Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-30
Friday Morning, Sep. 30, 1881.
THE CONTEST IN NEW YORK.


 In New York on Tuesday, November 8,
 there will be an election of Secretary of ! State, Controller, an Attorney General, a Treasurer, an Engineer and Surveyor, an As sociate Judge of the Court of Appeals the full Legislature, and Representatives in Con- gress from the Ninth, Eleventh, Twenty-sec- I ond and Twenty-seventh districts. The I State convention of the Republicans is to be l held in New York city next Wednesday.
 The chief question which will come before \ the convention is whether Conkling shall or
 shall not resume his place as boss of the New York Republicans. That he intends to if I he can has been made plain by what has hapss pened in some of the Assembly district con- l yentions which have been held to elect dele I gates to the State convention He and his I friends have made strenuous efforts to secure | delegates, but thus far they have not met with great encouragement. In the5 e5conyen- ! tion of his own Assembly district he found ! himself in 8 minority, and those who favored ! him bolted in order to secure for him basis on which to claim admission to the State con-
 vention. 1t will require considerable
 ''cheek" to claim anything on such basis, but doubtless the great resigner will be found equal to the emergency. In several other districts Conklngs friends have bolted and there will be quite number of contesting delegations. The tactics of the Conkling men where they have been outnumbered and wanted delegation have been as follows: The chairman of the district committee, him. self Conkhng man, insists on naming another adherent of the machine as chairman of the convention by way of securing 8 Committee on Contested Seats of the same stripe. Contests having been previously got ten up in the most unexpected and unheard of manner, by way of reducing the num- Der of anti Conkling delegates who could claim an undisputed right to their seats, the choice is narrowed down to complete sub- mission to machine dictation, even to the ex- tent of placing delegates holding regular cer- tifcates at it's mercy, or to the assertion of the right of the majority of the convention to choose it's own chairman. The latter right is exercised, is challenged by the Conkling del egates, and there are at once two chairmen, two conventions and two sets of delegates.
 Up to yesterday morning 194 delegates in all had been chosen, and it is said that no less than 179 are anti ConkIing. Nearly third of the Assembly districts of the State have gone against Conkling, but it is expected that he will be able to make better showing in the other districts. At the convention, too, it is pointed out, he will have the assistance of the State committee. The committee will insist on naming the temporary chairman, the chairman will control the appointment of the Committee on Contests, and even if the Secretary be less liberal than usual in his fa- vors to machine delegates who have no claim ! to place on the roll, the transformation of the minority into 8 majority will depend ! somewhat on the number of contests to be disposed of. It is to be hoped, however, that the Republicans of New York will suc- ceed in keeping out of Conkling's clutch.