New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-21

resolution in the platform inserted, il Is said,
after the friends OF Tilden had learned their
full strength, urging his nomination by the Gin
cinnad Convention.
A DULL CONVENTION.
| ONLY A FEW REMINDERS OF The oLp-FAsHOHED
DEMOCRATIC GiTHERISG--TAMMA NY HALL
TREATED WITH COOL coSrEMPT-MR. TILDsn
NOT A CANDIDArE-FoILy or TIE rAMMANY
BOLT.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE fMBuMRf il
SYRACUSE, April 2O-Except for Jimmy McGsurk.
whose fame here sound gratefully as political
benefactor. and two or three follows in the gallery
with Tammany badges, who seemed TO be pulling
with great difficulty out of the influence of early
cocktails there had been disturbing incident in
| the opening session. They relieved the monotony
Of unusual calm by remarking audibly in the first
| place that Tilden was q coward and 0 traitor.
| and in the second by cheering for Seymour
and John Kelly. Those demonstrations lent
the early part of the proceedings something Of the
life and spirit which properly belong to Democratic
Conventions, and gave the assembly natural
tone. Even the orotund Faulkner. whose gushing
eloquence was for moment stopped by the gallery
perform ance, seemed not to view 1t as an unmixed
evil, as it gave him time to pull himself together
and fit some rhetoric to the occasion while John
OdCOus, WIN was III CudIs CiC1kiy tOVh ~ 10 -
| favorable circumstance, sure sign Of the legit-
imacy of the gathering
Jimmy McGurk camc first with an apparently
unprecedented Interpolation into the speech with
which Colonel Faulkner started the thing of.
Faulkner had led carefully up to alluson TO Til
den which was intended to evoke applause, but as
he waited for it Jimmy gushed in with bis paren-
thesis, dsow ming the old gentleman as above; and
it was difficult then to say whether the applause
which followed was for Jimmy or the Colonel.
The two or three Tammany men In the gallery got
in their work with much vociferOusness little
later when Faulkner goE The floor to reply to Ruger.
of Syracuse on the resolution raising the Commit.
tee on Contested Seats.
PROMISE NOT FULFILLED.
These interruptions at so early stage promised
much for the iveliness OF the nutny, but the prom
ise was not redeemed. Jimmy subslded immedi.
ately and John Jacobs. with his wonderful tact and
stubbOrnness, stood still and let the Tammany fell
lows work ont the sediment Of their cock
tails without interruption, when he started
business with barely o stroke of the gavel,
and there was hardly any disturbance Afterward
the proceedings proper were so decorously dull as
to be almost wooden in their stupid and unbroken
routine. 1t was very sad to see, when the New
York delegation was called only one solitary per.
son rise up and offer the credentials Of contestants,
| and contest alone the whole seventy-two. IL has
| been long since any such strange thing as
| this has happened in q Democratic COnven.
ton. This gentleman made his lonesome con-
test. John Jacobs sat down on him with Q
pertinent word or two. and business proceeded.
Rugers squirt of opposition to the resolution raising
| the Committee on Contested Seats was vigorous
| and earnest and contained sort OF contingent
| threat of bolt, but the talking was cheap and
| feeble.
Faulkners opening speech contained but one
point Of Importance, which was his statement that
| he was not informed as to whether Mr.. Tilden
would respond to the opportunities Of people
| clamorous for his leadership and consent to be
again candidate. The plain Interpretation Of his
Speech and indeed Of all the acts Of the Convention.
is that Mr.. Tiden is not seriously candidate;
but that this is not the tme either on his own ac-
count or that of his supporters, to say so authota
| lively. This Convention does not take his name
down, but it points the way to it with the utmost
clearness. What is significant. perhaps, than
anything else IN this regard is the fact that not
prominent delegate in this body has in public or
priyate resented the intmaton that he would with
draw from the field before the Convention meets
but all with greater or less hesitation confess that
1t is probable When politicians mean business they
do not begin canvass in that way.
TAMMANYs MISTAKE.
Tho ouecr feature In this whole matter is the po-
sition In which the Tammany organization has
placed itself by the bolt of last Fall That action,
by placing them outside the regular organization,
many made its fight inside the party,
and come here to-day claiming recognition and rep
rpspntaton it wonld have been 10 controls for even
with the State Committee in the hands of the Til
den men, and the whole machinery. Of the party
organization in their power sufficient opposition ion
e% mef fhdy made wod ff haHs had abo
lutte control Of the Conysn!o9 and nf ,o,ns left
there themselves. As IL 49,, they are outside the
regular organization and in the attitude OF b9lters
upon the pretext that they cannot and viii not
support Tilden. Their opponents have taken pos
session of the machinery, and have given them as
yet no Justification for their bolt by insisting upon
or even naming the offensive candidate. When the
il will before great while, for the Anti-Tammany
peopIe to take down Mr.. Tildens name decisiyely
rammany will be left in the attitude OF boiling
faction With no excuse for 6oltlng. ro, ,o,
What will become oil reCalcltraDt Iammany Wnen
tho thing it kicked is taken away IS an interesting
question for New-YOrk City politicians. Meantime
the Ant-1 ammany crowd come by natqrai S9cces. rs
party machinery. In the light OF to-day the lam,
many bolt OF last year was one OF the worst OF
ton and influence by it, and the only pretence OK
justification for it will be taken away from them
In few weeks by Tilden's withdrawal.
TuDEN NOT A CANDIDATE
It may be speak too confidently Oh Iildans
withdrawal. Possibly he will not formally take
down his name as a candidate before the Conven-
ton meets; but if he does not 1t will be only for the
sake of appearapces or because the necessities Of
his friends require him to remain nominaily IN the
field. As to his being candidate In any
serious sense at Cincinnati, am very con,
fdent from oil that l have seen and heard
Acre that he will not be. This Is what
gives the attitude of his Tammany opponents