[507] "Governor Fenton and his friends were lukewarm throughout the campaign, the Governor absenting himself from the State much of the time. Late in October he returned from the Western States, and on the 31st, five days before election, he made a speech." From Conkling's speech of July 22, 1872. New York Times, July 24.
[508] New York Times, November 7, 1870.
[509] Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1870.
[510] Harper's Weekly, October 29, 1870.
[511] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1870, pp. 543, 544; Frank J. Goodnow in Bryce's American Commonwealth, Vol. 1, p. 342.
[512] New York World, March 29, 1870.
[513] Ibid., June 13, 1871.
[514] Ibid., Oct. 28, 1870.
[515] Hoffman over Woodford, 33,096. James S. Graham, Labor Reform candidate, received 1,907 votes, and Myron H. Clark, Temperance candidate, 1,459 votes. Assembly, 65 Democrats to 63 Republicans; Senate, 17 Democrats to 14 Republicans. Hall's majority, 23,811. Hoffman's majority in New York City, 52,037, being 16,000 less than in 1868. Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1870, p. 547.
[516] Myers, History of Tammany, p. 276.