The New York herald., 1874-09-22
Preliminary Movements Of the Republi-
can Gathering Tomorrow.
The Candidature for Lieu
tenant Governor.
Uneasiness of the Managers on the
Third Term Question.
The Prominent Leaders in
Attendance.

Attendance.
UTICA N. Y, Sept. 81, 1874.
H the enthusiasm that every good republican in
the State believes will prevail at the Convention
here on Wednesday can be measured by the pres
ent dreary outlook. so far as the prospect of q
large attendance Is concerned there will be awful
disappointment day after tomorrow. Not
even one of the State Committee has
put IN an appearance. and the only
two strangers OF Importance In town, as yet,
who are in any way interested in the Convention,
are Lieutenant Governor Robinson, who seeks q
denomination, and Judge Edwards 8. Peirrepont,
who heads the delegation from the Sixth district
OF New York city. Even the lew rural delegates
who came on Saturday went away yesterday. At
least they are nowhere to be found, aud
the dozen or so OF canal PATRIOTS who
had come down from their snuggeres
expecting to find some OF the 'big guns"
lying about loose, have made themselves scarce.
1t may be that they were "gobbed" by John
Kelly, who passed through the city early this
morning on his way home, fully primed and
cooked to blow Havemeyer and waterbury to
atoms. But as he did not stop over here long
enough TO put anybody in his pocket the horrible
suppOsitiOn must iall to the ground.
Seriously. the absence Of every member OF the
State Committee creates no little surprise and
comment among the resident republicans. Even
Governor Robinson expressed wonderment when
he heard that not one had put in an appearance
However, it is more than probable that the ma
jority Of those delegates who are ranked among
the leading wire-pullers, who, in fact,
lay out all the plans which the other
delegates follow bindy when they get the
sign have idea that it would be useless to wait
an entire day, tnasmuch there Is no prospect of
any strife, and that, as things now look, all the
preliminares can be easily arranged in half that
time.
1t was rumOred this evening that the State Com
mittee and several OF the prominent delegates from
New York had, in order to escape the Interrupt
tions they would be exposed to. stopped this af-
ternoon at Albany, where 1t was agreed that they
were to
HOLD CONFERENCE
with a few Of the delegates from the western part
OF the State but tnfs rumpr Turned Our To be
grOundless, 1t having been given rise to doubtless
by the fact that three delegates who came up
from New York were known to have lett the morn
ing train at Albany. 1t is expected, at any rate,
that by tomorrow morning, when the early West
the members OF the State Committee but all OF the
leading delegates and prominent men or the
slst, as the French say, at the political perform
ance to he given at the Opera House on Wednes-
day. will be forthcoming.
An immense attendance OF small fry outsiders
from all parts OF the State are also expected to-
morrow and it is more than probable that Utica
will be crowded from then until Friday as she was
never crowded before. There Is not q room in any
OF the hotels that has not been engaged before
hand Tor days and even weeks, ana so the
additional ever serviceable canvas back cot will
be made to do good service in big rooms in hall
ways and everywhere where cots can be placed
with any degree of SAFETY to the particular gen.
temen. who viii doubtless be only too glad to
secure exclusive possession OF them for night or
two. Thus 1t can be taken Tor granted that the
observer to-day OF almost everybody OF note or
half note is after all no PROOF that the Convention
Will not be an enthusiastic one.
THE ARRIVAL OF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROBINSON
creates some strange talk, and there are those
full about denomination. There is nothing as vet
on the surface tnat lndcates-sO far as l have
been able to learn from republicans from several
parts OF the State now here-that he ought 10 fear
lor the result especially since MIR. Ellis H.
Roberts who had been talked Of for the
The only man who stands in the way
is General Batcheler, OF Saratoga and
s he uaceS to ens Ws IN
ing to their good judgment OF the contingencies
decide tomorrow night that he ought not to go
als0 on the authority OF prominent republican
in this city, that Governor Dix will exert his in
nation Of Lieutenant Governor Is the the 1oii1 only
one anybody anticipates, contest over
1t is. certain now that II Robinson
again be put in the field, for the friends OF the
other old nominees would consider IL sur upon
them If the Governor ana Lieutenant Governor
should be declared entitled to a denomination and
the remainder OF the ticket not II the friends OF
the other old nominees will NOT allow ROpinsOn to
be renominated unless 1t Is agreed upon before
hand that their friends on the 1872 ticket shall be
likewise honOred, " Is the general opinion among
the republicans here that there VIII be some nice
twisting and squigming Tomorrow In the prelimi-
nary caucuses over
THE QUESTION OF THE THIRD TERM,
and as to just what the Convention should say
about 1t, II anything. 1t Is said that the state
Committee tee and md the delegations from New York,
the subject. Some Of the leaders don't want the
terrible thing even mentioned, while those who
beleve this would lie bad policy, In view OF the
stand the democrats have taken, want it touched
upon even If 1t has to be done in gingerly way.
The action of the oneida Republican County CON
vention a lew days ago has, in coming out as nat
looted as 1t did against the third term, it is be-
lieved, had more than anything else to do in
creating this feeling OF uneasiness and uncertainty
among the managers, and as right after
the Convention resolution denouncing a third
Is the surmise that he inspired the declaration.
But, from all reports, believe that the delegates
views on this as on all other questions to be dealt
with for one OF the chief things to be attained in
the Convention In the opinion OF the leaders, is
harmony not only as to the nominations, but as
to everything else which will become part OF Its
work. Among
THE PROMINENT DELEGATES
and others who, though not delegates, Will have
just as much, II not more. to DO with the finishing
up OF things in the Convention, expected at day.
Collector Arthur J. N. Knapp, Secretary OF the
State Committee; General Batcheller, Canal Com
II. 9. Eastman. Hamilton Fish, Jr.; W. L.
Proctor, Mayor OF Ogdensburg; George Bliss,
John n. Parker OF Albany J. W. Corning,
Attorney, OF Lockport; Police CommlssIoner
Jourdan, of Brooklyn; State Prison Inspectors
Kirkpatrick and Platt; John M. Francis, OF Troy;
Senator ID. p. Wood senator Woodin, CHARLES Il.
smythe, Of Albany; W. A. Darling and G. Hilton
SCrbner
There Is not liberal to be seen anywhere about
town, and none OF them are expected even to aid
as lockers on.
The Delegates Elected from Erie
County.
BUFFALO, Sept. 81, 1874.
The following delegates to represent Erie county
at the Republican state Convention to be held at
Utica on the 23d inst, were elected to-day First
Assembly district-Chares Jessemin, Casper Lord
nnd Inhn naituo