[757] Ibid., p. 783.
[758] The Democratic State convention convened on August 30.
[759] Utica Herald, August 31, 1876.
[760] For Seymour's letter, see New York papers of September 5.
[761] The ballot stood: Potter, 106½; Robinson, 192½; scattering, 59. Necessary to a choice, 191. Before its announcement changes gave Robinson 243½.
The ticket was as follows: Governor, Lucius Robinson, Chemung; Lieutenant-Governor, William Dorsheimer, Erie; Court of Appeals, Robert Earl, Herkimer; Canal Commissioner, Darius A. Ogden, Yates; Prison Inspector, Robert H. Anderson, Kings.
[762] On March 15, several disaffected Democrats met at Syracuse and organised a Greenback party, which opposed the resumption of specie payment and favoured legal tender notes as the standard of value. A second convention, held in New York City on June 1, selected four delegates-at-large to the Democratic national convention, and a third, meeting at Albany on September 26, nominated Richard M. Griffin for governor. Other State nominations were made by the Prohibitionists, Albert J. Groo being selected for governor.
[763] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1876, pp. 785, 786.
[764] Delivered at Utica, October 3. See New York papers, October 4.
[765] It was claimed that in 1862 Tilden had a net income of $89,000. He made oath to $7,118, and afterward acknowledged receiving $20,000 in the Terre Haute Railroad case. He alleged that this covered the work of several years. Moreover, that his income-producing property was largely in railroad stocks, bonds, and other securities on which the tax was deducted by the companies before the interest and dividends were paid.—Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 2, p. 232; see also, Nation, September 22, 1876.