River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-28

and continued the good work of
| ssharmoniZing the discordant elements
of the party" so conspiciously begun
| by nominating five or six of the
Conkllng clique to fat offices. When
it came the turn of the anti Conkling
faction in the Empire State to be
"harmoniZed, w. II. Robertson, a
Blaine man, was nominated to be
| Collector of Customs at New York.
To this particular portion OF Garfield S
elaborate scheme for bringing about
harmony, Conkling objected and
promptly manifested his disapproval,
but the President decided to carry
out his own programme in his own
way and refused to yield to the
solicitations of the New York Senator
for the withdrawal of Robertson 3
nomination. At this, finding that
they could not defeat the confirmation
of Robertson, Conkling and his col
league, 7. G. Platt, concluded to
appeal to their constituents to vindi-
cate them in their efforts to xii off
Robertson, and in order to do so,
resigned their seats i'll the senate
prompt reelection to be considered
vindicati ion. AS the senate was
evenly divided between the two great
political parties, the resignation of
the New York Senators became Il
matter of national Importance. These
designations left the Democrats in an
undisputed majority in the United
States Senate, and transferred the
quarrel between Conklng and the
administration from Washington to
Albany, where the State legislature of
New York was then in session. The
legislature having been chosen in the
interest of Conkling who desired to
name Kernan'S successor. the friends
of the administration in the legsla-
ture refused to go into caucus and the
Republicans entered the joint conven-
ton without any regularly nominated
candidates, the personal adherents of
Conkling voting for Conkling and
Platt and the administration men
scattering their votes among dozen
others. This fruitlesS effort to elect
senators was kept UP for weeks. when
Platt name became connected with
a scandal in which "a woman with
spectacles" was involved, and he
dropped out of the contest. At last
the people of New York began to
make it little warm for their
representatives at Albany, and
majority of the Republican members
of the legislature agreed upon a COM
promise and caucus. This compro-
mise embraced the nomination of one
candidate from the half-breed or
administration faction and the other
from the stalwart or Conkling crowd.
This agreement was carried out in the
nomination of Warner Miller. half
DI6cU, dIIu e. - I@tpAi'sAA, "0''i "esA -
most of the Conkling men refusing to
go into this caucus. After the election
of Miller in the manner stated by us
last week, the Conkling men began to
recognize evidences of an early break
up and inevitable defeat to them, and
in order to insure their being let down
easy offered that if another caucus
should be held they would go into 1T
and abide its decision. To this
proposition the half-breeds assented,
second caucus was held, Lapham
again nominated and Immediately
| thereafter elected, receiving every
Republican vote. Though Lapham
was nominated as stalwart, having
been so shabbily treated by the
Conkling junto he can hardly be de-
pended upon with any degree of
safety to continue Conkling's fight
against the administration, and with
the conspicuous failure of the great
| New York Senator before them, we
doubt il other Senators will care to
continue it. Lapham is certainly I'M
der no obligations to Conkling as the
latter did all within his power to
prevent his election.