New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-12

| while his correspondent had evidently expected
him to be here. Mr.. Kelly enjoyed the joke and
indeed, the broad smile that spread over his face
when the letter was announced was the only visible
demonstration that escaped him during the day.
The leader of Tammany was silent and sad from
the time tho convention was called to order until
he left the hall in company with his followers.
| Erastus Brooks kept the convention waiting for
some time. his Committee on Resolutions had not
completed their work. But he finally appeared
bringing the platform in his Nat ont of which he
ished it piece by piece, reading 1t with numerous
jerks and blunders. and managing to give his hear
the idea that the platform was q pretty poor
specimen of that kind of work. The conspicuous
points were duly rewarded with applause, but there
wasa dead silence when Indignation WAS manifested
the betrayal of Civil Service Reform by Admin
islration at Washington. Here tho hypocrisy of the
convention was not equal to the hypocrisy of the
committee. There were some Iammany misses when
tic public schools were eulogzed. and great out
| break Of applause came from the same delegation
when the prison contract system was denounced.
! The platform was soon hustled out of the way,
and a buzz of expectation ran the dense crowd
a. Chailman Jacobs declared that nominations for
the Office of Governor In order The hall at
this moment furnished an impressive spectacle. The
floor was packed; every seat WAS filled and every
aisle choked up. The openings beneath the stage
had vomited forth a black mass of humanity which
filed the in front of the convention and over
flowed upon the already densely crowded aises at
the sides. The galleries were crammed with men
VINO stood ten ranks deep behind the seats, and
seemed to fiji every inch Of space.
IHE MUSIC BEGINS
When the rustic had over the assemblage
following the chairman's announcement, n quiet
man with "A courageous face in the midst of
the Albany delegation. 1t was Samuel Hand. and
the Robinson men set up cheer as they recognized
their spokesman. At the first mention of Robin
sons name The boosted harmony Of the convention,
which had been carefully preserved appearance
by all Of parliamentary ictiOns. by the chair
men Of committees laying stress upan the unanlmity
OF their reports. and the like, blown aside by
the rude breath of the Tammany mob. The APP
plause thar followed Mr. Hands hrst mention of tho
name of Lucus Robinson was answered by long
groans from the Tammany delegation. and when
these had died away there single distinct
hiss, which the majority overwhelmed with "A hearty
cheer. Again. when Mr. Hand said that the renom-
inatipn of Governor Robinson would awaken " UNI
procedented enthusiasm" throughout the State, the
Tammany threw back their heads. and there
came out of the Tammany throat a bitter derisve
laugh.
When Judge Morris, Of Kings, was seen at the
close of MIR. Hands speech asking the floor there
was faint hope in the breasts Of some misnformed
friends of Tammany that Kings County had come
over after all but Judge Morris said he be-
half of the delegation to second the nomination of
Governor Robinson. and he was rewarded accord
lngly. The convention had another severe
attack of "harmony" here. When Judge
Morris said the Kings County delegation had
resolved to support Governor Robinson 'after look
ing the matter over" Tammany laughed another
insulting laugh, and likedit well mat they laughed
again and again further on in his speech. There
was a little flush of anger IN Judge Morrss face
he said, with significant thrust toward Tammany,
that the Kings County delegation did not come to
the convention unit. At the close of his
brief speech he predicted n majority in Kings
County for Lucius Robinson Of II. 900 or il, 600
votes /; ana the Iammany braves who were hanging
on the piasters and the window sashe- putting the
air fairly blue with cigar smoke and fitting their
hats at the true Tammany angle, called ont: " You
cart give IL You haven't got IL; You can't carry IL.
Tammany, with William Dorsheimcr, :. :. Cox,
Augustus Scheli and John Kelly sitting in it. dele
CATION put forward criminal lawyer as IFS first
spokesman. Charles W. Brooke presented the name
of General Socum. amid great cheering from the
Tammany members, the Kings County delegation
sitting in stolid silence. But the 1ammany cheer
was so obviously forced, and was evidently CON
fined TO Iammany and its immediate neigh borhood
| that there was general and good-iaured laugh
General w. F. smith made a graceful little speech
referring to bis amy as~o Ia, oiIs with General
SlJcrui.
GRADY's SAVAGE SPEECH
Then followed the most extraord mary speech OF
the day-that made 10y Thomas i. Grady, member
of the Assembly from one of the lower wards. Mr.
Grady is a broad and shiny young mon with the
physique of a butcher and the lungs of pair of
bellows He il known in the first Iammany circles
IA the silver orator OF the Fourth Ward"
and his style of elOcutIon l. much admired among
Them In Chsthan--,. Mr. Grady must he Web
ster but he is hardly fit person To be put forward
in state Convention tho represent alive of
great organization.
For one hour by the watch Mr.. Grady disFor red
blackguarlism upon the convention, amid the de-
light, d laughter and cries Of the 1ammany men.
Here was harmony indeed. Tnue far the Iamfnany
delegation had certainly been treated with cour-
tesy but their first response wasa speech, in which
Mayor Cooper was referred TO Our Combina-
non Mayor. half mule and half iackass." THIS
choice hit of silycr-tonIued oratory wa greeted
with screams oi delight. II would be fairly
mpossihlc 20 give IN detail the many insults which
this bcefy young Statesman put upon the delegates
with whom Iammany pToiossed 10 be ~ ANXIOUS To
har1nonize hut this il fair specinon OF them.
Governor Robinson came IN for a large share 0l
them. and his son for sill larger share. MIR.
Grady sneered at The leader oil The Albany delega-
ton, and wanted to know how the state printing
contract stood sneered at the so-cailed re-
iorln in tue canals and State Prisons, and
advised the Convention TO Nominate Dave
Robinson, the Governors son. Tor Cover
nor instead of his father. Many of the
things the "silver-tongued person said. coarse
ag tury were, were an,usiuRi ana from a
woofen stand In the Fourth Ward "A speech con-
| ,trncled on such model would be- cmnently sue
ce,sfu But il must have been the first Impulse oi
any gentleman hearing II. To 20 over to tie SIDE
| 10 which Mr.. Grady did not belong.
| ma ,ro.t .u,usfnp fcature of this enisode was