Conkling refused to accept the appointment. He began a struggle in the Senate to block it.

康克林拒绝接受该任命，他在参议院中发起一场反对的斗争。

Conkling was the person you went to if you wanted to get a good job in politics.

如果你想在政治上找到一份好工作，康克林就是你要去的人。

They were wrong. Chester Arthur surprised everyone. He broke all his ties with the Conkling political machine. He remained independent of any party group.

但他们错了。切斯特·亚瑟让所有人都感到惊讶。他断绝了与康克林掌控的政治机器的一切联系，仍然独立于任何政党团体。

An eternity of Grants, or even of Garfields or of Conklings or of Jay Goulds, refused to be conceived as possible.

格兰特的永恒， 甚至加菲猫、康克林斯或杰·古尔兹的永恒， 都被认为是不可能的。

Almost everyone feared Arthur would be a tool of a Republican Party leader in New York, Roscoe Conkling. They were sure Conkling would be the real power in Arthur's administration.

几乎所有人都担心亚瑟会成为纽约共和党领袖罗斯科·康克林的工具，他们确信康克林将是亚瑟政府的真正掌权人。

Garfield denied he had promised anything to Conkling. Then he made Conkling even angrier by appointing one of Conkling's political enemies Collector of Taxes for the port of New York.

加菲尔德否认答应过康克林任何事。后来，他任命康克林的一位政敌出任纽约港的税收工作，此举更加激怒了康克林。

That Whitney financed lawsuits against the validity of Sharp's franchise appears upon the record, and that Ryan was actively promoting the Conkling investigation, is likewise a matter of evidence.

惠特尼资助了针对夏普特许经营权有效性的诉讼，这一点已记录在案，而瑞安正在积极推动对康克林的调查，这同样是一个证据问题。