Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — Conkling Prefers Money-Making to Politics. [ARTICLE]

Conkling Prefers Money-Making to Politics.

[Albany telegram.] A gentleman who had a conversation with Mr. Conkling on politics says that the exSenator treated the discussion of his name as a fusion candidate with his usual contempt He did not know whereof any newspaper got authority for making him a candidate for Senator or for' any other office. He assured the gentleman that he was out of politics and in the,business of making money. «:- - - - A SNKAK-thtee entered the room of Steve Dorsey, tn a St. Louis hotel, and stole the sl.«w gold watch presented him. at the Delmonlco dinner just after Garfield's election, f