Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-28
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A Caucus to be Called by the
Ccnkling Men.
The Authorizing People Confident

| NEW YORK, MAY %. An Albany special
to the Times says at midnight the conference
| between Conkling, Vice President Arthur,
Gov. Cornell and Speaker Sharpe was
ended. and it is decided that the caucus
should be called for Monday evening. The
legislature will adjourn as usual on Friday
until Monday.
! Conkling. who has important business en-
gagements in New York for Saturday, will
probably leave here Friday afternoon to keep
them.
| According to estimates made by careful
men on both sides, the stalwarts have forty
five men upon on whom they can positively
rely upon and the administration men, with
accsssions reported tonight, forty six men
who will not go into cancus.
| Conkling received dispatch from }. II.
Work of New York. a law PARTNER of L. S.
Grant. Jr., rs follows
| Mexico.
hope the Legislature will sustain our can
didate.
u. S. GRANT.
ALBANY, May q. The Conklingites are
fighting for a caucus, and declare emphati-
| cally that the fate of the party in this State
rests npon such action. To 60 into the cleo
ton for Senators without first holding a eau
Gus. they say, reduces the party to q mob,
with no head, no tail, no organization. 1t
will break up hopelessly, and neeessitate a
| reorganization, which has required wears to
perfect. Their argument is that the republi-
can party of this State owes all it is to the
machinery it has now in existence, and to
break it. is to turn the State over to the DEM
ocrats and for many years to come.
The usual recess. till Monday night, will
be taken by the Legislature, and the Conk-
| 1. A. .nSa nj aAa We
object they have in view, by securing the
requisite number of signers to the call.
| Owing to the absence. by sickness, of T. S.
Carpenter, there are only lO5 republican
| legislators These are said to be divided as
follows: AZ for Conkling and A against him,
leaving l l doubtful. A majority of l0j is
81, and the Conklingites need six more to
make the majority. 1t is said they will get
those and call a caucus for Monday night.
| Then, if the administration wing will not go
into the caucus, and sill not make the So, 81
| in the election, they will have to take the re-
sponsibility Of turning against the party of
the State, and the Conklingites will have to
devote themselves to breaking the deadlock
How this is to be done, it is too soon now to
indicate.
An Albany despatch to-day to the Mail
SAYS that among the rumors is one that the
not withdraw their designations, and are
taking legal advices on that point.
ALBANY, May &c. The latest count shows
that of Il clos republicans in the legislature the
Conklingites have 50 and the ants so. This
gives the Conklingites the right to call a eau
Gus or would give them the right if they had
So signatures to their call, but they have not
the signatures. COnkling and Arthur will
leave the city to-day for New York where a
conference is to be continued. There friends
insist that everything will be settled before
Monday next. There is evidently a better
feeling among the stalwarts than yesterday.
while the anti's are by no means respondent
The Assembly and Senate adjourned to 8
o'cloc kMonday evening.
ALBANY, May 81. This afternoon the hotels
presented comparatively deserted appear
ance. Conkl:ng and his associates left on
the 2 40 train for New York, where it is said
the canvass will be continued. 1t is thought
that he will return here Monday and remain
during the expected long siege, lit is under
stood that it will take weeks to break the
deadlock. No change whatever has taken
place in the situation. Each section claims
about half the republican members, and the
real division will not be known until an in
formal vote is taken Tuesday.