The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-17

| uratively rs nm ass In n lions skin. lie in
| timated that the delegations which supported
Mr.. Flower were offering purchased allegiance
| simply because MIR. Flower has amassed
wealth since he was barefoot boy in Jerer-
son county. He called Mr.. Flower n fnmboy-
ant millionaire. an he talked about plutocracy
and corporations and money as though It
were a sin for man to make his way in the
world. He spoke between gusts Of Kisses and
angry protests.
Mr.. De Witt is q strikingly handsome man.
and looks like bcautifed Napoleon. a Ma
poleon with his head held Lclantiy high with
reckless audacty. instead OF n true NAPOLEON.
with chin on breast, hnbited to reflection De
Wits temperance after years of sulkinG and
soured secnson was significant. Once the
pet OF his party faction and its orator. he had
allowed defeated cgotism 10 keep him apart
from his follows. and now to-day he reap
peared and repented the scene that character
zed his last MOI able appearance in Conven-
ton. That was in 1877. whom in Tweddle
Hail. Albany. he lost his temper and his senses.
and called the pcorle in the gallery q rabble.
AS an orator lie seems deliberate. seli-pos-
sessed and calm. On the platform to- day ho
posed AS one might fancy IN eagle
would have % done could it talk TO
flock OF annoying king birds. He had HIS
head high. thrust his chest forward, stood like
O rock. and delivered every word clearly in q
firm. full. rich voice. There was anger In his
torres but it did not sound like unbridled
anger until. at the very last as he was about
to step down from the platform, he exclaimed
If you defeat our candidate. Mr.. Chaplin we
will retire with That sulleu and surly temper
which will not like your action" OF
course. what he would call The rabble
eroaned at him for this Startling threat.
1t was given out that MIR. De Witt was not
authorized to speak as he did. 1t was said
that there had been a caucus OF the Kings
county men in the morning at which 1t was
decid ed to meet the situation with mildness.
and not force the fight for Chaplin beyond n
vote for him. after which tho Brooklyn mon
were to vote for Flower. But Mr.. De Witt had
not attended the caucus and had spoken the
speech no prepared last week. when the Brook
Ign men were very hot. BY the way. his speech
OF to-day was identically the same one he do.
livered to tho Committee on Resolutions last
night
When De Witt sat down up bounded Mr.
Dourke Cochran. and now maddened lion
faced the people and paced across and across
the stage. shaking his name and roaring out
his displeasure. He demolished De Witt mag
niilcently. but having carried his point he
could not resist a little fling ut Chapn's recent
trouble over the water contract II BROOKLYN.
plenty 81 material at hand; and here e' was a a
should desire any trou bic. A sentence viii viii
show how poin,edly he did this:
he SAID wealth Conferred by oSi sfi favor VOL
itism: either IN its executive or ministerial ca
1t is no iisraraGement to Mr., Cochran to say
that those who have often heard him speak
think OF him as man Of the temperament OF
an actor, gifted With genuine and great bistri-
onlc ability. lie has n second self that takes
possession Of him when he is, addressing the
roaring response, with indignation Instead 81
se sass IN sS9is sn cs
jawed. He took up the attack on Mr., Flower
people. hisseI him he said: Il don't care for
Kisses have been where bullets did the
lie, made some sarcastic, illusions 10 bar:
Tels, and railroads and Otherwise talked
Mbo not ind aamIs S Th E}%
a renegade Republican. and he gave every cry,
one cause to remember tho phrase by saying
he had been Republican 80 long that he did
not dare trust himself to speak without notes
lest he should drii, into iepublican speech.
the Democrats in spite Of the treatment tho
rooHhsn men were Nh, reeeihyinG lie called the
Cochran had been. However, he did not re-
threat I" go home ard ia s.s
for Chaplin burying the hatchet promising the
SUPPORT OF the Kings county men Tor tho
Flower ticket. and ending tho Jun. When .
reporter went to Hugh Mclaughlin TO ask him
for an iptervieW he said that commissiouer
be could express them himself.
1t had been fun TO watch tho faces in the
Convention while the fusilads was going on.
Mr.. Mclaughlin never moved a muscle. but
sat looking on with his head on ono side and
his hands on his cane Ike an. old farmer a. q
all the time, and the corner, Of his
ward. He hugely enjoyed every min
ute OF the roy Harry Minor read his
newspaper and Mr.. Purroy sat rlgidiy and im-
perturbably with face as imuiovable a. the
knob on n door. Col Felows's sensitive face
reelected every passing emotion during the
mrlhe The entire Kings county delegation,
with tho exception Of lis leader. looked is sui
len and sulky as De Witt said they would feel.
Al around the hall the country delegates kept
bobbing M aud down and straining their necks
and eyes to soc and hear everything OF conse-
luenro. They did not understand whether 1t
was serious or funny any moro than the conn
try politicians ever have understood tho
city men in the whole course OF history. When
u was all over every one saw that Tho storm
had only been spuall. and that all was here
after 70 be plain sailing. Mr.. De, Witt leaned
over the aisle and told Mr. Croker and, Mr.
Purroy a funny story. at which all Laughed.
Il H..