Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-13
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. TAMMANY FALLS IN And Promises It's Sup port To Cleveland. SENATOR GRADY KICKS OVER And Comes Out For Gen.
 eral Butler.
 CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES. A ShipIOad of Infected
 COOlies En Port.
CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES.
OUT FOR CLEVELAND.

TAMMANY OUT FOR CLEVELAND. The Democratic Nominees Endorsed
 By The General COmmlttee-Sehato
 Grady Makes A Strong Speech I'm Op.
 position And Ends By Declaring For
 General Butler.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-The Tammany Hall general committee met tonight to de- eide what attitude the organization should take respecting the national Democratic tick et Nearly all the one thousand five hun dred members were present, and the hall was crowded with spectators, among them being a few ladies. John Kelly was received with applause when he rose to call the meeting to order. He nominated ex-Senator George H. Foster for chairman and that gentleman be- ing unanimously elected made brief address explaining the objects of the meeting.
 The sub-Tammany committee, to whom was referred the matter of preparing and submitting an address by resolution of the committee on organization at it's meeting Monday, September 8, then presented their report, which was substantially as follows:
 After dwelling upon the ancient history of Tammany Hall, how it has never severed it. self from it's allegiance to the Democratic party nor faltered in it's support of the can didates nominated and the principles enunci- ated from the platform of the national Dem ocratic conventions, the report says that, in respect to the candidates now before the Democracy of the nation, five acquiesce in the will of the majority of the representatives of the party, although we believe that will to have been unwisely expressed. There is but one alternative left to us-to sever our con- nection with the Democratic party. This we cannot and will not do. We say with John Adams that there is no good government but what is republican, for a republic is an empire of laws and not of men," The report further speaks of the "beauties and immortal principles of the Democratic party, under which the citizen is protected at home and abroad. public lands returned to the public domain when legally forfeited by the railroads and concludes with the following:
 Resolved, That we, the Democratic republican York in Tammany Hall assembled, hereby ratify and indorse the nominations made by the national 1884. for President, Grover Cleveland of New fork for Vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks. of In diana and we hereby pledge ourselves to earnest and cordial support of the candidates so nominated
 The reading of the resolutions was greeted with great applause mingled with misses. General Spinola, chairman of the sub-com- mittee, then took the floor and said that at the national convention the members of Tam
 
 New York and asked for candidates that could win. He had no apology to make. They wanted a Democratic President and meant to have one if it were within their power. The Democracy was not a happy family to-day but if every Democratic voter buckled on his armor Cleveland would be elected. (Cheers.) General Spinola then moved the adoptionzof the address. Ex-Sen- ator Thomas F. Grady arose amid much ex- citement and cheering and responded to the address, speaking from the floor as follows:
 q rise to protest against the passage of this resolution and the adoption of this address. I feel that the measure of my opposition tonight will amount mere ly to a protest, and it is fair that I should confess at the outset the utter hopelessness of any attempt on my part to divert this committee from the course which I under stand it has determined to adopt For the first time during my membership in this body I find myself placed in antagonism to the position taken by the leader whose fortunes have always followed, and whose confidence and respect l have invariably sought as the supreme reward of my ambition. |. Neither in the nomination of tho ticket nor in the methods by which it was brought about is there the slightest claim upon the great body of Democrats for their support. The great majority of the delegates to the convention who named MT. Cleve- land as their first choice represented Republican constituencies. A number of delegates who openly and earnestly opposed his nomination were recorded in spite of all their protests as favorable to his candidacy Every influence that could be employed or engineered by the monopolists who have se- cured the control of the party management was exerted to make him the candidate, and as you well know delegates who left u. 5yo &hai1. cHo SNf hostility to his cause and inviting the certain defeat of the party gave evidence soon after their arrival in Chicago of a change of heart which only the most simple and charitable have ascribed to pure and worthy smotives. The expressed design of the men who urged his nomination was to conciliate disgusted Republicans to please Democrats" l." Governor Clevelands veto of the five cent fare bill and the circum- stances connected herewith then occupied MT. Grady's attention and the biting orator of Tammany's mouthpiece evoked a storm of applause as he exclaimed, "Is there any known character of the Governor which should exempt him from the severe penalties ordained against men in every way his peers! He was young man when, according to his chosen biographer, he was attracted by the fees to be gained in the office of sheriff, which ought to be distasteful to lawyer of any ability, and we know that he himself pressed the lever that swung the victims of the law into eternity to save the expense of hiring another professional hangman. Such a sordid nature is not above being bribed. * * If any doubt ever existed as to his attitude toward the interests of the workingmen it must have been dispelled by his veto of what is known as the conductors and car drivers bill. There was a measure based upon the ground of common humanity. An overworked and underpaid body of men en- gagged in qlasi-public employment asked to have their hours of labor frightened by law to twelve hours. The only competition to which they were liable was in the number of hours they might be required to work. Considering the necessities of their situa- lions their wages even with reduced hours of labor were at the lowest point. But on the bold objection that the measure belonged to class legislation the Governor refused to give his sanction and intimated that it's provisions might be evaded. Admit for the sake of argument that this be true it would at least be a declaration the part of the government that twelve hours labor fully constitutes days work. 1 am aware that have been charged with allowing 6 personal feeling against the Governor to con- tion may be judged by the
 reasons which assign for it. But if the facts which have stated here tonight from the recent history of the State are of ma ture to force conscientious, patriotic and un selfish Democrats to oppose his election, theI the reasons which control my personal actior can be of little interest to anybody, and leas of all can they affect the legitimate conclu sions which independent citizens must reacl ! for themselves But since the action of Gov ernor Cleveland in writing letter to MT Kelly opposing my return to the Senate O | this State has been made the subject of mucl comment by his supporters, may be permit ! ted to alIude to it for 8 moment in order tC illustrate the incapacity of a presidential can didate to understand the limits which com
 mon propriety would place upan his i'm | f nrotest that in all have read of the exer I cise and abuse of despotic powers I hay, 1 never met with such palpable disregard of inc proprieties of public life a this exhibition of MT. Cleveland' | intolerance of opposition. The king who ut tered that memorable saying: "The State? l am fine State'-even he never coolly pro | claimed that the constitution of any bod, necessary to the government of the Stat l should be regulated solely by a regard fo | tbe personal comfort and satisfaction of tn | monarch. But this interference with tn | constitution of the State was not only inde I cent in itself, it was 8 breach of the plai1 promises of his letter of acceptance. Il 1 that document, on the faith of whiel he was elected, he states: The inter i ference of officials of any degree a..d --,1.o&1,o,, Gfafa fr federal for the DuT