Year: 1876

CFrOm the Troy Budget, formerly Bristow organ. J


Senator ConkliDg's great strength in this
State becomes more apparent every day. The
entire Republican press of the State, without
an exception, so far as we have observed, is
unanimous in the opinion that If the great
New York Senator is put in nomination for the
Presidency he will sweep the Empire State by
q majority Of many thousands, no matter who
is put up against him. No man in the State
has such commanding elements of leadership
in his character, and no one can set so many
influential meu at work to secure success as
can Mr.. Conkling. Once that he is nominated
the great Republican partyof the State would
be organized in every school district, and down
to the last man, into an effective, solid and CO.
herent army that would march on irresistibly
to certain victory. Our politicians all know
this and feel 1t as none outside of the State can
know and feel it. Some of the dilettante poll
ticians are in the habit of deriding what is
ling's nomination "the machine" in this State
would mean all that organization, concentrated
Republican sentiment, wealth, political sagaci-
ty, tireless energy, comprehensive and able
leadership, can mean, combined as solid pop
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would move on irresistibly to assured victory,
and the Democratic opposing forces would 90
down into defeat as certainly before its on
ward movement as the dry stubble goes down
before the consuming fire. No man in the
country has achieved such splendid political
victories as have marked the career of Roscoe
Conkling. He is not yet forty-seven years old.
he never was beaten but once, and that was
In 1862, when his brothor-in- law, Horatio Sey-
mour, was elected Governor, and when for a
brief time the Copperhead element got control
of the State government. Then he was beaten
for Congress In the Oneida district by small
majority, by q combination of all the rotten
elements in the district. He was but twenty
one years of age when he became district at
torney of Oneida county. This was in 1850.
In 1858 he was elected mayor of Utica by q
large majority, and the same year to Congress
by sweeping vote, and although the youngest
member of the House he Immediately took
position as one of the most eloquent and bril-
liant debaters of that body. He was reelected
in 1S6O, and beaten in 1862, and that defeat
showed the great reserve force, power and
energy Of the man. A defeat for third term
for Congress is usually the end of an aspiring
politician. Not so with Roscoe Copkling. In
1864 he again ran for Congress, and was
elected by an unprecedented majority. IL the
two years he was out of Congress he unearthed


glaring frauds in enlistments and bOunties to
soldiers, rendered the State and the nation


most effective service in the most trying period


in the history of each, and received therefor
the thanks Of the War Department. When
he again ran for Congress in 1866, there was
a powerful and wealthy combination to defeat
him. But he triumphed then by even an
increased majority. From the House he was
elected to the United States Senate, and re-
elected for the second term. In the small
arts Of sycophancy, fattery and Uriah Heep-
ism, OUnkling is not success. But when 1t
comes to the use of fighting qualities where
all the elements of great leadership are re-
quired, Conkliug comes out peerless and COM
manding, and looms up among his fellows like
a very giant among pigmies. A native OF the
State of New York, no man who ever lived In
the limits of the State has exhibited greater
power Of eloquence and convincing argument
on the stump before the people. When he
enters the fray his clarion notes always as
sure success. II he is nominated as the Re-
publican Presidential candidate, New York is
as certain to give him large majority as
that the sun will rise on election day, no matter
who is put up against him. His nomination
would be the certain harbinger of Republican
victory in the Empire State-and that means
victory In the majority of the States of the
Union. The nation is now looking around for
an honest man for the Presidency, and one,
too, who has all the higher and better quail
ties of craftsmanship. They needn't 90 farther
than Roscoe Conkling to find man who fills
the BILL. "Without fear and without re-