on N. Potter permanent chairman, and turned over the party
machine. Pursuing their victory the conquerors likewise nominated a
new ticket.[1594] Quarter was neither asked nor offered. Robinson had
squarely raised the issue that refusal to continue the old officials
would be repudiation of reform, and his friends, as firmly united in
defeat as in victory, voted with a calm indifference to the threats of
the allied power of canal ring and municipal corruptionists. Indeed,
their boast of going down with colours flying supplemented the
vigorous remark of the Governor that there could be no compromise with
Tweed and canal thieves.[1595]

[Footnote 1594: Secretary of State, Allen C. Beach, Jefferson;
Comptroller, Frederick P. Olcott, Albany; Treasurer, James Mackin,
Dutchess; Attorney-General, Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr., Ulster;
Engineer, Horatio Seymour, Jr., Oneida.

On October 6, a convention of Labor Reformers, held at Troy, nominated
a State ticket with John J. Junio for Secretary of State. The
Prohibition and Greenback parties also nominated State officers, Henry
Hagner and Francis E. Spinner being their candidates for secretary of
state. The Social Democrats likewise presented a ticket with James
McIntosh at its head.]

[Footnote 1595: New York _Tribune_, October 4.]

This apparently disastrous result encouraged the hope that
Republicans, in spite of Conkling's indiscretion at Rochester, might
profit by it as they did in 1871. Upon the surface Republican
differences did not indicate bitterness. Except in the newspapers no
organised opposition to the Senator had appeared, and the only mass
meeting called to protest against the action of the Rochester
convention appealed for harmony and endorsed the Republican
candidates.[1596] Even Curtis, the principal speaker, although
indulging in some trenchant criticism, limited his remarks to a
defence of the Administration. Nevertheless, the presence of William
J. Bacon, congressman from the Oneida district, who voiced an intense
admiration for the President and his policies, emphasised the fact
that the Senator's home people had elected a Hayes Republican. Indeed,
the Senator deemed it essential to establish an organ, and in October
(1877) the publication of the Utica _Republican_ began under the
guidance of Lewis Lawrence, an intimate friend. It lived less than two
years, but while it survived it reflected the thoughts and feelings of
its sponsor.[1597]

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