New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-25
The DEMOCRACY OF NETWORK.
SYRACUSE FLOODED WITH DELEGATES.

LIE lhIBUNES correspondents aJ oyrdcuso
report that great crowd of politicians and
delegates to the Democratic Convention which
is to meet to-day, has collected at Syracuse.
Discussion is chiefly in regard to which
of the two factions shall run the Con-
ventiOn. Both parties still claim to have
majority of the delegates. There is nothing
certain about the platform, except that it
will probably be so framed as to catch
the Greenback vote. The question OF
candidate was hardly discussed. A rumor
was afoat yesterday that Tammany might. in
certain contingency, withdraw and hold
a separate convention. The rumOr was denied.
THE TALK AMONG THE DELEGATES.
EVERYTHING IN CHAOS ABOUT CANDIDATES, PLAT
FORM AND WHO SHALL RULE-YEsTERDAY's IN
CIDENTs AND DISCUSSIONS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRTBUNE.l
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 24-Indications that
Democratic State Convention is about to be held in
the city not Extensively prominent last evening.
The bar-rOoms were not crowded. The hotels were
comparatively quiet. There were few groups at the
street corners and there was q lack of the usual
evidences of the presence of the hosts of the inter
rifed. Only a small advance guard of the army
was then in Syracuse.
This morning the troops began to pour in and
train after train added to the lists of names the
hotel registers and filled the parors, halls, offices
and adjacent sidewalks with knots of delegates and
their friends, eagerly discussing the prospects of
the Tilden and Ant-Tilden. the Tammany
and Anti-Tammany battle. The signboards on
the walls at the Vanderbilt House, the
general political headquarters, bloomed out
with posters giving information where delega-
lions and committees could be found. Inquirers for
found no rest for the soles of their feet, and
they wandered from hotel TO hotel before obtaining
place TO lay their heads.
Kings County, Albany, Erie and the other prnci-
pal counties of the State except NewYork well
represented both by regulars and contestants. Few
delegates either Of Tammany or Anti-Tammany
principles reached Syracuse before evening but they
came there with great company of partsans and
hangers-on in the long and heavily laden express
train from New-York. The stir and hustle in the
city multiplied exceedingly.
A CLOUD Oh RUMoRs.
During the dav. reports of ell sorts rife and
extraordinary claims and counter-caims we're made
by the two great factions Of the party. Both pro-
fessed the utmost confidence that they would con-
troll the convention. Some anti-Tilden men
content with claiming majority of forty Of the
contested delegates while Others raised the figures
TO fifty-one The supporters of Mr.. Tiden and Gov
ernor Robinson estimated their majority of the
contested delegates all the way from twenty-eight
to forty-nlne.
One report, which caused considerable anxiety for
time among the opponents of Mr.. Tilden, that
the complexion of the State Committee had changed
since the meeting in August, and that seventeen
out of the tbrty-three members were now favorable
to Tilden. The men who started the story were
very reluctant to name the committeeman who bad
changed their attitude; but it became known that
A. Ii. Crosbc, Of the XXlId District, and l.. Is.
Faulkner, Of the XXVIItb, were among those on
whom they relied. DR.. Crosbe, however, denied
most positively that he had modified his views. and
declared himself still an anti-Tiden man. Some Of
the best informed supporters of Mr.. Tden on the
committee said that the change had not gone so far
as to give them a majority but that they had 10
out of SO.
The probable course of the State Committee and
the convention in regard to Tammany and Anti
Tammany was debated with great interest. Some
of the Tammany men said bluntly that they would
not submit to exclusion from participation
in any portion of the conventions work.
This set rumor flying that If Tam
many should not be allowed to vote until
the questions OF contests were settled, it would
withdraw altogether from the convention, and with
its adherents would hold another convention OF its
own IN hall which had been hired here for snch an
emergency bnt thls report h , se creaemcs ana
VERY IMPORTANT MATTER.
A question which was much talked about was
whether precedent Of last year would be followed
tomorrow, and the important Committee on Gre
dentas be chosen by the delegations, according to
the Congressional Districts. oribe appointed by the
Temporary chairman after the precedents Of the
conventions up to 1877.
Until last year the members Of the Committee on
Credentials had been selected by the members of
the State Committee. each member OF the latter
naming member of the former for his district The
list so made up was handed to the chairman, who
formally appointed the men thus selected. Last
year. when the State Committee was in the hands of
Mr.. Tidens friends and the convention in those of
his opponents the latter broke up this arrangement
and carried out the plan of the selection of the
members of the committee by the delegations from
the Congressional districts This year when Mr.
Tiden's foes control the State Committee, and both
factions claim the convention ITSELF the question
IN which plan will be followed becomes very impor-
| tant.
Mr.. Tildens adherents say that Tammany and it's
allies will stutify themselves IL they abandon the
plan which they themselves pushed through last
wear. and return TO the method which they con-
demped. II the plan of 1877 is followed, and the
friends of the Governor have the majority in the
convention as they claim, they WILL of course, have
a majority of the Committee on Credentials, mat
ter of the utmost Importance In the convention fa
return is made to the old system and the ant-Til-
den faction retains Its control of the present State
Committee as now seems probable. then the major
tv of the Committee on Credentials will be hostile
| to Tilden aud Robinson.
| II the Tammanny leaders aud those who are
| working with them some to the conclusion that
their only path to victory is by trampling on tho
| arguments, appeals and principles which they put
forth in 1877 no reproach Of Inconsistency is likely