[846] The Utica Republican, July 1, 1878.
[847] New York Times (correspondence), September 27.
[848] A single roll-call resulted as follows: George F. Danforth, Monroe, 226; Joshua M. Van Cott, Kings, 99; George Parsons, Westchester, 79. The Prohibition State convention, which assembled at Albany on April 24, had nominated Van Cott.
[849] "The Democratic convention at Syracuse was perhaps the noisiest, most rowdy, ill-natured, and riotous body of men which ever represented the ruling party of a great Commonwealth."—The Nation, October 3.
[850] Cooper had resigned from Tammany in 1877.
[851] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1878, p. 624.
[852] The Nation, October 3.
[853] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1878, p. 623.
[854] New York Tribune, October 8 and 16.
[855] See [Chapter XXVII.], pp. [350], [351], note.