Show O i J 1 tI TEliEGRAPHIC II XBW XeitJC The CeokUq at niry OplIQB8C PImlaeH e < < isl tn A J U The Posttlen of fka Express S te tC Albany 2SAf few members of the lejilature returned late thi ertnin Those who Brit arrived did not knoWof the ConklinfArthur confrr acas inINew York until they reached this city They bad left their homes with the understanding under-standing thkt it vai not at all likely the resigning senators woulddeiire reIlec hoe and even if they did they were in tructedby i their consUtuenU to Tola Instthemx Theiraarprisc1 then efaro was a coQiternatioa tby f r Senator Wagner said I hayo been pending Sunday quietly at my home and know nothing new about the contest con-test except the sentiment of my constituent constitu-ent Tb9 people lon the Mohawk I Valley sre reused up on thii queition ineiyfiTO out of every hundred repub licans are oppoied to the reelection andre very determined in their opposition S oppo-sition S Senator Pius sd I was surprited at the feoling among my conitituentaT The whole district is t on fird and the storm of indignttion against the senators n felt everywhere Any ono who votes for the t return of Senator Conkling dPg bu political I po-litical grave He can never bercelcctsd in that section JvS Assemblyman Skinner said thalJTopIe Ecem of one mind in theiroppoiltion too to-o reelection l of Conkling < < nd Platt Their ranks are swelling crory day and the great macs of the republicans are determined de-termined that the Administration shall bo upheld S Aisembljmen Peck and Chamberlain say they fpund their cone tuDots united on the question and Saturday at a meeting in Canton SLLawrence County he promised the people ho would fulfil their wiihes ia Assemblyman S A Carpenter of SuUolk sid hid contituents were agkinet tho action of Conkliog and Plat but bo favored their ruelcction nererthe lessSo So far os member of the legislature l concotnjd there are few attempt to defend the action of the senators now Ttoo who speak in their behalf argue tbat tbo a ata cannot dispense nitlrlhs tervicu ot Conklicrf that the Senate ii i too evenly divided without the pad sentorso practiced and so serviceable to the republican party andthey claim with fair treatment at tho hands of President Garfield Conkliug will support sup-port his Administration much more effectually than any other senator in the body Ihey fay they feel lure of his being be-ing reelected but aro only anxious to have the vote as I nearly unanimous as possible They claim A clear majority of tho lOG republicans and expect to hold a ctucur As things look tonight crerything dependi upon tLe caucus If all the republicans go into the caucus the probabilities pro-babilities are Conkling will gtt a majority ma-jority voto sod then according to custom the nomination must be made unanimous unani-mous But it is said the Administration members will not attend this caucus or if they do will not ba held by its action if they are outvoted The declaration of the Morning ExP Ex-P a state paper and stalwart organ today that Conkling will belittle him selt if ho enters the canvass asking for reelection hu caused no little surprise At first it was thought the article was inspired in-spired by Governor Cornell but this is denied on good authority which says it Li only the individual opinion of one of the editors But it Is regarded as a very strange expression to t bo found in the colamns of a paper which all lait week insisted upon Conkltcgs vindication by reelecticn Administration members tonight reiterated re-iterated their declarations of last week that they would ga into caucus with the stalwarts If this programme Js carried out and both sections itand apart democrats demo-crats voting for their own cindidate a deadlock uill produced which will last perhaps for week The laet new candidate candi-date J V Starin of Montgomery county is said to be a friend of both Conkling and Garfield and for this rea eon he is urged as a compromise E A Carpenter tonight say Conking Conk-ing and Platt are sure to be elected that here will be a caucus and all but two or three will take part in its proceeding When told that Alvard would not go in ho said it never was expected he would I The following is a copy of the leading editorial which will appear in the morning morn-ing JZrpress tomorrow There nerd be nor shall there be any question of doubt ato where the JSrpreas stands in the senatorial fight It has always been stalwart and is uow more stalwart than ever and ii first and last until tbo cod test shall terminate for stalwart leaders Conkling and Thomas Oi Platt and most heartily approves and endorses their course and wa mOit earnestly appeal to every republican member of tho legislature legisla-ture to afford them that support they EO richly merit by standing steadfast to true republican principles Now York 2SA woman who gave her name as Mrs Maude Anrier and who claimed to be the daughter of an Austrian general visited the Brooklyn police headquarters today and told Chief Campbell a remarkable story She nil ehe married a young officer in the army the Eon ot a German count that soon after ha resigned his commission and re ied tm her to support him they came to his country and took up their abode in San Francisco and as her husband did notdo anj thing she was obliged to support sup-port him by teaching French Her friends advised her to leave him which uodid and came to New York where iDe metLouis Gftstiifelt and he per svudpd J her to marry Mm Then she gave him her money and he started a baker hopi in New York but failing in bud essho wanted her to support him by niproper means Chief Campbell re erred her to Chief Police Walling of New York levr Ejrfc S Tribunes Albany ocratiTinJtho state arc in ecstacy and scarcely able to credit their emotions which i tell = > tlj ni fpr the first time in a number dyerr they ara a body of O contequencm 1itho legislature In a tote l bouts j Abecapitol will be swarming with pohittcianefrdni all sections of the state andm rnbers who dont propose to enter the caucus to be bound to vota for men who propoie toflght the Administration will be subject to A political pressure probably unparalleled in tha recent history of the Male CdnkliDgepresence will be a ourcovof strength and a sign of weakness Ills elections have bsen usually laid at his feet and his coming to Albany to pull wires with his own imperial hand and even to detain with his august finger the button hole oft coy member is a ner thing for him and sharply marks the change in bu fortunes To go into caucus or not is the issuoTipon which the whole contest is now shaping itself The followers of Conkling have undoubtedly a majority of republican of legislature Eighty one votes are necessary totlect a senator There arc 106 republican In the legia latur if the Conklirg faction can induce in-duce eightyone to go into their caucus they will not care in the least whether all vole for Conkljng and Plat in the caucus orTJol thoJ majority would undo un-do btedly ffo ae and it would becla mod ofcourao Uiatall participants wecebound j by its diciiion The great effort of ConkIng Conk-Ing loadefafw ll b Co driteinen into the caucus br tbresoflaughLer at home If these men wont stand by the party here they wont get elected thai all p This WI1S oqq pf Conkljpgf terse ways of suggesting the tomahawk and scalping knife TOn the other hand the mends of the Adrainistralloa think thoycaA show the republicans aro ricder no tooral obligation to enter such caucus J and it is for tho good of that party as well as their own that they shotrdTemMn independent in-dependent of it If only twentysix republicans refuse tOs Center tha caucus and refuse to vote for Conkling and Platt twin candida will have but ri eighty votes and cannot bo eltctcd by I republicans and IwcBtytix ia asal1 Ire tumbar compared with tha whole number oT those who unhesitatingly db approfe the reelection of Conkhng and Pitt barely onohalf and it would seem strange indeed if many more than twantyBlx were not ready to fight it i out an Ibis line ifit took all lummer Chicago 23 InterOceans New York Jonkliog permitted it to be announced an-nounced tonijnt that ha would go to Albany tomorrow morning Here sul Wt profess greater confidence since the conference claining that eight of the thirty republicans who pledged them Belrei to keep out of the caucus have recanted re-canted Albany23 Halfbreeds are wild Oyer thirtytwo signatures to the document pledging the not going into the caucus oitb the supporters of Conkling and Platt or opponents of the Administra ion This willdefi5at the resigning senators sen-ators The leading candidates are Do pew and General Wadsworth The latter lat-ter j ambitious and has a fprtuna of I 2OpOWO A S The Tntotne thus summarizes iU Al bany dispatches < < The senatorial caucus proceeds actively Albany Th defeat 01 Conkling and Platt deemed as certain as enough republicans to insure it have signed a pledge not to go into the caucus cau-cus The susmbly conmitUo desIres < ht the caucus shall be held on Tbuh day but the senate committee has not yet acted on the proposal There is i talk electing Cornell and Depew IU acorn promise Public sentiment throughout the i state is strongly against Cookling and Platt and one of the greatest tur mnll U expected Conkling remained a t the Fifth AvenueJIolel awaiting news from Albany It was announced in the evening that ho and PJatt would go to the Capitol Tribune editorial It teems Conkling has determined to fight for reelbCtion to the seat which ha deserted A reelec tion by a legislature chosen as being sub ject to his will could do him no good He needu and he evidently seeks tome thing else by republican rotes Conkling kbowt that he cannot bo elected elec-ted I He hQpes to be elected by democratic demo-cratic tote so that he my return to Washington free from all obligations to the republican party For several days it has been certain Conkling could be reelected re-elected if at all only by vbtes by the democrat Tne absence ab-sence oftwentyieven republican mem bers from the republican CAUCUS will make it plain that the nominee of that caucus cannot elected unless by democratic aid More than forty repub licans pledged themselves some days ago not to lake pirtor t > belbound by any tuch caucus In the legislature Conk ling will need eightyone votes and over fifty of thfjlOG republicans have pledged themselves not to vote for his reelection The republicans of New York should un derstand that Conkling no longer hopes for reelection by them ho ii seeking democratic votes He dreams of creating a now Conkling party composed of personal per-sonal adherents and interested followers of both parties His personal organ the Herald pours out ill fooling and probably prob-ably bis own This will not be found a good state for polilicalJJeaedict Arnold If Conkling wants to support the republican repub-lican party why did he leave it in a minority mi-nority in the Senate and abandon the southern independents had staked 10 much up on the republican party But if Conkling wants to help the democratic partyand to make war upon the repub lican of tho senate who have declined to do his bidding what right has he to look for tbo vote of a single republican of this state |