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THE WEEKLY TELEGRA PH: ’jj’tJESDAY, APBIL24,1888,-TWELVE PAGES.
ROSCOE CONKLING.
I tarmer exists in epite
Tlie Great Issue.
After severely arraigning the Bepubli-1 bears other burdens tl
can party for its misdeeds toward the nrally belong to him.
- Chauncey Depew believes that Blaine
would accept a unanimous nomination. So
does everybody else.
Atlanta has selected the men for her
baseball club and is now canvassing the
claims of four or five very powerful local
umpires.
The New York Tribune remarks that
the Democratio party evades the tariff
question. The Tribune was always mighty
hard to satisfy.
Mr. Sam Small and the third political
party in Georgia are having daily consul'
tations in an Atlanta hotel bed-room and
nobody is crowded.
The American Exchange in London has
failed for $4,000,000, and it is probable
that thousands of tourists will have to
swim back home.
It has begun n little earlier this year.
The Boston Herald tells in the blackest
of head lines how its baseball club was
“robbed” in Baltimore.
There is yet hope for the Birmingham
Herald. It commends Congressman Bank-
head highly. Mr. Bankhead is a genuine
tariff reform Democrat.
The male population of Oskaloosa, Ks.
are said to think of emigrating. Since a fe
male city government was elected all the
fun lias been knocked out of life.
A couple of condemned murderers in
New York are unable to dccido whether
they had rather be hanged or killed by
an electric shock. They object to both
methods, naturally, per. aps.
EX-UOVKitNOIt PORTEKgOt enough of the
Senatorial campaign very soon, lie has
withdrawn, leaving the contest between
Senator Harris and Indian Commissioner
Atkins, with odds largely in favor of “the
war Governor.”
South, our esteemed contemporary, the
Atlanta Constitution, says:
And nmv, after alt this experience, the Press
seems to think that the South is ready to divide
on tbe tarts' question. Bosh! The South will he
solid agaiust tbe Republican party as long as
the Republican party exists. It is a party that
represents sectional strife and rancor and every
degree of meanness, and it can never hope to
make any headway among the people who have
been the victims of its prejudice. When it
comes to a choice between the two parties in this
section, the tariff question and the surplus
don't amount to a snap of the Anger.
The great issue is the necessity for Demo-
craticsuccess.
Again we offer our tiand to you, esteemed
Constitution. We shake hearriiy! We
have been deceived by harmless little ec
centricities, which were doubtless intended
merely to amuse a dull period, hut now
that the real battle approaches you range
yourself with the rest of the Democrats.
“The great issue is the necessity for
Democratic success;” “When it comes to a
choice between the two parties in this sec
tion, the tariff question and the surplus
don’t amount to a snap of the finger J” Now
you are talking.
When you said a few days ago that the
man whom the Democrats must nominate
had betrayed the principles of his party
by substituting for its expressed will that
of a defeated minority in the convention,
we were afraid you did not appreciate the
gravity of the charge.
And when you urged that this traitor be
nominated, and remarked at the same
time that no man under similar circum
stances had led a party to victory, we were
afraid you didn’t care a “snap of the
finger” whether or not he succeeded in per
forming that improbable feat.
Then, too, you have been trying your
best to convince the people that the tariff
policy to which the Democratic party is
committed, if it be put in force through
Democratic success, will result in the de
struction of Southern industries and the
further impoverishment of the people. We
were afraid those whom you convinced
would not look upon Democratic success
ao a “necessity.”
The “worse than Russian barbarities”
which you say are involved in the collec
tion of the whisky tax, and to which you
f the fad <fli.it lie . common and in a party notorious fcr its
n those which nat- j corruption he lived faithfully up to his
principal . high professions.
i tin
victim of l n economic system bated on dis- J
crimination. The discriminate
against him, and necessarily so . If “pro
tection” is necessary to a manufacturing
business, it must be because that bos [ness
is an unprofitable one, and the bounties
to make .it olliertvi.se must
be paid by men engaged in
an industry which is naturally remunera
tive. Of all American industries, agricul
turc Beems almost the only onf^flTong T ■ , ....
enough to stand alone, ami'those which VaDla " In couut.es the direct t.ssue
Probably no man who has figured in
always j our politics for the last twenty years came
nearer the to standard of the true states
man.
A great man has fallen, stricken down
in the fullness of his power, leaving a
name that will live, mourned by those who
knew him and regretted by nil who honor
genitia and virtue.
Reminiscences of Him by
Veteran Journalist,
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
hang upon it* like
receive protection
leeches.
But it'has been hied too much; the
ieeches have become too big and vora
cious. Figures recently printed show that
almost the whple wealth of the country
has been drained away to the Northeast.
The nine manufacturing Statcs.with about
one-third of the population, hold more
than five-sixthB of the public debt, own an
even larger proportion ol the railroads of
the country, mortgages on perhaps half the
farms and city property of the West, and
have 3,071,000 depositors in savings banks
alone, agaiust 224,000 in all the balance of
the country.
The causes which have enabled nine
States to pot the rest of the country under
mortgage, if they continue, will go far to
destroy the conditions which have so far
enabled American farmers tb defy the com
petition of pauper labor. The mortgage
may change to a title, and in timo Ameri
can peasants may cultivate rented lands
for the comfort of a rich aristocracy and a
hare existence for themselves. It will not
make those peasants more content to re
member that the wealth of their landlords
was extorted from themselves by an unjust
Then Prince Bismarck’s successor will
have no need to protect -is peasnnts from
American competition.
Blaine’s friends are active in Ponnsyl-
lias been made and Blaine delegates have
been chosen in every instance. It appears
that Mulligan’s man will have to lead the
forlorn hope after ail.
Kxtrnorilliinry Deception.
The New York papers have had much to
say for several week's of the operations of
an adventuress who called herself Madame
Jo© IJoirnri] Tillies About the Demi Strifes*
man—Dow Ho Nominated Grant at
Chicago—Peraaual Peculiari
ties and Life Incident©*
Special Torreipondence Macon Telegraph,
Washington, April 19.—Without pos
sibly intending it, Roscoe Conkling was
always on parade. From the waist up he
was a strikingly handsotae figure. From
his waist down he was rather meagrely
equipped. His legs were out of proportion
with the rest of hie body, and looked
shaky, so much so that when he walked,
Dis Debar, and of the complete control j the “PP fr P ortion of llis b °dy almost
which she had obtained over Luther R. seemed to be dragging the rest of him after
Thomas Edison, the famous inventor,
underwent the same surgical operation sev
Oral years ago that was recently performed
upon Mr. Conkling. There is an almost
universal hope that the result will be the
same in both cases.
The Brunswick Breeze is out in a new
Bress, witli n head-gear which seems to be
Buttering in the breath of the ocean. It is
•working manfully for tho State militnry
encampment at St. Simons, as it always
works for anything that is to the interest
of Brunswick.
All the guests of a French hotel desert
ed it because the landlord refused to eject
M. Wilson, ex-I’rcsident Grevy’s son-in-
law. Americans don’Urent their rich men
whom the courts fail to punish for fraud
in that way. Jay Gould can stop nt any
hotel he wants to.
General Boulanger denies that he
wishes to be dictator of France, but admits
that he is after the presidency. As there
is already a healthy president, with sev
eral years to serve, the question is how will
the General get what he wants. Such a
thing as revolution has been known in
France.
The Mugwumps are disposed to weep a
little over the departure of General Banka
from the office of marshal of Massachu
setts, to make room for a Democrat. They
seem to forget that the General has keen
holding one lucrative place after another
for forty years, and must be getting very
tired. We are in favor of giving General
Banks a rest.
The lobby of .State agents who expect
ed to divide $3,000,000 or $4,000,000
among themselves as the result of the pas
sage of the direct tax bill arc keenly dis
appointed. None sympathize with them
but those who are now getting bounties
through the tariff. Between the lobbyists
and the bountyista there is a natural bond
of sympathy. Both regard themselves as
entitled to he supported by the public.
Irf'his recent address on “The place of
the Independent in Politics,” Mr. James
Russell Lowell said:
Two great questions have been opened anew
by the President, which really resolve them
selves into one, that of the war tariff. I say of
the vrar tariff, because it la a mere electioneer
ug device to call it a question of protection or
free trade pure and simple. All that reasonable
men contend for now is the reduction of the
tariff in such s way as shall he least hurtful to
existing interests, most helpful to the consumer
and, above aU, as shall practically test the ques
Ion whether we are better off when wegetour
raw material at the lowest possible prices.
Th is address lias provoked from the Rc-
pub]i< an pros a renewal of the fierce as
saults they made on Mr. Lowell a few
months ago because he expressed the
opinion that Mr. Cleveland is the best
have so often referred in moving words,
would be apt to chill the
enthusiasm of the people for a party which
upholds the internal revenue laws, os
docs the Democratic party, especially
when you frequently intimated that its
leaders were in the piijr or under the in
fluence of the.corrupi whisky ring. Hon
est men among your readers could not be
lieve all you told them and vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, and we were afraid tl
would, —i ^".-i.-rignnl wi-^^-niy
joking. 1 ^
There wassjrfbd ground for this f,
All the Northern Republican pn;
The Mail and Express, of New York
will print a special number on each Mon
day evening, containing the news of the
Sunday before, for the benefit of those who
cannot conscientiously read Sunday pa
tters. It does not expect more than a mil
lion circulation.
Iloscoo Conkling:,
Though the chances hail been for the
past week fearfully against Mr. Conkiing’s
recovery, there was a lingering hope in the
hearts of thousands of people in all sec
tions of this country that--he might b?
quoted what you bid to aay upon the sub
jects indicated, sometimes with evidences
of great satisfaction. They will he hurail
iated now that they find they have been
the victims of a long continued practical
joke, and will carefully conceal the fact
from their readers,
We recall these little things by way of
apology for misunderstanding jour pur
pose. AVe did not know but that yon con
sidered new politics necessary for the New
South.
It is said that an effort will be made to
induce Prof. Joseph Le Conte, now of Cal
ifornia, to accept the chancellorship of the
University of Georgia. He was a pro
fessor there years ago. The University
and the State will be fortunate if he can
be induced to return.
President the country has had in twenty
At la-t accounts Mr. Lowell waa
American Pauper Labor.
The pauper labor of Europe is the bug
bear held up by protectionists to frighten
Americans into continued support of the
present tariff. It is interesting to know
that the European paupers, almost the
poorest of them, are appealing to their
government for protection against Ameri
can high-priced labor. In the last consu
lar report received is a petition from a
peasants’ association in Germany to Bis
marck, begging that a high duty be put
upon grain and other farm products. The
petitioners say:
Even now we are not the working claaa of our
country. Russians, Americans, sncl even East
India peasants have taken our places. We there
fore pray that your highness will take measures
to shut the door against all foreign grain and
meat-stuff* for the present, or to mako the Im
portation soi'.KHcult by reason of Increased tax
ation that cultivation ot grain and the raising
of cattle may again be remunerative with us, or
that we shall be relieved by the amount of taxes
from the burden of taxation.
There is hardly n peasantry in the world
which subsists upon so little, which is
more industrious, whose wages arc less
than that represented in this petition. The
women nnd children share the roughest
labor of the fielda, and the report referred
to relates how, when not so employed,
women work in making bricks and even in
railroad construction. Yet, as already
said, with nil their ceaseless industry and
pinching economy, these people cannot
compete with Americans, because all the
conditions of agriculture are in favor of
the latter.
In the one great industry to whicli “pro
tection” is impossible, because an immense
over-production makes foreign markets
necessary, American farm products
undersell those of tbe cheapest
pauper labor in the world. Germany can
buy American wheat in her own markets
cheaper than her peasants can grow it, and
the Indian ryct or Egyptian fellah, whose
living for a year hardly costs so much as
the American laborer spends in a month,
cannot produce cotton as cheaply as the
latter.
This pre-eminence of the American
spared. Last night the
was extinguished, and
to-day’s sun in all j
wiii have passed to
In lii*t<
ym
generation -A Am
Marsh, one of the oldest and most distin-
guished lawyers of that city. As was
briefly announced a day or two since, the
gentleman’s friends have come to his pro
tection by having the woman and her fel
low conspirators arrested. The case is yet
to be tried, but what is already known
forms an extraordinary story of deception
and fraud.
Mrs. Dis Debar, by pretended spiritual
manifestations, had so worked upon the
old lawyer’s credulity tiiat lie obeyed her
wishes implicitly. He gave a public lec
ture in which he asserted the truth of her
claim to be able to procure the painting of
portraits ot persons long dead by famous
artists of former centuries, conveyed his
fine residence and a large part of his great
fortune to her, at the suggestion of the
- “spirits,” and would no doubt have beg-
gard himself had not his friends interfered.
The arrest of the woman was upon affi
davits which show her to have lived an
extraordinary life of fraud and swindling.
She has had a dozen names and cheated
the public in as many ways as she has had
names. One of the affidavits is by her
brother, and he describes her as follows:
She is a stranger to every decent element that
constitutes humanity. Sho is a confirmed and
notorious liar, an adventuress of the worst type.
During the yean she waa a member of our fam
ily we lived in a state of continual fear and tur
moil. ller disgraceful exploits would fill a
book. From her extreme youth she has been a
renegade and vandal. There is so much to. he
told about her that It passes human belle!.
It would be necessary for others to seo
iter its all her family hare to comprehend the
depth and magnitude of her many villainies.
she enters a hr.axe peace departs and
srything that is portable. Nothing is
* hands. As an intriguer she has lew
I no superiors. I wood uot believe
w * significant
ii some surprise that the press, ’ ne lo ,., ,be nation by tu
death, have dwelt upon his re-
by nature, lie mad
gifts. In lit tit there wns a ru
tion of brilliant and solid qualiti
history is one of remarkable success,
his taking off in the full flower of his prime
is peculiarly sad.
lie was bom at Albany October 30,
1829 of fine old stock. His father w
eminent lawyer, United States district
judge, minister to Mexico under Fillmore
and n writer of well known treati
the law. Roscoe Conkling was admitted
to the bar when he was twenty-one and al
most immediately was appointed district
attorney of Oneida county. Before he was
thirty years old he had become one of the
most distinguished lawyers in New York,
a leader of the Republican party in that
State and a member of Congress. Ho
served two terms in the House of Repre
sentatives and was then defeated by a few
votes by his law preceptor, Francis Ker-
nan. Mr. Conkling was elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress,
In 1866 he was chosen United States
Senator. He was re-elected in 1873, and
again tn 1879. He resigned his seat in
the Senate in April, 1881, because of differ
ences with President Garfield. From the
time ho entered Congress until the day of
his resignation he was a recognized leader
and a conspicuous figure.
Early in life he developed remarkablo
powers of oratory. His eloquence, how
ever, always had beneath it a power of
logic which made him as strong in debate
as he was in set orations. There was
nothing of the politician about the
“«• . lre , scorned all the tricks
ot the demagogue and despised
the methods which are usually employed
to secure popular favor. He compelled ad
miration and it waa often reluctantly bes
towed. To most of those with whom
he came into contact he was not personally
attmetive. He wm imn»rlnn« *1 a/vtm «itin
and apparently without sympathies?
he impressed men’always with the he
of his purpose, the courage of h
him. Like all men of profound convic
tions, he was apt to be dogmatic in his
assertion, and it was difficult for him to
regard, with any degree of tolerance, oppo
sition or contrary argument. I have no
ticed witli
since his
tirement from the Senate as the most dra
matic episode of his life.
It was perhaps the most influential act
of his career.
It was certainly the hinge on which his
entire future turned. It put him abso
lutely behind the bar of preferment, and
although President Arthur did ids best to
conciliate him and to reintroduce him to
the foremost rank of influence by nomi
nating him to the chief justiceship for the
United States, the generally accepted be-
iiel was that Conkiing’s public career was
closed. Far more dramatic than his quiet
leaving of the Senate chamber was his
magnificent presence in the Chicago con
vention, when, as chief of the famous
three hundred and six third-term Grant
men, ho stood, the centre of applauding
enthusiasts, for an hour and a quarter, un-
ab.e to make his voice heard beyond the
limits of the reporters’ table on which he
stood.
What a memorable occasion 1
What a magnificent audience, what an
inspiring scene. Conkling was chairman
of the New York delegation. He stood
tall, some five feet ten or eleven, and bore
himself always with conscious dignity,
standing, when before an audience, as
though lie we carved in marble, particular
about the position of his feet, and thought-
fully careful about the |sise and uiigh* of
his body. Tie was nnnsiiiciioiis in ail nuK-
lic assemblages, and on this occasion* ho
was made the text for regular daily ap
plauding recognition. Wlitn he entered
the hall, at the head of the New York del
egation, the galleries invariably burst fortli
with hurrahs mul c appings. The WtSl-
wfi ' ii'-l li"t nil- I" i. r . 1 , nk-
iing-'s Grant scheme succeed, ami wfio bo-
” 1 they had had all they earn! f»i of a
syrnp.-lt lii.:,-r- i„ ... . ,
which hewn- subjit, d ' “hi
very well that, in thelit in ' ‘
hn old-time friend and aHv ^f
the chief executive of ,/ Wo,| l<l h
therefore the head o £
which placed him there, f? * rea ‘
Conkling prior to this duriSV
campaign, when everythin* 8 . he ,-
u were, in the balance, ^/-. ^
tion whether Garfield'^ w', M «
was sufficient to overcome £n?e i! n
ey bags and presumed iX Ui ‘
the State of Ids residence. fluei "*
i here was a hotel in i-a:
the New-Denison, and therecM*'
made to feci at home, them i klln *
him Senator Dorsey Mr 7 i 8 * 1 ”*
George Gorham and a‘lare/pj“ U .
ordinate Republican leadersTn 'u° f r
It was hard work to make Cnntp 8 *.'
his bitterness of feeline -? 1
than to make him forget’ lds^'' * l
ment at the »on-renominatio no H fP f
and chief ami when he wen?to
oils, and thence radiate! ^
State, and to a certain extent th."’'?
Western States, it was notice,! A
er alluded to the name of ehh.^* ^
but confined UnJlXttEft
Ins speeches, to an eluei/..' I'jl
views, and the views of the M
party, in res,wet of the tariff ,„7' lkl
.ugjJ.mseifnhgeWithromindi^ft
to the
ea. «o figure has of late vearg b£ J
familiar on Broadway or Fifth 1
certain of our clubs, nnd
our clubs, and esneeidi. •
ca'e of the Hoffman House, than
ltoscoe Conkling. He was a kin.
posed man, and not half
80 proud, in
id, wh<
That siicli a won.a
able tn establish a
over one of tJi
York illustrate
i this should be
plete ascendancy
Mutest intellects in New
the benumbing influence
of superstition. Reason departs when that
baleful influenco enters the mind,
It is to be hoped that in this instance
thorough investigation and exposure
fraud will have the good effect of saving
some who might otherwise "have become
victims.
Among the Americans who lost money
in Senator Hawiey’s London hank are Mr.
Jacob Kilrain, the eminent pugilist, nnd
Mr. James Gillespie Blaine, the eminent
Presidential candidate.
The Unto or Wages.
Some of our protective tariff contempo
raries, notab y those which call themselves
Democrats, base their demand that the
present system shall continue almost solely
on the claim that it i* ncces-ary to the
maintenance of the present rate of wages
paid to American workmen. “All we
want,” they say, “ia a tariff which will
cover the difference between the wages
paid here and those paid in Europe in the
production of the same article.” Not one
of them, so far as we have seen, has at
tempted to show what that difference is
hut in a report of Carroll D. AVright, com
missioner of labor, quoted by the Courier-
Journal, figures are given which throw
some light on the subject. These figures
show the percentage of labor cost and the
tariff upon certain highly protected nrti
cies:
Per cent,
labor cost.
Pair stoga boots „..17.50
YarilllDitrain carnet 22.58
Suit cassimere clothing 1(1.26
V ard of sheeting 20.81
Ton Bessemer rails 19.08
Pair blankets 18.06
But
tions, and the scope of hi. intellect". '‘lie* waf?e "- bnt lhey do 8,,ow that » h e tariff
was born to lead and he assumed leader
ship as his natural right. If his a—-dates
resented this as an evidence of arrogance
they conld not fail to acknowledge that lie
demonstrated his capacity to lead them.
For several years before he left the Senate
lie towered above all other Republicans in
that body and enjoyed the highe-t respect
from his political opponents. After lie re
tired to private life his career was remark
able for its dignity and iu devotion to th,
profession in which he won Substantial re
wards as well as lofty fame. He went from
the .Senate a poor man and deeply involved
by the failure of a friend. He paid his
heavy security debt and attained a hand-
some private fortune in the few remaining
years of his life.
Those who admired Mr. Conkling least
must admit that he held noble ideals of
of public virtue and private integrity and
that in a time when such ideals were not
- ....
Yard cotton cloth 18.83
Yard print cloth .71.82
Cooking stove 36.95
Pound snun silk 8.81
Harness leather 13.04
M.33
82
55.76
These statistics do not show tho .differ
ence between American and European
covers not only such difference but much
more than the whole cost of labor. The
same tiling is true of branches of industry
not mentioned above. Till duty upon
coal nnd iron ore is 75 cents a
ton, yet several thousand miners
in Pennsylvania are reported as about to
strike to prevent a reduction of their
wages below 45 cents a ton. In this instance
it seems plain that the coal companies
not only collect from the public through
the^tariff all of the wages which they pay
tlreir miners, hut two-thirds os much
more for their own pockets.
AVhiie such a state of affairs os this ex-
i-ls, it is nonsense to claim that the tariff
1' intended only to make good wages pos-
-ible by paying a bonus to the working
man above the rate paid in Eurojie. It
ervea no such purpose, but leaves the rate
e hull, the applause
given Garfield, its chairman, wawjnst ns
great a- that g ven Conkling whert be en
tered at the head of hi.-delegation. It lias
always been a question in my n-inn
whether Conkling had concluded, priur to
the beginning at the balloting, that Grant
was not the choice.. It has always seemed
to me that he intuitively understood
that the end had come, and that his defi-
ance and the bitterness of his memorable
talk sprang from the conviction that no
matter what he said the end w s foreor
dained, the verdict was virtually rendered.
Ihe audience numbered not less than
twelve thousand people, and it has been
estimated that there were fifteen thousnnd
in the rink* Garfield hud named what was
facetiously called his man, Mr. Sherman,
and Mr. Jov had misnamed his man Mr.
Blaine, nnd New York was called for by
thousands upon thousands anxious to hear
the impassioned eloquence which they
knew could be with difficulty restrained,
and Conkling strode proudly to the plat-
form. Standing on a reporter’s table,
holding a dainty cambric handkerchief in
Ins nervous hand, lie looked the audience
over. An inspiring scene. Breathless
with expectancy, the great multitude sat
hushed, waiting, and then with n voice
clear as the tone of any bell, the speaker
said:
tere, so haughty, aa people jud-rf u
His manner was against him. ] .i j
seemed a* though he feared a bei;
of judgment. He spoke and ,cw1
though tcent'ng danger, as though fal
a trap. He ignored social claim, i n Jl
markable degree. I never saw him in I
opera house, aave on two or three J
sions, wh“n he called to pay his re«s3
to but client, Mr. l’ulitrer, »ith3
family he made a party now and thea.1
was by no means un hibitual theatre-*!
He went out of his way very marks!
at the time of the New A’ork Press a
benefit, when one of the members oil
elub delivered a lecture, which „-t
43,900 to the burial fund, to show hisI
gard for the boys. He purchased anti I
cupied a proscenium box, and did much!
encourage the lecturer and the arsdiel
bp his considerate attention and donbt
sincere courtesy. Conkling had a fma
anecdote and story which served him 1
on tho platform, in tbe courts and ai
friends in ordinary intercourse, lied.,
care to go to public dinners, and it wuj
very rare thing to find him in any'pnl
assemblage unless he was there as _
figure head. It ia a mistake tn supp]
that he will^be missed from the politjj
lit. been since the day he found hi"
self a defeated candidate for the1
election; nor do I think he will 1
significantly mimed from our courts. c|
tmnly lie v ill not be ini-isi-il fr-rn soci.
Hecarcd leas for social intercourse t;
any man I ever saw. and it would 1
1-isting iiii-t:i!v.- if the public-it Jar." -
to judge nf iii- Ultima- it-s, ly tin- i:rJ
|||- III lie- cards, is II ;..r him -H 1!.. . |
during lire last illne*. Ht
sociable man, ami he
‘•When asked what State he halls from,
Our sole response shall be.
Heromes fndii appomattox
Ana its famous apple tree."
res not given to
tei'tai ms. lie w:i- fund ot
and athletic sports, anil parti"-! tor]
lung walk-. Hi- hist I- 112 walk - . j
up. ; Had he not keen determined, by 1
usual exertion, to overcome the very tl
incuts themselvi s, to-day he would r
among ire, alive and well, and not the si
ject of id otic paragraphs and twsddlii
columns written by men not wanting|
foOMO m iii.- lacnetofhifrshoe.
Howml
Jnit So with the Wolfish Tariff.
From the Boston Herald, April 9th.
In the early days in Michigan, vU
what U now a flourishing State wise il
and undeveloped country, sheep r*W*
was an important industry among I
hardy pioneers who were hewing a r
monweiilth out of the forest. The si
browsed about, needed but little
produced both wool for clothing and r
ton for food. But the wolves were '
numerous, nnd made sad havM. withll
flocks. At length, in the primitive k"
laltire of those days, it was resolved I
something must be done, and tn
was pained offering a generous bounty
every wolf aiwin. The killing of
thus became a great and _ prosperous1 IT
dnstry, and they wore beginning to •»
out rapidly, when it occurred to-the *
hunters that if they pushed their en-m
ors loo far their occupation would be p*
So they limited slaughter to l' 1 ^: r ~
wolves, and spared the older ones to
up more food for their traps
lint even then indications °f 'a
gan to appear. Accordingly the bre<
of wolves was undertaken It P al
more thnn sheep raising, and the
waa more certain and stable. I
was fixed by law, and the taut*J
r when the proofs of df* 1 " '
«f wages to be settled by the demand for ' St | ,rr ". •Senator Jones, of Nevada!
lalmr, while It increases the cost of the la- rA-iT.i???- f* 11 known . > Jl ub ! ic .
borer’s living.
ways ready sun <uc r”"" ~,,
presented. The farmers neglected
raising and took to wolf
more lucrative industry. ‘‘“P 0 ’, 1
from Illinois and Ohio were imp 1 ' 1 ?"',
competed with the na'ive wolves, ,
made no difference; the market *
The woif business fairly h 000 ' ' w
was a home market for every
or little, that could b* PTav
and the Michiganders c . irea _j
for “abroad.” At length It w*^
some one who noticed that these
rreme nnt of taxes, and that the ^
dustry wss being “protected «*
The
their
Thai settled it.
That settled it for tho next hour and „
quarter, during which time, as though
pandemonium itself had broken loose, the
audience roared and shouted, screamed and
yelled, while the hero of the day stood pa
tient, waiting for hi! chance. After the
nomination of Garfield, whicli Conkling
saw was coming, so much so that he wrote
a line of sarcastic congratulation on the
margin of a newspaper and passed it to
him as he sat some ten or twelve benches
in the rear. New York was offered, as a
sop, the vice-presidency. Conkling argued,
threatened, stormed, insisting that New
1 not be bought nor bribed. Tho
wsition waa offered to Levi P. Morton, and
P. Morton, had he consulted his own de
sire, would have accepted it, and had he
ilone so how the counm of politics
would have changed, for at Gar-
Merten, net Arthur,
would have been President, nmi uuwj «■*"*“a r—V -..kiwi*
the entire political complexion of New call a halt. The bounty law f
iprk politics, and therefore national pol
itics, would have been as different to what
it soon became as light is different from
darkness. But Morton declined, at Conk
ling s behest. It was then offered to
Chester A. Arthur, Conkiing’s nearest nnd
dcarevst friend. With him Conkling
pleaded long and earnestly, but, as Arthur
subsequently said, “This Is one chance of
a lifetime. Why should 1 for the gratifi
cation of a pique, now that Grant ia re-
moved from all possibility of nomination, care< l nothing for
•J 1 *"..™ “J tent, and decline to accept so eared a good deal for mutu ti:
significant an honor?” The result wo and was ready to pay for i>° > ,,,g
know, but one of the bitterest result* ml- the youmr State took a costly
nop, was h lack of cordialitv, a lack 0/ in- * * ” ' '
terest, almost a breaking off of personal in
tercourse, and finally a bitter feeling, a
quarrel almost between the two, which w
never made up, a breach which waa
never healed. During the long wait
ing wceka, when Garfield kuf-
lered agonies untold, Conkling was a
guest in the Oriental Hotel. At that time
Vice-President Arthur waa there. Koweie
Senator Don Cameron, Gen. John A. Lo
gan, Senator Thomas C. Platt, Emory A.
Mom. Kimafne Tamm _t V ». * 1
I Conkling had never cared for (jartiehl'e!-
I pccially, hut he waa one of his most ardent
e farmers, finding no further
ir home-bred wolves, kill
rather than feed them. *
tation of wolves ceased, an
out of ,h *
the few
„ prey upon tno ie»
ulieep, the farmers turned out ^
him. As the home market was t
wolf industry declined and the . Jj,
dustry came up, greatly to tne ^
the community, for ^though
ad th
iluu>
lesson in political economy.
Petition for KLectlon I"
From the Waynesboro Citizen. ^ 1!
An anli-proliibition petition
rounds nt Milieu and the ’
county, getting signatures asking ^
nary to order an election Ip ^
whisky and malt liquors. Th re ^
two yean* ago \
reciiiinr.
It la very peculiar that when J*S ^
•r’s HucU. I.-rry CorilUl joa will
inneJi to to without it *<»*“• « n jc
Tooiseli
reller
Uvthititf.
all bowel affecllons
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