The ticket nominated by the two conventions was as follows: Governor, Francis Kernan of Oneida, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, Chauncey M. Depew of Westchester, Liberal; Canal Commissioner, John Hubbard of Chenango, Democrat; Prison Inspector, Enos C. Brooks of Cattaraugus, Liberal; 1 Congressman-at-large, Samuel S. Cox of New York, Democrat.
[639] New York Tribune, September 6, 1872.
[640] Attorney-General Champlain had publicly announced his purpose to authorise O'Conor to bring such suits before the Committee of Seventy had had its interview with the Governor.—Tilden's Public Writings and Speeches, Vol. 1, p. 590.
[641] James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 6, p. 401, note.
[642] Elected in 1844 and 1847. Declined a renomination in 1849.
[643] New York Tribune, September 5, 1872.
[644] Ibid., May 22, 1872.
[645] Twenty Years in Congress, Vol. 2, p. 534.
[646] "We asked our contemporary [World] to state frankly whether the pugilists, blacklegs, thieves, burglars, keepers of dens of prostitution, etc., etc., who make up so large a share of our city's inhabitants, were not almost unanimously Democrats."—Tribune, January 4, 1868.
"So every one who chooses to live by pugilism, or gambling, or harlotry, with nearly every keeper of a tippling house, is politically a Democrat.... A purely selfish interest attaches the lewd, ruffianly, criminal and dangerous class to the Democratic party by the instinct of self-preservation."—Ibid., January 7. Conkling quoted these extracts in his Cooper Institute speech of July 23.—New York Times, July 24, 1872.