New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-22
CONVENTION SKETCHES.
DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM AT THE LOWEST
EBB.

PIERS" KEPT FROM ONE ANoTHER,s
TTRoA1S-sPIRIrLnss PROCEED.
INGs OF TIE OPENING DAY
tYYoM srApY CORRESPONDENT TBS rsIBUvEI
Chicago, June 2l.-Last night WIS beyond queS-
ton one Of the kind that are filed with music,
music Of all varieties and in every key, from tho
patriotic strains Of the Tammany pilgrim singing
his songs fresh from the hand Of rising Indiana
bard TO the bare Of trumpets in the bested
brass band. But the cares that infested tho
day were very far from folding their tents like
the Arabs and silently stealing away. The cares
that infested the day were in charge Of the
cusses that infested the barrooms, and they sat
up with them all night.
1t was rather remarkable, considering the great
crowds that jostlcd each other and the prevail
ing heat both In the atmosphere and the minds
Of the shouters, that there were no violent col.
lisons nor serious disturbance OF the peace. Men
called each other by extremely improper nameA
but chiefly as expressions Of endearment, after
the rough manner in which New-York politicians
Of the ruling class fondle each other. The ex-
PLANTATION of this TO be found, l suppose, In
the fact that the Tammany crowd, though they
were willing 10 shout for Hill all night il neces-
sary, were not devoted to his personal fortunes
as to be willing to fight for him. They drew tha
line at that Indeed, the lack OF real enthusiasm
for him has been marked throughout all their
noisy demonstrations In their hostility to Cleve-
land there has been profound earnestness and real
intensity of feeling but the Hill hurrah has all
along seemed forced and perfunctory. Even the
| hottest Of the Tammany following have never got
| beyond the stage of mere noise, and the Brook
| Ivn delegation have hardly at any time reached
that I don't think General S.ocum, for
instance, has taxed his vocal powers
| beyond the stage of ordinary conversation, and
his hat has never been in the air in the most ex-
citing moment.
| TAMMANY NOT HOPING AGAINST HOPE.
Another thing that tended TO the promotion Of
the peace was the conviction reached by the Tam
many leaders Yesterday that the game was up
| and that as against Cleveland there was not .
fighting chance for Hill or German or Gray, or
| the bountifully doomed Boies, any other dark
| horses They submitted 10 il silently. efrainlng
from useless exhibitions Of anger and spite Tnere
| might also he added TO this that under the dis
| erect Management Of ex-Secretary Whitney, tho
| boiserous and aggressive Cleveland shouters were
either restrained or called in so that the danger
| OF angry disputes that would only serve to az
Cravate differences and eXasperate the other SIDE
were as far possible avoided.
| 1t is said and think with some show OF rutns
that Whitney, with his headquarters at the Rlch'
clicu has excited some ill feeling among the anti
snappers,- WHO hold ont at the Grand Pacific, by
taking the management out OF their hands and
gently manipulating them out into the great
| nowhere. Tie Fairchild. Grace and (.
Ellery Anderson people at the Grand Pacific
have had notion of forcing the fighting from
the start Of contesting the seats Of the regulas
delegates. and making a strenuous effort to beat
| Tammany and TO install themselves III the leader
ship and control of the party. Whitney has
evidently looked further ahead, and included
in his view the necessity for bringing the fac
tions together after the nomination and before
the election, regardless of which faction holds
control in the State 1t will be remembered that
| about the time that the rairchild and Grace
| people were getting up their anti-snap" conveu.
ton Mr. Whitney slipped of to Europe.
simply saying TO casual but provi-
her cables that he had not signed the
call for the Syracuse Convention and not
in il. lie returned providentialy just before the
meeting OF this convention. and found himself
enjoying the singular distinction Of prominent
! New-York State Democrat who had not committed
| himself us either snapper or "antisnapper.'
Appearing here al al early stage Of the preliminary
proceedings, lie has been recognized the nearest
and most confidential representative of Mr.. Ceve.
land but without any complications with the
organization that has put itself forward as the
especial champion Of the eX-President.
TAMMANY AND TIL. " ANTI-SNAPPERs.'
lie has been cool AMI cautious in his conduct,
constant in his endeavors to avoid unnecessary
friction with Tammany and equally persistent
! in his efforts TO restrain the ardor and 10 curb
the zeal Of the "anti-snappers" Had the Grand
Pacific anti-snappers" followed their own in.
clinations, they would have made contest for
! seats in the convention. Nothing would have
pleased the Tammany REGULARS" more. for though
'ic Cleveland men are in majopty, and might
upon pinch have brou ght in half of the Syracuse
delegates, Tammany would gladly have taken that
chance just 10 have an opportunity 70 prove its
own legitimacy and 10 show up the utter empti-
ness Of the antisnapper pmtcnces. Whitney
saw the folly of any attempt { seat the Syracuse
delegates. and at threw his weight against
it, As contesting delegate" Ec has quietly
knocked out the "anti-snappers" Some OF them
who had an ambition TO get in delegates are
chagrnci by this. Some have GOT their lighting
blood up and are willing TO take risks in order
10 give Tammany black eye. But his tactics
have prevailed. and willingly or unwillinSy they
submit
The eN-Secrctary has not been inactive in other
quarters Under his direction close and accu-
rate canvass mas Ten made, and while the anti
Cleveland people have been doing the procession
and brass band business in public, and privately
heating the air and cropping after some candidate
upon whom they could concentrate their strength,
the quiet headquarters at the Richelieu have been
kept advised of the actual situation and the prob
able vote of every delegation. The nomination
of Cleveland, which now seems certain. will he
the result of the work done under Whitney's
management. II is easy TO see that upon him
more than any one else will devolve the task
after the nomination is male of reconciling tho
fighting factions in New-York and bringing Mr..