Year: 1871

ne great supJccJ OF interest among tre
politicians to-day is the action Of The
two Republican State Conventions-the ore
at Syracuse, the other at Worcester,
Mass. In the former the struggle for
supremacy has been between the two rival
organizations in this city, the old-time
Greeley Guard, who, having espoused the
cause Of Reuben f. Fenton in his fight
with Roscoe Conkling, have found them
selves left left out in the cold
in the distribution Of the federal
patronage, and the new-fashioned Conkling-
Murphy faction who have monopolized the
substantial ''fruits OF victory" and who, with
proper appreciation Of the value of Office, are
doing their best to secure denomination of
the present dynasty and the continuance Of
republican rule. In Massachusetts the fight
partakes more of personal character; on the
one side being arrayed the particular friends
Of Ben Butler, who claims to be par ercel-
tence the supporter of General Grant,
and on the other the republicans
who fail to appreciate the virtues
and the title of the hero of New Orleans,
and who, despite his affected monopoly Of the
confidence Of the administration, profess to be
friendly to the present powers at Washington.
The main distinction between the family quar-
rel in the two great States has been that in
New York the opposition" as it has been
cunningly designated, headed by Fen
ton and Greeley, is avowedly op-
posed to the denomination. of President
Grant by the Republican National Convention
OF next year, while in Massachusetts both
sides avow themselves friendly to General
Grant aud favorable to the extension Of lis
power over another Presidential term.


The republicans at Syracuse, according to
our report, have sought to emulate the old
days Of Dcmocrati; Convention holding in the
City of Salt, and our graphic description of
their opening proceedings calls vividly
to mind the time when Fernando Wood,
with his Custom House and police
force bullies, endeavored to ride rough
shod over the party to which they profcsscd
10 belong. The hall in which the Convention.
met was for some hours perfect Babel of con-
fusion, and spectator might well have be-
leved himself to have been in the
midst of an old-fashioned Tammany
row, rather than iu an assemblage Of
republicans, who claim to possess all the
virtues, all the patriotism and all the intcli-
gence of the country. Hard words were ex-
changed, blows were struck, pistols were
drawn, and although no blood appears to have
been shed, unless it may have been from the
the nose, the police were compelled to inter-
fere, aud the proceedings opened with
strong force of that body drawn
up as guard around the plat
form. Rufus Andrews, who has been
the chief fugemau OF Comptroller Connolly
in our recent municipal troubles, was promi-
nent among the nosiest of the delegates, and
made Brutus-like appearance in the melee


test vote having been speedily taken, the
ofiice-hoders found themselves in a decided
majority; but, in commendable spirit
Of conciliaton, they offered a resolution
to the effect that the New York soats in the
Convention should be divided between the
Conkling- Murphy and the Fenton- Greeley del
egates, and that reorganization of the party
ia this city should take place, under the aus
pices Of the State General Committee, on the un-
derstanding that no person holding Office under
tho Tammany municipal government should
be allowed position on the committees. The
Fenton faction evidently discovered in this
movement an artfully devised plan to destroy
their power 10 New York, where they claim
to hold the regular organization Of the party.
They repudiated the stigma of being
allies of Tammany, and refused to deliver
themselves bound hand and foot into
the power Of the State Committee which had
already avowed itself as an enemy to their
organization. Offering an indignant protest
against the attempt to destroy the regular
party organization in New York, they left
the Convention, aud retired TO the enjoyment
Of the creature comforts of the Syracuse
House and the Globe Hotel. After this
bolt from their body the Conventionists
evidently grew alarmed over their work, and
on the calling of the roll resolution was
offered looking towards a reconciliation In the
morning and holding balf the vote in the New
York delegation still at the service of the bolt.
ers. The Fenton delegates, on the other
hand, appear to mean business. Standing upon
their rights as the representatives Of the regu-
lar organization, they issue call for a meet
ing of all their friends and adherents in
Chautauqua, Onondaga, Kings and other
countless to arrange for an independent
Convention. In view of this high
banded course, the ConkIing office
holders appear to be disposed to
change their conciliatory attitude, and ii was
rumored at a late hour last night that they
would alter their base Of operations and take
hostile ground against the Fentonites both in
their ticket and on their platform. It will be
seen whether q uight's reflection will serve to
bring the disunited factions together once
again or whether we are to have
pitched republican battle in the State this fall,