Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-14
CONVENTION POINTS.



on the ticket it would not be Mcdonald
but Hendricks, and an effort Was mad
between the sessions Of the conventions (
work a boom for the tail of the ol,
ticket. John Kelly has ALWAYS ben
toward Hendricks, and it was more OF
Hendrieks' account, tnan for any othe
reason, that he gave a lukewarm supper
70 the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876
He would have liked to have seen Hen
drleks nominated for the Presidency. ant
probably would have supported him as lov
ally as he would either Butler or Bayard
But the boom did not grow, and it sooi
became evident that the only hope ther,
was to defeat Cleveland was to mas
the opposition on Bayard or Thurman
and Thurman stood very little show, be
cause his own State repudiated him.
THE CLEVELAND MEN SAID BLUNTI.Y
that they had no second choice, and tina
they were ready to sink or swim with tn,
Governor. 1t was. however, the genera
opinion that they had the intention, il
case Cleveland were beaten, to spring eX
Mayor Cooper, of New York, on the con
yentiOn. Mr.. Cooper had the great ad
vantage of being comparatively unknown
outside of New York city, except for The
fact that he was a son of Peter Cooper
the well known philanthropIst.
VI all the well known people in the con
vention, perhaps the most prominent was
John Kelly, of New York, or it would be
more proper to say, Mr.. John Kelly. Of
Tammany Hall. His is a not unusual face
and the various caricatures of il are So
common and well known that any de-
scription of his appearance would be su.
perhuous. Not that n caricature is al.
ways faithful likeness, or that eXagger
ations of mans facial peculiarities give
any exact idea OF his true personal ap.
pearance; but kelly's prominent features
are so striking that a cartoon convevs q
fair idea OF his real looks.
THERE Is, OF COURSE, NONE OF THF
GROSS SENsUALITY
of vicious ignorance that the cartoonists
put in his face; in fact, Mr.. Kelly gives
the appearance of a well-bred. Well-edu.
Gated, and fairly good-looking business
man, who cares little about politics and
is not averse to good dinner. But the
shaggy eyebrows, the close-cut and scant
beard, the heavy under jaw, and closely
shut mouth that are seen in the cartoons
are all in Mr.. Kelly's face. and he would
be recognized at once fronmhis pictures,
He is good speaker, but his voice is
hardly loud enough to be of any effect in
the large hall, and he suffered in that re-
spect by comparison with his colleague,
John X. Fellows, who is leader of the
County Democracy, and the especial
mouthpiece the opposition to Tammany.
The manners OF the Tammany leader
while speaking are, however. extrem civ
easy. and his spoken words of opposition
to men or measures are good-humored and
courteous.
A SQUARE, RATHER PODGY FIGURE
was that Of National Committee Chair
man Barnum, of Connecticut. Mr.. Bar
mum mas an owl-like face surrounded by
a thin and very white beard. Although
not go years old, he looked older. and
dressed in a broadcloth suit, with gold
eyeglasses on his nose, and no iewelry
In sight. He was typical picture of an
old-tlme well-to-do business man who had
suddenly been called upon to preside over
a large meeting, and was rather appalled,
at the prospect before him. His voice
was weak and totally insufficient to I'm
the hall, but he shrewdly cot over that
dIlhcu!ty by saying extremely little, and
what he did say was perfunctorv, and II
made very little difference whether any
one heard it or not. When he had gotten
through with his simple duties he dropped
back into his seat with a resigned and
satisfied air, as If he had done the best he
could for the salvation of his country and
the consequent betterment of his party.
RANDALL WAS SOLD OUT.
Before the echoes of the cheers which
greeted his name at Allentown had died
away, and it was not strange that when
lie himself came here he found that he
had been knitted in the house of his
friends. All along there were Pennsyl-
Yanla delegates who were in close com
with Dan Manning, and while
the latter did not seek their votes on the
hrst ballot, he knew where he could put
his nnger on the man and men he wanted
at any time. Hay and Read We're the sus-
poets. Others were known to be against
Randall. 1t is a question, even if he had
been here, leaving his paramount duty as
Chairman Of the Committee on Appro-
prlations at Washington in the early
stages of the convention, if he could have
anything substantial.
ALL GREAT REVOLUTIONS ARE BORN
in violent throes, and the desperate bat
tie just closed in the Democratic National
convention Will stand as a memorable il
lustration of this truth. 1t was the most
heroically contested struggle | have ever
KNOWN IN thirty years as a witness of
PRESIDENTIAL nominations, and every ele-
ment OF ambition and jealousy, ofmeanest
hatreds of struggling suoilsmen and OF
both petty and majestic individual rival
ry was an intensifying factor in the con-
hict. Only a supreme cause high over
men could have withstOod the
repeated shocks of the fierce as
sailing hosts. No National Con.
vention ever stood like the rock-ribbed
shore against the angry tsurges Of the
spoilsmen's storm as did the convention
on the day of the nomination. 1t was
held IN anarchy for an hour in the midst
OF ballot by the cunningly devised
strategy that suddenly burst a Hendricks
hurricane on the body, which appealed to
tne inspiring sentiment Of historic justice.
Neither Grover Cleveland nor any greater
man could have withstood such cyclone.
But the cause that he was made to renre-
sent with such distinctness alike NV
friend and foe so strongly appealed to the
Intelligent and considerate judgment of
the body that its members stood like a
wall OF adamant as the tempest ragged in
the widest fury around them.
LET NONE MIsUNDERsTAND THE IsstJF
Of the great conflict that is upon MS II
involves sweeping political revolution
not merely the transfer of power from
one political party to another, but the
revolutionary overthrow of the worst
methods and purposes of both parties and
the triumph of the best inspirations of
every political faith. 1t is not simnly
whether there shall be a Republican or a
Democratic President, nor is il a struggle to
make James g. Blaine or Grover Cleveland
the Chief Magistrate of the republic. A
revolution has dawned upon bofb
parties and it has been born of supreme
necessity. Its seeds have been layishIy
strewn by the Republican abuses and
Democratic follies of the past half genera
tion, and they have been watered ard
nourished and grown to apparent harvest
time by the distinctly opposite men ami
measures declared by the two Chicago
Of 1884.
Cleveland will lose many Democratic
votes for the single offense Of typifving
practical, honest administration. The
blatant demagogues who hang on the
edges OF every hopeful party by turn will
decry him and the leprous jobbers of all
parties viii make common and exhaustive
battle against him. But more than one
hundred thousand men of sincere Repub-
llcan faith IN the debatable States Will
openly espouse his cause and press the
result to successful revolution. New York
viii be desperately contested. but the
more desperately it shall be fought the
more signal will be the Cleveland victory.
Connecticut and New Hampshire promise
to be Cleveland States, and Massachusetts
will tremble in the balance between the
Plumed Knight and the man who is known
only as resolutely honest public SER
want.
Frances Demands of China.
PARIS, July BID Fiqaro saws that
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