The "great"' Senator

Of al', the silly trash sentovcrtlic wirea in the sbapc of uens, ilmt respectlDg New York's senior senator, Conkling, isusually the worst. The reporters ut Wellington act as if tliey were all bnbed lo puf! up tuis tiready Inflated man. Oonkljig is a man wbo lnts considorable aWlilv, ihat is truc, Uut the amount of pure, unadulterated egotism. added to the extreme liaughtiness of cliaracter, whlch tills liis imperial epidermis, is simply aatonieh-' ing. It doesn't seein as if one man could retain eveD the respeel of bis associutos.and do the Impudeut, seliish, eelf-praisiog tbings whicli lliis cgotist does. And il would be impossible in any other party Imt the republicai). That orgauization favonng an aristocratie or monarebial form of government as it does, must have some one to worship, and in lieu of any better man it has taken up this one, who forced himself forward, as wie of their josses. Athissuggeftiou, Granthas beenadopted as the next of kin. He is the great figure bead, Conkling the moving spirit. Grant tho king in name. Coukling the prime minister, the Bismark of America. What po8ition Kate Chase Sprague will occupy is yei undecided. Perhaps "lady in waiting."