[837] "The Utica Republican is an aggressive sheet. It calls George William Curtis 'the Apostle of Swash.'"—New York Tribune, October 27.
[838] Ibid., November 2.
[839] Democrats elected a governor by 22,520 plurality and carried the Legislature by forty on joint ballot.—Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1877, p. 621.
[840] New York Tribune, November 3, 1877.
[841] Total vote of John J. Junio (Labour Reformer), 20,282; Henry Hagner (Prohibitionist), 7,230; John McIntosh (Social Democrat), 1,799; Francis E. Spinner (Greenback), 997.—Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1877, p. 566.
[842] "We elected our district attorney by 2,336 majority, but the candidate for State senator, who was known to represent Senator Conkling, although personally popular and most deserving, was beaten by 1,133.... It is fair to say that the unpopularity of the federal office-holders, who are Mr. Conkling's most zealous supporters, is in part the cause of this remarkable result." Interview of Ellis H. Roberts.—New York Tribune, November 10, 1877.
"The energies of all the opposition to me were concentrated upon that district. I believe Tammany and the lofty coterie of Republican gentlemen in this city (New York) threw money into my district to carry it against me.... Had we been sufficiently aroused and sagacious we could have defeated this manœuvre, but we found out too late. We sent the tickets to the polls, in the ward in which I live, at daylight, as did the Democrats. Not one of our tickets was found at the polls. They were all thrown into the canal." Interview with Conkling.—New York Herald, November 9, 1877.
[843] The Legislature of 1878 had in the Senate: 18 Republicans, 13 Democrats, 1 Independent; in the Assembly: 66 Republicans, 61 Democrats, 1 Independent.
[844] Tammany elected its entire county ticket. Its majority for the State ticket was 30,520.
[845] New York Times, May 2, 1878.