The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-22
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in which, speaking of Grant he says:
His strength is very great in this State.
1t consists in what is known as the.
machine element" Cornell, Haskins,
Arthur and Speaker Sharpe are among
It's leaders. SO is Silas B. butcher,
who has just been make Superntepd-
ent OF Public Works. His Office con-,
trolls most of the patronage of the State,
and that will undoubtedly be used by
the machine for the furtherance of the.
third term project. Whether or not
they will be able to throw the weight
of New York in the National Conven-
ton in favor Of the scheme re-
mains to be seen. II is probable
that Conkling will also tend in that
direction, and he is all-powerfui
with the machine. He has private lea-
soas for not wishing the nomination of
Sherman or Blaine. Undoubtedly the
majority of Republicans will follow
them, hut there will be great number
who will act independently, and they
hold the balance of power. I think l
am right in saying that Coraell's minor
ity in the aggregate vote for Govarnor
last year was between fifty and sixty
thousand
A Washington special says Conkling
is. undoubtedly a Presidential candi-
DATE. His friends now all admit this
He has been exceedingly quiet, and has
not seen fit IN any way to deny any of
the rumors about his position that have
been banded about in the Senate- cloak
have had very little to do. with each
other since their-Efferences during the
extra. session. The. projects of Cam
eron in Grants favor have been openly
discussed for the last two or three
weeks, and out Of the very holiness of
his policy has grown the opposition
that has developed thus early. This
opposition to Grant among the Repub-
lcan leaders has become so,great as to
lead Conkling to believe that Grant
could not succeed in securing The nom
nation, and that being one OF the pos
sibilities, he might as well be a candi-
date as any other of his Republican,
rivals.
The ub-committee of the House
Committee on Appropriations resumed
yesterday morning the investigation of
the postal star service George f.
Kirk, one of the sureties on Nc
Donough's contract for carrying the
mails between Santa Fe New Mexico)
and, Prescott (Arixonal, Yves. examined.
as to his connection with the contract,
and testified that he had proposed to
perform for $1,000 per annum. the
same service on that route as the de-
partment is now, and for some time
has been, paying for at. the rate of
Sl36, 600 per annum.
A dispatch frem Rio de Janeiro, via
Lisbon, regarding ths recent riots, says:
In consequence of public opposition.t to
the levying OF a>tax of twenty reis per
passenger on street-car traffic, the mob
destroyed the cars and tracks OF the
company, attacked the conductors and
stoned and fired at the troops. The
soldiers charged. Three persons were
killed and thirty wounded; including
some soldiers and policemen. Order
was finally restored and street-car
traffic resumed. The Government, 70.
plying to q deputatioN refused to re-
move the impost..
The Sun s,Washingten special says:
Great injustice has been done Governor
Seymour by a corrupt clique of poll
ticians at Washington. in spppressing a
letter of his positively declining to be a
candidate for President, or to accept
the nomination under any circum-
stances. There is no excuse for put
ting this distinguished Democrat in the
false position of using his nanae with
the fall knowledge that he has forbid
den tito be used in any such connec-
ton. ,s
Saith A Tarr,r SanroAar &c 4ha Ton