New-York tribune., 1875-09-21
STATE POLITICS.
THE ONE-MAN POWER AT SYRACUSE.

TROL OF THE PARTY IN THIS slAIE-hAoiN"
THE STANDARD AT ALBANY.
IFRoM 4 STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
SYRACUSE n. Y, Sept. 1s.-Thcre was not enough
initiation talk among the delegates 20 the Convention
10 make respectable minority in the discussion OF
financial questions, and not nearly enough 10 INSPIRE
sufficient courage in any one to pronounce against
hard money either in the Committee or in the larger
gathering. There would have been more, doubtless,
If the soft money had not realized that at least
one unbendng will stood in their way. But there
was enough TO show that the seeds of monstrous
disease are not absent from the Democracy of the
chief State in the Union. What they may develop,
sbonld Allen triumph in Ohio and Pershing in
PENNSYLVANIA only the Presidential canvass can
fully reveal. There were well informed delegates
at Syracuse, and hard money men at that, no de-
clarcd that they should doubt the result were the
simple question of imitation submitted to the people
Of the State aud who inclined 10 the behe1
that the verdict of tie voters. II not OF
the leaders. Of both parties would he Tor mnatiol'
II was the fear of the overflow of imitation sentl-
meut into this state that led them to interpoSe a
double e-planked barrier TO its eastward progress;
hut il was none the less evident that there was
some nervousness lest a paper-money resolution
mIch be tossed like a red rag. into the arena. DIS
us,ion OF the topic avoided altogether and the
one or two lobbyists who used to work through
stock-johbmg resolutions at Albany and appeared
here taking about the wants OF the people, were
viewed with considerable dstruSt.
But IN this respect in Others, there was gen.
el,l feeling thai it would be than hopeless to
revolt against Tldcn. There is nothing to show,
however. that there was any desire OF the part Of
leaders 10 do 50, or any thought in their minds of
taking any hut an honest, and polite, because
honest attitude on the currency question. The
l,oteiu Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA has cast doubt over
the future victory of the Democracy which has
sre,rrd ONLY matter Of time. Many politicians IN
tins state feel and openly confess. that llldcn
is their great and perhaps, their only hope. They
forescc or think they do. Democratic victories
III Ohio and Pennsylvania following the tide that
ha, started in Maine. and great gull between the
two great wings of the party on this question.
They see also that a split III the De
mocracy. or reorganization of parties, or
triumph Of the infatouists. viii b. equally fa.l to
thor future and therefore they will stand by Tilden
and Hard Money. !, is already open secret
among the politicians OF the State, SO many OF whom
haze Iden, and with reason, that he Is to be the
stauda-d-bcarer of the Democracy at least IN TINS
STATE, du ing the canvass Of next year. They cannot
,-ctalonr without him though he might perhaps get
along without them. Sanford f. Church fades away
into the limbo of unexceptiOnable and undecided
candidates Gov. Tilien is to b. pressed as re-
former Smd a leading politician yesterday.
for the first anti-Canal Ring Governor Canal
frauds. Why. we're going to plaster canal frauds
over every State in the Union. We're ing to
carry the country next year with canal frauds
The feeling that Gov. Tilden is being pushed for
warl by circumstances the almost inevitable can
Il. late of the East for the Democratic nomination
seems TO be constantly on the increase. know oi
oae powerful politician who can influence consider
ably the next nomination who expects 10 see the ,
halo F,fg1 Ttiot, -lrtf gf l-IC
influence and wealth-movc in unhrckcn colmnn
into the National Convention, solid for Samuel j.
Tdcn.
The complete submission of the Syracuse Conven-
ton 10 the Governor is lhe first public expression
that has been given Of this view. They eli ielt that
II was useless hopeless, foolish to oppose him. They
were in Tue hands Of the man Of destiny. He was
n3f strong wiih them but he stronger With the
people than they were. The really rural delegate
fc, off rcitls about IT, His earnest INQUIRY
"W,U. now. who does the Governor want !"-wds
sincere. II it was uot grammatical.
The Syracuse Convention had one impCrtant po-
Itcql result--it demonstrated the one-man power
now controlling the party in this State-the man
being Tiliel. Tweed in the hight Of his arrogance.
and Kelly strong in the alliance OF oceholdcrs and
friends was never more absolute than Iilden is to-
day. Tweed held his following together by
the periodical division Of public piunder. Kelly
looks aud works ike magniiod Grant,
and has come TO the top by virtue of the
law that the strongest viii must dominate. lie is
dictator because an association of politicians for
business purpo Ses must have a head. 1lldcn Is iii
power by virtue of a moral purpose and great fnesse
because he is successful reformer and a great
politician. No more striking instance OF his un-
bounded influence could be given than the nomna-
ton Of one OF the names on the syracuse ticket.
Ii was of young man not connected with
n.,litics who did not expect the nomination,
and 10 whom there had been no expectation
of giving IT, The Office had been provided for when,
10 the general amazement and the confusion OF
the Governors plans the slated candidate withdrew.
new name was decided on, broad animation
thrown out in scmi-OTgan OF the Governor, rev
words from his personal representative, and the
nomination was effected. The candidate himself
did not have to raise finger, and the work that
carried him through was the simple intlmatlon that
the Governor wanted him.
II will not do TO conclude that Tilden is favorte
with the politicians. He is not. 1t is only among
the best of them that there anything which bears
any resemblance to enthusiasm for him. Most of
them dread and dislike him, and not few positively
hate him. They would have been willing to kick
over his platform and tumble him down in the
ruins. if 1t could have been done without
self-destruction. But instead of overthrowing
him. as they fondly hoped last Winter
that they could do. they find that by opposing him
they destroy not him, but themselves. They see
ant-Tilden Democrats, who were once men OF
promise and even of prominence beaten III thelr
own wards beaten after the expenditure OF money
and labor; beaten by some mysterious power That
fills them with vague terror. 1llden is not poy Ill
politics by any means He is two generations Ola IN
the art Of campaigns and he has troops oil soldiers