[555] "I received the list of the convention committees from the State committee with express assurance that the list represented fairly the two wings of the party. I had no reason then, and have no reason now, to believe that the State committee abused my confidence."—White, Autobiography, Vol. 1, p. 166.
[556] New York Tribune, September 29, 1871.
[557] New York Tribune, September 28, 1871.
[558] "Such a speech, in its terms, its forcible eloquence, its overwhelming results, was perhaps never heard in a similar assemblage. Many of Senator Conkling's friends insist that this was one of his most remarkable speeches."—Alfred R. Conkling, Life of Roscoe Conkling, p. 341.
[559] Syracuse Standard, New York Times, September 28, 1871.
[560] "Just as the whole convention had agreed upon the compromise, Conkling arose and ordered his office-holders to reject it."—New York Evening Post, September 29.
[561] New York Tribune, June 1, 1871.
[562] New York Tribune, September 29, 1871.
[563] The State ticket was as follows: Secretary of State, G. Hilton Scribner, Westchester; Comptroller, Nelson K. Hopkins, Erie; Treasurer, Thomas Raines, Monroe; Attorney-General, Francis C. Barlow, New York; Engineer, William B. Taylor, Oneida; Canal Commissioner, Alexander Barkley, Washington; Prison Inspector, Thomas Kirkpatrick, Cayuga.
[564] New York Tribune, September 29, 1871.