Year: 1875

SYRACUSE, n. " Sept II, 1875


Although the Democratic State Convention does not
meet here until next Thursday the indications that


majority of the delegates will be in town by Tuesday
morning, and active preparations being made all
the hotels in the city to-day, Sunday although it is
to afford accommodation for the hundreds politicians
who expected to DO hand to assist the delegates
regular and contesting, from New York and other
counties where the faithful have agreed disagree on
certain little points, upon the decision of which by the
Convention of them think the future prosperity
and safety of tte State entirely depends. Extra cots
are being placed in the small rooms, and every large
room in every hotel has already been engaged,
some of the New Yorkers having taken the
precaution to capture tho lions share of them
at the Vanderbilt House by telegraph over three
weeks ago, thus compelling the antiTammany party,
who made application some days later to find quarters
at some one Of the other six caravansaries AS the
members of the Central Committee have secured their
parors at the Vanderbilt and most of the Tammany
mems rooms have been taken on the same floor the
Wigwamites may latter themselves that they have al
ready scored against their foes, who were very
anxious to be next door neghbors the gentlemen of
the committee who will have so very much to do tow
ard making them happy miserable on Thursday
Morrissey-who rejects with scorn the charge that he
and his delegation anti-Tammany and splits the
difference by declaring that while he and his followers
good Tammany they ever were they are
not Kelly Tammany-has succeeded IN getting quar-
tiers the committees council room, but his
followers have been obliged to content themselves
with the promise of the hotel keeper that they will be
provided with board and lodging at his home which is
some distance away from the other hotels, If they
up before Wednesday. Governor Seymour has
not been heard from yet But friend of his says that
he will be here while the Convention is in session at
the house of friend where in his good
deemed desirable by the Governors friends he will
be found cat home a select few at all hours of the
day and night. Mr. Tden himself is said, will be in
town Thursday afternoon If he can manage to get
off agricultural speech he is make in the forenoon
at Utica in time to catch the train II he
does come, he, too, like Seymour, will keep
away from hotels and do all the wire-pullng he may


find requisite for the discontinue of his enemies in the
house of prominent resident in secluded part of tho
city. At all events in order to make assurance doubly
and have somebody guard here in case he
should not be able to put appearance in propra
persona who can be trusted with telegraphic nsruc-


ons not intended for general inspection he will be rep
resented by his nephew and private secretary Cooncl
Pelton who is TO be quartered the hallway
the parlors of the Central Committee the Vanderbilt
Senator Herman is also be another watchiul sentinel
the interests of the Governors candidates. and he
and Seymour and Colonel Pelton will doubt before the
Convention is called to order TO it that delegate
west of Spuyten Duyv at any rate, goes into Wietng
Hall until he has been thoroughly sounded on If not
convinced Of the expediency and justice standing by
Mr.. Tildens policy and wishes, matter what they
may be- However, it is foregone conclusion that the
great majority of the delegates will need but little ad-
vice when they come here to what they Should do
so far giving the Governors reform warfare their
hearty support, for every convention in every county
1a1o Ioc
terms ordered their representatives for no man
who is not in sympathy with the Governor There
those who believe that this fact will prove an addi
tional


STUMBLING BLOCK rAMMANY HALL


IT, provided all her delegates admitted she should
attempt to force upon the Convention any particular
candidate of her for any of the State offices
filed at the election next November but with two
exceptions the district conventions in New York city
remained suspicously silent about the Governor when
they elected their delegates. But Tammany has no
candidate of her own, far be learned pres
ent, although few weeks ago Of the leaders did
imagine that they could come to the Convention and
of old browbeat by sheer Of compact numbers
many of the country delegates doing their bidding


The State Central Committee may possibly be induced
make arrangements get rid the contestlng dele
cations from your city without allowing the contest to
be fought too scandaously in the Convention IT.
self Still it is said that the contestants are as much
bent upon having a row in the Convention if they
learn beforehand that they will be defeated they
were liable to recognition and out To this
end am reliably informed that they have already cb
| tanned a pledge from several prominent delegates
| from the country districts who will fight for
their cause to the bitter end and force
| the Convention to square vote on the
question of admission. By the way, prominent pot
!
sry give, in referring to the probable admission of
the entire Tammany delegation under certain condi-
tons gave rather surprising piece of what he calls
reliable news. He says that the question of


MONEY AND RAG MONEY


will have to be taken hold of boldly by the Convention
and that it is known that the Tammany delegates
present at secret meeting Of the Committee Organ
zation last Tuesday night held at the Wgwam, where
they pledged to vote in the Convention
for hard money platform and To do all in their power
to prevent any resolution being seriously consid-
cred that smacked of rag money principles That
being so, If majority Of tho country del
egates should be rag money men the Tammany
will have hard work to bo admitted and, he
added, that, in his opinion, If left to themselves
if not majority at least very large
proportion of the delegates om the country districts
would openly advocate rag money platform, the
democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania had done, and
he would not be surprised if the hard money
among the delegates would be few and weak kneed and
TO Governor Tildcn sacrifice his own views the
money question to satisfy what he might deem the do
mand of the democratic party of his State and to
for himself the support of the Ohio and Penn
sylvania democrats IN 1876


Reliable as my informant who gave this precious
piece of information 49, am rather inclined believe
that he has been badly sod and that he and those who
-, nf thn
to sacrifice his principles for doubtful party
favors to come, forget that Mr.. Tden last
year elected hard money platform, and that
he is report speaks truly heavy holder of govern
ment bonds. To show how mixed some of the poti-
clans hereabouts to what kind of financial plank
the Convention will put into the PLATFORM may men
tnn Offset 10 what hayn inst sintnd ON tho nn.