New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-06
TAMMANpS SLIM DELEGATION
NINETY-FoUR r1RED-LOoK1NG BRAVES
START FOR CHICAGO.

BETWEEN 200 AND 300 HAD BEEN EXPECTED
A CONTRAST WITH THE EMBASSY OF FOUR
YEARS AGo-rHE wIowAMIrEs TO LAY
LOW" OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION
HALL TO ESCAPE ExroRTIoN.
Ninety-four tired-looking Tammany Hall poll
ticans started for Chicago yesterday to attend the
Democratic National Convention. The train In
which they took passage at the Grand Central Sta
ton numbered ten sleeping coaches and one bag
gage-car. There was. therefore plenty Of room for
the diminished company, which originally to
number 80 to 900 At Buffalo the train TO be
cut in two. section going by the Michigan
Southern Railroad and the other by the Lake Shore
route.
When George w. Plunkitt who had general
charge OF the outfit. tho meagre showing OF
gold fighters" he telegraphed to the Auditorium.
where over loo rooms had been engaged. releasing
forty Of them. district leader In accounting for
the failure Of many Of tho braves TO SHOW up at
the station yesterday said: THE fact Is. the boys
have no stomach for a losing hght They know
that the free-silver lunatcs going to get away
with US. and they say. What's the good OF going
out there and spending our money when we're sure
10 come back licked?"
Another leader said that many Of the in the
organization did not like the idea Of going out
shouting gold and coming back yelling silver. The
prospect ne said had dampened the ardor Of scores
OK men who at first Intended 90 TO the Conven-
ton.
The largest delegation from the Ixth Assem-
bly, District John c. Sheehan accompanied It, II
numbered fifteen men. Other Tammany men Of note
were County Clerk Henry D. Purroy, who is
loggerheads with the Sheehan faction which dom
mates The organization: Civil Justice James A.
OGorman. ex-Poce Justice Daniel F. Mcmahon.
Congressman William Suzer, who came within an
ace OF making Is 10 l silver speech at the Tam
many Fourth OF JIiy celebra q SATURDAY. Sena-
tor Thomas F. Grady. whose attachment to the
gold side Of the house Is said 20 be about slight
as Suffers; Assistant Dlstrict-Attorney Mcintyre.
who II predicted yesterday would come back
from Chicago a rip-roaring. rampant supporter OF
IN. free-s4ver craze Assistant District Attorney
United States Deputy Surveyor Daniel Z. Downing
and Aldermen Langtry Wund. Campbell and Nun.
Both sections are expected 10 reach Chicago be-
tween 10 and II o'clock this morning.
-Four years ago Tammany sent delegation OF
beat Cleveland Their tail shiny hats big diamonds
and costly attire were the wonder and admiration
Of Chicago from the moment Of their arrival.
Their hotel; and every man sported' mammoth
be no mstaklns his identity, The result was thai
al all the Chicago saloons restaurants. hotels and
insy mex
bartender. messenger telegraph boy; cabrnan bag
known TO return change to Tammany man. no
matter what was the denomination Of the money
The little New-York delegation which will reach
Chicago to-day is to adopt entirely different tactics
this time No ba nd will precede the members the
Auditorium. but they Will go the hotel quietly by
twos threes singly Straw SLOUGH hats and
derbies will replace their lovely high dIcers their
flashing diamonds will he exhibited. and when
they go into the streets visit the barrooms and
shops their attractive badges. with ''Tammany'
emilia Oned the cross-bar. will be worn inside
their coats tucked safely into their hip-pockets.
Every sign device calculated to betray them Will
disappear from view. This was the programme they
started with yesterday. They determined that
while in Chicago nobody should penetrate their dis
guise when outside Of the Convention hail
Before the train started John F. Mcintyre said:
I'VE OF the East will make stubborn fight, but !
think shall be defeated II Is 10 he contest be-
tween the gold of the East and Middle States
and the silver OF the West The latter will have
Il pretty much their way afraid. They
will adopt a silver platform and nominate silver
candidate and. what is more unfortunate they Will
elect their candidate Yes. sir. elect him. firmly
believe The whole West is ablaze: they silver
crazy and the silver will triumph at the Con-
ventlon and again al the polls next November"