Senator Warner Miller (Half-Breed faction) failed to be nominated by only four votes.

On the next ballot Hiscock received one vote more than Miller (47 to 46), but was one short of the previously established majority of 48.

Thus, by blocking Miller's re-election, the Republican boss Thomas C. Platt took his revenge for his defeat at the special election in 1881.

The Democratic caucus nominated Smith Mead Weed (1834-1920), a lawyer and businessman of Plattsburgh, New York.

In January 1893, Hiscock was defeated for re-election by Democrat Edward Murphy, Jr.