[462] New York Nation, September 30, 1869.
[463] New York World, January 12, 1869.
[464] Gustavus Myers, History of Tammany Hall, p. 274.
[465] New York Tribune, July 24, 1869.
[466] New York Tribune, July 24, 1869.
[467] Ibid., July 22.
[468] Ibid., July 24, and 29.
[469] The Republican State convention, held at Syracuse on September 30, 1869, nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, George William Curtis, Richmond; Comptroller Thomas Hillhouse, Ontario; Treasurer, Thomas S. Chatfield, Tioga; Attorney-General, Martin I. Townsend, Rensselaer; Engineer and Surveyor, John C. Robinson, Broome; Canal Commissioner, Stephen F. Hoyt, Steuben; Prison Inspector, Daniel D. Conover, New York; Court of Appeals, Lewis B. Woodruff, New York; Charles Mason, Madison.
Franz Sigel, Horace Greeley, and William B. Taylor of Oneida were subsequently substituted for Curtis, Hillhouse, and Robinson.
[470] New York Tribune, October 11, 1869.