The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-18
Tempting Bait Refused.

ALBANY, September 6.-The move.
ments of ex x-Senator Roscoe Conkling this
week have been watched very closely by
politicians here, who believe that impor-
tant political developments relative to
the action of the old Stalwart faction in
this State may be expected soon. Mr..
Corn'ing passed through this city this
afternoon, on his way from Utica to New
York. He was accompanied by eS Sec.
retary Geo. G. Gorham. and was met at
the station by John T. Smyth and two or
three other political friends, who held Il
twenty minute conference with him. Mr..
Conkling turned deaf ear to the report.
ers, and declined to say single word
about the political situation or his own
course in the campaign. There is good
authority, however, for stating that over
lures have been made to him By intimate
friends of Mr. Blaine. acting with his
knowledge, to take hand in the contest
in New York. Two or three speeches
were all that was asked. The original
plan provided for grand ratification
meeting in New York shortly after the
Maine election. Mr.. Blaine, flushed
with a glorious victory in the Pine Tree
State, was to be present, and Mr. Conk-
ling was to be the principal orator. Under
these brilliant auspices the Republican
campaign in this State was to be inaugu.
rated. The effect, it was expected. would
be similar to that caused four years ago,
when the sulking Achilles left his tent
and, with Gen. Grant, took up the Gar
field banner and made q victorious
charge on the Democratic hosts in Ohio
and Indiana. In return for his services
Mr.. Conkling, it is rumored, is to have
no opposition from Mr. Blaine's follow
ers in the Legislature next winter when
the time for the election of United States
Senator arrives. The scheme was not
lacking in authority, the feast was tempt
ing, but unfortunately the turkey COB.
bier" declined to enter the trap, and
public reconciliation with his hated rival
was too humiliating to Mr.. Conkling's
pride. He will neither take the stump
for the Republican ticket nor consider
any bargains with the "Plumed Knight"
Whether his energies will be actively
exerted in any other direction this Fall
cannot yet be ascertained.
The reports of the Stalwart manGuvres
to capture the next Assembly showed
that the ex Senator'S friends were early
in the field. 1t has been since learned
that in several districts the Blaine mana
gers, expecting that the plan of harmony
outlined above would be carried out, had
arranged states on which the names of
prominent Stalwarts figured as the chosen
candidates Tor Congress ard Assembly.
Any sacrifices were to to be made TO 2a-
cate the anti. Blaine wing. Votes for Mr..
Blaine were surely needed, and the
breaches in tie Republican ranks had to
be repaired at any cost. Within the past
few days it has been whispered that the
pre-arranged states have been broken and
that it is announced that il the Stalwarts
want the Assembly they will have.to
fight for it. One theory is that the Stall
warts have discovered that their early
work had been so effective that no aid
from the Blaine men is required. They
had outwitted slow Warner Miller, and
can now snap their fingers at the advan-
ces made by that crowd. Another rumor
is that a combination has been formed by
Senator Miller and his adherents on one
side, and Chairman James D. Warren
and part of the Stalwarts on the other, by
which the Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew is
to be put in Senator Lapham's seat, and
the Warren party is to be recognized in
the distribution of patronage by the next
Administration. In either case Mr..
Conkling's Stalwart "razors will be flying
in the air" at an early date.-Special to
the NeW York Times.