The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-17

gard to nominations for Attorney
General. Five or six men we're
named, aud the convention was
about to ballot when up rose Mr..
COnkliDg, slowly and impressive.y,
from a seat near the platform. Every
enc knew, he said, that in former
times he had a strong political oppo-
nent in Hamilton. Ward, but now he
was OF the opinion that Mr.. Wards
nomination would be a strong one for
/ the convention 10 make. He would
humbly sugg st Mr.. Wards name, he
said. Well, the manner in which
each man who had made nomination
arose and withdrew the naEe be had
offered, one almost shouting down the
other, was a convincing proof OF his
power.
THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE.
Bat be subsequently quaTeled with
his lieu tenants, and then put himself
az their mercy by resigbing his place
in the Senate. He quarreled with
Cornell, never TO- giving him for no.
attending a conference in New York
in 1881, when all his friends were to
decide on his course after resigning
his seat. Cornell is very angry with
him, and is himself a seeker for
Miller's seat. Mr.. Conf Ii ~, on his
side, spoke of the Governor afterward
as "that lizard on the hill" phrase
that took like wild fire, and burnt Ike
wild-fire, too. He quarreled with
Chester A. Arthur because he, when
President, would not app int John F.
Smythe of Albany collector OF the
port OF New York, and remove W. II.
Robertson to make the necessary va
clncy.
"Gool heavens can't do that"
said the President. "Robertson's ap.
pointment caused the trouble between
you and Mr.. Garfield, and indirectly
led to the Presidents death. Why,
the entire matter would be reopened.
Malignant critics would have o chance
to widen the breach that already de-
moralizss the party"
Mr.. Conkling quilted the White
House abruptly, saying that the con-
sequences the President so greatly
feared would prove only temporary.
After that the Conkling men spoke of
Mr.. Arthur only as the dude in the
White. House" Mr.. Conkling dis
agreed with Andrew s Draper, aud
fell out with Charles Emory Smith, or
Little Charley Smith, as he hes ever
since called him. He lost the friend
ship of Ellis II. K lberts, aud in fact
turned it to angry enmity.
THE SITUATION.
nI uswha
the situation ?"
ut is this, that these differences
are not yet healed, and the time has
not come for Mr.. Conkling's ret1rn.
James ID. Warren, the leader in the |
western pant of the Slate, is not angry |
with him. He still has picture in his |
office. But he wants to place him
self, and will, II he sees he can't get |
it, work for Hiscock or Arthur in all |
probability. His certain vote in the |
State Senate is that OF Mr.. McMillen, |
and he has two or three Assembly |
men. Hiscock is for himself. His
vote is that of Senator Francis @.
Hendricks, with the votes OF two or
three Assemblymen. Senator Warner
Miller is his own candidats, and State
Senator Sloane Is his entering wedge
in the Senate. Arthur is for himself,
with no Senator yet in his train. Mr..
Plat is either for himself or Oliver p.
Morton, and has seven Senators be-
hind him. That does away with one
half the Republican Senators and
among the other ten there is none of
whom it seems possible there is one
for Mr.. Conkling.
"But as / said before, this is no dis.
appointment to him. He doss not
care straw how he stands with the
men who broke with him years ago,
or how he ranks in the party. We who
are his friends know and tell him,
that he is by far the stro 1gest man
among the people. They have no
quarrel with him. They admire him
for his brains, for the sturdy Repub-
licanisn he almost pate n ed while in
power, for his absolute honesty and
patriotism, and / suspect, to quote
from a sad page in his history, Tor the
enemies he has made But he laughs
when we talk with him. WHY he
says, Il sleep O. nights, now. work
hard and go to bed unuoubled by
anxiety. While was in politics lest
the power of sleeping az ] do now"