Excerpt from The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt: With Twenty Portraits in Sepia Compiled
Conkling Declines to Aid Garfield - He and Grant Take the Field When I Exact Pledges from the Candidate - Garfield Elected - His Written Thanks for My Services.; Initial Election to the U. S. Senate - Garfield Repudiates His Promises to Me - Conkling and I Resign - We Appeal to the Legislature - Both Defeated for Reelection - Genesis of the Stalwart-Half-Breed Imbroglio - Garfield Assassinated - Arthur President - Lives of Arthur, Conkling and Myself Threatened.; Am Instrumental in Choosing Folger for Governor - Origin and History of the Famous "Forged Telegram" - Half-breeds Knife and Defeat Folger - Conkling Quits Politics and Surrenders the Titular Leadership to Me - I Rehabilitate the Machine and Elect the State Ticket.; I Disown Arthur for Following Garfield's Practices - Advocate Blaine's Nomination for the Presidency - Oppose Roosevelt, Curtis, et al.. Who Favor Edmunds - Blaine Nominated - Mugwumps Massacre Him - Cleveland President - Estimates of Arthur and Blaine.; I Join in Electing Hiscock U. S. Senator - Remarkable and Unprecedented Feat of Swinging the Entire Morton Phalanx to Hiscock to Defeat Miller.; I am Removed by Governor Hill from the Quarantine Commissionership - The Trial a Farce - Acrimonious Correspondence with the Judge Who Presided - My Friends Cause His Permanent Retirement from the Bench.
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