[629] Bigelow's Life of Tilden, Vol. 1, p. 228.
[630] Ibid., p. 232.
[631] Barnes' Life of Weed, Vol. 2, p. 485.
[632] The ticket was as follows: Governor, John A. Dix of New York; Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Robinson of Broome; Canal Commissioner, Reuben W. Stroud of Onondaga; Prison Inspector, Ezra Graves of Herkimer; Congressman-at-large, Lyman Tremaine of Albany; Thurlow Weed declined to head the electoral ticket, but suggested the name of Frederick Douglass, who was nominated by acclamation.—Barnes, Life of Weed, Vol. 2, p. 486.
[633] New York Tribune, September 6.
[634] New York Tribune, August 23, 1872; New York World, September 10, 1874; Times, September 11.
[635] Among them were Augustus Schell of New York, Francis Kernan of Oneida, Allen C. Beach of Jefferson, then lieutenant-governor, Homer A. Nelson of Dutchess, formerly secretary of state, and Lucius Robinson of Chemung, the distinguished comptroller.
[636] September 6, 1872.
[637] Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 1, p. 226.
[638] The first ballot resulted as follows: Kernan, 42½; Beach, 32; Schell, 24½; Nelson, 10; Church, 11; Robinson, 6; necessary to a choice, 64.