Show nl ROSCOE CONKLING I 1 III j The KcWTfork World the Chle Democratic I jill ocratiC organ of the country calls on I i P public nsio unite with Deniocratg J I 6ircoe United t f I und elect R ocoe Conkling I I States Senator The request would have P4 J rl sounded better and probably have been fr 1 more heeded had it been put the other i I i way and appeared as asking Democrats t h I to join with Republicans in the election 1 I I of the distinguished New Yorker Conk li II I ling is a Republican of the stalwar I breed and nobody has the right to call I ht him anything else But he is one of I L i I those Republicans for whom all Democrats f Ii t f crats have respect He is able and I I h J I learned standing head and shoulders I i above any other niember of Jnsnarty I I I in statesmanship and as a legslator I Et H j and in matters of personal Honesty IIi I I I i I and official probity he is the i Ii r I peer of the purest He was in p j public life for many years and 11 1 I i most of the time onabf the mostprom I inent men in the nation but there was I I never a word uttered casting doubt on I I his integrity never a breath of suspicion I I sus-picion that he was not above reproach He was guilty of one mistake and for that he was punished more severely than those who commit political blunt I blun-t i ders ace generally punished His error was in a misconception of his own greatness great-ness he thought he was greater than c I he was or else he played a desperate game and took chances of making himself him-self migiity or of losing all Whence resigned I re-signed from the United States Senate confidently expected to be sent back and if he had been Mr Garfield would have been dwarfed and Roscoe Conk i 1 ling been the greatest man in the nation B I 11 tion It was an unlucky throw and i Conkling lost New York State I I however did not gain The loss J to it was most grievous Until t Eyarts was elected two of the I I II lightest weights in the United States I p Senate were credited to the Excelsior I I j I I State which had so long been represented i I repre-sented by the most brilliant man in the J IN Chamber When Conkling was Senator t H I Sen-ator New York Democrats and Republicans I Re-publicans were aliKe proud but they i have all sincejhung their heads in shame I when they have thought of the senile 0 d f Lapham and the man Miller whose u ability con3ists entirely in his millions I and his woodpulp monopoly 1 C I I It is as a rule unwise for Democrats l1 II I to help elect Republican to any office l il Republicans are not only ungrateful 4 t li I but under such circumstances they If 1 have gone out of their way to abuse I those who made them In this instance f stance however the Democrats in the 1 1 New York Legislature can vote for Conkling with confidence that l while he is not a member of 41 i i their party he will be a credit to the State and is too big and too grand to f get down to the petty meanness of the I I demagogue and narrowminded politician poli-tician 1 It is to be hoped that the Worlds suggestion sug-gestion will be heeded and that if it i1 I shall be necessary for the Democrats to j I vote for Conkling they will do so and F e I send back to the Senate a statesman who should never e have left it |