The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27

in the convention when emissaries of
the Ohio man went to Conkling and Of
fered to give New York the nonina-
ton for vice president. He probably
disagreed with Conkling when he re-
turned the famous remark: mo friend
of mine will take that nomination" He
probably thought 1T was a good way
out of the difficulty when Gen. Arthur
commissioned L. F. Payne to get the
New York delegation for him, having
said: II am tired of being the singed
cat of New York state politics.
HOW PLATT WENT TO THE SEN
ATE.
Mr.. Platt has been permanently 10
Gated in New York city in business
since 1878. He was then living at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, just as he is now.
He was then the president of the Unit
ed States Express company, just as
he is now. But his Office was not at
No. 49 Broadway. 1t was on the east
side of Broadway near Wall street, No.
80. Conkling and his organization did
not acquiesce in the nominatio of Car
field as quickly as was desired 1t took
more than the nomination of Gen. Ar
thur for vice president to heal the
breach. The famous efforts at har-
mony which finally resulted in Conk-
ling taking the stump and Levi P.
Morton assuming charge Of the finan-
ces OF the campaign, extended over
months, and there was still a great
lack Of harmony when the legislature
met in January of the following year
and the canvass began for United
states senator to succeed Francis Ker-
nan. The fight between the Garfield
and machine Republicans was carried
into the senatorial canvass 1t was,
IN TACT, sort of three-sided campaign.
The machine itself was divided Conk-
ing scrupulously kept hands off. Cor
nell, who was then governor, favored
Platt. Vice President Arthur desired
! the election of Richard Crowley. Of
Niagara county, and was particularly
! against Platt. The friends of the adj
min1stration which was to come in at
Washington on the following March
desired to beat both Plat ad Crowley.
and Chauffcey NJ. 2Depew was clearly
their favnritfs rsy George H. Sharpe had
beer efected speaker Of the assembly
in the Interest," of sGrowley He with
held his committees for more than two
weeks in order to influence the caucus.
/ Many Republicans refused to go into
a caucus until these committees were
named, and the caucus was not held
until the third week in January. In
the meantime great bitterness had de-
veloped between the Garfield and ma
chine Republicans, but finally, in the
interest of harmony, Mr. Depew with
drew from the contest and left the
machine to fight it out. The result of
the caucus was: Platt, "a; Crowley, 26:
Rogers, 10; Wheeler, 10; Lapham, 4,
! and Morton. /.
PLATT A CONKLING STALwART.
Senator Conkling was at Washington
during the senatorial canvass, and he
sent to Mr.. Plat, as soon as he heard
of his success, the following telegram:
| II congratulate the Republican party
in the state of New York on the choice
of senator who never apologized for
being a stalwart Republican,
That was not the origin of the term
"stalwart," but Plat was good enough
"stalwart'' for Conkling, and the De-
pew men afterward charged him with
breaking faith. Everybody hailed the
! election of Plat as a settlement. Of
the factional fight in New York state.
! Hustled and Robertson had voted for
Plat. They had broken away from
the machine at the national conven-
ton and had voted for Garfield. But
the hopes of. harmony were short lived.
AT the very outset of the Garfield adj
ministration It became evident that the
bitter enmfty5h between Conkling and
Blaine swEhsoqh MAS Garf1eld's secretary