Year: 1875

Tammany delegates IN the galleries. seeing
their chance, rose one by one after
the Tammany delegates Of their respective dis
trcts were called and presented their credentials This
kind Of thing began to grow wearsome, and finally Mr.
Shaw Of Oswego suggested that, as the Committee
Credentials to be appointed would take into consider
alton all contested seats the farce Of presenting creden
tials from the galleries had better end then and
there But the anti-Tammanyites did not
by any means look at the matter as a
farce So the wit quite business and if
they failed get recognized this time their chances in
the future they knew right WELL would be exceedingly
SLIM So they continued their part of the play till all
the New York districts had been announced. When
this had been accomplished everybody seemed
TO breathe freely and even the Tam
many delegates grew funny and winked at
another much to say, ''What a lucky set
wei" But shafer, like Banquo's ghost, would not
down. He that his friends in the galleries had
been emboldened by his attitude the floor OF the
house, and he had not done enough to shake up the
boys, and he watched his opportunity. 1t when
motion made by Mr. Schuyler that a committee
credentials should be appointed, one from each
Congressional district except those districts from which
there contestants. Shafer did not hear or pre-
tended hear the latter part of this notion and
rising suddenly from his seat and after taking good
look at the galleries. where his friends sat ready to APP
plaud to the echo anything he might say, braced HIM
self up if for


GRAND


81 object sir ;" said he, raising his voice to its high
est pitch. "The districts from which there
testants should not be allowed to"--


Here he was brought to a standstill by Mr. John
Kelly, who up this time had sat quietly by If Mr..
Shafer a very harmless man, who only needed TO
be allowed little rope and he would
hang himself But the constant applause from
the anti -Tammany delegates in the galleries
with which every attempt of Shafer's to speak was
greeted had evidently become too much of good thing
for him to stand any longer II by raising point
OF order that Shafer had right speak until the
Committee Credentials had decided whether he was
delegate not The confusion at this point became
confounded than Cries arose from the
boisterous anti-Tammanyites of ''St down, Kelly !"
and an attempt to drown his voice was made by ap-
plaudng and stamping their feet Shafer not to be
thus sat upon and springing his feet he exclaimed
that he had good right as Kelly to be where he
was, and then, striking an attitude, he cried out
81 have cut my hair short Kelly for this fght'
This sally seemed to tickle the antiTammany caquers
immensely and they appauded vociferously, but Mr..
Kelly stood his ground and, despite the shouts from
the galleries. repeated his point of order The Chair
seemed be at his Wits ends to know what to do
and stood looking helplessly on while amid the gen.
eral cry of Question, question:" Shafer gesticu
ating wildly and shouting out something which no
could hear the platform. 1t finally occurred to
the Chairman rap the table with the gave to
order but he did it in such rapid way only to add
to the din and disorder At last he began the
situation and declared the point Of order well taken
thus shutting up shafer for good or evil and mmcdi-
aely aerward put and declared the resolution for the
appointment of the Committee Credentials carried
forgetting in his bewderment to ask for the negative
vote Soon after this lively the Convention took
recess till four O'Clock, and, as during that time


THE COMMITTEE on CREDENTIALS


to hold session, considerable anxiety mani
tested the part of Che delegates TO find how the
rival delegations from New York would get on their
efforts TO keep another out of the Convention But
tho meeting held with closed DOORS and even the
newspaper correspondents excluded. 1t an
exciting meeting by all accounts and some of the
country members ofthe committee given insight
into the ways and doings of city politicians that must
have been truly delightful Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Creane took the part of the antiTammany delegations
The former denounced Tammauy in unmeasured terms,
said controlled 6y society and that Mr..
Kelly had everything fixed that of bad reputa-
ton were allowed to be members of the Gem
eral Committee and honorable men kept
out. In fact, his argument based on
the charges preferred against Tammany in the
printed circular which the antiTammanyites had dis
trbuted among the delegates the day before Now
came Mr. Kellys turn, and he went for Mr.. Roosevelt
metaphorically speaking, with pretty big stick He
declared that Mr. Roosevelt while protesting to be a
democrat had so managed TO have republicans put
in offices, and he nsanced the of Sands Tax
Commissioner; Daily, one of the Judges of the
Common Pleas; and Heary Dock
Commssioner-a republicans who had crawled
ra0fca huh hfc al


CREAMER's FIERY DENUNcIATIoNs.


Creamer, in his fiery STYLE replied to Mr. Kelly and
denounced Tammany with all the bitterness of which
he was capable. He declared that bad men were put
on the General Committee to associate with decent
democrats and far charge that there
the committee now one man who had been in
State Prison and two men who under
Indictment for murder He charged, in addition,
that Mr. Kelly had made corrupt bargains
with the republicans had got Wales placed in the field
a republican candidate for Mayor and had afterward
had him appointed Dock Commissioner by wckham,
whose election had been secured through Wales
strumentalty. To all this Mr. Kelly made another re-
ply, during which he said that Tweed and Sweeny had
made Creamer first a clerk, then Asscmhlyman then
a Senator and that while at Albany he had been one
OF their most subservient tools. Mr.. Creamer ex-
claimed ''That is false" And on Mr. Kelly rete.
rating his charge Mr. Creamer angrily walked up
to where Mr.. Kelly stood and said 'You are liar !n
Mr.. Kelly remarked that he had heard young men
talk that way before, and of the members of the
committee calling upon the Chairman to compel the rival
delegates to avoid personalities the antTammanyites
withdrew. This fight over, Mr.. Kelly had another on
his hands, with Morrssey, Ledwth and Hayes as OPP
ponents.


MoRRIssEY's EFFORT.


Morrissey made quite favorable impression by the
way he argued his case which he tried to fortify by
proof of the regularity Of his delegation as they had
been chosen by convention composed Of delegates
elected the result of call made by the District Com
mittec of last winter. Why gentlemen" said he, eff
Mr. Kelly has the right to send his Committee of Dis
cpline into my district, and reorganize that district
Committee, he has the right to do the same thing
any Assembly district of the State He then went on
to say that he knew he had been charged with