The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-15
The Second Volume Also
Interesting.
HIS PART IN HAYES CABINET
History OF the Famous Blaine Conkllng
Controversy Given-The Results
of This Quarrel.

DETROIT, Nov. 1.-THE attention of
General R. A. Alger was called to the
reference to him in the second volume of
Senator Sherman's memoirs, the proof
sheets of which have been sent to var
ious newspapers throughout the country.
General Alger SAID:
81 am very much surprised that Sena-
tor Sherman, laboring under the disap-
pointment of not receiving a nomination
should connect my name with it. Ii he
knows anything about the matter, he
knows his charges against me are with
out foundation. There never was time
when his combined vote, and mine
would have nominated him in 1888. My
request to my friends was that in case
my nomination was not possible, they
should cast their votes for General Har-
rison, believing that soldier should be
nominated. 1 asked them as a second
choice to support Senator Sherman. If
any money was used, which 1 do not be-
lieve, to purchase votes from the South,
it was against my positive instructions,
and no bill of the kind has ever been
presented to me or paid by me-"
The quotations from Senator Sher-
mans second volume to which General
Alger excepts are those in which Mr..
Sherman, in referring to the contests for
the presidential nomination of 1888,
writes:
''I believe, and had, though, conclu-
sive proof that friends of General Alger
substantially purchased the votes of
many delegates from the Southern states
who had been instructed in their con-
ventions to vote for me-"
Senator Sherman, in this volume,
dwells upon the history of his party in
the Hayes cabinet and gives pretty
complete history of the famous contro-
versy between Blaine and Conkling
which was a momentous event in the
political history of the next few years.
It resulted, he says, in the nomination
dent of Chester A. Arthur, and so re-
suited in putting into the Office of presi-
dent the very man whom few years be-
fore-ln 1878-Senator Sherman, as
member of the Hayes cabinet, had re-
moved from the Office of collector of the
port of New York for "good cause" In
speaking of the contest for the nomina-
tion of 1888, Mr.. Sherman says he was
convinced that Blaine was not candi-
date and that he was confident that he
was to be nominated. He adds:
"On Monday, June 25, did not anti
cipate a change on the first ballot from
the last one on Saturday. 1 did expect
from my dispatches that the nomination
would be made that day in my favor,
but as the result proved, an arrangement
had been made on Saturday that prac-
tically secured the nomination of Harri-
son. From the best Information could
gather, 1 have no hesitation in express
irg the opinion that was defeated for
the nomination by New York.
81 believed then, as now, that one of
the delegates from New York practically
controlled the whole delegation, and that
a corrupt bargain was made on Sunday
which transferred the great body of the
vote of New York to General Harrison
and led to his nomination. 1t is to the
credit of General Harrison to say that il
the reputed bargain was made, it was
made without his consent at that time,
nor did he carry it into execution.
The Sick and the Dead.
NIAGARA, Nov. 14.-Mrs. Mary Ben
field, widow of William Benfeld, died al