From his enemies he would ask no quarter and would give none.

More than one man of national reputation has been made to feel his power, and suffer the consequences resulting from his ill-will and displeasure.

But for the unfriendliness of Mr.Conkling, Mr.Blaine no doubt would have attained the acme of his ambition in reaching the Presidency of the United States.

It was Mr.Blaine's misfortune to have made an enemy of the one man who, by a stroke of destiny, was so situated as to make it possible for him to prevent the realization of Mr.Blaine's life ambition.

It was due more to Mr.Conkling than to any other one man that Mr.Blaine was defeated for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1876,--the year in which he could have been elected had he been nominated.
Mr.Conkling was too much of a party man to support the Democratic ticket under any circumstances, hence, in 1884, when Mr.Blaine was at length nominated for the Presidency, Mr.Conkling gave the ticket the benefit of his silence.