St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-23
THEY ALL WANT IT.
An Unusually Large Number of Ambitious
Republican Gentlemen in New
York.
The Gubernatorial Candidate Likened in
Numbers to the Leaves Of Vail
ambrose.
The Convention Took Just One Inde.
cisive BaIIotand Then Adjourn
ed Until To-Day.
Gen. Carr Way in the Lead, With
Powerful Friends and a Pow
erful Claque.
The convene5on,s First Day.

sunny, delicious weather in the morning
was about the only pleasant thing upon that
point that occurred. What was wanted
was a candidate with barrel. For this
reason Carr, SWinbuIne, Warren, White,
Davenport and many others gained no
strength during the preliminary battle
which preceded the convention. When the
convention assembled the chances of no one
of the twenty-five delegates had improved
in any essential respect. The name Of
Cornell elected good deal of opposition
among some of the rural delegates. His
connection with the Western Union.
Jay Gould and elevated railroad
schemes was used against him
for the moment with good effect.
The convention hall is a skating rink, fairly
well suited for the purpose. 1t seats the
delegates comfortably and some two or
three thousand spectators. The walls are
profusely although not eXpensively deco
rated with a limited number of small
American flags and large number of Chi
nese parasois and lanterns. The average
Republican delegate is a fair specimen Of
the Eastern production. He possesses
4 LARGE ABDOMINAL DEVELOPMENT,
frequently wears glasses and has well-to-
do, semi-English appearance. The body,
as q whole, is fairly respectable in dress,
dimension of head. clean linen, polished
boots, and has more TepOse than West
ern body Of men, being less nervous,
fdgety and emphatic when compared
to similar gathering in Chicago.
1t has more immaculate linen, greater de-
velOpement Of adipose matter, and less in
tensiJy OF force and intellectual activity
There was a great crowd Of spectators, in
cluding many ladies. A Carr delegation
from Troy, including 100 business men,
preceded by brass band, created no en-
thuSiaSm when il marched through the
streets nor when it entered the hall. The
entrance OF the non-suppOrters of any as
pirant created enthusiasm. The prelimi-
mary proceedings were not characterized by
anything like excitement. General apathy
seemed to possess the entire body. The
absence of unity and concentration does not
promise well for unity and concentration at
the polls in November Even the speech OF
Senator Warner Miller, wood pulp" the
temporary chairman, elected but little SEN
Sation, except the illusions to the advocacy
OF protection by Republicanism. He gave a
aIosT EXTRAoRDINARY EULoGY
Of the virtue, charity, integrity and patriot
ism of his party, but when the audience re-
1lected that the party was out of power,
both in the state and nation, it did not ap-
parently find much to rejoice over in what
tie party had been. Great enthusiasm was
evoked when bright picture Of the future
was shown, in which Republicauism was
again restored to place with the uncon-
trolled holding of Office, contract
and public funds. A dead silence
prevailed when he concluded by
asserting that the South was dangerous
from its free trade heresies. 1t is worthy of
notice that the delegates did little cheering
the spectators taking on themselves the
task. The delegates appeared sullen, as if
mainly interested i'll the question, ''How is
it possible to secure the best candidate with
popularity enough to win the needed num-
Der Of votes and barrel large enough to
meet all the necessities of the campaign"
There is nothing i'll the department of the
convention that affords an omen OF success.
THE ROUTINE REPORT.
SARATOGA, n. Y, Sept. 22.-The morn
ing opened with bright sunshine, and at an
early hour the corridors Of the leading ho-
tells presented an animated scene. The in
dications point to a very lively scrimmage
for the nomination of governor. Were it
possible for the New York city men to join
hands upon a candidate this morning before
going into the convention, there is no doubt
that such man would secure the nominal
tiOn with a hurrah. But all hope of this
has been abandoned for the present, and
the situation is decidedly mixed one. Out
of several hundred Republicans now on
the field, there is not man rash enough to
predict who will be nominated. Ii poll
OF delegates had been made at midnight
the probabilities are that Gen. Carr would
have been the nominee. His strength does
not appear to have weakened very mate
rally since that time, and he will
surely enter the convention with the
greatest number of votes. Levi p.
Morton, Cornelius n. Bliss, 4. B. Cornell,
Ira Davenport. MI DreXel, all are strong.
and their respective friends say they have
come to stay. Gen. William II. Seward of
Auburn is still in the field and appears to
have large following. He appears to be
the most promising dark horse in the Re
publican stable. Mr.. Seward's friends
claim that unless the selection is made on
the first or second ballot their candidate
viii come to the front with flying colors.
Looking over the situation this morning
from an unbiased standpoint, while the
candidates named above all appear to be
strong, it must be confessed that
y NAME NOT INCLUDED
in those mentioned is quite as likely to re-
ceive favor at the hands of the convention
The great unanimity, harmony and good
feeling. about which there has been so much
talk among the leaders, does not exist.
Everything is serene on the surface but
there is understood to have been a bad
break in the New Y YCrk city delegation last
night, and unless tn, : can come together
and unite on a candidate they acknowledge
the harmonious feeling is not as well defined
as it should be. Under these circumstances
there will probably be at least dozen can
didateS placed in nomination after the per-
manent organization of the convention.
At 1880 o'clock Mr.. James d. Warren,
chairman of the state committee, called the
convention to order. Rev. DR.. S. V. Leach
of Albany invoked the divine blessing upon
the labors of the convention. Warner
Miller was temporary chairman. The chair
was authorized to appoint the usual commit
tees and the convention took recess until
p. m.
1twas 4:50p p. m. when the convention was
again called to order. The chair announced
that the first business in order was the re-
port OF the committee on contested seats.
Gen. Sharpe, chairman of the committee.
reported III favor Of recognizing the con-
teStantS IN the First Albany district and the
regular delegatl0n from the Second Albany
district Ihe report was adopted as respects
the First district. a motion was made bv
William B. WOodin of Auburn that in or
der to promote good feeling. both deIega-
tions from the Second Albany distri Of be
admitted. each member to have vote. The
motion called out rather sharp debate in
which it was charged that the regular dele
cation represented q combination with
Democrats, to which it was replied that the
time had passed when a man must be set
down as a Democrat because he bore an
Irish name. The report of the committee
was then unanimously adopted. The COM