The daily gazette., 1880-04-21
SECOND EDITION
The New York Democratic Con-
vention.
TILDEN DELEGATES CHOSEN.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, April 20.-Strange
ly enough the convention which met
here to-day proves in the face of all the
exposures that have been made concern
ing I ilden and all the fierce opposition
to him of late TO be the strongest Tilden
convention ever held in the State. On
a vote taken this morning. which was
not quite test vote, ,and still almost one,
the Tilden men mustered 295 and the
opposition only so. The question was
one of the unimpOrtant ones Oh which
divisions ale often made, but the best
anti-Tilden speakers exeried themselves
to the utmost with only this result. The
Tilden men are themselves astonished
at the size Of their ctory. In the con-
vention of 1876 Tilden had only POI
votes out of the same number of dele
gates, and the Tilden men say that in
spite of the hubbub against him
OF late, the opposition is less bitter
than it was four years ago. They
declare that prominent men in Tam
many Hail assure them that If Tilden
is nominated Tammany will support
him, and express real confidence that
even before the first of June the Tam
many organization will pass in spite Of
John Kelly, if necessary, resolution
expressing willingness to accept Tilden's
candidacy. The Tilden programme
was exceedingly adroit. 1t was fair
throughout, and yet so contrived as TO
win all the advantages desired.
AS was said yesterday they had no in
ten.ion of instructing the delegation to
Cincinnati, but beginning with the very
fret nf fha snpaah nf R
| Faulkner Of the State Committee, every
utterance was made with the idea of let
| ting it be known that this was strong
| TildeI convention. Faulkner attacked
Tammany at the outset, praised Lucius
Robinson, denounced the fraud of 1876
and lauded Tilden by name. Each time
| he was answ cred, of course, with the
cheers of the TIlden men, and frequent
| ly with the Kisses of the opposition.
Then, too, being suree of large majority
OF the district delegations and OF the Total
vote at Cincinnati under the unit rule,
they made show of virtue by providing
in the resolution for the appointment OF
committee to report delegates and
delegates Large that in every case
where delegate to Cincinnati were elect
ed by majority of the delegaths from a
district, these names should be accepted
| by the convention. The district repu-
diaIion of the tactics pursuedat the Penn
sylvania Republican Convention sound
ed well, and cost nothing in the way Of
practical advantage.
During the morning session John b.
Haskin and the famous jaw-breaker OF
Iammany, A. ID. Curroy, appeaied iu
| the Tilden convention wearing a blue
badge of Tammany Hall and bearing a
letter from committee of sixteen ap
pointed by the Kelly gathering in tht
''interest of harmony and union" They
evidently expected to be treated witt
distinguished courtesy, but a debate
was in pr ogrtss and the chairman, Sena
tor Jacobs, coolly ordered them tC
wait. They stood in the al lie until They
were tired of waiting and sat down
The their communication was referred
J to the Committee on Resolutions, with
out being read, n spite of the efforts oI
their sympathizers In the convention to
| have that done. The Tammany com
inittee retired much disgusted. The
manner of their reception convinced
them that the Tilden convention would
not accept their proposition, and so al
their evening session Kelly's f, flowers
nominated a full delegation to Cincln-
natl and full electoral ticket, and finally
| adjourned before the Tllden convention
had taken any action upon their request.
| In the Tilden convention the committee
made report treating the communion
tion as a private one from Haskins, ig-
noring the Tammany convention alto
| gether and not even mentioning the rt-
| quest for the appointment of commit
| tee. L. could not have Oeen more po-
itely contemptuous. This was adopted
without opposition and Tammauy's re
buff was complete.
A resolution was adopted sustaining
the two-thirds rule. The platform
which was not reported until after Md
uight, and was adopted, without oppo
.ition from small and dispirited mi
norlty, it IS unquestioDaby great boon
FOR TildeD. The unit rule and the wig
orous provisions for putting the minority
completely In the power of the majoritC
make The 20 votes of the delegation Til
dep's absolute ly, and the platform il
sole ly devoted to him.