Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29

breach which was never healed. During
the long waiting weeks, when Garfield
suffered agonies untold. Conkling was
a guest at the Oriental hotel.
At that time Vice Prcsi-
dent Arthur was there. So were
Senator Don Cameron, General
John A. Logan, Senator Thomas @.
Platt, Emory A. Storrs, Senator Jones,
OF Nevada, and other men we'll known
in public life. Conkling had never
cared for Garfield specially, but he was
one OF his most ardent sympathizers in
the terrible strain TO which he was SUBJ
jected, and anxiously noticed the tenor
OF every bulletin, knowing very we'll
that, in the not remote future, his old
time friend aud ally would become the
chief executive OF the nation, and there
fore the head OF the great party which
placed him there, say much OF Conk-
ling prior TO this during the Indian
campaign, when everything trembled,
as it were; In the balance, and it was O
question whether Garfiield's western
strength was sufficient to overcome
English s money bags and presumed in
iluence in the state OF his residence. Il
There was hotel in Indianapolis
called the New-Denison, and there
Conkling was made to feel at home,
there being with him Senator Dorsey,
Mr.. John G. New, George Gorham and
a large party Of subordinate republican
leaders in the west. 1t was hard work
to make Conkling forget his bitterness
him forget his disappointment at the
non-renomination OF his friend and
chief, and when he went to Indianapo-
lis and thence radiated through
the state, and to cer-
tain extent through the western
states. it was noticed that he never al
luded to the name of either candidate,
but confined himself, almost entirely,
in all his speeches, to an elucidation of
his views, and the views OF the republic
can party, in respect Of the tariff, and
contenting himself also with reminding
the country Of the significant services
done to the nation by the party those
candidates he hoped would be elected.
No figure of late years has been moro
familiar on Broadway or Fifth avenue,
in certain OF our clubs, and especially
in the cafe of the Hoffman house, than
that of Roscoe Conkling. He was a
kindly disposed man, and not half so
proud, so austere, so naughty, as people
judged him. His manner was against
him. 1t almost seemed as though he
He spoke and acted as
though feariug trap. He ignored
social claims in remarkable degree. L
never saw him in the opera house, save
on two or three occasions, when he
called to pay his respects to his
client, Mr.. Pulitzer, with whose fam
lily he made party now and then.
He was by no means a habitual the
after goer. He went out of his way
very markedly. at the time of the New
York Press club benefit, when one of
the members of the club
delivered lecture, which netted
$500 to the burial fund, to show
his regard for the boys. He purchased
and occupied proscenium box, and did
much to encouage the lecturer and the
audience by his considerate attention
and doubtless sincere courtesy. Conk-
ling had a fund of anecdote and story
which served him we'll on the platform,
in the courts and amoung friends in Or
binary intercourse. He didn't care to
go to public dinners, and it was very
rare thing to find him in any public as
semblage unless he was there as the
figure head. He cared less for social
intercourse than any man [ ever saw,
and it would be lasting mistake if the
public at large were to Judge of h is in
timacies, by the names upon the cards,
left for him at the hotel during his last
illness. He was not n sociable man, and
he was not given to entertainments.
He was fond of books, and athletic
sports, and particularly of long walks.
His last long walk used him up. Had
he not been determined, by unusual ex-
ertion, to overcome the elements them
selves, to-day he would be among US
alive and we'll