The daily gazette., 1877-11-10
The Republican Feud!
Senator COnkling's Talk.
HIS CONTEMPT FOR HAYES AND
HIS DEMOCRATIC CABINET.


Extracts from the New York HerGId's
report of an interview with Conkling at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York,
on Thursday; s 4nep. .lp1' uu
THE sUPERFINE AND THEIR MONEY
"How could money have been raised,
Senator Conklipg, to be thrown into
your district?" ~
"Well, the highly respectable 300, of
whom have spoken, have nothing so
plentiful as money. Among that class
of our peers in this great commercial
city you can raise from $50, 1000 to $780,
600 very easily and they will not finch.
Beside Tammany Hall was very desir-
GUS of saving the legislature SO as to
keep their power in this metropolis for
ever. There are thirteen thousand office
holders, or persons in receipt of from
$17,500 to $500 or $1,000. Here are two
thousand notaries public at $500 year,
and 1 am told that every one of them
was assessed $25 by Tammany Hall.
There was no placein New York where
they could employ this money with more
satisfaction to themselves in tine result
than in the district where live. Here
was fusion of the extremely rich and
the sans cotottes, the hidalgos and the
rabble, working from this city for the
common purpose of beating the Repub-
lican candidate in the Utica district.
Had we been sufficiently aroused and
sagacious we could have defeated this
maneuvre; but we found it out too
late. Let me tell you something. We
sent the tickets to the polls. in the ward
in which l live, at daylight, as did the
Democrats. Not one of our tickets was
found at the polls. They were all thrown
into the canal" IHrr saA .. 70 ti
-,- p. WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
"Who threw them into the canal?"
"Either he who carried them or some
one who received them. No man does a
trick like that unless he is secured by
indemnity for the past and non-prosecu-
ton for the future. Some potential per-
son must have given thai assurance. We
sent over into the Tenth ward, where
there happened to be an excess of tickets.
and, at comparatively late hour, sup
Piled our people with the ballots"
cHIEFrAINsHIP.
"Mr. Conkling, are you satisfied that
the administration at Washington was
anxious for your defeat?"
F'From the time Hayes came into office
and appointed a democratic Cabinet"
said Mr.. Gonkling. ''the principal labor
of little Evarts and the resi- has been to
withdraw the republican support from
me-" .t5.=e#=.
"Has Evarts made any expression on |
that head?" .i-eip.. ~
He told gentleman some time ago |
that the reform movements ofth admin |
as far as New York was con-
cerned, were to break up chieftainship. [ |
suppose that chieftainship was declara-
ton of censure upon myself !"
"But has the administration directed |
any official act against you in this last |
electionq"
eyes. They made the removals of the
principal office-holders in New York,
whom l match them to duplicate, much /
less excel, a week before this State cleo
ion came of, Yves that chivalric be-
havior toward republican seeking to
extricate this State from the democratic |
administration? And," said Mr.. Conk- |
ling, with rising fervor, ssif we had recei- |
Ved the Hayes votes in the State of New
York or even fair portion of them the |
State would have been republican TODAY |
to its proper place in influence
and character"
THE CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
sspo you think that the celebrated
order, directing office-holders to abstain
rom all political action was also intend
led to operate against individual public
men ?"
''Undoubtedly that celebrated refor-
natorv order was factional in its intent,
made in the interest of enyious and pre-
juming little men. Sherman goes out to
Ohio and makes speeches in defiance of
t McCrary goes to Iowa and manages
| convention despite the order,an finally
Devens-who is pretty good sort of a
elbow, or has been in the past-writes to
q think Senator Conkling
aid TO Collector Simmons) and says thai
he order meant itself to be disobeyed,
md That the way to obey it was to vio-
ate it."
TIE MASSACHUSETTS VICTORY.
"What is your opinion of the Massa-
,husetts election, which the Hayes men
ire claiming as victory for the policy?"
"That election shows only how we'll
cal party men behave. The men who
iisllke the policy and could see no hon
.sty in the Presidents position ON the
Southern question, nevertheless walked
o the polls and cast their ballots for the
epublican candidates. The Hayes men
llso voted in Massachusetts. But in this
State of New York l charge that the
Hayes element was not only Indifferent
o the election but voted the democratic
icket by hosts. The State of New York
s democrotic to-day by the act of the
of the President"
HAYES SOUTHERN POLICY.
'sSenator, criticism on President Hayes
eem to be defective, because it does not
ubstitute any kind of action in place OF
he action that he has thought fit to
AXE" -ad
ssThere is no considerable element in
he republican party, ''said Senator Conk-
ing (which objects to the removal of
roops from the Southern States. have
made no objections on the score, But
Ill was required OF him was to take out
he trOODS and nothing else He had M |