New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-10
THE PATRIOTS AT SYRACUSE.
TAMMANY HIRES ITS OWN HALL.

The gathering in the City of Syracuse over
che Democratic State Convention to-day is so
lsrOe that the hotels are unable to accommo-
date all who have applied for rooms. Ii is still
threatened that the Tammany men will
holt if Governor Robinson is renomnated,
and it is known that Shakespeare Hall has
been quietly engaged by that faction. John
Kelly is on hand, but is almost invisible.
Senator Herman is also in Syracuse, urging
harmony. lie is anxious to have the
two factions come together and talk
things over quietly. Very few can
didates are yet openly named for the
secondary places on the State ticket, the
friends of the candidates not deeming IL pru-
dent to push their claims at present.
CROWD CALCULATED TO IMPRESS.
THE GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THINGS AMONG THE
pr1rGArPs, PRELIMINARY TO THE MORE FORMAL
ROW AT WHITING HALL
Try TELEGRAPH TO TUE TRIBuNE.i
SYRACUSE, n. Y, Sept. 0.-Ihe convention or
xhat will shortly pull itself together In twenty
fopr-foot ring under that name, has 1rneod the
sidewalks and tasselled the street corners dubbed
I'm hotel parors and gurged III bar-rooms Oil gay
long. The most casual observer could never mis-
,ke TIE character of the gathering from this early
nrpfl O
democratic beyond mistake or question The way
caring man can read it on the face of the average
deecate-not on his brow for that is too narrow for
any inscription-but in his lineaments and express
sim would not say il Is an unprepossessng ooun-
,enance BY any means. On the contrary, like the
singular short nosed bull-pups which figure ON
crockery and on the ends of canes and umbrellas
md are so extremely ugly that they seem to have
sepped over from the very top of ugliness TO some
thinr like beauty, this may be called by the same
paradox rather handsome convention.
There's n difference in conventions, to be sure
hrt IN the true patriot who considers the conven-
ton from q proper point of view the difference IS
like that in whiskey, as described by the Scotch
man who said. "No whskcy is badi some whiskey
shelter than other whiskey; but all whlskey is
roodr So all conventions are good. They are all
and ALWAYS composed of the earnest and sincere.
the upright and lovely who unselfshly neglect
their own concerns for the general welfare. Some
conventions are more pronounced than others, have
n more definite character, show more distinctly In
their bearing aud behavior the sense of response
bity which attaches TO the position OF delegate.
md impress the beholder more profoundly with the
importance Of their functions Us principal cogs In
great machine.
II has been said that most Of these delegates
have come here instructed. l am not prepared 10
l.
or manners to show it. If unnstructed delegations
are successes for untrammeed action, this ought TO
be as fair convention as was ever held.
There were undoubtedly delegates at tho conven-
lion at Saratoga last week who felt all through
md all the time that they wore delegates and were
saturated with q sense OF the Importance of what
they were about They gathered in knots or
trooded In corners, glued their mouths to each
others ears in way that made 1t clear that there
was political convention IN travail somewhere In
the neigbborhood. and that they were attending
upon the event. But that convention melted
largely and easily into the general throng at Sara
toea and. but for the activity of the few who did
the buzzing. might almost have been swallowed up
Ga tho multitude without any universal disturbance
But this convention tumbles noisiy into town,
humps itself in public places, peryades everything
with its disputes and browns all other noises with
its ,lamor 1t wears dyed mOustache, cocks it's
stoycppe hat at angle splts with great accuracy
al coa-hole, looks greasy, and answers with alac-
ritz the grand hailing sign of the party, ell.
bows. what We going to take" 1t Is aggressive and
ou,spoken, and can more be ignored as an addi,
to the soclal life OF syracuse IMAM violent al"
unsupported blossom on good mans nose. -.
There is another point of difference between thls
and last weeks convention in this, that III tue lat
Ter the delegate was known by his disposition 10
be confidential and to take his fellow man into
corner to whisper to him. Here he takes the side,
walk and discorges his most earnest hopes and
hate Nth bn,al frankuess and defiant manner.
Il is the difference between directors meeting
md priZe-hght
Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimcr is the only
aplomatist visible. lie goes through the crowd at
the Vanderbilt House once In WHILE and hxing
hi, glittering eyes on some stray and unprotected
delegate fasteus 10 him by the button, leads him
away. and marks him for his own. The horny
handed son of toll who recognizes him as the
author OF the reasonable speech in 1amlnany Han
Oh the Fourth of july in which he said something
mysterious and incOmprchensible about =" the DIFF
ferences of conditions" fees at his approach. but he
feds victories nevertheless and only time Will dis
close the result of his labors
MIR. John Kelly has been visible only to those who
called upon him at his room, and has not mixed
with the multitude.
AZ tho Globe House the Robinson ring have been
holding a continuous reception and distributing
documents of all sorts, including maps, with sub
lime uneousclousness of the fact that any kind of
leading matter will glance of from this conven-
ton like instrumental music of "a deal mute. us
the voice of the bureau; ! hear it complain" The
bureau documents are well enough IN their way
bat for influencing votes bottle OF whisky goes
further than all the printed truck they can cir
tulate.
II Is very melanchol to think of the changes
that have occurred since the last convention TO
nominate Governor met i'm Syracuse. That was
a. 1874 and the nominee gentleman who
has fgnred more or less perhaps l ought to
say ciphered) in National politics since.
There have been two Democratic Conventions for
tLe nomination Of Governor since then, both OF
winch were held in Saratoga. The first nominated
Horat 0 Seymour. under the inspiration OF sprlggs'
Of Utica the second nominated Governor Robin
So. sprggs passed through Syracuse yesterday
without 50 much as leaving word for the conVen-
ton to 20 on and nominate the rest OF the ticket
Bat the changes since s74 are rather remarkanie'