New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-20
ANOTHER DELiY.
investigation

In the Joint Convention Yesterday, seventy
two votes were necessary for choice, and Mr..
lapham received siXty-cight. Thus ne gained
one vote in comparison with the ballot of Mon
day, and lacked only four to elect him. 1t is
not thought probable that the result can be long
delayed, although Mr.. Conllng and his friends
are doing everything in their power to delay an
election from day to day. They fight again, t
Mr.. Lapham, former friend and trusted assoc
ciatc, with quite as much bitterness and hatred
they showed toward Mr.. Dcpcw, and in the
same spirit would doubtless assai any man.
whatever his merits or personal relations who
could be elected as Republican Senator But
it is not to be believed that all the members
who are now supporting Mr.. Conkling share
his desperate, reckless, and rule or ruin spirit
Some of them, it is probable have already de-
ternined that they will not commit suicide at
MIR. COnklings request, when they can no
longer do him any good i'll that or any other
way.
1t is a strange spectacle, indeed, which Mr.
Conkling and his adhcrcnts present. The State
does not want him his own chosen Legislature
votes over four to one against him; even his
political friends in that Legislature vote against
him, siXty-eight TO twenty eight and vet he
persists in demanding Office, and threatening to
destroy the party if he is not reelected. 1t NAV
be doubted whether such performance has ever
been tolerated in any other State. No public
man can be named, from the highest to the very
lowest grade, who has ever stopped to seek
place under circumstances so humliating
That he has been supported with amazing
fidelity and self-sacriiice by a few members of
the Legislature, one would think, might cntite
them to some gratitude at his hands, and the
lans hot nj IL, of. . l,,II
possible for them to serve his interests. would
be to urge them to care for themselves by con-
sultng the wishes of the constituents whose
servants they ought to be. Instead, Mr.. Conk-
ling insists that all of them shall immediate
themselves upon the altar of his vanity and
selfishncss. There was a time when MIR. Conk-
ling could be admired by his adhcrcnts How
they can admire him now, as he drags them
down to political ruin and ignomny without Il
thought save for himself, it is hard to see
The hostility of Mr.. Conkling and his present
adhcrcnts can hardly fail to affect the disposi-
ton Of Mr.. Lapham. He will be led to realize,
as he never did before what sort of friendship
Mr.. Conkling and others have to offer Because
he has done his plain duty TO the Republican
party, Mr.. Lapham finds himself hated worse
than any Democrat. All his labors for Mr..
Conkling and his associates are forgotten he
Is hated because he would not sacrifice himself
and sell ont his party to please them. The cX-
perlencc is enough to cure any man of StalWart
sympathies. The Republicans who proflcrcd
their support to hun, in order to harmonic the
Republican party and give fair representation
to each of its elements, will he likely to find in
him sincere friend of the party, and not an
admirer of a mutinous and spitcful faction. SO
men of Mr.. Conkling's nature ever drive away
from themselves friend after friend, until they
are left i'll vast and dreary solitude to nurse
their own diseased self-apprcciation.
The struggle has lasted long enougl-too long
for the interests or the credit of the State. If
ought TO be ended. An adjournment without
an election would only prolong it at least six
months, and intensity its bitterness. 1t would
only condemn to political death every Rcpubl-
can who consents to it. The choice of any other
candidate is impossible since II caucus has been
held. Republican members who care for the
regard of their constituents will make haste to
end the contest, to restore harmony to the Re-
publican marty. and to secure a Republican