Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-19
CONKLING's TERMS.

Candidate Was Compelled &C
Beg an Interview.
Special to n. Y. Mercury.
CoLuMBus, O., August l4-The true
inwar,iness Of Gen. Gsrield's visit tc
New York has not vet been made public
and il is destined to make very inter
estiny chapter in the history Of this po
litical campaign. send you the facts
obtained from 'the inner clerk" and
concerning " hich you can challenge con
tIadiction. As "boom" for the Re.
publican candidate, the pilgrimage to
the East has proved most disastrous
failure. Governor Foster passed a slg'
niticant verdict on the GRASSLAND per-
Torrance to the Empire State, when he
said TO a group OF politicians at the
| Executive Mansion, yesterday: Gar
I field has as much as he can well manage
To keep up the Republican majority IN
this State; II he leaves us again before
the October election his goose Will be
cooked at home
The idea of having Garfield go to the
metropolis originated with the RePubll.
can National Committee. They found
that Conkling would not take any part
i'm the canvass until he had seen Gar
| field. They must therefore be made to
/ meet one another. Which should make
/ tine first advance? Conkling said natiy
/ that he would not stir one step west
ward under any consideration. Gar
field, it was decided, must, therefore, go
| To New York, but when a letter was
| sent TO HIM,
GARFIELD REFUSED To GO,
and did it in very curt but decided
manner. A telegram was sent to him,
but ne still refused; and when he wrote
his reply he remarked to some iriends
who we're with him that "any man who
was a candidate for office and Travelled
in a circus performance would be beaten,
and deserved mis- fate" This LETT the
committee in a Quandary, and they put
their heads together to circumvent Gar
field and Fix up plan by which ne
could be compelled TO go eastward ON
pretense of urgent campaign business.
Immediately il was noised abroad that
n great Republican canvass OF the South
was to take place, though the committee
had no more idea of sending men anu
money there than of colonizlng Alaska.
For this great work the services OF the
stalyart statesmen OF the land were to
be enlisted, and Blaine and Logan and
Cameron, Sypher and Pinchback and
Dennison, and all the other bloody
shirt men were informed by mail and
telegraph that their presence was ur-
gently needed in New York. They
went IN terrible haste, eXpectingto find
some prodigious plans mapped out, and
were furious when they found they
were simply intended to De
TAIL To COMBINES KITE.
This was the reason why the whole per-
Torrance iell so HAT upon the Republi-
cans themselves. and why Blaine, Logan
and Others had nothing to say about
the conference and its results.
Garfield W as persuaded TO 20 East,
and when he got there was told that
something must be done 10 save New
York or else he might "a well abandon
the field al once; that Conkllng was
cold and took no interest in the contest,
and that il was necessary to rouse his
enthusiasm il anything was to be done.
candidate understand that his one
chance OF saving the Empire State was
10 secure the services OF the Grant lac
tionists who would not stir to work I'M
MI the Utica man crooked his finger at
them. At last, however, Garfield saw
the point though it required hall a
dozen prominent bankers to push the
question OF supplies on his notice, and
ne announced his readiness to receive
Conkling and listen to what he had to
saw. But Conkling utterly declined to
be presented to the distinguished gen.
tlemau from the West. lie was
brusque and even brutal in his declina-
ton, intimating that it was no object to
him
To SEE ANOTHER OHIO MAN
put into the Presidential chair. At this
point the situation grew desperate, and
the committee feared that everything
was at an end. But Garfield saw the
need OF submitting TO any personal
/ humiliation necessary TO secure his
/ aims, and he announced his readiness 10
/ make pilgrimage to Conkllngs rooms
/ il that would appeaSe the Utica dictator.
/ COnkhng graciously responded there
/ after that he would allow himself to be
interviewed by the Republican candi-
/ date, and James a. Garfield actually
went to Roscoe Conkling's quarters at
the hotel and asked to be admitted to 4
conference with him. AT the time
when visitors were told that Garfield
was busy and could not be seen, the
/ latter was at the rooms OF his New York
rival humbly arranging the terms of
/ the
TREATY FOR THE sPoILs,
which is to bind them together for No
yember's battle. The outcome OF the
conference was that rs soon as Garfield
became President he would remove
/ Merritt and allow Senator Conkling TO
control all the Federal appointments in
New York during his term OF office.
Under this solemn pledge Conkling
promised To take the stump this TALL and
work for the candidates. Garfield came
home happy in having achieved this
bargain, and the ConSling men ought
10 be happy too. But Governor Foster
alleges that Blaine, Logan and the other
visiting statesmen departed in furious
temper, chagrined because Conkling
has again succeeded in securing the
lions share OF the spoils. They tint
their only consolation in the knowledg.
that the Liberal Republicans will have
To take back seats in the party in future,
and that Fenton, Merritt, Palmer and
all the rest OF the temporizing crowd
must take back seats or walk the long
plank.
SECRETARY sHERMAN's WRATH.
While in New York General Garfield
tried to persuade Secretary Sherman to
allow the removal oil General Merritt as
Collector OF New York, but the Secreta-
nv was obstinate and declared he would
resign his portfolio ii the President at
tempted a removal. Sherman has said
To his friends that he knew he had been
sold ont by Garfield at Chicago, and
that he ought to have known better
than To trust TO the honor OF one OF the
Credit Mobilier men. Now, shrewd
men at this point are figuring on the
vote Conkling will bring to Sherman,