Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-21
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EX-SENATOR CONKLING.
ALI hopes were abandoned yesterday o
the recovery Of ex-senator Conkling. AL
day he was slowly sinking and
was only q question as to how long TIL,
Inherent vitality of his once vigorous
frame would resist the onslaught of th.
dread destroyer. He was always al
ardent advocate OF physical culture and
took especial pride in maintaining hil
magnificent physique in the most robust
condition. In consequence he has re
sisted the ravages Of the disease and
rallied occasionally from its deadly
pressure upon his vital forces as long as
he has. He finally succumbed to his fate
and died at half-past one this morning.
The disease which terminates thus fatally
10 q result of the terrible blizzard in New
York last month. As may be recollected,
an extract appeared in this paper from a
New York journal, in which Conkling
himself recounted his terrible
experiences o the night Of
the 18th Of March in making
his way uptown. 1t is believed that he
then caught a severe chill, from which
he contracted a severe cold in his system
that resolved itself finally into pains in
the head and ear through indifference
to the preliminary warnings. These
pains finally became unbearable and DIR.
Agnew was summoned on Friday, March
30, to attend him. The doctor pronounced
him to be suffering from an abscess In
the ear. The pain increased in intensity
until finally meningitis developed and
Conkling has since been delirious with
intervals Of returning consciousness.
The bulletins since the 9Th instant have
kept the public on the stretch with alter
nations Of hope and fear for the result
until yesterday, when the end was fore
Swallowed with a distinctness that could
not be averted. Thus is ended the career
OF one Of the most notable figures in the
political life Of the Republic in his
sixtieth year.
He was born at Albany, New York, in
1928, settled at Utica in 1916 and was
first elected to Congress by the Republic
cans Of Oneida county i'm 1868. From
that time forward he was In Congress
until he resigned in 1881. In 1867 he
was elected from New York to the United
States Senate. During his term of con-
tinuous service Mr.. Conkling helped to
make history for this country, along with
many other men Of his party, many of
whom have passed away. He was an
uncompromising Republican of the
Btraitest sect and took a leading part in
The reconstruction measures following
The war. In the National Conventions of
his party he was a prominent figure and
all Of them in which he shared he
the results, with one notable ex-
That was in the convention of
1880 when he, with the BOG stalwarts,
made one Of the strongest and
most prolonged fights in the history
Il party conventions in this coun-
~ to nominate General Grant for a
bird term. In this he wa doomed to
allure. He and his faithful band adj
Tered together until the last, and were
inally overwhelmed in the rush Of the
Importers Of Blaine. Sherman and the
ther candidates to Garfield. In this
invention Conkling made one Of the
NEST speeches Of his life in nominating
irant, q speech which is famous in the
lterature OF the age. The fight that he
nd the BOG stalwarts made was I'M
qualled In convention history, and their
consistency in adhering to their candi- I
from first to last unparalleled. In
he campaign that followed, however, he
ook the stump for Garfield and by his
peeches was largely instrumental in Sc /,
uring for him the votes Of Ohio, Indiana
nd New York. d
After the election was over he visited :
arield at Mentor and it is part !:
I the unwritten history of the !.
me that he secured from Gar :
cid the promise Of the patronage !,
all Federal appointments in his State. =
he compact then believed to have been :
ltered into was broken by President 4
arfield. Among the first acts of his :
administration was the appointment of :
Obertson to the post of Collector of New !,
,rk. This was in direct violation of the
'reement in question and was a thrust
Conkling, Robertson being especially
n0xi0us to him as a representative of u
form in the political system of which OF
thur, when Collector, was a victim. az
opposed the confirmation of Robertson 10
the Senate to the utmost, and when W
Q Senate refused to second his effort to u
initiate Garfield he resigned the Sena- II
rship and retired from political life in m
sgust. His greatest enemy in political Oil
g was Blaine, and Conkling's reserve al
the last campaign had no little te
do with the loss of New York by the
Id OF Maine in 1884.
He was a prominent figure in the M
,morable electoral count of 1877 when to
J accidency, President Hayes, was ed
zen the Office that rightfully belonged &c
Samuel j. Tilden, being one of the co
ding Republican counsel before the tv
to z commission. During his whole Ce
reer. however, thorough going and un- or
npromising partisan as he was, he We
ssed through a period Of political rot an
mess unexampled in the history of the in
lntry without the faint of suspicion of pa
,ft by the bribery and corruption Ply
'und him. As a leader of his party he
8 domineering and naughty and could /:
endure the p~retensions Of Blaine Or,
III whom he had many a W0rdv tilt. O.,