Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-29
THE N. Y. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
What the Republicans Sag Of It'd Boom
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tor 1ILden.
lStaff Correspondence New York Tribune.1
SYRACUSE, N, Y, April 21.-The most i'm
portant consideration connected with the
Democratic convention addresses itself
quite as much to Republicans as to Demo-
Gratis. It is the question whether the Re-
publican party will not be confronted at the
polls in November with united Democracy
in spite of Mr.. Kelly's Cincinnati delegation
and his electoral ticket. Union is certain if
Tilden is not nominated, and no one can
now safely predict that there will not be
what will practically amount to union if
Tilden is nominated.
1t is just as evident that the action
of the convention has strengthened
him before the party in this State
him in other States. His majority was the
largest he has ever obtained. The platform
embodies Tildenism from beginning to end.
The delegation is solidly his, not only under
the unit rule, but in practical effect. 1t is
claimed that there are only six positive anti
Tilden men on the delegation, with four men
on middle ground, giving him sixty active
supporters out of the seventy delegates.
This is great improvement on 1876, when
twenty-five votes were cast for Seymour in
the meeting of the delegation, and Senator
Herman, in casting the vote of the State, was
obliged to add that the number of delegates
named would have voted otherwise but for
the unit rule. In 1876, also, these twenty
two delegates constituted force of active
rIro-o
delegation to delegation, in formal embas-
sizes, declaring in set speeches that Tilden
could not carry New York, and using all their
influence, inside of the convention
and outside, to produce this
impression upon the pnblic mind. This
work will be done this year only by the
Tammany boilers, who have now no stand
ing in the party having committed the
great Democratic crime. Even one of the anti.
Eilden speakers in the regular convention
yesterday, Judge Miller, of Seneca, CEN
sured Kelly by name and professed indigna-
ton that any one should urge any of his &C
tons as presidents. When even the men
who probably sympathizs in secret with
many, feel that public references to him
must take this tone. his loss of party stand
ing is complete.
ton within the delegation at Cincinnati,
because prominent Tilden men say
that pledges to that effect have been re-
ceived. Ex-Mayor Poncher, of Oswego,
who is the most prominent of the
six hostiles, is said to have promised that he
will give no trouble. The six are: Nineteenth
district, w. II. Sawyer and w. B. Cantwell;
Twenty-fourth district, w. A. Poncher and
l.. B. Clark; Twenty-seventh district, Frank
Rice and 0. G. Sherman. There are other
spots in the delegation where anti-Tilden
sentiment certainly exists, such as the
Oneida district But such delegates are al
ready giving assurances that they will act in
good faith under the resolutions of the con-
vention. Some of the Tilden men even
claim that it is not fair to count all the six
delegates named as anti Tilden men, declar-
ing that some of them are sometimes neutral.
But it sutices to say that the delegation
will not only vote as a unit, but act as a unit.
Even If this were not so, the reso-
lutions adopted by the convention would
put it in the power of the majority to
expel any delegate whose behavior does not
suit them. One clause of these extraordi-
nary resolutions declares that any delegate
may be expelled from the delegation who
fails to cooperate with the majority.
go operate" is a conveniently indefinite
word, and might be made very broad or very
narrow, as the majority may choose.
All this must have powerful effect, not
only upon the result at Cincinnati, but upon
the campaign in this State, if TiIden should
be nominated. The party organization is
firmly in his hands until the fall of 1881.
There are only three anti Tilden men on
the State committee out of thirty three
Messrs. Scramling, Averill and Poucher,
and the latter seems already TO be
looked upon as friendly. The Tammany
men can hope for nothing from the
party so long as they remain in their present
attitude, and it becomes practical question,
therefore, how long they are likely to hold it.
Outwardly they show brave faces, of course,
and they may mean, all they say. They
showed last November that they meant all
they said in September. But their situation
is much worse than it was then. Many of
the anti-Tammany delegates represent their
Tammany friends as being in real detection.
Privately, many of them are said to feel that
the separate convention was gross mistake.
Mr.. Kelly persisted in the idea in spite, it is
sid, of much opposition. Elk Canal Com
missioner w. w. Wright is stated TO have
spent two hours in an attempt to persuade
him out of it, and even Grady, who owes to
Mr.. Kelly most of the silver his
tongue has brought him, argued against
it. The course urged upon him
was to elect delegate to the State conven-
ton, and claim the New York seats on the
ground of regularity as derived from last
scars organizations preliminary to the con-
ventions. But calling separate conven-
ton, selecting separate delegation and
even nominating separate electoral ticket
without waiting until the Cincinnati conven-
ton had nominated Tiden, puts Tammany
much further outside the party-too far out
side ever to get back, as an organization, ex-
cept by complete surrender. The anti
Tammany leaders predict that Tammany
will indorse Tilden within forty eight hours
if nominated.
But if Mr.. Kelly should attempt to hold
his men back, can he do it.? That is the i'm
portant question which the overwhelming
Telden victory here brings home to such
Republicans as are relying too much
upon the Democratic division for success
next fall. 1t will take good deal of cour-
age to oppose Democratic Presidential can
didate who may have custom houses to give
away. Last fall TammaDy had a tangible
grievance against Robinson, but it is not a
tangible grievance against Tilden, who was
merely suspected with connection with it.
The grievance is purely local. The Cincin-
natl convention will hardly listen TO orations
about the unjust removal of a county clerk.
By next fall good many Tammany men
will care more for the possible piokings of
the future than the lost pickings of the past,
and even the vindication of the interminable
Gumbleton may have become a matter Of