New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-05
TIE ROCIIESTER CONVENTION

| THE FAILURE OF ALL THEIR
| PLANs-THE CONVENTION DENOUNCED BY
THE GERMANs-A PLATFORM ADOPTED, BUT
| NO NOMINATIONS MADE-ANoTnER sTRUG-
GLE FOR SUPREMACY EXPECTED TO-DAY.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 4.--When Tweed came on the
scene last night the Ring had few to champion 1t.
The Rcformers were aglow with the prospective
easy and assured victory, and the Ring men, with
ont their leader said little When the leader OF the
Ring came upon the scene the vague threats OF vio
lence were hushed, and vague rumors of compromise
began to fill tho air. The Anti-Tammany men, un-
der the impulse of the new danger, were rallied
in animated and frantic council AS the
night wore, the two wings were gathered
in half-dozen segments in the va
rious parlors of the Osborn. Tweed held
open levee, and the tide of oice-holders crowded
in to bend the obsequious knee to the arbter OF the
| Democratic party. Gov. Seymour, Tilden, Potter
| Robinson and great following of the ConserVa-
tives or as the Ring people call them, the Regency
fossils"1 held excited discussions, and cast ABOUT
| helplessly for sOmo means OF overthrowlng inc
| giant Ring but morning came without anything
moro than expedients being proposed. The king
had however arranged sore surprise for the over
confident relics of the Regency. Early in the morn
ing the more enterprising of the Tammany men
were up and about, making in1ammatOry appeals
and indicating a'purposc to terrorize, in case the
! opposition made too much head against the King.
Shortly after noon to-day an immense crowd
swarmed all the thoroughfares to the hall, and all
the police in the city lined the approaches to the
main stairway. Nothing serious happened, however,
as the delegates entered, and sensation of relief
| and disappointment camo on the spectators. The
audience poured in ndsSe, and when the delegates
from Oneida, HoratO Seymour and Francis Herman,
appeared, great shout of recognition came from
| 4 A oTpo of debate
assembly as the contested delegations filed past the
place allotted to the regulars and seated themselves
humbly in the rear. As the local celebrities entered
shouts and clamor followed, and the temper of the
| Convention soon became unmstakable,
| When the Convention came to order, great num-
| bers of the Ring adherents clustered outside the
ropes but contrary to general apprehensions no riot
GUS demonstrations took place. Tweed himself was
not in the hail. the management of the forces being
intrusted to VIM. c. Dewitt of Kings, who dubbed
up in eiIcrvcscent eulogy Of Tammany whenever he
| could get an opportunity. Other benchmen worked
as zealousy but not noily for the Ring, and the
| result shows how effectively that work was done.
SPEECH OF s. J. TILDEN.
Mr.. Tildcn came tardy to the chair about
| o'clock, and repeated with considerable spirit the
following platitudcs rendered familiar to the ears
of the Democracy BY quarter Of century OF sedu-
lous repetition:
Ecverently thank God that when midnight darkness
brooded the Republic and the true men who were
guarding the sacred tradition of free government created
ny Jefferson. and vYdicated by Jackson and as Upheld
in our state by tho Clntons, Tompk,ns Van Buren,
Wright and Marcy sat at Their watch dcspondGnt tue
and there is revealed the dawn of new and better
day Tie Democracy Furnishing It's arnoT,
hc Dd niE Ssnst Senas and corruption which Is
years was first led by Thomas Jefferson IN the ma
have recently assumed vastly greater dimensions than
Tr 9nf ManTind natfay fear the evils they have
last experienced, even after those evils nave passed.
fLc rlmce 1t is maxim Of history that government s
| always strengthened by unsuccessful inHuIreciloh
| THE NEW DEPARTURE SWALLOWED.
We have Just emerged from vast civil war; in which
We have conquered q Rebellion undertaken TO break up
our Federal Government DisunOn is crushed, Slavery
dead forever the suffrage is irrcTocaby given TO the
coloIcd race the original object OF the war IL accom-
rsled Every natural result is attained, md yet in
| cur rccoil from danger completely passed. we rush
luGly toward the opposite Iclll Tho equlHbrlum OF
our Whole political system Is in danger OF being over
thrown and despotic and corrupt centralism csta-
n,hcd. Tie whole value OF the ARRANGEMENT by Which
Nor IS kept In lis place ~ c sonar Esc - III tr
| balance between two opposing forces. 1t would matter
Itc 10 which Of these forces should ne allowed 70
prevail If the centriuga tendency sn9u ae, 1g,
our planet would shoot mady into the Icans OF ehd,s5
sit and lie, Unti every living thing upon Its surface
would perish. If the cohripctil tendency should doli-
toward the sum- until it should be engufed In the burn
ing SO it Is with the adjustment Of p"wers between
talizatiOn equally fatal TO good government DIS
union would generate centralism of military drspotisn
In Cenraism attempted over areas
and populations would break the parts tsllttr,
and Ill continent rs 1t every Other Win fNa,
possible to avoid these opposite evils They formed
to nanta peace and amty between the states, and TO
administer few exceptional functions of common i'll
tcres and they left the great resldualy mass o gov
! eTumcntal powers to the states
| A CREED NOT FOLLOWED IN NEw-YORK CITY.
The Democratic party has carried Oh the Federal Gov
| yoft ha
century Its creed is compressed i'll two ideas.
First: To limit much possible all governmental
power; tnargng always ana every WheIe the dohlh VI
Individual judgment ana action . ,.
second: To throw back the governmental powers neces
sary TO exercised much possible upon the states
aud localities approaching III every case Tie lndVduais
| to be affected.
These IDEAS dominate over the Democratic party and
Hnd N II their best representatives. The opposite ideas
70 NEEDLE with everything properly belonging to ind
yidualS apd to cenrzc all governmental powers, ex-
press the tendencies Of the Republican party Under
mI un"' ali tTc powers of human society. 1t has ar
euncd regulate the suffrage, and threatens to take tho
revenue into a means Of debating what kinds of business
men shall employ their arOr aud capital In Of giving
classes by impOvershng cummings of the people 1t
has drawn within it's power all the banks; It has begun
toke Jurisdiction Of all railroad companies. Its
career OF usurpatoD II continued few years longer
will involve all the business, all the contracts all the
property Of individuals, and will populate Washington
with the Hobbies OF thirtysevcn States oppose cen
trasn because 1t Va Incompatible with civil liberty:
Forty millions Of people guided by a single hand would
sweep over all dissent and all resistance OF Isolated or
unorganizcd individuals Look at France-half mil
lion of Onhce-h0lders and half million OF soldiers,
moved from center, make civil liberty impossible
oppose centralsm because 1t creates an irresponsible
| power and Irresponsible power Is always corrupt.
government ruling all the affairs OF individuals and
Great Lakes 70 the Gulf Of Mexico, would be the
most incompetent for what 1t would undertake the most
oppressive the Irresponsible and tho most corrupt
Government of which history affords any example II