Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-07-19
4ailp &ennebef 5uurnal.
Augusta. Tuesday Morning. July 10.
The Albany Contest.

The contest at Albany over the election
Of United States Senators is nearly at an
end. Mr.. Miller was elected SATURDAY. TO
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig-
nation of Mr.. Plat. and Mr.. Lapham's
election in place of Mr.. Conkling will
soon follow. Mr.. Miller is paper man
ufacturer, residing at Herkimer, Y. Y.
he served two years in the State Assem-
bly, and is now serving his second term in
the national House Of Representatives.
He is man Of sagacitY and ability, with
an excellent reputation and good habits
He has been an administration man
throughout the struggle for senator's. but
has not made himself personally offensive
To the other side His election fills the
long term vacancy.
With the election of Mr.. Lapham the
long and bitter struggle will end. Mr..
pcrience in public affairs. He is new
serving in the national House OF Repre-
sentatives. He was stalwart and a
friend of Conkling, and was nominated a.
concession to that wing. though. some
Of the Conkling men have repaid the
courtesy shown them by opposing Lapham
more bitterly than though he had been an
administration man.
The whole country will rejoice at the
close of this strife. But although it was a
seeming evil, IL may not be without bene-
lit. 1t is the sequence Of the attempt
which Mr.. Conkling made last year to
dictate and control the nomination for
President at Chicago against the popular
will Disappointed in that effort he sought
10 spread his net over President Garfield
and take away from him the Presidential
prerogative in regard to nominations tor
office. But he failed in this as in the
other. The President was not deceived
or frightened. lie treated Conkling
with respect. but in nominating Judge
Robertson tor Collector Of New York he
MORALLY offended the naughty senator.
who mt once began fierce war upon the
President and Cabinet. Failing to con-
troll the Senate through the pretext OF
senatorial courtesy he resigned his seat
in Congress and Immediately went to Al
bany to seek a reelection and vindication
at the hands of the legislature. The re-
suit is that the legislature has refused to
send him and Plat back to the Senate
Mr.. Conkling is not indicated by the
New York legislature. but the President
is. and the republican party almost with
one voice unite in rejoicing that the ar
bitrary. un-democratic, anti-republican
and revolutionary schemes of Mr.. Conk-
ling from his attempt to control the Chi
cago convention down to his contest for
reelection to the Senate have come to
naught.
The next movement in the Albany
Legislature will be to put bill through
for the election of Congressman TO fill the
vacancies in the House which will be
caused by the resignation of Miller and
Lapham to accept seats in the Senate.
With the passage of such bill the legis-
lature will adjourn, but not until then. as
failure to make provision for filling the
vacancies caused in the House would give
the organization 1T that body to the dem
ocrats. A bill for that purpose was pre-
pared several days ago and only awaits
the election of senators to he put upon its
passage.