- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index
The Garfield Years
The Garfield Years
- Chapter:
- (p.245) 27 The Garfield Years
- Source:
- Reminiscences of an Active Life
- Author(s):
John Roy Lynch
, John Hope Franklin- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter studies the Garfield administration, which started out under most favorable auspices. Roscoe Conkling took an active and leading part in the Senate as a champion and spokesman of the administration. He seemed to have taken it for granted that, although his bitter enemy in the person of James G. Blaine was secretary of state, his own influence with the administration would be potential. In conversation with his personal friends, he insisted that this was a part of the agreement that had been made and entered into at the famous Mentor Conference, about which so much had been said and published. If it were true that Conkling's control of the federal patronage in New York in the event of Republican success was part of the agreement that was made and entered into at the celebrated Mentor Conference, it transpired that Blaine had sufficient influence with the president to bring about its repudiation.
Keywords: Garfield administration, Roscoe Conkling, United States Senate, James G. Blaine, Mentor Conference, federal patronage, New York, Republican party
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index
