Note 358 — Chapter XII · HOFFMAN DEFEATED, CONKLING PROMOTED 1866
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Conkling and Roberts quarrelled in the early seventies—the former, perhaps, unwilling to have two great men in Oneida County—and Roberts was defeated for Congress in 1874. After that the Utica Herald became Conkling's bitterest enemy. See interviews, New York Herald, November 9, 1877, and New York Tribune, November 10, 1877.