The New York herald., 1879-09-09
OFF TO SYRACUSE.


OFF TO SYRACUSE.
NINETEEN CAR LOADS OF TAMMANY BRAVES
AND IRVING HALL TUsCARoRAs-wHAT ME-.
| KELLY SAID ON THE EVE OF HIS DEpAR-
TURE.
| The great of city delegates to the Syracuse
| Convention. with the followers Of Tammany and
antiTammany, left last night for the of strife
| in Wieting Opera House tomorrow. BY an early
| train yesterday Henry D. Purroy, exPolice
| Commissioner Nichols. Sachem Edward Kear-
| ney. Henry A.. Gumbleton, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Dorsheimer. Thomas Boese. Z. D.
Gale. s. s. Cox. Coroners Croker and
| Wotman and ex-Congressman Dreamer who
went forward as Tammanys advance guard. to
skirmsh over the field and "hunt the buffalo" be-
fore the arrival Of the Big Chief and little Indiana.
On the same train County Clerk Thompson,
| Colonel Michael G. Murphy, Aldermen Houghton,
Kenney and Struck. Colonel James ]. Mooney. Major
Peter Bowe and Judge Callahan. who were expected
to do the preliminary shouting and wirepulling on
behalf Of Anti-Tammany. Senator Jacobs, Boss
| Mclaughlin and most Of the Brooklyn delcga-
| ton. with their friends left by the Albany
boat at six O'Clock, in order to get good nights
rest. They will go forward by the New York Con-
trail road from Albany this morning. Police Justice
| Duffy, ex-senator John Fox and few other less
|
River train. but the greatest crowd went toward
their destination by the train which rolled out of
the Grand Central Depot at half-past eight o'clock
last evening. For an hour before its de-
| pxrture the long waiting room resembled
Tammany mass meeting. Tammany braves and
Irving Hall Tuscaroras swarmed through the doors
and elbowed their way to the ticket office. There
was irruption OF black bags. from which sug-
| gestive crockeryware protruded while the air
thick with the smoke of primary meeting cigars
Free passes conspicuous by their absence. and
many of 'the boys" drew forth their wallets and
deposited their respective So for reduced fare
tickets with heavy sigh. The train that
heath consisted Of nineteen cars. Of which
fourteen were sleeping coaches. Two of these had
% % a S
Mr. Power stood by the ticket Office with huge roll
OF bank bills in one hand and bundle of passage
tickets in the other and distributed the latter the
suggested that .rilden's barI had been tapped" to
more where that came from. The number OF poll
ticans bound for the Convention board the train
motives required to draw the ponderous load.
SOME OF THE NOTABLEs.
Among the earliest arrivals Ira Shafer. who
Is invariably the spokesman OF the anti-Tammany
element when the First district of New York Is
came two ex-judicial officials. both Haunting the
antRobinson banner. The first ex-Judge
'Tony'' Hartman. with black bag and white
Judge Denis Quinn. looking solemn and stern
under under the weight of ;, white bag and
next, bought u ticket and drfted into the sleeping
| car Mazeppa. Excise Commissioner Morrison de-
clared ''that Robinson would never be nominated,
and that Tammany would bolt il he was" he sat
down u bag within which there o suspicious
tie of crockery ware. Corporation Attorney Will
lam A. Boyd came with blood in his eye he over
heard the name OF Robinson mentioned.
felix OK the on,.sd d states SEN
himself for any one but Robinson. John
II. strahan was smiling. as usual. Then crowd
| surged in, among wnom John H. Waterbury,
OF the Thirteenth ward; ex-United States District
Attorney Samuel G.. Courtney and Frederick Smyth,
u,,.xh AI~T. ,..-l,
| lin, OF Brooklyn. looked nervously at his ancient
enemies in State conventions and lodged through q
| knot of Tammany politicians to reach the trnin.
Assemblyman Jacob Seebacher, Edward Fitzpatrick.
| of the Seventh ward; Hugh Donnelly and stephen
II. Turnbul in knot by themselves. The latter
wore what a delegate called a swell English anti
Robinson suit. Ex-senator William Cauldwell came
with brown bag. white vest and blue ribbon in his
button hole As the time drew for the train to
| depart the delegates focked in by squads and amid
much good humored chaf from Tammany and anti
| Tammany bystanders elbowed their way through
| the dense throng to the station platform. Among
the lato comers who hurried on board were
Patrick Burns, Of the Seventeenth ward, who
wore shiny beaver. and ex-Assembiyman
John L. Hennessey. Deputy Sheriff Martin J. Reese,
| William H. Secor, l.. A. Lawrence Patrick j. Han
bury Alderman George Hall. Alderman william Il.
Roberts. exAlderman Thomas I. Foley. of the First
| ward; Assembly man Edward p Hogan and Alderman
| Robert Foster. As Alderman Roberts passed he
marked to the HERALD reporter:-"We are for San
ford L. Church the first choice and General WILL
lam +. Smith, the soldier, statesman and scholar,
the second. We shall never support Robinson"
MR.. KELLY ARRIVES.
| main entrance denoted the arrival of John Kelly.
AS he could free himself from the throng
that surrounded him, Mr. Kelly sank into seat and
shook hands with HERALp reporter. 81 shall have
plenty of company, he said as he glanced around
think there will be such hot time at the Convention
as some pee pie suppose. When there is much noise
beforehand things generally pass OF quietly It's
the frst shock that makes the trouble. When that
is matters generally run smoothly enough. and
| have no reason to apprehend otherwise now. Even
though the temporary organization should DO
effected by Governor RobEsons friends it will have
no effect on the result. II we hnd that Governor
Robinson is certain to be nominated will not take
part in the Conventions proceedings"
General Smith came up ut this point. and some
ond choice for the nomination for Governor Mr.
Kelly overheard the remark and said. HE Is the first
his way the friends and foes followed in his
| wake In the crowd were Deputy Sheriff Mckeon,
Thomas l.. Feitner, Maurice j. Power. Marshal John
| Ii. McCarty Leo &. Dcssar, Alderman Thomas
Shells, James Fitzpatrick, OF the Ninth ward ASSEM-
blyman Joseph p. McDonough. ex-Assemblyman
| William Hitchman. Marshal Lawrence Delmore Philip
| benjamin. Frank Ransom, John ii. Harnett. Thomas
7. Walsh. ex-Alierman Krauss. John Birmingham.
! s. Andrews. Deputy Public Works Commissioner
Hamblin. Deputy Sheriff Gale. Coroner Flanagan.
and Major William H. Quincy. Az the train moved
out Of the depot. adisgrnnted republican was over
heard to drop the remark Nov let one-half the
police force take a vacation
Another squad of Tammanyites leave at eight
| o'clock this morning. while the city democracy's
delegation depart by the halfpast ten O'Clock train.
CORTLAND. n. Y, Sept. 3, 1879.
Tha Democratic Convention here to-day elected
Calvin L. Hathaway. Theodore Cornwell and Almon
! L. Ney delegates to the State Convention. They
| are apti-Robinson men.
COLLEGE PorNT N. ". Sept. s, 1879.
Tho Democratic Convention of the First Assembly
district of Queens county, at Roslyn, Saturday,
elected Israel j. Merritt. of Flushing; stephen La
| bor. of North Hampstead, and John W. Campbell. of
Oyster Bay, as delegates. They pledged to vote
for the denomination of Governor Robinson.
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