Show ALBANY Agitation Among AH Parlies What Slush We Do Albany 21 The joint convention ballot for the short term was Lap ham 05 Potter 45 Conkling 28 Woodford 1 senator Gorster voted for Lapham instead of Evarts Necessary to choice 71 Adjourned There is more activity at the hotels tonight than for several weeks The halfbreeds and stalwarts stal-warts are apparently greatly exercised exer-cised The stalwarts are demanding a caucus intimating that they will even vote for the nomination of Lapham Halfbreeds stand firm against a caucus they say to hold a caucus now will be to admit that they were responsible for the existence exist-ence of the deadlock from the first and that it is only to put them in that position that the stalwarts are clamoring for a caucus Tim stalwarts stal-warts they say will claim that if the caucus was held at the commencement com-mencement of the contest an election elec-tion would have taken place the next day The democrats also are considerably consid-erably exercised They know they can break the dead lock by simply remaining away to allow the election elec-tion of Lapham but fear if they do this they will render themselves liable to a charge of having been bribed Some think they ought to run that risk inasmuch as they think they are now being made tools by the stalwarts They say the stalwarts while ostensibly are demanding de-manding a caucus and base their holding out on that ground their real object is to prevent Robertson from taking the New York collector ship To accomplish this they say the stalwarts will stand out till the 31st of December next The democrats demo-crats are seriou3ly considering whether they should not end the dead look in the way stated above i and appeal to the people to sustain them and at the same time relieve them from any unjust suspicions |