Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-21
FOLGER BEATS CORNELL

FOLGER BEATS CORNELL
A MAUHIuE VICTORY H MEw YOkK.
Arthur's sssrse.sy Of the Treasury nonl-
mated ter Governog, Aftse IN Exciting
Struggle ut Saratoga.
When the New York Republican state
convention at Saratoga met again at 4 D.
m. Wednesday, it dragged through four
wearisome hours, half given to contests Of
q local interest, and tho other half to
speeches, introducing candidates for gov
ernor, all absolutely without interest in q
body whose whole life pivoted on tho
struggle over the organization and the
nomination for governor. With a shrewd-
ness led off by Bliss, tho FOiger party
voted down the report of the FOlger com:
mittee on credentials, unseating the Sene-
ca delegation where both sets were for
Cornell. It was little touch, but a neat
one. The speeches were all mediocre or
worse-State Senator Pitts, for Cornell,
made, perhaps. the best. The air was
full of rumor which met and crystallized
at two points-the Wadsworth strength
had been secured in great measure
by Folger, and Cornelrs friends had
made no progress in establish
ing working arrangement with
WadswOrth's forces which contained q
strong share of men whose dislike of
Cornell made them prefer any course to a
vote for him. Bad air, bad speech max
ing, and long days session had sunk
the convention to absolute weariness and
the first roll-call for governor went by in
lax inattention. The long roll, twice the
length of Che House at Washington, ran
on without interest. Vote after vote fell
close upon the estimate of the past two
days and the roll call of this morning.
Wood had been withdrawn. His strength
added to Folger's raised tho vote of the
secretary of the treasury to 223, three
fourths of it from tho great cities Of the
state. Cornell came behind with $50
votes, and his tally, added to Wadswortli's
sixty. y.nine, made an exact majority of the
convention. Two lesser candidates, Starin
and Robinson, had nineteen and six each.
The convention settled to q second bal.
lot with all the signs of a long struggle.
Men on the outer skirts of the crowd lit
their cigars. The close, dense mass Ofdel-
egates stretched themselves ut case and
the clerk droned on from county to county.
There was a change at BrOOme, whose del
egates voted for Cornell, and here and
there vote for FOlgcr--Once oven vote
for Starin.
A stir ripplcd over the convention ut
each change, but the vote closed with no
alteration which counted on tho final re-
suit. Changes began to come. A man in
Queens changed from WadswOrth to Fol.
"a
break would nominate Folger. Miller
left his seat and hurried to tho Oneida
aud st. Lawrence delegations, where
Wadsworth's 8 chief strength lay. aud the
administration leaders gathered in a group
at tho head of another aisle, Smythe,
Sharpe and the rest. The convention
Strengthened like ono man. The rows Of
white faces under the gaslight left now as
one man and another jumped on q chair,
waved his hat and hoarsely shouted a
change. Folger's tally mounted vote at
4 time. 1t looked like a break. Miller
came rushing up the aisle, waving his
arm, and threw himself into this rushing
current of shouting delegates: Hammer
ing chairman and hoarse and bewildcled
secretary change OF vote, aud the con-
ventiOn hung at dead pause like ship DO
AOAC ~ lsbsAc VII SsuOGAOA OSsVns 1u IuO lAlu-
die of the hall a black bearded six fOOter
and shouted, "Anothor changev' It. was
eight more from Starin to Cornell, and
another Of Starin's counties followed The
convention devolved Into howling mob.
The big, red-faced chairman went to
pieces, the clerk lost all run Of the score,
the aisle filled, the wall aislcs were one
fI,ioIr If cu,ax :rn ryitb md
there man screaming frantically for rec
Ognition, arm, head, hat, body, umbrella,
cane, vOice-all yelled and waved and
Hammered and shaken. The clOsely-placed
seats would break up in groups of excited
men around some man dancing on his
chair seat, and then settle back as the
rows of men sank back in their seats.
Shouts, cries, yells, cheers, half sentences
and whole ones, weak voiced men in a
hoarse, dumb show, and strong voiced
ones in explosive staccatO syllables Mis-
ter Chairman" over and over again. The
traditional break in 4 convention is u rout
the stone is pulled out of the arch and
the whole thing tumbles. The break last
night was q pitched battle fought through
an hour, ono vote changing at a time, the
tally swaying now this way now that,
FOlger slowly narrowing vote by vote the
gap that separated him from a majority,
and Cornell rising by leaps and bounds
until in one crazed five minutes the two
were not ten votes apart.
Starin had already been withdrawn.
Tho slender, quiet-vOiced old man who
had presented Wadsworth, his voice utter
ly drowned in the hubbub, struggled
through slow minutes to announce that
Oneida changed eleven votes to Cornell,
but by this time nothing short of fog
whistle was to he heard in tho din OF
shouting men. and it was only when he
had crowded down within a yard or two
Of the chairman that he was understood.
WadswOrth still remained in the field aud
held a few votes for Cornell while FOlger's
strength mounted but. long after he
had passed a majority man were still
changing their votes to Cornell, and
f1inging into the breach ono voto after
another. 1t was over at last. A rcd
haired young man on a chair shouted a
change from Cornell to Folger, half q
dozen more came. none followed, but Cor.
nell held his vote, and Sharpe, high in a
chair, managed in lull of the tempest to
suggest quiet before the result was an
nounced. The convention slowly became
still. Tho result was announced. FOlger
had 2G1 votes, within one vote of the
strength his managers claimed if Il break
came. Cornell had 223, and Wadsworth
-, cast by little squad of impracticablo
Independents.
The motion to make tho nomination
unanimous came from United States Sen
atcr Warner Miller, who had been the ac
tive leader of tho Cornell faction, and after
it had been adopted recess was taken