Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-30
THE NEW YORK SENATORSHIP.

IHE NEW IUhh SCNAlUhSnlEs
A correspondent of the New York Times
(Republican) writing from Albany, under
date of Thursday says:
After nearly four weeks balloting to 6ll the
vacancies in the y. S. Senate, the situation
may be summed up as follows: The members
of the Legislature have at last resolved them
selves into three divisions or parties. The
first division embraces the Administration
Republicans, who have shown, during the
balloting, that they number when they are all
present, 5S united members, or five more
than a majority of all the Republicans in
the Legislature. These men are all sincerely
desirous Of carrying out the wishes Of the peo'
pie of the State and filling the two vacancies
before the adjournment Of the Legislature:
They only ask that the candidates for these
vacancies shall be true Republicans and sup
porters of Republican Administration. The
second division embraces the Democratic
members Of the Legislature, "a in number,
whose only object, of course, is to elect or
omit to elect, according as it may be, in their
opinion, most advantageous to their party.
They have given up all hope, if they ever en-
tertained any, of an alliance with either di-
vision of the Republicans by which they
might secure one of the vacant Senatorshlps,
and the only recourse left them is to get an
adjournment sine die as soon as possible in
the hope that the next Legislature will be
Democratic, and enable them to fill both va
cancies. The third and last division embraces
the Conkling, men or "Stalwarts" as they
still delight to call themselves, though their
stalwartism would appear to outsiders to con,
sist in abject and slavish submission to the
unreasonable demands of selfish autocrat.
This division numbers, all told, 80 members,
or about one fifth of the entire Legislature,
and less than one third of the Republican
portion of it. 1t would be hard to tell what
the men composing this division desire or ex.
pect at the present time, unless it is to de-
moralize and break up the Republican party
in this State. When the balloting first COM
menced they undoubtedly had some slight
hops Il re electing Conkling and Platt-at
least the first named-but they can have no
hope of that kind now, and, in fact, do not
pretend to have. Nor is there any ground
for them to hope or expect that they could
do it by new Legislature elected next fall,
or BY an extra session of the present Legs-
lature called together for that purpose at any
time between this and the next election. The
constantly increasing, instead of decreasing
opposition to Mr.. Conkling, among the peo:
pie of the State, ought to convince them
of the absurdity of such hope. What then,
do they desire or expect, unless it be to pre-
vent the election of any Republicans to the
vacant senatorships and turn them over to
the Democrats ?? 1t has come to be with
them, as with their leader, question Of rule
or ruin. eff Conkling cannot be elected no
other Republican shall be-" This is plainly
the language of Mr.. Conkling and his band
of SO "Stalwarts )" there is no mistaking it,
and the people ought to understand it. If
Mr. Conkling would withdraw from the field
both vacancies could be filled by good Re-
publicans in "a hours. Why does he not
withdraw? Does he> still hope to be reelect.
ed himself? He knows it to be impossible.
On him and on him alone, whose egotism,
vanity and selfshness gave rise to all this
trouble, rests the responsibility of its longer
continuance The So Republican members
of the Legislature who have voted for Mr..
Depew, are ready now and will be ready next
week, ifMr. Conkling will withdraw, to vote
for any Republican whom the Stalwarts may
name to fill Mr.. Conkling's place, provided
his 33 adherents will cast their votes for can.
didate whom majority Of the other 73 Re-
publicans in the Legislature may name 1t
is known that a majority Of the 80 would be
glad, individually, to accept such PROPOSE.
ton and to force Mr.. Conkling to withdraw,
but no one of his infatuated and bamboozled
followers appear to have courage enough to
ask him to get out of the way or to make an
independent movement to force him out.
They are, however, getting more and more
restless under the Conkling yoke every day,
and are beginning to feel as their master has
often felt, that they are "humiliated." Many
of the "Halfbreed' Republicans are of the
opinion that the humiliation has about reach.
ID its climax, Cor its depth,) and that before
he end of another week they will make an
effort to vindcate their title to the name of
'Stalwart" by standing on their feet and ex-
,rcising mind of their own. If this should
prove to be 50, the end of the Senatorial con-
est is not far off,