The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1871, Page 3

Ths DEMOCRACY. First Day’s Proceedings of the State Convention at Rochester. TAMMANY’S MASTER STROKE. Tho Reform Delegation Stifled by Parliamentary Sharp Practice. “Tammany Still the Only Regular The Sachems Saved from Ex- pulsion by a Strategic Retreat. Seymour’s Private View of the Situation. UNBROXES HARMONY THROUGHOUT. Resolutions of Great Pith and Moment. Ganicipal Officials Advised to Resign Abundant Promises of Full and Complete Reform. Scenes, Incidents and Personnel of 3 the Council, RocnestER, Oct, 4, 1871. SZaummany bas gained another signal victory here today. Yesterday she was under a cloud. The @heesepress and hayloft democracy were bitter in thelr opposition, and expressed themselves quite freely in regard to their feeling against the ruling eombination in the metropolis. As the crowds Rocked in from al) quarters the talk grew worse. Tammany was to be discarded and entirely cut off from twe democratic party of the State. After the meeting of the State Committee, as givén in my * tester of yesterday, 1t was supposed by many that THB VENERABLE SAMMY Bad it all bisown way. He put as cheerful a smile on hig nutcracker face (a4.some of the boys here ir- reverentiy term it) as he could summon, and walked ‘through the crowd itn the haliways of the Osborn ‘House, smirking and shaking hands with everybody m a way that might excite the envy of tne magnificent Roscoe Conkling. He stumbled across Philosopher Bergen, who smiled on the venerabie; and the latter, gazing at the veiveteen hat and mistaking the philosopher for a countryman, began to assure nim that he beileved 1t was all right and wat TUE TAMMANY FOLKS ould not get in. He shook hands with the pbiioso- pher and thought a nod toa countrymen would be 8 good as & Wink—especially a nod from Sammy, ‘who was to be the great ‘‘I Am.” Bergen held his hand and then opened o slight argument with ‘Samivel on the rights of the Tammany case. Samivel ‘Wanted to go home to be put into his little bea— anywhere at all, it made no difference; but, just as he was at that moment, the philosopher was sud- d@enty in love with him, and insisted on holding and sbaking his hand until the conclasion of a FINE DUTCH LECTURE, which, of course, arroused the ire of the great little leader. -Later on the Boss came, aud soon adairs be- gan to chanye. The crowds all day liad been march- tng in and out of Tilden’s rooms, as if they would conciliate the rejuvenated leader. Last night some Dersons claimed that Sammy was a delegate, repre- senting the wealthiest ward in New York city. DURNIN MAKES A SPEECH. ‘This rumor caught the ear of Alaerman Eugene Durnin, who had just arrived, and be immediately proclaimed aloud for the benefit of whom it might ®oncern, that ‘this man Tilden ts one of my con- stituents, and I say he could not be elected an !n- epector of election in the district where he resides, end that ts tlie lowest active oMcoe on the entire Woket. He could not get 150 votes in his ownelec- on district.” Eugene was soon in Disglory. His curls looked more crisp than usual, and his sheeks were ruddy with the glow of health and excitement. He made bis proclamation @loud in the hallways, and several who had come thinking that Tilden could run for any- thing in New York seemed to de made doubtful, and began to inquire for facts in sucha dabious ‘way as to make tne antl-Tammany folks rather Sr THE BOSS TO THE FRONT. ‘When Boss Tweed arrived ne became the cynosure of all eyes, and a general appearance of greater Somfidence seemed to come upon the Tammany @elegates. Tho night wore on, and till early morn the crowd held possession of the hallways, and Canvassed the merits of the town and of the ques- tons to come before the Convention; but, of course, all were at sea, and would remain so till the com- Mittee met this morning. Bright and early the crowds were up to-day. The Joss’ rooms were Desieged, and tho GRAND MUBRUB of yesterday was remewed with increased vigor. Daring the night a large namber of delegates from the Shandiey clubs of Now York had arrived, ana fto-aay the sidewalksin whe nelghtorhood of the Osborn and Brackett Houses looked like the New York Court House during an official canvass. Tne blonde Judge himself came along, and has thus beaten the Big Judge by several hours. The REFORM DELEGATION bad not decided fulyy upon their plan ef action, and this morning they met in one of the pariors with Mr. Ottendorfer, who had been selected to head the aelegation In the absence of Mr. O’Oonor, acting as ebatrman. They decided to proceed to the place of meeting in a body and rely upon the action of the Convention for their recognition and admission. ‘Whilethey were deliberating a committee from tne German organization watted on them and announced that their delegation had decided to allow the Germans on the Apollo Hall delegation to represent them with full powers, This was hatled with much satisfaction, and the committee withdrew. In the meantime the Tammany delegation held a caucus In Tweew’s parlor and resolved on a COURSE OF ACTION, which did notieak out till the proper moment In the Convention, and which proved to be exactly as fereshadowed in my letter yesterday. lt was re- red this morning that a speech eed in his terse and characteristic ar eect in bringing the Central Committe: “Tammany's ciaun, MIR ROSS SPKAKS. J cy Re sald—"Go ahead; kick us out. If you can along without us, all right; we want the party succeed; buat if you think you can eiect your e to favor * State twcket without our help, go ahead. Wecan carry ovr own in New York county, That's all we want. x county can do without the State, ‘Dut the can’t t along much without county,” This certainly iad some weight, and that the session of the State mit- at is reporter tee was very stormy, and that Sammy was beaten on several pointa,he tried to make previous & the oaucns, RR THR RATTLE. Tne Tami did not scem to be in very Digh gice, si yosite ihe door in Mr. Tweed’s lor were the two Coroners, Young #nd Schirmer, ‘oung lank, lean ai ) Saliow, and his colleague Soul wt nd hee, Neca yeaa eaatly and readily provider. er Hitchman sat ig Ly ) vaste’ pon | jong Cigar poke mouth. ty another corner sat Harrv Ford, of andsomst men now in the town, twirling the topaz sphinx ow bis watch guard. Alderman Coman sat at one siue gam.ig Into vacancy ‘with his great Daturedness, whiiy opposite lim and jm his line of vision sat. Kony Koch, .Who ts sport- 106, @ horrid Joachim Jew-like beara and. hiding his acknowledged beautiful face. aiterman Mitchelh with los wernetoa) mnile, eat Unwed Dyck if MIVAT— sel rr SHOT NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ano oon of the room, having that inter. minable ick and uizzically at @ most Bhcet wees aston smirking at the bore, wore plaid panta of @ peeallar seventeen boots, frilled shirc and & stupbly iesache brushed up against the grain. Add to this mustache a queerly cnt face, pitted with smalipox covered with freckles and one can see In his /seyea lenehing beauty know! the Doctor. did not belong to the delegation, ho Just wafted himself in and glided into a cnair beside ‘the door and neat wWhiere the Boss was sittii and in conversation with a solid-looking man, deavol to get his right heel upon the midale of his left h. His corporosity forbade the feat with his feet, but the Boss got as near it as he coald, The sprightly little Colonel Fellows flew in and out, PREPARING THE DOCUMENT to be submitted ro the Convention. By degrees the feelings of the party jw better. ‘They became more animated, and shortly after all but the dele- ates withdrew, ‘The reform delegation, headed by led in couples to Corinthian Hall re noon, and found already on the jarge crowd and a full posse of police, unaecr admirable discipline. A massive American flag was dra as ap aed over the grand eu. trance, and "7 re Oe nd of ponce, with nem icers, #t0od a ou joW none to pass who faa not tickets. The” poet Perms . - FIOR PREGAUTIO’ were porfect AAS Ih mont moarket contrast to th in Syracuse last week. There were fully twice many people aere present as attended the Repub- Niean Convention, and yet there was no clamor, no confusion, no disorder of any kind, and certainly no evidences were given of an intention on the part of anyiody to create disorder. THB HALL ‘was very neatly decorated with flags and banners, although the Irish flag was notably absent. The delegates’ seats were ro} off, and those not pos- sessing delegates’ ticketa were obliged to locate themselves in some other part of the room. On the platform had been placed the tables for vhe officers of the Convention, the reporters and two telegraphic imstruments, The crowd poured in steadily and Tapluly, and in & very few minutes the hall was “filed, The reform delegation from New York occupied seats immediately behind the roped arena devoted tothe delegates, but the Tammany delegates did not.appear, When all had been seated one of those common, univeral quiet spells came over the entire assemblage which, viewed from the stage, presented @ beautiful and almoss indescribable ance. Gray heads and bald heads were present in abundance, and tne entire personne! of the Convention was so far superior to that of the republican assemblage at Syracuse that the two should not be compared, About fiiteen minutes past twelve JOHN ©, HERNAN entered the room, and close behind him was Hora- tio Seymour. The crowd immediately appianded loudly, and many seemed in doubt as to whether une applause was for Heenan or seymour. Daring the quiet spell above alinded to the reform delegation m New rather anxious. , @ moment or _ two, erable Thomas Boesj jumped up. He was evi- dently nervous, but he came up smiling, arranged his bonny blue necktie with trepi{ haste, The gay Gilsey strained nis beautiful neck 1ooking over the house. His flocking locks (ell as peace- fully a8 ever on his broad and manly shoulders, His immaculate collar shrapk from touching his alabaster throat, and his general carefully negligent [ontiad was admuirabie. There wero no ladies pro- een OB8WALD OTTENDORFFR gat at the end of one of the forms, crompling nis htt bigh white hat or pulling at his venerable whiskers, and waiting with much evident annoyance for something to bo Atabout a quarter before one Sammy ascended the platform and proceeded without delay to is piece, He latd the rinted slip on @ desk before him and went. on. hen he alluded to centralism there was an ontbarat of applause from various parts of the room, show- ing old gent that there many who thought ashe . But presently he hold of centrifugal and centripetal ana carried his hearers up among the little stars, sailing round the moon, at which there waa a general smile, RFFECT OF SILDBX'S SPEECH. Joe Dempsey, of New York, sat at one side of the hall, in company with ‘Monaghan and Sbannon, and the three fathers laughed on the quier, as Dempsey remarked, till their Joy. chops were red and ready to burst. Presently he aliuded to the receiving of priests by the priest, This broughtdown the house with laughtcr and applause. en he went pack and brought out Bacou of the time of James L., showing that there had veen_ im; ment for Eran taking in those days, The evidently id not relish bacon asa single dish and laughed again. ‘Tony Hartman sat in the front row ‘and smiled 0 loudly that he was heard all over the | house, avd the remark was male that he lookea like weil fed bacon himself, When the venerable tervals, and woul COMB IN AT THE WRONG PLACE. Mr.. Van Allen slipped several times in this re- pe He would commence to clap bis hands, and nding that he had tho applauding ali to himseif ‘would look most ludustriousily for the invisible fy or ingect that was bilmg him on the palm of his hand aad which he was only trying to kill. Samm: kept on, not sticking exactly to the text of hi Gress, but closely enough to show that his m v ‘Was not at that time altogether gone, He spoke of the bureaus and commissions in this munictpal gov- ernment of the mi iss Here Magnus Gross bowed his head, ag if Imitating ox-Governor Sey- mour, who kept bis head bowed down during the sermon, either through piety, pity or suame, When, however, the orator alluded to PARTNERSHIP OF PLUNDER there was immense appl: The nephew of Bryan Mccall, a gene mian, who has by his own untiring industry rea) Jarge estate and $prae mustache, jaiped tip a foot or two from his seal and clapped his lily white hands together in res giee. Cominissioner Gross was aroused and his Venerable face was immediately wreathed In smiles, The address shortly afterwards came to an end; but the stunning coneciuding sentence of the peror, tiop, owing to the falltug of in the orator’s voice, was almost entirely lost, ana hed it Dot been that the veverable Chairman was obliged to double himsell and hang on by the reading desk in order to get additional force and wind for the Wind up, the crowd would not have known that his wees had been concluded. He then mounted tne ais on the stage, and stood LIKE A MONMOUTH for a moment or two, and received the plaudits of the audience. Then he named Clarkson N, Potter for temporary Chairman, and Immediately took tne vote and declared Mr, Potter elected, That gentie- Man stepped forward from his hiding place on tne platform, ok his notes out of his pocket, and, placing them on the desk before him, delivered one of the ordinary style of opent dresses, which was duly applauded, Mr. Reeves, of Suffolk, then named Mr, E. O. Perrin for Secretary. Mr. Tilden by tne time had taken aseatin the body af the hail, pealde Horatio Seymour and near the son of Dean Richmond, o fresh-looking man, who, it ts satd, has inherited his father’s wealth, and who, it was seen, sports & swallowtail coat aud tawny locks. The venerable Sammy Gor UP and sald the State Committee had aecided to have Messrs. A. B. Fauikner and J, B, Modombe act ag secretarica. Then, turning to Mr. Reeves, he said more in admouttion than interrogation, “Does the geatleman witidraw the name of Mr. Perrin?’ Of course the gentleman withdrew it, and of course FYanikner and McComve were ciected. The roll was ‘then called through, with tho oimssion of three dis. tricts, which were contested, When the fourth, of Oneida, was reached and Seymour's name culled, Uherc was immense applause, the crowds standing up and = Waving their — hats, while he himself sat smiling quietly and taking it allin. When Jacob Hardeubergh’s name in Ulster Was called, there was a similar outburst, bat on o little smaier scale. Tilden’s naine was called as delegate from Columbia county. When the call was compicted, Mr. De Witt, of Kings county, aud pe? stool up. Mr. De Witt addresse d the Chair joud— “MR, CHAIRMAN." Potter trembled for a moiment and then said ne thought tt was customary to recognize the chairman of the State Committee in preference to anybody, whereupon De Witt, puting @ look of dig- nifed scorn on nis fas od-natured face and swinging back his ‘alton-like locks Dy a dexerous movement of his hea said, “If the delegate from Columbia stan: fp this Convent.on on his on as Chi nan of the State Commnatice I yt to his presti Tus yield, withered Sammy, and’ he said quickly, “ey Tyteld, { yield.” Mr, DeWitt announced the fi tat there was a gentieman present from the T many Wall organization with a communica which he desired to present to the Convention and have read. At the name of Tammany Hall there Was a simultaneous OUTBURST OF APPLAUSE from all quartei except, of course, the reform Charies G. Cornell then presented the document prepared in the caucus by tie Tan- many folks, and it was read. It was a genuine pe le to the majority of those resent, and happy smiles on the 0 from a bad snarl which the document allowed were seen everywhere. Where it appeared In tne communication that Tammany had no wisn to em- barrass the work of the Convention, there was lon applanse. At the waiving of thelr right to seais there Was more cheering and waving.of hats. At the pledge vo give HEARTY AND UNDIVIDED suProRT to the ticket the applanse reached a roaring citmax, and thence tothe end every sentence was applauded. ‘Tis Was a frightful bomoshell in the camp of we rejormera. They were all astonished. Geo: Me- Lean moved his head from side to aide ind fooked imquiringly at those near him. Magnus Gross, leau- ing forward, looked puzziet and kolt his heavy brows in wonderment. Ben Wood seemed to pader- stand immediately (he position of afaira, aust, leaning his elbow on the back of the seat belore nim, he played @ nervous rag, wat, tat with his tngers on his whitenmg mustache. Mr. Oltenciorfer siood up, sat aown = again, stood again, looked! around with eyes wide open in mule bewilderment and seemingly to pant for brea’ and all the time raising a tulded foolscap sheet tween the (numb and forefinger of ome hand and ther of the other, going religiously from end toend of thésheet. ‘bis was the work of a very Jew mo. nents, after which Mr, De Witt offered THE RRSOLUTION, which put a climax on the agony of the reformers “No deiegaiion with the prestige of regularity” was ioo hud, Quendarfer evidently feit i. He waiked quivily along the pi fe Way, where Til. den sat, stooped down to the venerable ear, and Mm & moment the veneravie eyes looked “I am sorry,” and the venerable head gave & Degative snake, Then Mr. Utleadorfer waiked back quietly and despondenuly to his seat, Pea- ‘at his palate with the heaa Boese stroked his gray beara, toward Wiulaur i. Cortiss, who returned No 0 , and then both smted at each other, When De Witt demanded THB PREVIOUS QUESTION Jonn Ganson up and demanded the yeas and nays on it, Im tones which sald, ‘‘L want you ail on the record,’! The thing was worked so weil that the countrymen did not all fully sorsprenend the situation, ‘the previous question was decided, although tue chairman hesitated in deciding, and the resolution was adopted by @ vote of 99 to 4 Ex-Supervisor Hayes and Joe Dempsey cx- changed a look, which seemed to aay, “1 thought it would be so,” while W. 0, O*srien, Jim aud Clancy, of the Eightegnth ward, exc! looks which sald, “I hoped it would be g0;’’ or two others exchanged looks which said, it would be s0.’’ Thus ended the ONE-SIDED FIGUT, There is not a word on the minutes of the Con- vention to show that snon a body as the reform del- egation pea aed: SBF tank an They, hhc were not aloi 4 peared yesterdu; with @ delegation from dar appears ‘oion and putin a claim to recognition, ‘Their existence is een Maloney ot his walking cane. and looked inquirin, hot recorded, and the gentlemen comprising the delegation have their labor for thelr pains, It was a Dad defeat, and the vanquished showed that they felt it sorely. The WITTE, ensiethal REGULAR ROUTINE cower a0 « of the Convention was then commenced With 30 tion by Mr. dy to appoint a member from each Judicial district to draw up resolutions. Here Sam- My ran ground to the front uf the hall, where he ‘was met by Cassidy. my raised himself on his tip-toes and made a dash at Cassidy’s ear with his venerable mouth. ‘Then Cassidy biurtea out, “I want to move to AMEND MY MOTION beret it two instead or one from each judicial district, Hereupon Dewitt jumped up and tu- formed the gentleman that there were no more ju- dicial~ districts, Oh! mischievous Dewitt! How Cassidy did gisre through those spectacles! His immense collar seemed to stretch and swell as he glowered at the young limb of the law who dared to correct him. “He would not have it, but, despite his glowering, he was obliged to say:—‘Weill, from tue judicial districts as they formerly existed.” This LITTLE SPARRING + created & laugh at Mets fd expense, which ne evidently did not relish, Shortly attor this Gov- ernor Seymour stood up and gave a most glowing eulogy on Francis Kernan and moved that he be ad- mitted toa seat in the Convention. Dewitt got on his war paint again and on the score of regularity Moved as a substitute for Governor Seymour's mo- tion to reler the matter to the Committee on Cre- dentials when,appointed. Then Sammy got up again, Sammy was évidently GEITING GARRULOUS. ie. points of order and asked questions, and finally asked to know what he was talking to. Tis was too much for Seymour to stand. He had been Sextet prompt Sammy tnrongh Dean Richmond’s son, but the prompting was of no avail by the time Sammy got ready to use it, Mr. Seymour, then, in despair, got up and, withdrew his motion, which the Chairman declared carried with it the substitute, This was received with laugnter on all aid but asthe Chairman had previously staled that he was ipnorene of pariiamentary law he was pardoned, resolution was then adopted prone for the appomunent of a Oommittee on Convested Seats, alter which @ recess until four o’clock was ordered. THE HAUP-PAST TWO RECESS. It would be quite impossible to describe the exul- tation of the Tammany folks during the recess over their success; for, look at the result of the upshot of the Gslegatton squabble as oue might, it cannot be denied that they looked upon 16 as a decided tri- umpn. When the dinner adjournment took place the excitement in the city over the result was in- tense, The contesting delegations were, of course, NOT VERY JUBILANT; but the leaders made the best they could of their situation, and tried to_make everybody believe that they achieved just what they had ali been working for—the exclusion of Tammany Hall; but the effort was a sickly onc. They feit that they had, It ts true, gained victory as far as Tammany was concerned; but they were unable, do what they could, to conceal tho alspppointment they felt at the sudden turn things had taken. Of course the chief topic of conversauion was the course ‘Tammany had seen fit to adopt, and opinion varied consider- ably a8 to What had tnduced her to change her posi- tion so sudaealy. BETS had been freely made as late as ten o’clook in the forenoon that Tammany would be certain to have twenty majority in the Convention, if she wanted to et in, to the entire exclusion of the other doleza- ions from the metropolis. It finaily leaked out, however, during the dinner hour that tho plan which was now so faithfully adopted by Tammany im the Convention had been decided upon at eleven o'clock, and that Chief Justice Church was the chief actor in the manquvre which brought about the raceful anda prudent withdrawal ol the Wigwamites. it appears that un ACTIVE CANVASS had been made by the ga BS up to that hour and that all their biandishments, iu- d@ucements and promises had proven fruitless to secure surely enough voles to make their admission a certainty. This settled the question and Judge Church and a few others suagested the plan that was finally adopted, I met Governor Seymour coming out from the dining Toom soon after most of the delegates had taken their “hasty plate of soup.” “What do you think of the turn affairs have taken in the Convention?” J asked. “What is your opinion? You ought to know all hat is going on abd what people think of what hag Been done’ This was Not exactly tue kind of an answer your correspondent wanted, aud he made up his miud that the Governor was NOT QUITE AS WILLING as he might be to tell all he knew abont the way the situation in the Convention had beea reached and What might have happened had Tammany nyt waived ia right td ascat m the Convention, so I informed the ory hat Jhad it trom the pest of authority that ‘ammany pad desired. sho could have got into the Convention by buying aj the country delegates, This charge brought the Goyeruor our, . ~ “That ls false information,” said he. “The Tam- may en, eee did the best and the wisest thing id under the circumstances.” Ho then ‘If they had made the question of their admission @ tess in the Convention 1 assure you they woald not have obtained fifteen votes.’? When the Convention reassembied, a little after four o'clock, everybody seemed to be 1n Indeed, a good dinner and a goodiy supply of Indeed, ® inner and @ goodly supply o pure Cliquot to wash it down had made ail the delegates a regular Lappy family. It was ve evident when the Chairman took his seat and calle the body to order that the only obstacle to harmony had been removea by the way the New York deie- gation question had been seuled, and that, no mat. ter waat diderences of opinion the thrashers of wheat and the mowers o Nay had na‘ on the ques- tion, they were one and all determined to go to work together and «do the best tney could w make the Convention @ contrast to that ROUGH AND TUMBLE CIRCUS held at Syracuse by the republicans. The ot Mr. Kernan was atonce taken uy aad, after Mr. De Witt had explained how General Mcquade was anxious 0 avoid being regatded as im any way dte- d to create fil-fecling among the ceiegates, Mr, ernan Was admitted toa seat In the Vonvention, As be made his way throug the crewd congregated outside THR OGARMED CIRCLE wherein the delegates were euclosea by a rope, which was not of saud, and advanced to the centre of the room, he was received with cheers, which were kept up for quite atime. The Commitrees on Permanent Organization, Resolutions aud Contested Seats were then appointed, alter which auetuer ad- journment took piace-to seven o'clock. THR EVENING SESSION It was long after the appointed bour when the Convention was again calle to order, and the seme good feelll waich had ieoten all day io mong the delegates was, if possible, more marke: than ever, faiedtdog!t ‘was on the qui vive as to who the permanent Cnairman would be, It vad been rumored during the evening that Governor Seymour had accepted a very urgent request to act, and thet ne had declared his intenuon to speak at some length concerning the decided stand the Convention had taken as te Tami a = many or rather as to why aud wherefore Tammany had acted wisely a8 slie had dove. All rumors tots effect, however, were . KNOCKED IN THE READ, When the Comnuttee on Permaneat Organization made its report the Commitieo’s mention of Mr. Seymour as their choice was greated with loud and prolonged cheers, but the announcement that le was too stick to be able to attend the Convention threw quite a damper apou the general en- thusiasm. A few moments afterwards of course it was quite natoral under the circumstances that my. ter should have heen re-elected in his stead, and the jatter’s litte address, Closing with a denun- jon of what he called perscnal corruption, proved all stories to the contrary nothwithsianding, n 3 in full aympathy with the great majority ot the Convention in its ‘determination to show the people it was IN BARNEST AGAINST MALPEASANCE in office by democratic ofictals. resolutions created a great deal of enthusiasm, and the scene Urat epsued when one Genuuciatory of the corrup- ion iu New York city was read reminded one very forcibly of the enthusiasm manifested at the citizen? Meeting In Cooper Mnatituie, when Otten- Aorier and overs handied the city autuorities so severely. The CUT AT THE CUSTOM Horse dictation, whion had disgraced the republican party at Syracuse, and the antt-fraudulent yoring plai- form were considered rather good, and the applause with which the reading of them was ned Was loud and long continued. Indeed, after the resolu: Uons had been read everybody seemed to feel that nothing better could be done during the rest of iho — than £0 give full vent to the general uesire _ RING THE CHANGHS OUT OF CORRUPTION in Now York and every place else; and so, instead of entering into the dry, Wire-pa work of nomi- nating and endorsing candidates for the ticket, the Ligut was given over to speech making. Hardenburga and Dowitt were the speakers. The two former entered into the corruption question, am! denounced the WRONG DOINGS IN NRW YORK in a yvay that certainiy nothing to be desired in the cacm, not angry, denunciation line. Loud cheers greeted ernan when ne deciared that the Conven- ton had) in acting the way it had with Tanungny, firmly dewormined that corrapt men should sfadd out of oMcly 1 ranks In the party; and when he ro- ferred to tegietermination Of the delegates to OLRAR THE SKIRTS ot the party from all taint ot fraud, which they had manifested by an attisode which caused the dele. water of Tamipany Dyt even W ask JOT & Beat in their OCTOBER 5, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. Midst, the appjause was unm‘stakably hearty. The | adjoarnment took place until about halt-past nine o'clock to-morrow bps | when the ticket will | undountedly be made up, Tne beginning of the end will probably ba reached before noon, PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVEWTI0N. | ROCHESTER, Oct, 4, 1871, Bhorvy after the doors were opened Governor Sey- | mour, Governor Beach and Francis Kernan entered | the room and were received with applause, S2MUEL J. TrLpEN, Caairman of the State Centra, Committee, called tho Convention to order at ten | minutes before one o'clock. He spoke as follows:— SAMUBL J, TILDEN’S SPEECH. Reyerently I thank God that when midutght dark- | ness brooded over the republic and the true men | who were guarding the sacred tradition of freo | rament creaced by Jefferson and vindicated by | M, And as upheld in our State by the Clin- tons, Tompkins, Van Buren, Wrignt and Marcy, sat at their watch despoudent, the uplifted cloud began to show its silver lining, and there was revealed the dawn of a new and better day, The democracy, risking its armor and purilying ita ranks, ad- peso Lead pig ting procs against centralis: an DUI ich seven ve years ago it antares ata a Rye MasaRIOn kn nation an by George Clinton in the State. These dangets have recently assumed vastly greater dimensions than at the Dirth or at any time during the existence of the republic. Mankind naturally fear the evils they have last experienced, even after those evils have fre Away and others of the opposite character ave taken their place. EFFECT OF UNSUCORS3PUL INSURRECTION, It 8 & maxim of history that government is always | strengthened by unsuccessiul insurrection, Wo | have just emerged from @ vast civil war, in which | wo have conquered a rebellion, undertaken to break up our federal goverament, Disunion ts crushed; slavery is dead torever; the suffrage 18 irreversibly | the colored rave; the original onject of the ar complisied; every matural result 1s at- tained, and yet 1a our revoil from @ danger com- pletely passed we rush blindly toward the opposite per! DANGER OF CENTRALISM. ‘The equilibrium of our whole political system is in danger of being overthrowa, and o despotic and corrupt centralism established. The whole value of the arrangement by which our world is kept in its place in the solar system ts in the balance be- tween two opposing’ forces, It would matter lit. tle to us which of these forces should be allowed to prevail. If the centrifugal tendency should dominate our planet would snoot madly into the realms of endieas space far away from the source of heat and light and life, until every W thing upon the surface would perish, If the etal tendency should dominate, the earth Would rush witn inconceivable velocity toward the sun until 1+ would be engulfed in the burning mass, Soitis with the adjustment of powers be- tween the State and federal governments: disunion and centraitvation aro equally fatal to govern- ment. Disunion would generate centralism of milt- tary despotism in the scparay States. Centralism attempte'l over areas and populations ao vast would break the parts asunder, and fill our Continent—as it bas every other—#ith rival nations. WHAT TO DO. Our wise ancestors devised the only system possi- bie to avold these: opposite evils, They formed a federal government to arrange our foreign reta- tions, to maiutain peace and amity between the States, and to administer a few exceptional func. Uons of common iuterest; and they jelt the great residuary mass of governmental powers to the States. The democratic party has carried on the federal government for fiity of the seventy years of the resent century. its creed ls compressed in two \leas:—First, to limit as much as possible all gov- ernmental power, enlarging always and every- where the domain of iudividual yudgment and action; secondly, to throw back the governmental powers necessary to be exercised as much a3 pos- ‘sible upon the States and the localities approaching in every case the individuals to be atlec! WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVK DONB, These ideas domiuate over the democratic party and find in it their pest representatives, The oP. wite ideas, to meddle with everything proper! longing to individuals and to ceniralize ail governmental powers, express the tendenci of the repubit party. Under their insp* tion the federal government is rapidly seizing upon all the powers of human society. It has as- sumed to regulate the suffrage and threatens to take the control of gil elections. it perverts the power to raise rovenue into means. of dictating what kinds of business men shail employ their labor or capital in, of giving bounties an granting monoyo- hes, of enriching iavored classes by impoverishing tue earmmngs of the people. It has drawn wituin ita power all the bans; it has begua to create insar- ance corporations, aud it yearns to take jurisdic. tion of all railroad companies. Its career of usurpa- tion, if continued a iew years longer, will invulve ail the business, all tho contracts and ali the property of individuals, and will populate Washington with the lobbies of thirty-seven States. 1 oppose cen- tralism, because it Is incompatible with civu liberty, HISYORIO ILLUSTRATION, Forty miliions of peoples, guided by a single hand Would sweep over all dissent and «li resistance of isolated or disorganized individuals, Look at France: haifa million of oficenolders and half a million of s.idlers, moved from the centre, make to New York official corruptions, was enthuslasti- cally applauded. He concluded by nominating a@ temporary chairman Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, of Westchester, which was carried unanimously. SPRROH OF CLARSON N. POITER, Mr. Potier was then introduced to the Convention and proceeded to speak as lollows:— CLARKSON N, POTTER'S SPEECH. GENTLEMEN OV THE CONVENTION—I thank you for the honor you have done me m electing me to pre- side over your temporary organization. The aemo- ‘evata of the great State of New York again meet in convention at a arene and critical period, The evils which resulted from the great clvil war Dave been exaggerated and continued by the action of the panies pete. tu transferring to Congress ali the substautial powers of government, Acting under the direction of that party Congress has assumed arbitrarily the power to reject and adit States to ro) tation. They have assumed also to prescribe the condition of sui » degree, to coutrol elections within the y have seized on tho curréncy and banking institu. lions of the great country go that the ventures and sacrifices of men are at the d mercies of the officers of the Treasury. They have sought to trans- fer to the federal government various offices now filled by State oe an een —_ iprideng peated ®. an pone 9 ecutive, \* ci . Brey have established the power of Congrosa to destroy vested private rights and set aside the obligations of contracts, They have created great corporations an: granted ger than States, to th a chartering and private corporations to aay business Wivlun the States, thereby centering 0} the federal capital all the lobbyists and corrup- tionists of the Raservif while, under the pretence of preserving the public peace and order, they have empowered the President to suspend the sacred rivht of nabeas corpus and to establish military rule in the States, wile the people, misied by the great material Brourese and prosperity of the coun- try, and debauched by the continuance of an irre- deemable currency, have closed their eyes to these assumptions of power, 8o that not only speculation and extravagance, but corruption everywhere ob- talon, Its direful presence has been found even in oor party, and has demoralized the government of our princtpal city. Under these circumstances the democratic party peek as it seems to me, fully and trankly confront the situation, recognizing. the revolution through which this country has passed and the changes in the national’ government which have resulted. It should apply to the present crisis these principles of limiting and localizing govern- ment, which lic at the foundation of our faith, actting our faces against the creation of great cor- porations and the abuse of executive power and patronage, which corrupt our people. Lei us purge and purify our own party, and let us call around us all those wo, whatever were their views here- tofore, now seek to ‘imit and localize the powers of government, and to that end tet us proceed in the organization and duties of this Convention wisely, justly, temperately and drmly, without anger and without fear, ‘The selection by the State Central Committeo of Clarkson N. Potter for temporary chairman was in accordance with the expressed wishes of all the delegations and by mutual agreement, after Liea- tenant Governor Beach had declined the position. Mr. Potter’s address was frequently interrupted with applause, especially when called upon the Convention to purge and purify its own party of corruption. Mr. TILDRN moved tha! Lester D. Faulkner and Isaac McConthe be made temporary secretaries, Carried, On motion of Mr. TiLDeN the roll of uncontested delegates was called, When Horatio Seymour's name was called the Convention rose and gave three cheers, swinging their hats and exhibiting the utmost eathusiasm, ‘There was also applause when Jacob Hardenburgh’s name was calicd. TAMMANY MOVES. Mr. Dewrrt, of Kings, rose and stated that there was @ member of the State Central Committee there bearing a communication from the Tammany Hall delegation, and he moved that this communication be received and rend. ~ CHARLES G. CORNELL presented a communication, which, on motion, was react. Mi ‘TAMMANY'B MANIFFETO, To the CHAIRMAN OF THE DxMOCRATIO STATE VONVEN- ‘TION, sitting in seseion at Corinthian Hall:— Tne Undermgned, delegates to this Convention, elected by the severn! Assemb' nt the democratio electors in atrict conformity to the following cail-—[here followed the call as originally pub- lished|—fully appreciating the desires of the deniocratic anaes, not only of this State but of the Unlon, that nothing should’ ocour at this Convention which ts qalculate to jeopardize the triumph ot cause conatl- tutional government, have oo wish at this critical juactcre in the of the to embarrass the action of your honorable bo While, fore, no question of doubt can Togarding the Fe larity of their election, they cannot ignore the fact that ve involving the iclal Integrity of certain prominent members of the Tam. Hall General Committee—the local organtzation un- der the call of which the undersigned were elected—bave been made by the opposition press, calcnlated to projndice the people of the State against said organization. In refer. ence to these charges the undersigned, in common with the democracy of the city of New York, demand the most rigld and searching investigation, and, {f sustained, that swift aod ‘signal punishment (be visited upon the ‘guilty parties, In view of the circumstances re! to, and ace tuated solely by adesire to promote the harmony of the arty and the sneceas of the regular democratic candidates, Both tate and local, at the o ction, the undersigned waive the right to parti proceedings of your - man} civil Liberty impossible, [oppose centralism because it creates an irresponsible power, and irresponsible power 1s always corrupt, A government ruling the affairs of individuals from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the great Lakes to the Gulf of exiled, would be the most incompetent for what it woul uudertake; tho most oppressive, the most irrespou- sivle and the most corrupt goverDment of which his- tory affords aby example. [t would repeat and ex- azgerate the crimes of the worst government in the worst age, Already the system 18 maturing its fatal fruits, Demorailzation in public trusts prevails to anextent uever before known in this country and scarcely believed to be possible, “Secrees "=" ROUGR Q) omar oF | ‘The mass of men of all pardes are pure In, indir Intentions, but parties differ in the tendencies of their principles aud measures, and the ideal stand- ards and traiuing of their leaders. The democratic arty fror its Foundation, Ln genta ores of @cen- ary ago, has held and acted upon ideas which tend to purity in government. It has exacted tn its leaders @ higher standard of oMcial purity than aay other in the Gouutry, It has vever elected to the dl any man of as low a standard of official life as either of the three republican Presidents. Every Democratic National Vonven- tion would by common cousent have rejected from its nomination @ man who had filicd the public olces with his relatives, or who had been enriched by costly presents while exercising the fmmense power of the Presidency to promote men’s interests or gratifying men’s au- bition. Even in the corrupt times of James the First the greatest intellect pertiaps which has ap. pearec among men (Bacon) was impeached by our ancestors, because, as Lord High Chancellor of Kagland, he haa received presents from suitors io causes Phos gern vefore tim. His defence was that he bad decided those causes against the parties which had mate the presents, Grant has decided the causes of those who were candidates for the great civil trusts of the country ia favor of those who maie him presents.’ Jefferson left among tne noble traditions of his pre- cepts and examples the maxims that ho Would not appoint relatives to oifice, whatever their fitness; and that wnue in ofcial itfe he woulda do nothing to increase pis fortune. He would keep Dimeeif not only pare, but he would hold high the standard of public morality, 1 do not wish to speak harshly of the ilustriogs soldier who Gills the Prest- dential chair. He may not havo been conscious of the evil in the fatal example which he bas set. But when the two ideas of personal gain and the be. swwal of Ofice are allowed to be in one and at the samme they will become associaied, and it a slep to the sale of the greatest trnsts. Intellect, traning, virtue, will soon succum» to wealtm, = Vul- gar wulionnatres will grasp the highest seats of honor and power as they woud put anewemnia- zonment opon their carriages or 3 gaudy livery upon their servants, GiLORIRS OF THE OLD DEMOCRACY. T turn now to our own State, The era of deni cratic ascendancy Was the twenty-five years under the constitution of 1812, Van Buren, Marcy, Wright and Flagg ruled... They were men of absotute per- sonal bonor and trath, and in ali the counties bee “attracted to themselves similar men. They wield party power not only for pure measures, but for honest men, Jf @ young man who hau served ono session in the Legislature came back to lobby he lost his standing with the party ienders. Corruption in tho legislative vodties was almost unkuown. Evert in 1886, in tue Wild speculation of | that time, three democratic Senators who had kept back a till about the Harlem Railroad, in order to buy some of its stock, were Ng pom to resign by @ democratic Senate, and Youn and Vanschaick resigned their seats bvecaus these Semitors Nad not been expeilea. Take the twenty-five years which followed as the era of the ascendancy of the republican pariy and of that party from which it sprang. Your legislative vodies are invariably found—almost immediately have ne- come purcbasable. Twice within that tine the great oiice of Senator of tho United States—the | seat of Clinton, Van Buren, Wright and Marcy—nas been put up at auction and kudcked down to the best bitder, 1t was notin an assembly of German or Irish citizens, 1} Was Mot amoug democrats, but it was in the caucuses of republican members of the Senate and — elected by the repabitcans of the rural districts, muaictpal corruptions of reat Beat aN. are pee zpeaine of acting in the secrecy ureaus commissions, They are the outgrowth of twenty years of repubil- od eens = ig a3 & partnership of t ler bel men o! ru during that period. ST ee HONEST MEN TO THE RRECUR. Ihave said this much as a demand of historical justice. I have no heart for such discussions, know the mass of republican friends are of intentions, f have no taste for a rivalry which is degraded into ® mere comparison of the relative size of the leprous sores that are on the bodies of the respective parties. Let us rather engage in @ 08) ible power MN generous emulation to rescue our couutry fren . vading corruption. y ie ail | tic Tonorable body. ‘They, f more, cordially pledge them- selves and the democratic naatuen whom they represent to aod united su to the ticket ive ancarnest, act Bich aball vg Mominated by the Convention. Jor FELLOWS, Int Assomb! THOMAS COMAN, 2d Assembly din OHARLES M. CUA! GY, By Asem WILLTAM SCHIRMER, 4th Asser Fr th Assem)l district, rict, district, district, datrict, MIGHASL MQUONET, Geb bly districs, PRL ago JOHN SCOFT, sh Assembly districh, | W. G, BERGEN, 9h Assombly district. HENRY WOLTMAN, 10th Assombly district. J. HENRY FORD, 1th Assembly district JOSEPH KOCH, Win Aasombly district, THOMAS J. BARR, 1th Assembly district, BERNARD REILLY. Mth Aasembiy diatrict, THOMAS ©. FIELDS, 15th Assembly district. JOHN J. BRADLEY, 16th Assembly district, @. W. PLUNKINT, Iith Assembly district 18th Assembly district, r. ‘oth Ausembly district, GEORGE J, WOOD, Mth Assembly district. CHARLES G. CORNELL, 2st Assombly district, Mr. DE _WitT moved that no delegation being now present from New York hav: the prestige of regularity, or haying been elected in conformity with the cali of the State Central Committee, therefore Resolved, That in the call of the roll New York be omitted tm the (ture proceedings of this body, and no delegation be deemed as siting from that locality. On this resolauion Mr. Dw WrtT moved the pre- vious question, which was ordered. ‘The roll was then called, and the resolution was adopted by 99 yeas to 4 nays. (Appiause.) WILLIAM (©. KINGSLEY of Kings, movea that a committee of one from each Judicial district be ap- pointed to report the permanent officers of the Von- vention. tied, Mr. Cassipy, of Albany, moved that a committee of two from each Judicial district, except the First district, be appointed to present resolutions to the Convention, Carried. Governor SEYMOUR said there were some con- tested seats, and he supposed the first business was to dispose of them. He asked if there were any papers on the Secretary’s desk contesting the seat of Francis Kernan, of Unelda. The Secretary said there were none, a Mr. HARDENBURG, of Ulster county, moved the adoption of the House of Assembly rules, Oarrted, Governor SEYMOUR rose, he said, with mueh re- Juctance (o-make a motion. He learned with much pain thata man who had grown in the service of the party had his seat cont He moved that Francis Kernan pe aamitted to his seat as a dele- gate from the First district of Oneida. (Applause, Mr. Dewitr said that he knew how graceiess ii ‘was for a young member of this body to rise and oppose @ motion made by one so much older and occupying a position so high as the gentleman who had just taken his scat. Stull he felt it his duty to do so, He bad heard no reason given for the mo- tion. aud he could not vote for it. He then pro- ceeded at length to state the proceedings of the District Coaveation. Governor SrYMouR responded that he bad made no statement of the facts In the case, for the reason that ne wished to avold avy unpleasant explana- tions. He then appealed to the Convention to carry out thé declaration inade here to frown down fraud and corruption, Mr. DEwitr moved, as an amendment, that the case of the First district be referred to the Vommit- tee on Contested Seats. Mr. TILDEN rose on a point of order, and said that = hoo ag to refer the case to a committee Was not order. The Cuam decided that the motion was in order, Governor SEYMOUR sald his only object was to avoid revelations which would be brought before the committee, bat he should withdraw bis motion. Mr. GORDON, of Delaware, moved that a Commit- tee on Credentials be appointed. consisting of one rr from each Judicial district except the First. Jarried, The Convention then took a recess to four P. M. Afternoon seasiou. The Convention was called to order at Ove o'clock Mr. Dewitt, of Kings county, announced that m, McQuade endorsed all he (Dewitt) had said, and had authorized him to say that, dosiring that the harmony of the party may be secured, he withdrew his claim to @ seat in the Convention from the First district of Oneida, (Great ap} On motion, Francis Kernan was unanimously in- vited to take a seat im the Convention. THB COMMITTEES. The following committees were announced:— COMMITTER ON REROLUTIONS, Firat district, vacant: Second, Thomas Kinsella, Robert B Manton; Third Wiiliam Cassidy, Samuel J.” Tilden; Fourth, Wiliam I, Waliace, B.C. Davia; Fifth, Prancié Kernan, Aten 9. Beseh 5 Slat, Huglus Rovineod, Spence 4 . a, A. J, MoVall; iD, Js farren, Henry A: Richmond.” eae eee OOMMITIER ON CONTRATRD BRATS, Second, ¥ Lot the people jndge us hy what we do to cleanse our parties and to puri the oiler trusta of the country and to elevate the standard of public mo- rality. Principles are the test of political character. ‘The democracy have always made fidelity to official trish and justice to the tolling masses who earn them bread by the sweat of their brow a fundamental articié in whe fang | creed, Ibis time now to FS claim avd enforce the decree that whoever plunders the peopx, though he sieal the livery of neaven io serve tie devil, ls no democrat, During the Gelivery of the speech there were fre- quent ourborew@ pf hearty applause, Hix reference First districh, vacant; Samuel I. Westerbrook; Fou A B. Waldo: Patt, vam H. Gordes t ty i ge ‘Gor wenth, Know McDougal It was announced that . P. Moore, of Madison, having withdrawn, &. P. Perrin waa substituwd vi The Convention then took @ recess until seven o'clock P. M. Evening Session. The evening. session of the Convention was called to order at ten minutes past eight P.M. ‘The Committee on Contested Seata reported in favor of giving Wwe seal for the Second district of POUT STOR: ee 3 7s Barat to Elina Weed and for Warren county F.C. ‘Hornause Agreed to. hte The Committee on Permanent Organization re- ported as follows, which was agreed to:— For President—ciarkson N, Potter, of Weste chester, Vice Presidente—First district, vacant. Second —Joseph Burger, of Kings county; Heury A, Reeves, of Suffolk. ‘Third—Calvin Hornbeck, of Ulster, and M. Parker Whttams, of Columbia, Fourth—Smith M. Weed, of Clinton, and James Ry Craig, of Schenectady. ‘th—A, 8. Page, of Oswego, and Giles Hawiey, of Oneida, Stxth—J. G, Richards, of Madison, and William 0, ad Cee fcayegs, ana ven Unaries W. 1 J mora « Steuben, Pomme * 2 William Williams, of a D Mu of Chauteaqua. i : esigenctesicsten les—First district—Fdwin 0, Perrin, o' Madison; L. B. Faulkner, and [saad MoUonihe, of Rensselaer. “VDmsOD, Kinga —James Corboy and John #. Bergen, of ‘Third —J. B. Hull, of G Regneseiacr,” : vg and John Moran, * yar + P. Cantwell, of Frankiin, jorace Van Evra, of Montgomery. ae —A. J. Dewey, of Jefferson, and H. W. Longs, Ostend Stillwell, of Schuyt . F, Stillwell, of uyler, Lambert, of Cortland,’ “ at ig on Seventh—O. (. Murphy, of Ontario, aad D. Mc Manghtne’ Henry Boy, of Wi: dG ghth—He: loy, of Wyoming, and Geo! W. Peck, of Oneanse oe ree NINB O'CLOCK P, M. When Mr, Potter rose to Tr the office of per+ manent Chairman he was greeted with three cheers, Mr. Potter said:— POTTER'S SECOND PALAVER, GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION—I retarn you my thanks for this renewed and most unexpected expression of your favor. I had looked, as I pre- sume alt of you had, to the selection of that great statesman from Onelda, Seymour, whom we all love and revere—(great appluuse)—as the propes Person to be President of the Convention, Had known of his inability to serve, and that any person in the Convention regarded me as the proper person, to succeed him to the position, 1 should have in- sisted that my name should pot be used, but that some other gentleman more intimately connected with the politics of the State and personally better known to the delegates present than I have bee should be selected for this honorable place. Ideem 16. due to myself to further say that when | considered the question of who should compose the committees which have just reported L was so entirely unac- quainted with tne gentiemen whose names were se- lected by me that [consulted with and acted wholly upon the sugyestions of the State Commitiee in re- ard to them. Most assuredly, bad [ anticipated % this additional duty would be put upon me, t should have attempted to exercise sonie otucr choice in respect to that committee whore unfortunate ree ort you have just heard. (Lauguter.) For myself; am a democrat because I believe, from my inner Moet heart, that free government can never be pre- served in a great country like tnis, with all ite vari- eties of soll and climate and people, except by Min- iting and by localizing the powers of gov+ ernment. To that end and in that be Met is taken whatever part I do tak in the politics of my country. Beyond thi I care for nothing. ‘That man is tn my view a! democrat, whatever his past affiliations may have been, who now believes in limiting and localizing the powers of this government; and that man is ia my jadgment no democrat, and with him I have no afiliilation, who—whatever hia professions or party name—uses the cloak of this great party to cover private wrong, or seeks to avail himsel/ of the party organization for corruptionand fraud, And now, gentiemen, it only remains for me to return you m¥ thanks for your favor and to proceed with the busi- ness of the Convention. (Applause.) The Comanittee on Resolutions submitted the fol. lowing resolations, the reading of which was fre- quently applauaed:— THE RESOLUTIONS, Resolved, That the democracy ot New York arraign be» fore the people uf the Union the administration at Washing. tou as falae to ite pledges and faithless to ite, constitutions! obligation, It has prolonged the disaensions that foluw civ War, kept alive sectional animosities, refused amnesty tu wut. missive citizens and denied peace to the restored States. 10 has set up privileged classes and {uitated a system or ex- emptions from taxation and protection to moneyed Interests, he tendency of which is to make the rich richer the poor poorer. bas squandered on rations ‘the lands which were the jedged heritage of the acttlers, and it now attempts to per- by & recourse to the grossest corruption, ference of federal oilice holders in popular resort to military force to repress tbe ountry and to control popular assem- and PK mammoth _ cor pl Diages and elections—acts and uaurpations which all history shows are strides towards despotism, and which, if not ar rested, must prove faial to our repablican institations. That we recognize e! wm Kesolved, the emancipation oF the 0 rebellion agai jou, and we hold It to be the duty of all to sustain them im the eojoyment of ther established rights and to aid them in Pamoting thelr own welfare and the general prosperity of e country. , Resolved, That we view with indignation the corraption and extravagance resently brought to light in the manage: of the municipal alfairs of the city of New York, ant denounce as uaworthy our countenance or toleration ail who are responsible therefor; we pledge our best efforts ta prevent a repetition of such abuses and will took witt satis faction upon the punishment of all upon whom guilt can be fixed, We appeal to the record and the facts to vrove that the deplorable condition of aifairs existing in New York was inaugurated and fastened upon the city by a system of irre- sponsible government, lastituted by the republican party and continued by them through many years, under whic n of extravagance, poculation and fraud waa in- evitable, and we demand on the part of our next Legislature such Curther reforms in tho clty charter as shall eradicate he jon through which such frande were possibie, and se: ‘new pal of the = Mayor complete — cont! consequently more complete respons'bility for the subordinate departments of the administration; shird, the liability of the Muyor of New York, with all mayors of cities, to be ramoved by the Gov- ernor in the same manner as ‘sheriffs of counties are now Femoved, upon proof before him of malieasance in office oF neglect of duty; fo #0 28 Lo place in thi of the people the power to make ‘a complete change of the city goverament; fitch, publicity of Accounts at all times, and facilities to the taxpayer to. re: a of of- strain and puniah abuses and to secure speedy wr hi shown the necessity of re- constitutional enactment, the at experience and defining, by straining power of towns, counties and municipalities to create det and to tax the property of citizens, Resolved, That while ready and determined to purge local administration of abuses, we must not lose sight of the dury feased corraption ia Di the paper money 9 rupt social and business nae well aa nearly ali the chan ele of political administration, and, the profigacies 1a th Custom House, the internal revenue Loards, |i nary and in the highest walls 0 palities, are tne ripe fruits of thi tention of the people to the fact that this corrupt power tri umphed in and controlled the recent Republican Cae at Byracuse, ‘That as registry laws, 60 far from 1 ee etna cept ae re Jemat ich they can more easily be cons’ aia ‘i me other safegitard be provide Komen trotalens roped tion of votes and a dishones’, cxnyags ot the ballots, eri which are treason to re" resentative governme: ‘and th: we C1 Drampage of the constitutional amendanend bal a@ground of challe: elector and der, ing the mufPage alike to. him that ‘recived end him the, offers a corrupt iniucement, Resolv a4, That the democracy of tho State, to sustain their, e the sut jos of the people, point to the es ‘us brit tern thae @ aud cal benefit to the revenue and commerce as to extort from our political adversaries, who at lirat denounced this statesmanlike policy, a reluctant approval. They have cut off ap immense mass of special Jeguslation ana reduced materially the, value Of taxation. They challenge a comparison between these results and the twenty years of acoumulated misrule, wasie and corruption ol versaries. Resolved, That tho free exchange of commodities between: this and every other couutry, as between various districts of of tho greatest benefit both to the buyere at government should lay no tax on importa purpote revenie to be justly levied to in amount and fairly based Falue of the. property taxed; that raw, mate finished articles cannot be especially taxed without buruen being laid upom our domestic manafactures event them fi 10 as prevent competing fairly with those 0 other countries; wl our present tan’ violates principle of olitical economy , it's complicated tn ite vroetsions, Fequiring an enormous body of officials for tts colicction, and thus febauching our polities by th f na subservient to onating rout aeilfa ag to encourage smugg)! ‘ap the honest {mporters, rcumstances of the country an ample ment of the loterest and large of the debt and for the ordinary can ve had without levying any articies, such aa tron, coal, clothing, medicines a: Jerlais ased in the mee! arts, Resolved, That in Job T. Hoffman the democracy claim a Worthy successor of the great democratic leaders, Clinton, ‘aad Seymour. ing bimsert consuiti placed him na! legislation @bich the lobby thrives aud which perverts ‘our syetem of eqtal awa adm! ning power, wille sensibie of justice aud mercy, be has been true to the. Tequirement of his office, to see that the laws are fathtully executed. He bas asserted and malntained the civic rights of ailcitizens, no matter of what race or creed; and he haa Borne hlmvelt tn his high ‘onice with such. Intearity, cours age and devotion to duty as to command the coniidence and gratitude not only of hie politieal supporters, but of tbe ‘mase of Intelligent and appreciative citizens of the state. Resolved, Thi ‘apprebensions are expressed that the religious aod civil equality of citizens ie menaced renew toe pledge of aur fidelity to the great democratic d tring of equal and exact jnstice to all men, ereed or nationality, amd spécial favors to none. MR, KERNAN’S SPEECH. ~ Mr. KERNAN, Of Onella, on rising to second the resolutions — Mr. PRESIDENT—I rise with very great pleasure to second the motion for the adoption of the reso- Intions which have just been read, and although I bad not intended at this time, aor do f now intend to occupy at any length the time of this eee nevertheless, as some gentlemen have kindly invited me to make some remarks, I embrace the oppur- . who had thos far spoken in hts so nevegate, ow step in the platform, i 10 to the demand of \ e ) and Wad elvert with hearty cheers, rele poly proceeded;—And I am gratified, fellow citizens, that our platform, which has just been read, 18 broad enough and strong enough and honest enough for all to stand together npon. Lam graltied that it is so, for, in my jaigment, this is #n unportant era 1m te history of this county—au CUXLLNUED 0N TENTH PAGE, of whatever mven