Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-12

hasty flight. 1t is believed that he took lit
tie money with him, and that the money he
obtained by fraud must have been absorbed
in improbable speculations. He left his
wife penniless. ALI in all, it is melan-
choly case
The New York Democracy at Albany.
The New York State Democratic conven-
ventiOn resulted in the complete triumph Of
Tammany and thorough-going snubbing and
discontinue of Mr.. Tiden's friends. The
J'ibrme's report thus describes the body
The convention and the spectators filled
Tweddle Hall with great mass of humani-
ty, in which not one feminine face was
visible. and in which the shos hairs and
Tammany roughs had good deal the ad-
vantage of the gentlemen. Mr.. Kelly took
his seat in about his usual place, in the
middle aisle on the left-hand of the chair.
Mr.. Morrissey chose the other aisle at about
the same distance from the stage. Each
chieftan was surrounded by his followers.
The new ticket party had their leaders ju-
diciously distributed throughout the hall
and it was evident that they were to have
heir usual abundance of good takers, the
most &C sp;cuOus being ex-senator LanlDg,
Clarkson n. Potter, Dewitt &. West, VIII
liam Purcell, George NJ. Beebe, John D.
Townsend, Augustus Schell and John Kelly.
Z. was edrally evident that the same lack of
leaders, which has so often endangered the
rilden party in past conventions, was to
endlnger, not to wreck it in this. Ever
since the Tilden regime was established it
mas been without good takers in conven-
tions, and the votes have always been cast
in spite of the arguments. This was doubt
less due to Governor Tilden's habit of absorb
ing all the power in himself. lie could
always manage a convention at arms length
if he had but a few young men to carry out
his ideas. In consequence, he did not
gather the strong men of the party about
him, and when he was taken away there
was no leader lett. The only speakers of
note on the Tilden side to-day were Z. X.
Apgar. the young secretary of the State
Committee Sidney I. Fairchild. the father
of the Attorney General Rufus W. Peck
ham, of Albany, and General James Nc
Quade, of Utica. There is every reason to
believe that these gentlemen had majority
ol the votes when the convention began, but
thew could not hold them when the effect of
their own blundsrs was added TO the superior
generalship of the other side.
As a sample of the proceedings we quote
another extract from the same report:
There is always point reached in Dem
ocratic convention, sooner or later, when the
scene beggars description. but this time 1t
came earlier than usual. No sooner had Mr..
Apgar attempted to open his mouth to offer
II resolution than pandemonium began. The
short. hairs seemed to have special animos-
ity against him, and they beloved at him
frc floor and galleries, called him ''Tweed's
sto.l- pigeon, hi,scd him, and completely
drowned his voice in the uproar. Mean,
while, Mr.. Morrissey was on his feet and
Mr.. Schell. also, and with the whole body
roaring and bowling. Mr.. Hill, with his
glass at his eye and cane IN his hand, was
quietly trying to bring the convention back
To sauity Mr.. Schell succeeded, finally, in
getting hearing, but the convention never
knew what he wanted, for IL. ii. Rockwell,
Il bright-eycd young ASsemblYman from
Chemung, brought him down with point
of order, that he had virtually disclaimed
being delegate by refusing TO serve on
committee until his credentials had been
passed upon. Mr.. Schell went down sud
denly upon that. Mr.. Apgar. finally, was
able to read the resolution, but he had no
sooner concluded than pandemonium broke
loose again in the person of Mr.. Grady, a
fat md iorii and shiny young Assemblyman
lrc,- New York who had innumcrable points
oi order, of Mr. John Pyhurn, of Brook
iyn, large and solemn delegate, who said
tue convention demanded the retirement of
that person (mt..ning Mr.. Apgar) from the
platform. Finally Mr.. Apsar gave it up
and retired in accordance with the popular
WI 50 clearly expressed.
Then John Kelly
tried, and a gentleman in the gallery with
IL large and fierce mOustache rOlred out,
''Sit down, YOU big-headed lOater, you.
Mr. Kelly was also warmly invited to "shut
up" When his rctainers had yindlcated
him with three cheers, he too was brought
down with the same point of order that had
extingushci Ira Shatcr, and that brilliant
passage ut arms was over, not, however. un-
Ill another delegate had discharged at Kelly
an cpiIhet with Il prolane prefix, which is
too strictly Democratic for reproduction IN Il
The proceedings were simply struggle he
tween rival factions, whose differences do
not tonch single question of public policy,
but only affect selfish and personal interests,
for the control G the convention and OF the
party The applause, Whenever it was loud
and healthy aud prolonged, was Tor either
John Kelly or John Morrlssey. Those two
chi, aims re the recipients of the only
cheers in NHich the convention indulged.
ne whol exhibition was one of a faction
fight, or a series cf them, aud the delegates
and spectators recognized in all the proceed
ingS nothing above struggle for supremacy
n-twcen opposing factions and rival leaders.
Tn, rr was ne lack oi oratOry; it was pro
fuse, abundant. leryid; it lay ready in all
the a-i,S To he touched of with the slight
est spark And not only in t { ai>les oc-
c,sinnally it burst forth from the galleries
and the luhnics, in sudden cruptye and
volcanic fashion that aStoni~hcd the casual
spectator, and lent great lScllnesS to the
debate.
( The Tlldcn and anti Tammany factions ear
red the president, but could carry nothing
else. The convention repudiatcd John
Eisclow and Fairchid and the rest of :he
old nMcn State officers, and made Il new
tickct, selected bv the canal ring, whOsC
swindlcs were exposed by Mr. Tilden'S in
ycsiigariouS. though he lacked the pluck tt
prosecute them to final conviction. II John
Morri~>ey goes back to New York to quietly
-Nalluw his defeat, he il not the man tt
ha, teen supposed to be He was heater
in the convention but he may yet show