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Show "My Sentiments," Says Conklingf. New YoBxy October 30 A gentleman as close to Mr. Conkling as any man in the State, both personally and politically, has given for publication the following statement, state-ment, which he vouches for; and which, it is assured, is entirely authentic. He has conversed con-versed with Mr. Conkling about the interview inter-view published, and he reports Mr. Conkling to have said, in referenoe to it: "The sentiment senti-ment expresses my conviction regarding the head of the Republican State ticket. I do not deny, and never will deny, having uttered the sentiments concerning Mr. Davenport that are attributed tome. " The gentleman said, further, expressing what are his own, and what he believes to be Mr, Conkling's views: "As regards Mr. Conkling and his friends, and their belief that the election of Mr. Davenport would be inimioal to the best interests of the Republican party, I want to say this: - Mr. Davenport represents repre-sents an element whioh, if dominant, means our party's ruin. Men of his affiliations have controlled the party machine in this State for the last four years, and the result has been a succession of Republican defeats. He is practically a stool-pigeon of Jim Blaine's, and his election would result in the first move of the Maine statesman toward a reconciliation in 1888." The gentleman gives as the reason for Mr. Conkling's opposition oppo-sition to Davenport the course of the latter during the Senatorial contest in 1881. |