Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-18

W9I/1fSlIlRff$A AW staggered down the WI///I/T1}SlllE$A.W steps. He caught noe,,o,, ,o,,,-,, hold of the big
 ~ brown railing and, steadying himself, said in tremulous tones: "Mr. Conkling's lungs are filling up with ex- travasated blood He cannot last long," The doctor then walked slowly to his carriage. It has been seldom in his long career that he has been so affected
 At 6:2O p. m. it was deemed best to call Mrs Conkling, who was sleeping. A light touch suffced to awake her, and the first question she asked was, 'tHow is heY' She was told the condition of the senator, and she sadly walked into the sick room and took her accustomed place at the bedside.
 At 8:25 considerable excitement was caused by the report that MT. Conkling was dead It seems that the nurse had left the room for a moment to attend to some business outside the house. One of the reporters, thinking he was going for the doctor, asked him. ''Is the senator deadY' Nurse nodded his head in the affirmative. The report sent to the Hoffman house, and in few moments it went over the ticker that Mr. Conkling was dead.
 After that in MT. Conkling's apartments everything was quiet, save for the occasional tramp of the nurse across the door The messages that came down stairs were all of
 
 up hope. Roscoe Conlxling was born in Albany Oct 30, 1928. His father, Alfred Conkling, was judge of the United States district court by appointment of President John Quincy Adams in 1895. He had served as a representative in the Seventeenth congress, and in 1852 was appointed by President Fillmore to be minis ter to Mexico.
 Roscoe attended the common schools of AL
  to study the classics. His father removed from Albany to Auburn, and later to Geneva, where Roscoe studied law.
 After he had read law with his father for a time he entered the office of Spencer & Ker- nan, in Utica. Conkling was prepared for the bar before he attained his majority, and made no small impression as an advocate while yet minor. He was admitted to the bar on his 21st birthday.
 As lawyer he was remarkably successful from the beginning in criminal practice, and the nature of his public office in Utica kept him constantly busy with criminal cases.
 In 1858 he married Julia Seymour, young est sister of Horatio Seymour. This mar riage was not altogether pleasing to the Sey- mour family, but there was marked oppo- sition to it, and after time the Seymours were among the most steadfast friends that Conkiing had
 Shortly after his marriage Mr. Conkling was elected mayor of Utica, and at the same election J. C. Hoyt and Charles s. Wilson were tied for the district attorneyship Neither of the candidates was qualified for the office, therefore, and MT. Conkling, who was the incumbent at the time, held over for the remainder of the term, serving as mayor and district attorney at the same time In the fall of the same year he made his first at tempt to get into congress. Mir. Conkling secured the nomination and eventually the election.
 He was reelected in 1860, and in the extra session called by President Lincoln he took a. | leading part. He was then chairman of the l committee on the District of Columbia, and of a special committee appointed to frame a bankruptcy law.
 | Mir. Conkling's attitude on the great oues- tions oi the time was pronounced against war, bot not in favor of abolition. Mr. Conkline. was in favor of compromise with the south ern states on the slavery issue, if thereby a war might be avoided.
 When war proved inevitable he was one of the most ardent supporters of the administra- tion of President Lincoln, and an uncom- promising advocate of a vigorous prosecution | of the conflict.
 When he ran for the Thirty -eigth congress he was defeated by Francis Herman, his in. structor in law. For the two years which by reason of this defeat, he passed in private life, MT. Conkling practised law in Utica and laid the wires for another campaign The work was well done, and MT. Conkling was elected, again running in opposition te | MT. Herman. He entered the Thirty ninth congress man with national reputation for brilliant oratory and good party manage ment.
 He was reelected to the house in 1866, but before congress assembled he was chosen sue cessor to Judge Ira Harris in the senate. H. resigned his seat in the house and entered tn, the senate on March 4, 1867. He was re elected in 1873 and again in 1879. l MT. Conkling had the honor of being linen tioned" for the presidential nomination by the Republican party as early as the cam paign of 1876.
 From the latter part of Grants second term to 1880 the third term idea was agi tated, and Mr. Conkling advocated 1t iron the start In 1880, although his own nam was backed with considerable strength fo tic nomination, he led the famous ''S06