The acme magazine . ? a possible compro-mise, should no Republican stand achance of election) came in for 3; thetwo Labor men still held to Potter, andthere was still one for Ludlow and onefor some other candidate not previouslymentioned. Sewell was now concededly beaten;Abbett was tottering and a dark horsewas likely to win, and the situation wasrapidly becoming one of absorbing in-terest. When the joint meeting convened thenext day Mr. Throckmorton moved fora recess till 4 oclock. When pressedfor a reason he said his motion was madein the belief that by a sincere effort tofind him, the right
The acme magazine . ? a possible compro-mise, should no Republican stand achance of election) came in for 3; thetwo Labor men still held to Potter, andthere was still one for Ludlow and onefor some other candidate not previouslymentioned. Sewell was now concededly beaten;Abbett was tottering and a dark horsewas likely to win, and the situation wasrapidly becoming one of absorbing in-terest. When the joint meeting convened thenext day Mr. Throckmorton moved fora recess till 4 oclock. When pressedfor a reason he said his motion was madein the belief that by a sincere effort tofind him, the right man for Senator couldbe found and with a disposition to har-monize all difficulties he felt that, iffound, such a one could be elected beforethe close of the days balloting. Thefriends of Governor Abbett voted againstit, but the motion was carried and therecess taken. On reassembling a ballot was takenamid indications of profound solicitude,and when the result was announced itwas found that Rufus Blodgett, not pre-. David S. Crater. viously voted for in any of the ballotings,had received 39 votes to 38 for Abbett, 2for Sewell, 1 for Kays, and 1 for was still no choice, but the resulttrembled in the balance. The second ballot was then taken amidmanifestations of increasing excitement,and before its announcement the tallyshowed that Blodgftt had 41, Abbett had39, and Potter still turned up with , Democrat, and Dickinson, Re-publican, had gone to Blodgett, andLetts, Republican, had changed fromSewell to Abbett, while Donohue re-mained faithful to Potter. Before theannouncement an effort was made toswing the Abbett men to Sewell, but itcould not be done, and, in spite of themost strenuous efforts to prevent, Presi-dent Fish announced the result of theballot and officially declared RufusBlodgett elected to the Senate of theUnited States for the ensuing term of sixyears, beginning on the 4th day of thecurrent month. The long agony was over. Congratu-lations and
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