, 1877-11-11
CONKLING. -:
The Soreheaded Senator on
Men and Things.
What He Thinks Of the Election in
the Utica District.
How He Believes the State Was
Lost to the Republicans.
Cuts at President Hayes, His Cabinet,
and His Politics.
Ex-Congrcssman Roberts Goes
for the Senator's Hair.
Comments of Lending New York Papers
on Conkling's Conduct.
CONKIING.

! CONKLING.
| SHARP GOSSIP ABOUT PUBLIC MEN AM
| MEASURES.
+ From intt,rfe,o In Nesc Fork ReraId At Aor. 9.
sin this city, Mr.. Coukling, the most deter
mined opponents you have seem to show them
| sclyes.''
"Ycs, there arc about 800 persons here VIII
believe themselves to occupy tAe solar vail
and milky way, and even up there the.
lift their. skirts very carefully for fea
! cren the heavens might stain them. SOM
Of these people would vote against maj
because lie had been nominated. Tue mcr'
fact Of nomination and selection reduces hin
in their estimation. They would have peopi
I'LL the offices hy nothing less than divine sefcc
ton. II it we're not so amusing one woult
lose patience with this class Of people; they ART
| after the unattainablc in human government"
DEMOCRATIC GRATITUDE.
''Did you get any Democratic support Al
| home during the last electlon,-that is, did th<
candidates who we're put IN nomination BY youl
I friends1"
! "Tllere were some Of the more lofty ant
| gentle1nanly Democrats who made it point tt
resent the kind Of attack that has been made
OF me. Tie Democratic purity, however, is just
as likely to strike down the man who gives
them some federation when they are right as tc
deal reciprocally with him. You have to take d
| Democrat of considerable tone and manliness
| to rely upon his indignation. I went down to
! the polls. last Tuesday to vote, and while was
| speaking to one Of my neighbors, Dr. Chamber
lain, a Democrat, said to Tie, 4 have voted for
-, hoping, Senator, that it would be in your
Interest," ~
A VARIABLE DISTRICT.
''Was 1t a surprise to you that the Democrat
ic candidate for Senator carried the district"
t'uard(y surprise, considering tho opposi-
tion had We should have carried the district,
although 1t is . variable one. it has given IS
high as l,0Oo majority for 1ne, and it has. given
thousand or more the other way. But the en-
ergics of all the opposition to me were concen-
tyatel upon that district believe that Tam
many Hail AMI this lofty coterie of Republican
gentlemen in this city threw money
into my district to carry it against me. Besides
the weather was very bad; and the country
people, OH whom VIC rely in q tight place, many
Of whom have to ride twelve miles to vote, had
terribly bad roads to go oyer.''
.sNiat ticket did Ellis Roberts yote?''
s:lIc voted the Democratic ticket. Roberts
tlcm butcher, but not related to each other,
and man named Lowery. aud another by the
name Of Sayrc are the rnglcadcrs vi tue personal
opposition to inc at Utica. The Hayes interest
uniformly aud openly voted With the Democratic
party.''
THE 800 AND THEIR MONEY.
How could money have been raised, Senator
Conklng, to 1,e thrown into your uistrlcts'
1'Well, tie highly respectable 800, OF. whom
:F..1
money. Among that class of our peers in this
great commercial city YOU can raise from
s:o,ooo to 100000 very easily and they
will not finch Beside Tammany Hail
was very desirous of saving the Legis-
metropolis forever: There are 1900 office
holders in New York, or persons in receipt OF
from S11,50 to $500 or Sl:C09. Here are 20O0
Notaries Public at $500 year, and am told
that every one OF them was assessed s25 by
Tammany Hail. There was no place in New
York where they could employ this money with
more satisfaction to themselves in the result
than in the district where live. Here was
fusion OF tho extremely rich and the sans cutotey,
thu ll;'laisos and tho rabble, working from This
city for the common purpose Of Boating the Re-
publican candidate in the Utica district. Had
VIC been sufficiently aroused aud sagacious we
could havc defeated the maneuvre; but We
found it out too late. Let me tell you some
the ward in which live at daylight, as did the
Democrats. Not Que of our tickets was found
at the polls. They were all thrown into the
canaI.''
WAYS THAT ARE DARK.
'Who threw them into tile canal!n
''Eitller he who carried them or some one
who received them. No man does trick like
that unless lie is secured by indemnity for the
past and noE-Drosecution for the future. Some
potential person must have given that assur-
ancc We sent over into tho Tenth Ward,
where there happened to be an excess OF tickets,
and, at d comparatively late hour, supplied our
people with the ballots"
cu1EFrA1Ssu1r.
Mr.. Conkling, are you satisfied that the Ad-
mnistEation at Washington was anxious for
- From the time Hayes came into office and
appointed Democratic Cabinet" said Mr.
Conkling. "the principal labor of little Evarts
and the rest has been to Withdraw the Repup-
lcan support from me-"
"Has Evarts made any expression on that
hcatl?"
-"Ite told gentleman some time ago that the
reform movements OF the Administration, as
lar us New York was concerned, were to break /
was declaration of censurc upon nyse15.''
s' Bat has the Administration directed any |
official act acajpst you in this last clectionl''
Is Yes They made the removals Of the prn- |
cipa oflicehollers in New York, whom match |
them to duplicate. much less excel, week be-
fore this State election came off. Was that |
chiyalrie behavior toward q Republican seeking
to extricatc this State from the Democratic au-
And,'' said Mr.. Conkl1ng, With
rising feryor, ''if We had received the Hayes
votes in the State OF New York, or even fair
portion Of them tho State, would have been Re-
publican to-day, restored to its proper place in
and character-';
THE c1vu-sEnv1cE ORDER.
u Do you think that the celebrated order, d-
recting oftccholdcrs to abstain from all political
action was also intended to operate against
public mcn!''
Undoubtedly that celebrated rcior,natory
order was 1actional in its intent, made in the
interest Of euyious and prcsuminy little men.
Sherman goes out to Ohio and makes
speeches in defiance of it; McCFary goes
70 Iowa and manages Convention despite the |
order, and finally Dcvcns-who is pretty good /
sort OF d fellow, or has been in the past-writes
% Massachusetts Il think Senator Conkling
:ad to Collector Simmons] and says that the
order meant itself to be dlsobeyed, and that the
Say to obey it was to violate it.!'
THE MASSACHUSETTS VICTORY.
"What is your opinion OF the Massachusetts
election, which the Haves men are claiming as
victory for the policy!"
"Tnat election shows only how we'll real
,arty men behave. The men, who dislike The
'ulicy and could see no honesty in tue presi-
[cnt's position on the Southern question, never
heless walked to the polls aud cast their bal
OTIS for the Republican candidates. The Hayes
ncn also Toteu in Massachusetts But in this |
,tate OF New York I charge that the HAYES ele-
ncnt was not only indifferent to the election
tut voted the Dem0uTatjc t,rknt he hosta Tho. |