New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-28
, nav OF SPIRITED ACTION.

A DAY OF
,,p o1,DIAToRIAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO
Nrw-YogK DELEGATIONS DRAMATIC DEBATE
r,v,ry xr,JY AND M0RRIssEY--A BLUNDKR
ru.r SHOCKED MR.. INSTRUMENTATION. SKY
youR's SPEECH ELECTS DECIDED ENlhoeiA
. rupEN STATE DELEGATION.
tpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE'I
T,,c,'N. Y. April 27.-TbeC did its ap-
.o,,tOd work very thoroughly to-day, though there
,ro. considerable creaking in the machine when IL
srst began to rum The delegation to ST. Louis Were
,;o,eJ ia vote as a unit as they have been directed
~ Tho three preyious Preside ntial years. Inc ad-
;n;s,rotion of Gov Tilden was warmly commenced
and the electoral vote of NewYork pledged 10 MN
in ease of his nomination. Tammany was auihit'eo,
a. almost always it has been admitted before, ana
anti-Tammany drew out in solemn hie shahihg 'he
aust from off its shoes, ast has so often done pelore
These were the chief results OF the day'
which was not without incidents OF interest
There was q debate, personal and dlrect between
John Kelly and John Morrissey over tie Claims vi
the followers of each, each standing on the 1oor
where he could have put his hand on the other'
There was some considerable bullying of the Con-
vent;on nv an ex-Superintendent of Insurance who
resigned his Office to escape impeachment. Ihere
was brief and regulation speech by Senator ker-
man, and thou ghtful and bipartisan speech by ex-
Gov. Seymour which alluded in terms OF warm
auproyal to Gov. Tilden. There were one OF Two
unmstakable blunders on the part OF the Iilden
parIy but none Of them serious or lasting AS
awhoe the Convention for Democratic gathering,
was exceptionally smooth in its workings and in
what it did expressed the better sense and embodied
the better tendencies of the party.
MoRRIssEY AND KELLY.
When the Convention was called to order, about
9lo. the report of Judge S. ID. Norris Chairman of
the Committee on Contested Seats, was read. Mr..
Bedeu of Oneida submitted minority report for
himself aud two other members Of the Committee
In favor of anti-Tammany, which was read
to the Convention. John Kelly rose at
once to debate it, and his rising was
the signal for an outbuTst of enthusiasm
among his followers which lasted several moments,
and complete drowned the few misses that tried to
make themselves heard. The debate that followed
was curious one. 1t was the old fight over again
between two men whose hostility is said to date
back if rumor does not do of them injustice, TO
the DAYS when both shared the sights of the same
prze-rng and has lasted till the present day, one
succeeding the other as Congressman from the same
district and each standing at the head OF rival
organizations of the party. Both sat to-day on
the same line of seats of opposite sides of the
middle aisle, and each when speaking was within an
arms length Of the other The two made curious
contrast, and yet had some points Of likeness. Both
had tbs sod, heavy bodies of men who earned their
bread by the labor of their hands, though the labor
seems to have been of very different kinds. Mr..
Kelly carried the dignity Of years of careful compe-
tence and secret sef-education. Mr.. Morrlssey was
cool, but he looked hot and flushed, and while he
spoke with all the shrewdness and tact with which
he is gifted, il was the speech of defeated man.
Ia fbaf for
MOrrissey went the furthest, the difficulty being
that hits did not count at ALL the votes having been
counted first. Mr. Morrssey is listened to in DEM
ocratc gathering with attention. for Democrats all
believe him truthful, though they well know that
he is not polished; and the Convention listened to
him to-day with the consideration with which his
quiet speeches received in the Senate. His very
grammar. which seems at times to burst all the food
gates and sweep landmarks from their places wins
him the general sympathy. Both Mr. Kelly and
BIT. Morrissey were evidently laboring under con-
siderable excitement to-day and it betrayed itself in
bad grammar rather than bad language. 1t was in
deed curious to see how the early vernacuar broke
out in each. They divided the Convention between
them, and while Mr.. Morrissey was evidently in a
very small minority, he made some points that told
on the Convention, and or two that fairly car
RED it away with applause and laughter.
FEATURES OF THE DEBATE.
Mr. Kelly said that Tammany Hall had compiled
with the instructions of the Convention Of 1871
with respect to the mode of eccting it's delegates
and denied that there any person DESTROYS of be-
coming amember of the regular organization that
was prevented from doing 80. He charged these
people" as he brusquely termed the anti-Tammany
men, with having made combinations with the Re-
puohean party in New-York. He went On 10 say
some things that seemed more candid than jul
ueious, and certainly made some very frank
sunlssions He traced the history of Democratic
DIVISIONS In New~York in 1872, 1879 1875, show
,ns now the opponents of Tammany Hall, disgrace
iapy 70 themselves, he thought, had combined with
'e Republicans and attempted to defeat
'ne iammany Hall tickets.
mr. Aellys peroration was the signal for wild ap-
paase IRON the Tammany delegates, whose enthusi-
".@ Tor their leader fairly stirs tho blood
- ne spectator. Then it was Morrissey's
,in and be was allowed to address the
convention by the Chair, which decided that
soh sides should be heard, inasmuch as the under
'anoing -of yesterday, that neither party to a
'"est should DO permitted to urge its claims on
'0 convention, had not been observed. Mr.. Nor
''sssS stood out in the aisle close to NJ Kelly.
=, ar horrissey denied that Tammany Hall wanted
'm 70 JOIN that organization. al say for one that
~a' not so,' said Mr. Morrssey. "No later than
ago this gentleman with his associates turned
:. assembly Districts out of the organization,
"Alon mad been properly elected; they did it by a
committee who would do what the leaders Of Tam
Aoy Hall asked Thorn to do. The fact IL, that Tam.
4 Any Hall 10 controlled by the Individual who
y. Just at down, and by nobody elss.D
4 a 10 saA thu h iHvknA In. <hr,,A 49,, III.