the lion. Be-
for the lion shook his name and seized
the dog, everyone wished he would give
the aggravating terrier a blow; but
when the beast got the struggling
canine in his clutches and proceeded
to tear him, all cried out in sympathy
that the big brute was very cruel one.
So at Rochester. When Conkling at
last proceeded to take up Curtis and
handle him, he did it so mercilessly
that everybody felt like crying out,
"Stopr' But Conkling continued:
"Who are these men who, in newspa-
pers and elsewhere, are cracking the
whip over Republicans and playing
schoolmasters to the Republican par
ty and its conscience and convictions?
Some of them are man-milliners and
the dilettantes and carpet knights of
politics; men whose efforts have been
expended in denouncing honest peo-
pie who, in storm and sun and war
and peace, have clung to the Republi-
can flag and defended it against those
who tried to trail it in the dust.
Some of them are men who, when
they could work themselves into con-
ventions, have attempted to belittle
and befoul Republican administrations
and to parade their own thin veneer
ing of purity. Some Of them have
sought nominations at the hands of
Democrats, and some, with the zeal
Of neophytes and the bitterness Of
apostates, have done more than self
respecting Democrats would do to
slander their Government and coun-
trymen. Some Of these worthless
masquerade as reformers; their voca-
tion and ministry is to lament the
sins Of other people. They forget
that parties are not built up by de-
pertinent or by ladies' magazines or
gush. Their stock in trade is rancid
self-righteousness. When DIR. John
son defined patriotism as the last re-
fuge of a scoundrel he was uncon-
scious of the then undeveloped capa-
bilities and uses of the word re-
FORM"
In all Of this there was no mention
of Curtis by name, no direct appliea-
tion of the whip to his shoulders, but
the lash descended through the i'm
personal 'some men" without obstruc-
ton, and fell upon the back of Curtis
with merciless precision. No man
who has seen the latter could fail to
recognize the figure which Conkling
held up before the Convention. And
so with every other allusion-each
was put in such way that it could
not be mistaken, and it cut to the
bone; first, because it was in a meas
ure deserved, and, secondly, because
it was put in language charged with
Indignation and tipped with contempt
and disdain. The scene was notable
one. It was certainly one Of the most
remarkable rhetorical tournaments
that has ever been witnessed in a
political convention. Mr.. Curtis was
beaten in his motions, and Mr.. Conk-
ling was sustained by votes of 10 and
210 respectively all through to the
end of the Convention.
Tt is Curious Fact
That the body is now more suscepti-
BILE to benefit from medicine than at
any other season. Hence the impor-