Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-27
Secret HiSfOr,f.


NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The present cam
paign is bringing out great deal of half
known information about the past relations
of the stalwart leaders to each other
There is not much honor in this school,
and they like to get aside with scribe and
let out their envies and condolences 1 had
talk with certain of these present and
past Office holders to-day, which contained
a good deal of matter that is new to my
self, and think it will prove so to your
readers. I will throw it into the form of a
conversation. Said I to my friend, the
principal talker:
sYou have related that Mr.. Conkling
and Mr.. Cornell tried to have
Collector Arthur removed in 1876 just be-
fore Grant retired from Office. What is
the basis of such a charger"
SWell," said my quondam friend, ''just
look lat the situation yourself. At the
time Gen. Arthur was collector of the
port. Gen. Sharpe was surveyor, Cornell
was the naval agent, Steve French, the
man with the forged dispatch, was ap
praiser in the custom house, and George
Bliss was district attorney. Orders came
to all these men to help nominate Cornell.
Bliss and Arthur looked on Cornell as an
ice water man, and would not do it. They
all worked together, nominating George
Morgan, and would not even let
Cornell receive the lieutenant governors
place. Thereupon Conkling and Cornell
assisted to defeat Morgan. Now. mark
what happened. On the stir day of
March, three days before Grant was to lay
down his Office, he removed Steve French
from the appraisers place, and Mr.. Conl
ling being potential in the senate, had the
appointment of this soft-headed Dutch
man, one of Cornell's henchmen, immedi-
ately confirmed. At the same time Stow
art L. Woodford, another Cornell char O.
ter, who is now kicker against the al
warts, because Cornell failed to get he
nomination for governor this time, was
nominated by Grant for dist let
attorney and Conkling had the M
ination put right through. G ant
himself was too partial to Gen. Sharpe 10
have him removed; but Mr.. Evarts, Mr..
Fred Steward, Mr.. Sherman and Rogers
all connected with the administration of
Hayes, Immediately stated that the infor-
nation which came to them was that
Conkling and Cornell wanted Arthur put
out and Cornell TO be made collector in his
place for preferring Morgan to Cornell"
"Do you think that President Arthur
was aware of this, or believes it now!"
s'Well there is no reason why he should
not believe it. At much later date when
Hayes foolishly undertook to put out Ar
thur, Conkling, in order to save Cornell,
had to go to the formers rescue, too, and
then was incurred the obligation which
President Arthur has almost ruined HIM
self to pay up. 1t was official gossip in
the early part of Hayes administration
that Arthur was barely saved from decapi-
tation, and there begun the bitterness of
Cornell towards Arthur, which has resulted
in their separation and open warfare. In
1866 Weed, like Seward, had lost his status
in the party, and had only eleven men in
the senate and house together, among
them being Tom Murphy, Folger and SEES
sions. Weed above all things wanted to
get even with Harris for his ingratitude;
SO he sent one of his emissaries up to AL
bany to tell him how things looked
and to report by telegraph
whether these eleven votes should be cast
for Noah Davis or Conkling. This man
became the center of heavy trade, and
telegraphed Weed that it would be easie,
to beat Harris with Conkling than with Da-
Wis. A Doodle had been sent up to Albany
and at the last critical hour it was slipped
into the joint assembly, and spent to elect
lConkling. The money came out of the