Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-24
EASTERN INTELLIGENCE.
CONKLING AND PLATT IN THE
FIELD.
SUNDAYS CONFERENCE At the RESIDENCE
or the VICE PRESIDENT.
WHO WAS THERE AND WHAT
WAS SAID.
ROSCOE STICKS FOR PLATT.
THE "SUN" ON OUR JONES, ALSO, ON
BlAINE's coRRUPTIoNIsT, WHITE.
Star Route Robberies and other
Deviltries.
Star Route Robberles and other
Deviltries.
Especial to the SENTINEL

lue qutstiOu vi thc lnteutioH
ators Conkling and Plat endeavoring to
induce the Legislature to return them to
their seats in the Senate which they volun-
tarily ~relinquished a week ago, was def
nitely settled yesterday. The two gentle
men will begin an active campaign in Al
bany for Office and vindication. Conkling
was consulting with friends informally un-
til a late hour yesterday morning. 1t was
well on toward sunrise when the distin-
guished ex-senator sought repose, and
when he did so, his plans for the campaign
on which he is about to enter on behalf Of
himself and Plat were thoroughly ma
tured. At l o'clock yesterday morning
Conkling aud Platt entered a coupe and
were driven to the residence of Vice.
President Arthur. There they were met
by the Vice President, Assemblyman Car
penter, Speaker Sharps of the Assembly,
Police Commissioner French, Charles Dem
ison, Arthur B. johnson Of Utica, John T.
Smythe Of Albany, ex-United States
Marshal Louis T. Pine of New York and
Columbia county, and Senator J. P. Jones
of Nevada, and the anxiously expected
conference was suggested and arranged by
Governor Cornell. He promised to be
present himself, and personally urged
Conkling to again become a candidate, and
he was expected on the II o'clock train
from Albany, but he failed to appear, and
the conference proceeded without him.
One of the gentlemen present, however,
assured the Times reporter that Governor
n0epo1I uya laarkflxy in fvAr kLn
proceedings, and they were taken with a
full knowledge that he would indorse them
in every particular. Conkling announced
that personally he preferred to retire to
private life to again entering upon the du-
ties of Senator. He had served his State
in the Senate to the best of his ability for
many years. and he was ready to step down
and allow some other man to TAKE his place;
but, notwithstanding his personal feelings
in the matter, he felt it was due to his
friends to take their advice in a question
of SO great Importance, and he was ready
to sacrifice his personal feelings to their
demand. He wanted it distinctly under
stood, however, that in case he became q
candidate for the Senate, Mr.. Plat must
be united with him, and he will be Q party
to no arrangement by which he should be
returned to the Senate and Plat be sacri-
feed. The cause of the younger man was
his, and the two must stand or fall to-
gether. He would countenance no COM
bination which should send to Washington
as his colleague any other man than the
one who acted with him in demanding
hat the State Of New York should be re-
spected by the President. Pointing to the
hat Of one of the gentlemen lying on the
table. he said Suppose q man should
come in here and attempt to take that hat,
and one Of you should say, Don't do that;
the hat is not yours, and a squabble should
arise. And then suppose the man who was
trying to take 1t should accuse the man
who was trying to prevent him as being q
thief and assert that he was the man who
was doing wrong. That is exactly q par
allel case to this Of my trouble with the
President. I have not tried to steal the
Collectorship. I rave tried to keep il in
the hands Of a man who has q right to 1t
until his term expires, but I Am the man
accused Of being the thief. I am accused
Of grabbing for patronage. I have simply
tried to prevent another from succeeding
in q grab for patronage"
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Tirues continues his exposures OF
the Star route service as conducted by the
late Second Assistant Postmaster General /:
Route No. SO, 1866 from Georgetown to Keo-
komo, Colorado, distance "A miles, service
seven times per week from May to Novem-
Der, was awarded to James Stephenson Of
Omaha for $40, 400. Stephenson offered to
continue the service during the Winter
months. but was not allowed an opportu-
nifty to do SO. The number Of the route
was changed, and without notice to Steph-
enson the route was arbitrarily given to
Jas. B. Colegrove for $l4,860. The route
from Okar to Eureka Springs, Arkansas,
~ miles, six times per week, was let to
John Cross, . friend Of Senator Dorsey,
without competition for $14, 400 per year.
The route was subsequently let by contract
to ]. M. Miller Of Springfield, No., for
$4S,0 DOC, Cross making . bid Of $41, 91O, A
number Of similar instances are given by
the Times correspondent.
The Sun says editorially OF Jones vote
confirming Stanley Matthews: How Jones
could be deluded into the belief that
Judge Robertson was . more important is
sue than the living one which practically
touches every fireside in his own State, Is
difficult to understand. The people Of
Nevada who are victimized by the extor-
tons Of the Central Pacific and Union Pa
ci6c Railroad combination will be very apt
to demand an explanation Of q vote which
goes far to put the Supreme Court Of the
United States in the hands Of Jay Gould.
An indignation meeting was held at irv-
ing Hall on Saturday evening. 1t was
made up in q great part Of Communists
n Socialists mostly Of the German class,
to protest against the execution Of Hessy
Helfmann, in Russia. John Swinton made
an address, and resolutions were adopted
declaring that the meeting would regard
tho oxcoxncxA4 H...u Uofl-.-- - 49,
Gear ~ Q capital crime against justice and
an unpardonabls wrong against human
nature.
The Sun says editorially: One Of the
last nominations sent In by Garfield and
confirmed by the Democratic Senate was
that Of Wallace r. White Of Maine, to be
q. 8. Attorney for Idaho Territory. It IL
not likely that the President knew much
about him, or that Mcveagh had selected
him Is q suitable person for . prosecuting
oficer Tor toe Government. This IL an ap-
pointment for which Blaine il unquestion-
ably and entirely responsible, and under
the circumstances 1t il about the most
shameless sly indecent appointment ever
procured by any Cabinet officer.
The kilograms Washington special says:
A gentleman just arrived from Mexico says
Grant will not receive the concessions be
desires for his latest railroad enterprise,
and that he Is coming home discouraged.
A Fight with Outlaws.
ST.. LOUIS, May 22.-Ths information
from Ps 'plar Bluff. Mo-. IL to the effect that
Hamilt on Meyers and Brown, outlaws. who
shot Sheriff Davis and CoIlsotns Halter
y near G~reenville. wsrs oyerhaulsd
near Mi u Springs by a party under Capt,
w. I. J. eeper early this morning aud Ham
lton XII ted, Meyers mortally wounded and
Brown O aptured. Meyers and Brown are
now at Mill Springs under guard, and
of lynching have been made. II
th at Sheriff Davis was not killed
As at FIRST reported, but perhaps MORALLY
wounded. and it is feared that Halter's in