New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-03
TIE COYKLING AVENGERS At ALBANY.


TIE COYELING AVENGERS At ALBANY.
There were twenty-five Republican mem
beers of the last Legislature who detcd public
sentiment from the beginning to the end OF
the Senatorial canvass by voting for the return
of Roscoe COnkling on each OF the nifty
odd ballots that were taken. They were
aware that their conduct was indeiensible,
since they were deliberately disappearing
their constituents; but they preferred to be
consistent in their subscrvency to their poliu-
cal boss rather than be true to the plainly ex-
pressed wishes of the Republican masses. The
contest closed and Mr.. Lapham chosen in
Mr. ConkIing's place, the latter gentleman, in
stead of bowling with grace and good nature
TO the will of the majority, gave the twenty
two a lesson in malgn obstinacy and rem
dcred them ripe for revenge 10y writing a let
ter TO one of thcm--a short letter into which
was compressed the sOurness Of whole crop
of parsimmOus-n which ne referred his defeat
not TO the operation of natural and legitimate
causes, but of "forbiddcn and abhorent
force Wen, the Legislature adjourned, the
fall elections were held and, 10 Of all those
WHO had stood by Mr.. COnking to the bitter
not to say discracefu, end, only one was re-
turned to the Legislature of 1882. As for the
1.st, some were defeated in the nominating
conventions and some at the polls; and the
public verdict on their TelegatiOn 10 private
life was that they had richly earned precisely
that sort Of IT cog ition. But they themselves
declared that it was some more forbidden
and abhorrcnt forces that laid them low.
We reluctantly refer to this chapter of our
recent political history, and are only prompted to
do so because OF the temperance 0. the twenty
two. A delegation OF them has just turned mp III
Republican legislative caucus in the character
of Conl<ling avengers. 1t was not, indeed, much
of a revenge which they accomplished, but al
though petty it at least served to show
that they s'iU remember the Senatorial can
vass. that they are still unchanged in their
ALLEGIANCE TO their then boss, and that the ex-
coration which some of them received at the
polls last November still hurts like sixty, the
new cutcle having as yet only partially
formed They found victim III the person or
the Hon. Matthew Bale. MIR. Hale Is one OF
the foremost lawyers of the interior, and is
besides a gentleman of wide general cul-
ture and Of the highest character. He has
been an active and earnest Republican ever
since the organization of the party, and III the
newspapers and magazines and on the
stump las done a large amount of first
class party work. His prominence as Il
Republican, bis conceded abilities and accom-
pshments, together with the fact Ilat he was
a brother of the lamentl Regent Robert ).
Hae-wh0se lace was to be iilled-cOncuTed
to make him the leading Republican candidate
for the vacant Rcgentship. But Assemblyman
Brodslly, one of the twenty-five, in the Leg
islatllrc and ex-Asscmblyman Draper, another
of the twenty-five, in the lobby, saw in Mr..
Hale a representative of the Republican senh
mcnt which had secured Mr. ConkiiDg'S defeat
last summer. Besides, Mr.. Draper had his own
mammoth grief to assuagc, for was he moi
beaten last fall for the Assembly in a district
which ordinarily is Republican by over 1000
maiority2 These two were the leading Conk-
ling avengers on this occasion. They had scY-
era earnest helpers, chief of whom was Mr..
Duichor, whose official career all through the
Senatorial contest proved Enthusiastically that in
biz opinion the chief duty of Superintendent
of Public Works was to push the fortunes OF
his candidate for Senator. The scheme
adoptcd by the Conkling avengers succeeded.
They went around among the Republican
members with small gossip concerning Mr.
Ildlc's political orthodoxy. IEcy aJJltuulilZeu
as bona-fidc Republicans all others counter
feit-and falsely represented that he was not a
true and loyal member Of the party. Their
malignant MEASUREMENTS found Judgment i'll
the minds of sundry members of the caucus,
aud Mr. Hale lost the nomination.
Mr. Conkling did not go back to the Senate
No. Only one of the twenty-five members of
" the Spartan band" survives in public life
Yes. But then! But then Matthew Haze was
not nominated for Regent.
NOBLE WORK FOR UOMEN