The New York herald., 1879-10-15
KELLY'S PROGRESS.
His Speech Last Night to the DEM
ocrats Of 0nondaga.
TILDEN AND RoBlNSoNs RECORD.
Arraigned by the Tammany Chieftain as Po-
lhical Traitors and TrickSters.
icy rnIronArH TO THE HERALD. /

10y TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
SYRACUSE. N ". Oct. il. 1879.
We arrived here to-day little after two o'clock in
the afternoon and received salute Of twenty-one
guns number of people met and greeted Mr.. Kelly
after he descended to the platform from the cars
and he proceeded straghtway to the Vanderbilt
House. being the object popular observation tho
way The meeting of the previous night at Utica was
subject OF considerable talk account OF Mayor
Buckley presiding The Mayor had been approached
by the Robinson folks and requested to preside at
their meeting; but he declined with considerable
emphasis and the owner OF the Fayette Operd House.
where the Kelly meeting held. rejected. it is
said an offer of $500 rent from the Robinson people,
the Kelly agent having already paid 500.
REPUBLICAN OPINION.
Talking to Governor Alvord ('Old Salty about the
prospects for Kelly. he said:-I think Kelly is
good for 1900 votes in this county and II the other
towns in the State do we'll for him in proportion
he will lay out Robinson fiat as hounder."
''Thats exactly what you people want. ehT'
"Exactly. We're laying back to see this Kilkenny
catight. It's very amusing
This really appeared to be the sentiment of the
republicans. met here to-day Mr.. Ellis II. Roberts,
OF Utica. He admits that the meeting Of last even
ing was great success, and. ashe was an opponent
of Senator Conklng and particular friend Of
GOVERNOR RoBINsONs RECORD.
On the way tppm Utica Mr.. Kelly showed your
correspondent the following notes. that were put IN
his hands tho previous evening as ne was entering
the opera house:-
My DEAR Mr. KELLy-Governor Robinson was member
cO%%sson a. spRonssd "a sy
tho constitutional provision which prohibits tho sale Of
which prohibits expenditures on the canals
In ass % a OF extensive ne break this s
making OF repairs Governor nonins1n On was secioa
Board Jaaasry is5s re spring + slss yssl
M oI M S TO-
prevent the further reduction OF tolls All the
have been carried through during
boon opposed by him.
The other note read as folows:-
Political fuith is dead the political priesthood and
the democratic party in this State is asked by the late
before goddess altar.
A CROWDED MEETING
In the evening crowded meeting was held at
stage being John u. Haskin. General Spinola,
WiiDer NJ. brown, Charles Swan. Orlando B. Pot
ter, Felix McCloskey, Maurice 4. Holahau, Thomas
II. Grady and number OF vice presidents OF local
reputation. Mr.. Brown made president OF tho
meeting and Mr. John u. Haskin was introduced Us
the first speaker. He kept tho audience interested
and Ill good humor during the course of his ad-
dress which marked by lively salles against the
MIR. xELLY's SPEECH.
Loud calls for Kelly caused the Chairman to intro
duce the rammany chieftain ahead OF his appointed
time. After the applause had subsidized Mr..
Kelly Addressed himself to history of tho
political antecedents OF Tiden and Robinson. and III
yided himself with written proofs i'll support OF his
assertions. beginning with the Polk campaign he
described Robinson belonging to the Ereai,g Post
party, which. while pretending to support Polk.
secretly opposed him. This opposition was exposed
by the discovery OF secret circular addressed to
the friends OF Van Buren,, and signed by John w.
Edmonds i'll whose office Tilden read law advising
against voting for any candidates on the Presden-
tial or Congressional tickets who were not men,
bers of their own faction. These were the men who
soon after obtained for Lucius Robinson the fnt
Office OF Master in Chancery. Mr.. Kelly quoted
from speech OF James Il. Brady in 1873. denouncing
the faction and the journals which supported IT, anu
also from letter OF Horace Greeley. addressed to
Tilden, accusing him OF being conscntng party to
the election frauds by which Hoffman was elected
Governor When the late fight took place in the
Morrison sought to capture the democratic inspec-
tors Of election under the dlctation OF Tilden aud
Robinson, what object could they have had but the
same which Greeley charged Tilden with in
1865?
T1LDEN's PROFESSIONAL CAREER.
Mr.. Kelly, quoting from Assembly documents,
stated that Mr.. Tilden received for January. 1869,
$4,000 for services rendered TO the Erie Railway,
and that he afterward claimed he had received only
$lO0OU. The speaker further referred to MIR. Til
denis condition counsel for the implicated direc
tors OF the Credit Mobilier. and quoted from tho
to question from Mr.. Hoar, said that
they were advised by Tilden, tneir counsel.
tor building the road in entire compliance with
law. Reading from letter addressed to the Now
York Times. MIR. Kelly Grew attention to Mr. Tildens
connection with tho st. Louis, Alton and Terre
Haute Railroad. which paid Tilden 100000 for his
services. The stock and bond holders en-
ployed Mr.. Whitney to assist them. After
years of careful inquiry, which devel-
oped additional rascalty in the construction of
the Beleyle branch of this same road by which the
company dcirauded OF considerable sum, Mr..
Whitney made his report, aud committee was ap-
pointed to bring criminal or civil suits. or both.
at this juncture Mr.. Tilden came from Albany to
New York and held a conference with Mayor Wick
ham, by which Mr.. Whitney was appointed Corpora
ton Counsel after which he did not deem 1t ad-
visablo to prosecute against his new patrons.
POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES.
He referred to the fact that Mr. Tilden was denti-
fod with the Albany regency. which ruled the State
aid appointed all tho officers throughout the State
with few exceptions for quarter OF century. but
he came too late to enjoy the sunshine OF the Van
Buren dynasty. Tilden aud Robinson pretenaed to
bc anti-savery men. and swore eternal fidelity to
the free soil party. Tilden went to the BAL
timore Convention, and here Robinson joined tho
enemies OF the democracy. They now clam they
did 1t on principle aud that the Shakespeare Hall
Convention OF 1879 was bolt tor revenge and not
for principle. But Iilden is on record three times
in sclfcontradicton this subject ef slavery. In
the imperisbabic principles OF freedom against
slavery. In one year he deserted tho freesoiers.
who denounced him double-dyed traitor.
AN ADVOCATE or SLAVERY
On October &C. 1860. in u letter to Judge William
Kent he denied that he ever held such principles
article OF his faith, and said his vote and Robin
sons in 1siS had nothing to do with slavery.
and was settled within year. But during the war
the author OK the Kent letter. In which Mr. Iilden
had directly advised the south to seccde.
boldly charged the responsibility OF the war on the
North. aud in 1t he uttered u glowing eulogy
slavery, saying that 1t had given Ms Washington,
jefferson, Madison aud Jackson, and was therefore,
good enough for him.
During the this convert to secession
back again where lie in 1S4s and In favor OF
crushing the rebellion. He went to Washington
and hobnobbed with Edwin NJ. Stanton in the int
est OF the medicine of the Tdens ut New Lebanon.
and loved Stanton 10 much that the burly old War
Minister took carloads the Tden medicine for the
army, and fat. contracts went hand III hand with
newly discovered zeal Tor the safety Of tho Union,
although on October 20. 1860. Tilden had deliber-
ately advised the South to break.
DEMOCRACY.
Robinson became an open republican In 1886, and
q member of the Fremont and Dayton Convention
OF Syracuse July "a Of that year. Tho convention
met and openly advocated the defeat OF buchanan
III the city aud State The speaker then referred to
the address OF Charles OConor before the His
orica Society May .. 1877. declaring that tho dis
graceful struggle for the Presidential nomination
by tho petty wrens OF faction Is the greatest