New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-19

weapons IN use. Onc Oh Inese - u thiOoO VIZ
Anti-1ilden element III the Convention vii repeat
the Tammany bolt of last year if the majority ride
over them rough-shod. John Kelly is said to be
hopeful Of this, but the Tilden managers are very
sceptical about it. and under their present pans as
will be seen further on, they will hardly give DC
cent pretext for q bolt. Still another weapon Oh
the Anti-Tilden side, rnor says, is to he an t'
tempted stampede for Seymour. number OF uele
cations come here under Seymour resolutions, ana
the burrah strategy is very likely to be tried The
Tilden men profess to have no fear OF 1t.
The policy which seems to have been
agreed upon is pacific one. Ihe majority
feel certain of choosing more than fifty OF the
seventy delegates to Cincinnati. Under the unit
rule the seventy votes of NewYork will, therefore,
be in Mr. Tldcns possession and, so far as the vote
of this State is concerned any resolution of instruc
ton, or even one presenting MIR. Tilden's name
would be unnecessary This is the argument ana
the plan is that there shall be no resolution Inc
effect in other States of an announcement that III
den has the delegation will be quite as powerful
il is believed, as a resolution. The policy blds
fair to deprive Tildens opponents of the grievance
they hayo been longing for. Their conventions
have been passing resolutions against all lnstruc
tions to the Cincinnati delegation. To make no at
tempt to instruct will be to steal the thunder Oh
their whole campaign. 1t will do even more. 1t
name is not directly introduced, to bring forward
that of Seymour OF any other candidate. If reso-
lution of instruction for Tilden should DO
offered, the minority might without great
inconsistency, insist that the instructions
should be for Seymour if anybody, but
when no instructions are proposed 1t WEI
simply be impossible for the men who are opponents
of all pledges to be the first to offer them. They
must get seymours name if at all, in some other
THE FRAUD" CRY TO DE RAISED.
There will undoubtedly be a strong fraud"
plank in the platform. which will serve Tlldens
purpose almost as well as the presentation OF his
name But the Anti-Tilden Democrats can hardly
resist that, as they have willingly approved such
nlank in every Convention for three years
back. and, indeed. themselves set the ex-
annie in the Convention OF 1877, whlch
thev controlled. There will be resolution
regnacting tho unit rule, but they cannot oppose
that without flying in the face of long-establlshed
use There will probably be resolution sustaining
the two-thrds rule, but all factions in the party
throughout the country to feel safer with the
rule in force and all the public declarations thus lar
are in favor of its being retained.
A shrewd Tilden man said to-day that he could
not sea where the other side could stand
unless it was on the composition OF the
committee to select the delegates-at-large
and approve the list of delegates chosen by
the districts. Sometimes one party is in favor OF
amounting the Committee by Judicial Districts and
sometimes by Congressional Districts Just as II is
70 its interest to have it done. The facility with
which factions will change sides year after year on
this question: and the virtuous uDetion with which
the speakers of each side will make the very
speeches which they denounced and ridIculed the
wear before, make State Conventions sometimes
almost amusing 1t is hardly necessary to say that
the decision of this question either way will not
give the minority pretext for boiling. IL the
present programme is carried out, therefore, the
minority will find themselves at the end of the Con-
vention with no grievances and few voiceless del
egates to Cincinnati.
PROPOSED TILDEN DELEGATES.
II is more than possible that the name OF Luclus
Robinson will head the list Of delegates-atlarge
| That would serve as pretty plain hint to the
| Democratic party of the Union, who know that
Governor Robinson ran last year as Tildens repre-
sentative, what the preference of the New-YOrk
delegation Is. Ex-AttOrney- General Schoonmaker
Daniel Manning, William c. Kingsley or some
other Brooklyn man, and James +. starbuck are
among those also mentioned for delegates-at-large
The Presidential electors will be nominated, and
the new State Committee will be chosen as at the
Republican Convention.
| New.York ia destined to have political novelty
"A Presidential campaign without conventions.
There is talk of putting HOratio Seymour at the
head of the list OF the electoral ticket of 1876
TIIE WITHDRAWAL RUMOR.
The fresh outbreak Of rumOr5 OF Tilden's con-
| templated withdrawal naturally excites much re-
| mark; one thing may be safely predicted-that
there will be no letter of withdrawal read at the
| Syracuse Convention. If Tilden withdraws at all
| il will only he after he has carried the Conven-
| ..... tod the Marty organization for the
campaign, and taken steps to secure the
nomination for one OF his friends Tn other words,
| after n victory. There are rumors among Tilden
men that something of great importance is to hap
pen within fortnight or so after the Convention,
| but what it is, no one seems to know. A. natural
| guess is that il may mean withdrawal, but even
those who might beeXpected to share the secret do not
know IT, The suspicion has been expressed that the
| whole talk of withdrawal is willy device Tor con-
flsng and, to certain extent disarming the Oppni
stion. There is gossip that the ticket OF Payne ana
| Potter is Tilden's choice -
FX.Governor Walker IS mentioned as possibly
| the permanent chairman of the Convention.
'"I lie p Anti-Tammany delegation from New-York
| will undoubtedly be put on the Convention roll by
the State Committee, though u Was not admitted 70
latest stages adopted resolution that, in Jew of
Tammany's action IN boiling, it should no longer
have precedence In future conventions but the
party would hear and decide upon their merits oil
| claims for representation from New-YCTk. Under
this resolution the State Committee Will
nut Anti-Tammany on the roll and will,
OF course, do whatever else is deemed
| necessary in Tilden's interest. There are
contests in an unusual number of districts out
side of New-York-not less than dozen and in
MANY there is q Kelly delegation also, so that q
number of districts will have three distinct delega-
tiOns--TiIden, Anti-Tilden and Kelly. II Is ex-
| pected that O large proportion OF the cOntestinR
Anti-Tilden delegates, II they arc excluded from
the regular COnvention-as many OF them un-
doubtediy will be-wll go over to the Kelly Con-
Vention.
ON THEIR WAY TO SYRACUSE.
DEPARTURE or REPRESENTATIVES, OF TIE VARIOUS
DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS.
Many Democrats left the city for the Syra-