The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-23
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Muiti-Cnra co. Huntington. Pa
H. Sharpe, Surveyor, and A B. Cornell.
Naval Officer. Conkling fought so well
for his friends as TO defeat the con-
frmation of their successors for over a
year. At last the officials We're removed
and their successors appointed, and
Conkling took his revenge by heading
a movement to nominate Gen. Grant for
third term. Undoubtedly he was very
friendly to Gen. Grant, but his hatred
of Sherman and Blaine was still strong
er. He and Blaine had been bitter per-
sonal and political enemies for "a years,
ever since they had been together in
public life. Both were intensely self
seeking men, and would i'll brook the
pretensions of one another. and Blaine's
celebrated speech, in which he likened
Conkling to a turkey cock, is one of tho
incidents of American
politics. In the Chicago Convention of
1880 Conkling was able to hold his
famous 900 delegates firmly for Gen.
Grant, but the Sherman and Blaine
forces came together and nominated
Gen. James A. Garfield. An attempts
was made to placate Conkling by giving
slowed upon his faithful friend. Chester
A. Arthur. Then it became a burning
question as to how Garfield's Admins
tration would treat Conkling. Garfield
appointed Blaine as Secretary of State
and William Window, of Minnesota,
Secretary of the Treasury, instead Of
Levi P. Morton, whose appointment
Conkling had urged Garfield went still
farther and appointed William H. Rob-
ertson, an anti-Conkling man, for Coi-
lector of New York, without consulting
Conkling. Conkling made a bitter fight
in the Senate against the continuation
of Robertson, but was defeated. Where
upon he and Senator Thomas G. Pl5tt
resigned their seats in the Senate, and
appealed TO the New York Legislature
to vindicate them by a reelection At
ter an exciting canvass Conkling and
Plat were defeated, and Warner Miller
and z. j. Lapham We're elected in their
stead. Upon Vice President Arthurs
accession to the Presidency he appoint
ed Conkling an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, but Conkling declined
this, and died in 1883 from the results
of exposure to the notable blizzard OF
that year.
Capt. J. ID. Foraker.
Capt. ]. B. Foraker, Senator from
Ohio. has had a career comparable WIKI
those of the other distinguished oppo-
nents of their own party Presidents who
have been enumerated. Senator Forak-
err entered the S9th Ohio as the merest
boy, and he was so young that altho ne
had acquitted himself well as a Ser
geant there was long hesitation in tho
Coloners mind about promoting him to
a Second Lieutenant. As young Off
Ger he showed unusual dash and daring,
receiving high compliments from his
superiors. He gained legal education
after he was mustered out, but imme-
diately made his mark in the practise
of the law in Cincinnati, o., and was
elected Judge of the Superior Court OF
Cincinnati in April, 1879, only II years
after he had left the army mere boy
ish Captain with a very imperfect edu-
cation. He grew in public estimation
so rapidly that four years later he was
the choice of the Republican Conven-
ton for Governor of Ohio. At that time
there was one of the periodical out
bursts on the temperance question to
which Ohio is subject. This was on ac-
count of the passage of the Pond law
to tax the saloons regular sum each
year, instead of the practise of regulate
ing them by fines, which had resulted in
the State becoming full of groggeries.
The Pond law was an excellent begin
ming in the way of reducing the NUNS
Der of rum shops and getting them UNI
der control, but it met the violent OPP
position not only of the PrOhibtionists,
but of the free liquor men, and tenn
porarily cost the Republican Party the
German vote. The combination of the
Prohibitionists with the free liquor men
made the struggle hopeless from tho
start, but Foraker went into the cam
vass with his accustomed courage and
vim. The opposition had nominated an
eminent lawyer of Cincinnati, Mr.. Hoad-
ley, the attorney for the SaloonkeeperS
Hoadley had high repu-
tation for forensic ability. and in an
ill-advised moment he entered into
joint discussion with his young oppo-
nent. He was worsted so badly that the
had to admit it with sorreW
and humiliation. Hoadley was elected
by large majority, but Foraker's mag
nificent fight brought him a renomina-
ton and election. He was reelected in
1887, but defeated in 1889, as he had
come into sharp collision with the ass
pirations of John Sherman. His ada!
mirers in Ohio were talking of him fofI
the Presidency, and it soon became q
question which the people of Ohio
would prefer. He was selected to pre-
sent Sherman's name to the Conven-
tons in 1884 and 1883, but there vas
always a feeling that there might be a
sudden bolt and he be made the no,hi-
nee. He was elected to the Senate in
1896 and reelected in 1902, and his
term of service will expire March s.
1909. -