The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-10
FASSETT HEADS THE TICKET.
HIS NOMINATION ACCOMPANIED ON
THE FIRST BALLoE

Eugiueer-Congressm an BeIdeu 9pend0
the Night Before tho Convention Try.
Ing TO runcture tho Fnsset naiissA
and 10 Defeat Boss Pintrs Efforts -
Secure Men to Take tho Other Places
on the Ticket-The Convention Opens
with Prayer and Singing-Gen. varaan
Made Permanent Chairman-A PIstfsrn
pitching into tho Democracy and LauA.
Ing tho q. O. Ex-senator O'Connor -
Broome Names fassett FOR g overnor-
Woodford, Becker. Carr, and wsas.
worth also Nnmed-Fassett Chosen o.
tho First Ballot and the Nonination
Made Cnanimous-Fassett's Speech Of
Aeeeptance-The New state Committees
ROCHESTER. Sent. 9.-Ex-Senator and present
boss. Thomas c. Plat. engineered his ConveA.
tion With complete and great success to-day.
but not without trouble. All through the bsl.
loting and argument over the head Of the
ticket two strong currents were plainly per-
ceptibe. Ono was tho machine current and
the other was the stream OF Individual prefer.
ences and OF anti-machlne spirit But the
machine proved to be splendid one-a regular
pocket camera. In which Platt pressed the but.
ton and his great organization did all the rest,
obeying his touch instantly and erfectly.
The early hours Of the Convention and the
preliminaries OF Inst night reminded onlook.
eis OF troublesome effort to fill and raise
big balloon. The balloon was the same one In
which Warner Miller set out to find an easter
~ current to Albany three years ago. It had
been lying outside the breastworks all that time.
The letters OF Warner Mlller's name had been
obliterated by the same element whose use he
recommended asa beverage when he took
control OF the air ship. 1t was Mr.. Platt's
task to paint q new name on it. and to
have 1t called the Jay Sloat Fassett He
set up the usual Republican gas machine
near the flattened. widowed. and collapsed
bag. and for three days his men had been
gathered around it trying to fill it with aas.
Andrew D. Whites gas had failed completely.
1t was too thin. and worked out through Ill
the seams in the bag. The Wadsworth gas.
the Joseph B. Carr gas. the exceedingly odora
Gus Buffalo mixture. called Becker's come
pound, turned the stomachs Of all the work.
men. MIR. Plat said none Of the vapors would
do. though the HALF Breeds insisted that the
Wadsworth stuff was condemned too hastily.
Then Mr.. Platt produced the Fassett gas. and
the balloon began to Ill speedily. a. THE Sun
has shown. That was ON Monday and We have
seen the great sack rounded out into huge
pear-shaped cylinder. buoyant and ready 70
float away whenever its hawsers should bs cut
Nothing remained last night but for Mr..
Plat to pick out q crew to man tho big air.
ship as the crew Of the gallant Chsmune Cap
tain. after whom the balloon had been named.
Then. as has been noted. the serious trouble
began. 1t was not an orderly gathering that
had assembled In the Rochester Fair grounds
to see the ascension. A lot Of unruIy men
had come there. avowedly to work for Mr..
Plat, but really to hinder his plans. James J.
Beden OF Syracuse. WAS one Of these. It was
natural that he should make trouble for Plat
had given him severe thrashing only week
ago. Belden was there and kept NOV.
ing around the Fair grounds with Q
long knife up his sleeve until far into the night.
When the reporter Of The Sun thought it safs
to retire. at hai-past o'clock this morning.
Beden was still moving about in the shadows.
whispering to the Half Breeds. brandishinR his
knife and evidently plotting mischief. For
many hours the most unsccountable mishaps
had been taking place. Mysterious gashes
were cut in the slender bag o! gas. and when-
ever one was pasted up another would be
found In different place. Tho Fassett gas
Kept leaking out al such a rate that
the waste was terrific. Belden kept
whis pering that II tho ascension was post
poned one day moro there would not be
enough OF the Fasset supply to lift the air ship
of the ground No on. saw tho Onondags
conspirator cash the balloon. but he was al.
ways near where the biggest Sits were found.
and everybody could see the outlines OF tho
knife up his sleeve.
Whenever Mr.. Flatt the famous kite flyer.
secured. or tried TO secure. the services Of men
for the crew, these men would DO induced to
desert him. Thus it was that George d. Sloan. .
prnctised aeronaut. pledged himself to
lend Platt what help he could. But Belden
had Charley Hacketts ear, md Hacke,t and
half dozen others whom 1t Is not necessary
to mention had Sloan's ear. and they pulled
Sloan off every Tina Plat and Fassett asked
him TO do anything 10 help float the big air
ship These were all men who have no good
right to be In the profession they foil W. bs-
cause they do not know enough to take their
medicine without struggling. They are like
their leader. Warner Miller VIII, also
rebels IL he cannot have his own
way. although everybody knows that
in aerial navigation. as In everything else.
there must be frequent disappointmen:s.
II looked really dubious last night whether
Platt would get u crew for the Fassett balloon.
Sloan was pulled OF. though he had the place
Of first mate offered 10 him. All then de-
pended on John W. Vroomans taking the
mates berth. The sorebeads got at him and
told him that tho Fassett'' was . rotten old
balloon and certain t. e. to pieces with the
that II Plat had no help from outside his
own circle OF friends he would get all
the blame for the wreck. They added that
Plat knew the balloon was dangerous and
wan ed to get some Half Breeds into 1t 30 -
to lay tho blame on them whom the wreck took
place. But yrooman did not believe them. and
after most anxious time he signed the papers
as first mate Of tho rassett." Then Arthur
c. Wade OF Chsutauqua. another Halt Breed
aeronaut, was persuadsd TO sign articles -
paymaster. or Comptroller. as they call It. and
the long period OF doubt came to an end. A
watch was put on tho big and FESTIVE air ship
over night. and to-day tho ascension was made
under somewhat brilliant conditions.
THE CONVENTION HALL.
Tho rink wherein the Interesting occur.
rences OF the week eliminated is Q very I'd.
mirabls building for political convention. Il
Is OF brick. and has an entirely free and open
interiorI with stage at one end and capacity
for . gathering OF 5000 persona The RochsS.
tar local comuittse among whom ex-Asyor