Modern battles of Trenton .. . hings everybody knew they had to do. One of the unanticipated excitements was the removal of from his Clerkship, within a week after he had beeninducted into the office, on charges of having entered into a dis-creditable deal concerning one of the subordinate places at hisdisposal. In order to secure votes for himself for the Clerkshiphe had promised the Journal Clerkship to two men, one Sayreand one Bamford. It was of course impossible for the two tohave the one position, and a hat was brought and two ballotswere put into it. The rivals drew from th
Modern battles of Trenton .. . hings everybody knew they had to do. One of the unanticipated excitements was the removal of from his Clerkship, within a week after he had beeninducted into the office, on charges of having entered into a dis-creditable deal concerning one of the subordinate places at hisdisposal. In order to secure votes for himself for the Clerkshiphe had promised the Journal Clerkship to two men, one Sayreand one Bamford. It was of course impossible for the two tohave the one position, and a hat was brought and two ballotswere put into it. The rivals drew from the hat on the under-standing that he who picked up the one with No. 1 markedon it was to have the coveted place and to recompense the otherwith his three-months note for $500 with Mr. Carpenters in-dorsement upon it. Bamford drew the lucky slip and handedthe promised note over to Sayre. No one would ever haveheard anything about the transaction if, after the drawing, had put Bamford in the promised position. He wa*. John P. Stockton. 108 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. subjected, however, by the members who had given him his ownplace, to enormous pressure for the appointment of a third man,and he weakly yielded to it. Sayre had been shrewd enough, immediately after he receivedthe note, to sell it to an innocent third party and the disap-pointed and angry Bamford, finding himself responsible for thedebt and minus the office which he supposed he had boughtwith it, began a suit against Carpenter for misrepresentation andfraud. The affair became so notoriously public that the Housecould not close its eyes to the transaction, and a committee, con-sisting of Samuel Morrow, Alexander T. McGill, Charles , Henry Moffett and Henry B. Wilson, appointedto inquire into it, concluded that from first to last the transac-tion was wholly disreputable, and deserving unmistakablerebuke more than mere censure. Captain Gill, supportedby Assemblymen Carey and Edward F. McDonald,
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