mers rearoused the moral awakening that refused to tolerate the
Chief Justice in 1874, Beach must have fallen the victim of his
partiality to a coterie of political associates willing to benefit at
the expense of his ruin. As it was he received a plurality of 11,000,
while Seymour and Olcott, his associates upon the ticket, obtained
35,000 and 36,000 respectively.[1601]

[Footnote 1601: 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 _Cyclopaedia_,
1877, p. 566.]

The election of State senators in which Conkling had so vital an
interest exhibited the work of influential Hayes Republicans, who,
openly desiring his destruction, defeated his candidates in Brooklyn,
Rochester, and Utica.[1602] Nevertheless, by carrying eighteen of the
thirty-two districts he saved fighting ground for himself in the
succeeding year.[1603] Indeed, he was able to point to the popular vote
and declare that he was as strong in New York as the President was in
Ohio. It was known, too, that if Morrissey survived, the Senator would
profit by the prize-fighter's remarkable majority of nearly 4,000 over
Augustus Schell, a victory which ranked as the crowning achievement of
the senatorial campaign.[1604] But Morrissey, prostrated by his
exertions, did not live to reciprocate. He spent the winter in Florida
and the early spring in Saratoga. Finally, after the loss of speech,
his right arm, which had so severely punished Yankee Sullivan, became
paralysed, and on May 1 (1878) Lieutenant-governor Dorsheimer
announced his death to the Senate. "It is doubtful," added a colleague
in eulogy, "if such boldness and daring in political annals were ever
shown as he displayed in his last canvass."[1605]

[Footnote 1602: "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