New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-24
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THE UTICA CONVENTION.
A HARMONIOUS GATHERING.

| USUAL HISTORICAL REVIEW OF The DEMOCRACY
GIVEN BY MR.. IHEO. NJ. PoMEROY-GOy. DIX RE-
NOMINATED WITH CONSIDERABLE ENTHUsIAsM-
SENATOR Combines SPEECH PAVING THE WAY
FOR THIRD TERM-ACTIoN BY THE CoNyEN-
TON PREvENTED-A VICTORY FOR THE OFFICE
HOLDERS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
| UTICA. Sept. 23-This is a Convention that runs
very smoothly. The shining heads Of the tive lead
ing statesmen who sit the front seat between
Gen. George H. Sharpe and Commissioner George NJ
Van Mort, were not smoother than the opening ex-
ercses of the Convention this morning. Through
the preliminary proceedings there was not the
slightest sign anywhere of ripple of dissent. Tho
front seat was agow with perfect sunburst of O.
smile, which occasionally bubbed into laughter as
Mr.. Theodore N. Pomeroy INDUCED in facetiousness
at the expense of his opponents, or broke into pro-
nounced hilarity as that gentleman charged home
upon Mt Samuel j. Tilden account of his age.
Everything was so harmonious and serene. in fact,
that could hardly understand why the Erie dele
gation-they said it was the Erie delegation-sat up
in the Butterfeld House till o'clock this morning.
making speeches at each other which were plainly
intended to be heard in Buffalo, and singing sacred
music with voices which had gained strength
from competition with Mcguire and
as melOdous as mule in a piano factory. IL
must have been that they labored under a deluson
that something had to be done to promote harmony
or they would not have sat up all night swng poor
whisky and keeping the whole house profanely
awake. No person set Of persons. drunk sober,
who ever had the slightest glimmer Of sense could
have sat up from midnight till dawn making night
hideous and the house pandemonium, except under
the impression that the good of the party demanded
it. am satisfied they thought the demonstration
was necessary, for instead of being ashamed Of
how cd nd a1 ahnut
as though it something to be proud Of The ease
with which delegates to political conventions are
amused is constant surprise to tho impartial OBJ
server. The Erie demonstration absolutely seemed
funny to the persons who were drunk aud
noisy in the midst of it. 10 tapered off at
3 p. m. with the hymn We're going home TO die
more" the first clause of which was grateful
tidings to several hundred oppressed people
who did not care the toss Of o copper
whether the last clause proved true or false.
The last echoes of this Erie County debauch had
hardly died along the corridors, the hpsy dele
gates staggered to their beds with their die no
mores" when the unaneled idiots, who had not even
the excuse of drunkenness for it, set up dance
on the top floor and began beating each other with
pillows and shrieking with laughter, as though they
thought there something funny in that; and
yet when the Convention assembled at IL clock,
these people, for they were all delegates sat up
straight in the body of the hall and looked serious
and dgniied, as though they represented party of
moral ideas-and suppose as matter OF fact they
do. Those dangerous people, the Prohbtionists. are
holding a Convention here to-day, and the baro
possibility of their getting possession of the Gov
enment and turning out of office the lively and well
disposed people who sit up nights caring for tho
country and dying more, can hardly be coz
templated without shudder
Tba hold OF II h
cause Senator Conkling resides here and the noun
tain must come to Mahomet. The absence of re-
spectacle hotel accommodations makes it quite ap.
proprate for the purpose since whoever comes,
be he delegate, spectator, or what not is reminded
by his own sacrifices of those made during the war
by the soldiers of the Republic | judge, however,
by the casual remarks of delegates who have been
packed away like sardines in box and kept awake
by Erie County concerts, and have had to wrestle
painfully with nfreQuent colored persons for seanty
ham and dusty, doubtful eggs that Mr.. Coukngi is
not promoting his own popularity by inviting so
many patriots to this place at one time. Fond as
they are of Utica and Of him, they are begin
ming to be willing to convene in some
other place, even if they have to forego
his presence and counsel The arrangements
made last night for the organization went through.
as I have said, without a sign of dissent
or dissatisfaction. Mr. Theodore NJ. Pome-
roys review of the history of the Demo-
cratic party, upon taking the chair, was good.
1t is always good You cannot have too much his
tory 1t interested the Convention. 1t always
does. Nothing interests Republican Convention
so much as the history of the Democratic party. 1t
is always fresh and new, and always serves the pur
pose of rouslng the enthusiasm of the gentlemen
who sit in Custom-houses and Post-Ofices and con-
template with horror the possibility of the Demo-
Gratis coming into power and putting new and mex
perienced men into the offices. Mr. Pomeroy's allu-
sion to President Grant started some Of these gem
tlemen into faint burst of applause which was
palpable failure that Naval Officer A. III. Latin,
sitting in the middle aisle, wrapped in meditation
and light surtout, reused himself with great
effort and swinging white stovepipe hat round his
head in the most reckless ard boisterous manner.
cried aloud Three cheers for President Grant,
An exuberant person near by. with the intense,
eager look of man whose eyes have been tried by
long service at postoice delivery window, at
once aud looked Mr.. Latin in the eye. as who should
say, "Now, then. when are you going TO begin.
Three persons with rolling gait and eyes, and that
peculiar boreal voice which pertains to seafaIing
men, or those who venture from the Custom
house upon the erring main, rose speedily and
waited In less TAIN five minutes several persons
had gained their feet and were waiting for Mr..
Latin to begin. Mr.. Latin was unwilling to detain
the Convention any longer, so the cheers were given
by those who were up. Had there been more time
there would have been more up and more en-
thusiasm. As it was, l should Judge there not
less than thirty-nine forty persons who
cheered, several of whom actually waved
ttheir hats, and seemed to enter into
the spirit of the occasion quite heartily.
Al the conclusion of Mr.. Pomeroy's speech the roll
of delegates was called and several gentlemen cor
rected the record as to their middle name, a pro
ceeding of great solemnity. After the organization