than for Conkling. Under these circumstances the Senator
naturally turned to Cornell, an efficient lieutenant, who, having
encountered heavy seas and a head wind, hoisted the signal of distress
and waited for Conkling's coming. The Senator, however, did not
appear. His rooms were engaged, his name was added to the hotel
register, and Cornell's expectant friends declared that he would again
capture the convention with his oratory; but Conkling, knowing that in
political conventions the power of oratory depended largely upon
pledged delegations, prudently stayed away. Besides, he was not a
delegate, his partisans in Oneida having been put to rout. This forced
the withdrawal of Cornell, whose delegates, drifting to Morgan as the
lesser of two evils, nominated him on the first ballot.[1500] Evarts
was too great a man to be lifted into national prominence.

[Footnote 1500: Whole number of votes cast, 410. Necessary to a choice,
206. Morgan received 242; Evarts, 126; Robertson, 24; Martin, 1;
Townsend, 18.]

For lieutenant-governor, Sherman S. Rogers of Erie and Theodore M.
Pomeroy of Cayuga entered the lists. Encouraged by the folly of a few
rash friends, Cornell also allowed his name to be presented, "since he
had been grievously wronged," said his eulogist, "in the dishonest
count of 1868."[1501] Cornell had adroitly extricated himself from
humiliating defeat in the morning by a timely withdrawal, but not
until George William Curtis declared his nomination "the most
dangerous that could be made," and William B. Woodin of Cayuga had
stigmatised him, did he fully appreciate his unpopularity as the
representative of machine methods. Woodin's attack upon Cornell
undoubtedly weakened Pomeroy. It possessed the delectable acidity, so
reckless in spirit, but so delightful in form, that always made the
distinguished State senator's remarks attractive and diverting.
Although whatever weakened Pomeroy naturally strengthened Rogers, it
added greatly to the latter's influence that he represented the home
of William Dorsheimer, whom the Democrats would renominate, and in the
end the Buffalonian won by a handsome majority.[1502]

[Footnote 1501: New York _Tribune_, August 24.]

[Footnote 1502: The ballot resulted: Rogers, 240; Pomeroy, 178.
Necessary to a choice, 210.

The ticket was as follows: Governor, Edwin D. Morgan, New York;
Lieutenant-Governor, Sherman S. Rogers, Erie; Court of Appeals, George
F. Danforth, Monroe; Canal Com