The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
sPKAGUE AND coNKL,NG;
WHO CoNcocTED THE NONSENSE ABOUT
LINCK--sPRAGUE'sD DISLIKE OF. CoNK-
LING INvETERATE.

LINCk-6KRAOOE'bD OrsNOAsp
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From a special of the World.
NEWPORT, August 12.-lt may be as
well to state at once in regard t. the dis
agreeable affair OF last Friday at Nara
gansett Pier that the illjudged despatch
furnished on Saturday to the Associated
Press was prepared at the suggestion OF
a conspicuous Journalist who happened
to be here and who was unfortunately
consulted on the subject by some we'll
intentioned but not well-advised friends
of Senator Conkling. 1t was both natu-
raj and becoming on the part OF Senator
Cohkling to desire to sh eld Mr.. Sprague
against the consequences of bis own ILL
temper and violence displayed under his
own roof in the presence Of his wife and
of other ladies, and no one blames the
| New York Senator here for this desire.
1t was his misfortune only that his
| Fl lends should not have simply stated
the fact that Mr.. Sprague had quarrelled
with him in an unseemly manner
| and while not quite master OF himself.
As this was known to everybody at
| Narragansett Pier, and as the bablts OF
Mr.. Sprague, unfortunately, are no secret
the matter would there and then have
been ended in all probability. Il is for
tunate that the correspondent of the
| WORLD at the Pier should have sent you
at once an intelligent correction OF the
dangerously silly general despatch OF
Saturday. Every one here Is grateful
| to the W WoRI.D for putting the case at the
outset in its true light, and it is " be
hoped that we may have seen and heafd
the las, of it for the present at least.
| NARRAGANsETT PIER, August IL
at is a confounded shaiDe," burst out
Pier resident to-day. l had some slight
ACQUAINTANCE with him and ventured to
ask wherein lay the shame and what 1t
was all about. "Why," he answered,
adding an expletive, 'just look at those
boys at the depot yonder; they are max
ing little fortune out Of this Sprague
and Conkling scandal" This was
spoken at about noon, at which hour the
train arrives from New York. Scores OF
people were waiting eagerly for the pa,
pers, and in a few minutes the supply oi
the WORLD was exhausted.
Il Pres uni ng that the gentleman referre'
TO must know something OF the alta
from bis remark, for nothing scandalous
has been sent by me regarding The matter
asked him plainly If be conld give me
any particulars OF this adair wnich iiiigh
be OF interest. He said, "My friend, The
half has not been told" this suppose Itt
encourage the boys who were hourlshine
on the "scapdal." The gentlemen has
, be, n a resident here for a great many
wear, vising Narragansett Pier evel
siuce il made any headway as watering
place. His name is frequently III th'
local papers here. He Is on terms o
Intimacy with all the Ieadiug iamine
Including the SLragues, and felt conn
jence In what he told me. opened tht
WORLD and showed him the despatch
from Washington, in which 1t is stated
that the origin of the difficulty was ovel
a real estate matter. "That," said my
friend, "mav have Increased Sprague'
intense antipathy to Conkhng. but I
was not the origin of 1t. When,' az
continued, "Sprague was a Senator IL
Wa ,hinpton, | visited MIN one day jus
after Senator Conkling had made ssm'
speech, 1t was being quite thoroughly
, discussed by the people OF Washington
and formed part of the conversation be
ween Sprague and myself. .Sprague
while giving Conkling full credit fo
being brilliant man, went ON TO spear
very disagreeably about MN as man ..
a shame Mr.. Conkling should sit in th'
Senate. Mr.. Sprague gave no DEFINITE
reasons for his strong antipathy, but pu
no bounds to the expression of it. From
that time forward Mr.. Sprague has Deel
: known by all who knew him to have t9t
most intense hatred of Mr.. Conkhng. M
has openIy stated 1t at bars, hotels. par
, lors and other places here and in siml'al
places in Providence. He has done {
when perfectly sober and In norma
, condition, but he has done 80 more
frequently when under the influence o
liauor. That Mr.. Spragu'es mind is no
| exactly evenly balanced there can he nj
7 question, although any one who treat
/ i,im as insane, even on any one point
, will be vastly mistaken. Mr.. Spragu'
, last week heard from the papers tina
Conkling was to be in Newport on
, visit to Mr. Levi z. Morton, the New
D York member of Congress, and at thu
!. mome.t he read it exclaimed, with al
J oath, in the pr, sence ofseveral persons
i hone he will not come over here' 10