The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1876, Page 3

TILDEN AT UTICA. The Delegates Chosen to Go to St. Louis. ‘A Majority in Favor of the ‘ Reform Governor. ‘THE NEW YORK DONNYBROOK 4 Debate Between the Factions Before the Convention. TAMMANY TRIUMPHANT John Morrissey’s Native Logic and Kelly’s Naive Frankness. THE TRUTH ABOUT PRIMARIES. Speeches by Ex-Govermor Seymour and Senator Kernan, The Opportunity for the Return of the ; Democracy to Power. ENTHUSIASTIC AUDITORS. Unica, April 27, 1876. * Atleast three out of four of those who go to repre- *sent the democracy of New York in the Convention at St. Louis are men who favor the nomination of Mr. ‘Tilden for tho Presidency. By the resolutions gdopted to-day the delegation is instructed to act asa unit, its | _ Sourse in specific cases of doubt to be determined by the majority. No instruction is given as to candidates that will justify the delegation in any course in that regard likely to mar the purity and harmony, but the | name, the record and the services of Mr. Tilden are to be recalled to the memory of the National Con- | vention. Such is a succinct statement of the grand result. In ther words, the Convention has adopted, in the most Uteral way, every point of the programme laid down forit by the Hxeatp, and has taken the wise and ‘statesmaniike course, It is an evidence of the ‘sagicity with which Mr. Tilden was served that “his agents here, though they wentashade too fur in their endeavor to manage the Convention, stopped before they bad made any flagrant misstep. If they ‘Were not as wise as they might havo been, at least, like the oyster in the story, they did finally know when toshut up. There were more good heads, there was More general intelligence, moro logic and more fair, | honest, upright purpose in this body than your cor- Tespondent ever saw before in a convention in any State. Though if you consult the roll you will find a Pi tion. of the class of names that do not add to the jue of deliberative bodies, 1t was noteworthy that “these gentlemen kept themselves uncommonly “shady.” DISCRETION OF TILDEN’S FRIEXDS. With a body of thismature the services of Mr, Tilden Could not fail to receive due attention, to be rated at their just weight and to be duly considered on every appropriate occasion. It was, there- fore, dangerous to attempt to treat such a Dody- ns if its intelligence, its convictions | and ite sense of propriety were of no consequence and ‘to instruct it that it showid not-use ite discretion; thay it was not wanted here for its thought or experience or judgment, but ouly as a body of puppets to record 1 name of filden eighty-eight times in eighty-cight bal- lots, as the wires were pulled, no matter what cmer- gency might arise, Fortunately for the Governor's chances his agents stopped short of this with proper discretion, It would have beon all the better if this discretion had come to them earlier. Early in the day, | indeed, it was freely declared, as the result ot what was known of conclasions reached in the mancuvres and doliberations of the: night, that Tiden was beaten, but | this was because it was assumed that he bad taken the extreme ground claimed ag his due by some injudicious advocates, ground demanding an instructed delegation. He wy, beaten, in so far as ho held that ground, if it was ever taken wito bis assent; but in so far as he oc- cupied the position designated by the Hzrato as the one he should proporly occupy nis cause is triumphant. REFORMERS 1X KARNRST. At several points touched upon in the activities of the past night and in the proceedings of to-day the evident appearance of too much management threat- | ened the harmony of the occasion, It was in the name of reform thatall the good elements of the Con- Vention caine, and they were serious about it They _ didn’t mean the kind of reform that people prate about | fm a convention and laugh over on their way to their hotels; and because they wero earnest they were quite | Teady to revolt at any manquvres tending to commit the Convention to a programme that it was not disposed of its own motion to caact, In their readiness to be indig © Bantat all the forms of corruption they were quite Prepared 1o include iu the text that form of corruption so much favored by the democracy at some perioas by | which the ostensible proceedings of a canvention are made a mere cover fur the mancwavre and intrigue of | two or three or a dozen leaders, If programmes, Platforms, the choice of delegations and the decision of important differences may sometimes be cut and driea in a corner by two or three men and then presented to a convention merely tor tts formal ratiti- | bation of decisions taken without its assistance, il a convention is sometimes not a representative body of the peopie deliberating on thoir case, but mittee sent up to do the will of wire pullers, this is cdrtainly not the nature of these several 8 in this particular political crisis, b COLLISIONS NARROWLY ESCAPED, It was the temper of this Convention that it was no man’s tool or dummy, and the over zal of some man- agers several times had a narrow escape from collision ‘with this sentiment. ‘There wore, for instance, two phases of tho State Central Committee, a tact which was not picasant. On ‘Wednesday, nearly full committee, this body acted on several pomts. To-day it was found that this ac- tion had been chnnged in the course of the night in peveral important particulars by the hocus-pocas process, In the declaration of the vote of the house the Chair fiid not stand on any such a nicety as to how Many actually voted on either side, but decided the case as suited the purposes of those whom he served. The Chair, authorized by the vote ot the house to appoint committees, tamed them from prepared lists aod in one flagrant tase appointed a man who had been ruled out us a con- testant, for the list had been prepared before the action | w, was taken that ruled this man out, These little un- pleasant circumstances were resented by the Conven- hon, and the machine was discreetly made less ap- | parent, - BOSS KKLLY'# MANIPULATION. The distribution of national delegates throughout the seven Congressional districts of New York city has not given entire satisfaction. Those districts were tam- peret with by dictation. It ts generally presumed that | the Congressional districts in the metropolis have entire charge of the naming of their representa- lives to national conventions, but this was a mistake on tis occamon. The floger of a boss is apparent in manipulating the choice of cach district, For lnstance, Jn the Sixth district, composed of the Seventh, Eleventh sod Thirteenth wards John Fox bas been named, to- gethor with Sanset Cox. The ex-Senator wanted to bo sent to St Louis from the Filth distrie. He the regular Tammany organization in that part of the city, Muller is said to have been ambitious for a (0 St, Louis himself, so he appealed to Kelly. Fox ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. understood to have the inside track with the Boss, on the part of the men with whom [ am associated to | ure, It would be a deadly embrace. We have | offices of President and Vice President of the United | form. We do not hear to-day the ordinary considera notwithstanding Muller’s enmity. A dilemma here arose, Kelly wanted the company of Fox at the Na- | tional Convention, so he sent him as a delegate from | the Sixth district, where he does not reside, and goes himself the Fifth, The game will be still further when it is considered that Mr. Kelly re- sides in the Twenty-first ward, some three miles out- side of the Fifth Congressional district. Mayor Wickham’s ambition to sit in the National Democratic conclave bas also been satisfied. He will be on hand to push bis claims for the Vice Presidency. It ts conceded by Tilden’s friends that nearly all of the dolegates from New York eity are opposed to him. « THE NEW YORK SCRIMMAGE. Doubtless the incident’ of the Convention that was | richest in picturesque elements was the Tammany and. anti-Tatmany debato which occurred on tne proposi- tion to amend the report of the Committee on Con- tested Seats, By that. report Tammany was admitted and anti-Tammany shut oat, and a country member mado @ minority proposition to admit both to the floor and divide the St Louis delegation between them. Kelly, Morrissey and Shafer spoke on this. Mr. Kelly naturally put the case of Tammany Ab its Dest, but he made the terrible admission that it was impossible to havea fair primary olection in New York; that they never were fair, and, consequently, that ho and his associates had no more right to places in the Convention thau any other citizen of the State. MORRISsEY’s RrFORT. Mr. Morrissey spoke with almost cunversational caso and with a quietness of etyle, a self-possessed dignity, earnestnes of purpose which altogether Jed the thought away from those defeets that come especially under the | criticism of the discipies of Lindley Murray and Gould | be fair and liberal to those une, ) By eam 4 “get gente <u poe Why Ld after your State Convention, we held o a ret THR OLIVE BRANCH to these people, and asked them te come to Tammany Hall; but, uni as dingracet! to the selves, Cod ane be: Ch gp nic with ea he ge Hean le! ular organi nm the chy “and county of Kew Yorn Wo ayan, in 1873, offered to th wl olive branch once more, and ae positively refused to bave any- ‘thing to do with it. Now, will the gentlemen tell me there is any disposition g; the partof any member of Tammany Hali to omaeas any eeotusman who 1s do- sirous to come into organization, provided he ‘will risk hia chances at the primnary elections with other gentiemon’ Perhaps they will say thero tx no tair play ebout these primary ions, Weill, all I cau is that im the great city of New York ti are held al- Ways in tho usual way. But it 18 an utter impossibility to hold primary clections in that city that would be bana and fair. I have often tried to do it, an 1872 «an eflort was made to make a& feos A that county which would enable all the ‘voters fo vote at the primary elections if they saw at to do #0; but whea they gut to the polls designated for these elections and when they went in to register their Bames they received tickets, and when they came out, diggracetully to themselves, the tickets to the par- tics who were willing to bay them, Now, this is the condition of things in New York. 1 am contident, M Chairman, that we have done everything to retric the misfortunes and errors of gentlemen who formerly what was the condition of things in Tammany Hall? Why, the gentlemen who. controlled organization had disgraced tho party. Everywhere they brought upon you uot only defeat, but disgraced themselves in this State. Well, myself and other gentlemen went | into that organization to reform the condition of } things as they ; xisted then, and what do f | e you find nowy think that you will admit the fact that there is a better condition of things in the city and county of New York than there was thes. In 1875 we nowinated one of the best judiciary tickets Brown. Indeed, his defects of style were integral parts, and almost necessary elements of his address. The peculiar shake of the head with which he spoke of the statement irremstibly, On the point of creden- | tials he said:—‘*As to Sammany and anti-Tammany credentials on both sides is fraud.” This sentence was worth all the rest of the Convention. Everybody knew its truth and everybody which, perhaps, might be equally well made of two- thirds of all the credentials of this naturo thatare to be found in the United States. In answer to the charge that the anti-Tammany meg bad united with the repub- licans to defeat the democratic ticket, Morrissey said, “Out of eight candidates seven were democrats, and each and every one win by 25,000 majorit; of the word “win’? where plain people say ‘‘won” was racy of those circles in which sport makes its own |} grammar, KRLLY’s CONFESSION. Kelly thought well to’reply to Morrissey, and in his | words unconsciously established the truth of Mor- rissey’s chargo that there was no Tammany Hall as a political organization; that 1t was ‘‘only a building and John Kelly.’? In that spirit in which he once told the people how he had labored to give them a good govern" | ment he informed the Convention that he was only in | ‘Tammany Hall himself in the hope to restore its good | mame and to give the democrats of the State “a coad- | jutor they may feel proud of.”” THE PROCEEDINGS. Unica, N. ¥., April 27, 1876. The Convention mot at twonty-fivo minutes past nine A.M, Judge Morris, from the Committee on Contested Seats, submitted a report, with conclusion as already sont The question was taken on agreeing to the report of the committee on each case as read. That giving seats to the delegation, headed by Benjamin Ray, from Columbia county, was agreed to, with applause. The report on the Onondaga case, giving the seats to the delegation headed by N. F, Graves, was read, Mr, Corbett, of Onondaga, moved to amend the report and give the seats to the delegation beaded by Mr. Barker, and proceeded to stato the facts and circumstances in the case as set forth before the committee, He de- nounced in bitter terms the manipulation of party that strain the Chair said be was compelled to call him to order and wara him to confine himself strictly to tho quostion before the Convention. Mr. Cornett proceeded, saying the democratic party could not afford to use such machinery as be bad re- ferred to unfairly. ~ At the conclosion of bis remarks, on motion of Judge Tarray, of Westchester, the Convention adopted a rule confining members to five minutes each in speak- ing. Judge Monzis then took the floor in reply to Mr. Corbett, and said it was shown to the committeo that the Convention, so-called, electing the contesting del- egation, was nothing more than a mob. The com. thittee hesitated not a moment in deciding that the delegates headed by Mr. Graves were the regularly elected dologater, The quostion was takeu on Mr. Corbett's amendment and it was rejected. The report was then agreed to. ‘The report in favor of the delegation headed by R. R. Dodge, from Oswego, was adopted. Also that irom Westchester county, headed by Jud; was Paocs ag iv, yy Judge Tappad, THR XEW YORK FacTioxs. The report on the New York in_ favor of the Tammany deiegation, was road 8. Bedell, of Oneida, presented a minority report. The report was | read. ‘It was as follows:— matic RepusiioaN Stare Coxventio: | degree depend, and | patty of tire country ie the power and currupti | the unity and harmonious co operation of all democrats in the Kmpire of | state are essential to the maintenance cournge, confidence and activity in the ranks-of iho party throughout the length aud Wreadih of the land. ‘The con testing delegates trom the county of New York have bee regularly chosen in accordance with rales pi bed State. ‘and which were the last | when the candidates placed im nomination by | einimed to be the regular organization of the ik H A ‘Th oe. siren; sleetlon, is tion pol the nuccesstul or inflaeuce alter the achievement of its great vietory in November last, ‘The constituency represented by the contestants have been heretofore repeats 40,000 ‘or 50.00) democrats should continue to bear f-alty to # party organization which denies tv theut its councils, and we theretore con- ty of the Ly of the State, not had controlling polley, to accord to t deleates equal rizhts in this Convention with the delozates selected by Tammany Hall, In this view, we would respeet- fully recommend to the Convention ity adoption of the fol- Jowing resolution -— Kesolved, Thut the contesting delegates from th districts In the county ot New York be to seats in the dele. gatex whose sents they contest, and that oach class of deio- gates be entitled to name one delegate to the Natioual Con- Vention fur the respective Congressional districts within sald county. All of which 1s reepeesfully submitted, HARVEY 8. BEDELL. JAM RICHARDS, Unica, April 26, 1876, ISAIAH PULLER, The Chair stated the question to be on substituting ‘thi: rt for the report of the committee. au tion of the minority. SERCH OF JOAN KELLY. Mr. Jous Ketry, of New York, rose to respond amid astorm of oppiuse, He said: I do not, Sir. Chairman, dosire to tuke up the time of this Convention; but the geotieman has made some remarks in retation to the ctiy ot New York which I think some one of the regular delegates in the Convention should reply to. action should be taken by this Convention to reguiate the affairs of the city ot New York. The Convent of 1871 passe | 4 resolution directing how the elect in the cny and cdunty ot New York showid be held. followed the direction of the Couvention. We elected our delegates to this Couvention by As- ly detricta There were oppurtunities for these gentiomen contesting our seats the floor to yu to | thore eleetion distrots and contest the electron tuere. | They refused ‘o do it. The gentleman sa en have been kept out of the Fe; lew York. jizat | i# ted from doing 80. (Applause) But for the | last three SS ever since that vation was j on 3 Peparate organizativn and toe with the republican Lay ae asking der certarn conditions ? 5 | g i Tammany, ‘‘They ain’t got no orgamization!”? enforced | alike, they bring a lot of papers, bat the hull of tho | recognized the boidness and honosty of tho confession, | managers by party machinery, and while proceeding in , that ever was presented to the people, and I never our opponeats who made this combination with the Tepublican party. Yet, disgraceful to themselves, th city and county of New York who di could do it in , 80 far as be his official capucity, prevent { A PAIR RXPRCISE OF OPINION | In that county at the ballot box. We made all the effort we could to correct those abuses, and we punished the individuals who had committed them; but, with the exception of two or three, the cases aa one by us have not been tried at all, although there were nearly 300 indictments found; and these gentle- mea with these facts before them went to the polls and elected that man as the representative of the party in the county. Now, will the gentle: tell me that, with this state of facts, it 1s not noceswary that you soould here, in this Convention, sustain the reguiar party organization? If you were to adopt the minority report you can sce that you would place the two parties in the city of New York, both claiming to be regular, aud coming hore in the usual way, claiming thor seats—you would demoralize the state of things thero to such an extent that, I will now gay to the Convention, you woald loge thousauds of votes by it. And lot me say in conclusion that, if will look upon this matter as they ouy! into the regular organization and support | Gates that may be no! there is no di and they refused to do it, Out of 880 men composing that commitice there wore at least 250 mea who belonged to their organization who came into the regular organization. We will be only too glad if they willdo the same thing. Iam afraid that there are other motives which actuate these men, I am afraid that their opposition arises from the tuct of these nom- {nations that are made for that large city. I hope it is not so, 1 do not wish to say anything personal to them, to say anything in this Convention that will make any member feel fora moment that we would act toward these people illiberally. In conclusion, I hope they will return to the organization. I hepe they ‘will return to the party towhich they claim and owe allegiance, that we may ail go hand in hand with the democratic flag ubove our heads (applause) and victory may perch upon our banner from one end of this Union to the other. (Applause). MK. MORRISSEY’S REMARKS, Mr. Moramsxy, of New York, arose amid a storm of applause to reply to Mr. Kelly. |R. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLMMES OF THE CONVENTION :— I.did not intend, when I came into ths Convention, to have anything to say on this subject. In fact, I did pot think I bad any right, as both ate contesting; but the gentieman has made some remarks which you, as members of this Convention, should understand. He says, in the first place, theso people ieR Tammany Hull; that they iavited them to join that orgamiatiou. | Tsay for one that js not so. No later than a year ago this gontioman, with his associates, got together and turned six or soven Agsembily districts out of the | organization, who were elected by the lo in their respective districts, They did it by who did not live in the districts; they did it he Sharam: ips of two, who wore willing to do what the ers of Tammany Hall asked of it, aod } that 1s the cause of this opposition here to aay. Why, Mr. Chairman, | came here last year irom my Assem- bly qvatrict, vent here by an Assembly committee elected tor 1875; 1 went before the Commitee as rogu- rly as any gentleman in the Conven-ion; the result ‘was that they against me ‘sow, the fact is that Tammany ts controlled by the individual who Just sat down bere, and by noone else. (Applause) It 1s all very well for him to come here to this Convention with his plausible story and tel! you they want all democrats. They do if they willdo ashe says, but if they do not do as be says they turn them out in the street. Now, Mr. Chairman, i do not propose to stand that dictation trom him nor anybody else. (Applause) He speaks about 4 COMBINATION WITH REPUBLICANS. I deny st, sir. We nominated after we went home last year without apy recognition from the State Con. vention or Tammany Hall. We made a fusion ticket. | There were cight candidates on that ticket; them were democrats, | Now, I ask this gentleman who has just sat down if | seven out of eight were not democrats? 1 ask hi | answer me that question. | Mr. Keity—I will answer the gentleman, with the theChair. I know nothing about ther permission | pohtical affuities, with the exception of two. Two of | | them were repablicans; | any political recora in New York, so far as I know. | ir. MoKRisseY—Now, Mr. Chairman, he admits that the others, I do not think, bad | statement. {Applause.) I do not want to come into | this Convention ; I do not want tu go to St. Louis; Iam not fighting for that; I am fighting for what is right be- tween man aud and nothing else. (Applause.) I | tell you, gentlemen, they have no organization They | have come here aud they bave handed you a list of | Papers. The whole of the delegates on both siaes are a fraud. (Laughter.) Now, Mr. Chairman, I can show you credentials which were given by Tammany Halt | Where the priunary elzction was purported to be held at & brown stone front im the city of York. The idea of primary elections betng held in * gentlemen's houses. 7 are credentials we have from Tammany Hal. When I say | that L ask them to deny It, and they cannot do it, Tam going to tell you as near as I can the tacts. I am not talking to get into this Convention. I du not want to | gethere. All the other gentleman wants is to get hero Oret, and then to St. Louis to beat somebody. I don’t want it. ot New York wish to be democrats if you wi) permit them tobe. It lies with this Convention whether they will be or not. resalt. Last fall we came here as winner nothing. Now, Mr. Chairman, 1 will show you TUX RESULT OF THR VIGHT LAST PALL | as nearasican. You have eleven republican Assem- DELI. took the floor and sustained the proposi- | blymen tromhhe’city of New York to-day. Theretore wo have lost the Asrembly by the action of the city of New York Tammany Hall hud four Senators last year, and they have one now. You have lost the judiciary for fourteen years; you have lust seven Civil Justices out of nine for six years. That is the result of it, Now I tell you that this 16 all arbitrary, and he says he wants all of * you to join, He don’t mean n; he would not let tho ps of Tammany Hall to-day who are | ‘men get on the here opposing him. Their orgautzation is a building— nothing more. They own i. It makes no difference ny people are behind yva, if you don’t geta fraud tu ite inception. Li this Convention would act wisely about it it would pass 4 resolution that ro political organizaiion meeting in Tammany Hall should ever be recognized in a State Convention. (Applause) In conversation gentlemen tell you this is right, bat they have not the cou jodoi., M ganization in the city of } the country, that cach Assembly district is for its own acts and under the control ot ne one or two nd then you will hay iable or; re Col ere asking for what we thin! dno more, We hope tue Convention will ds us that jee. We ask for it and we are entitied to it, This for the anion ot the party in New York. | It lies with you, gentlemen, whether you will do it or He says that some | | which addresses itwelf with | startling, He states th: | Was ever seen in the city of New York, not. If you do not do it we cannot help it. Bat I teil you here now, just +o ceriain, m my jadgment, as this Majority repori is adopted, just so certain you will sce more disruption im tho city of New York thaa ever has been there betore. MR. SHAPER'S SPEECH, mg | Mr. Swaren, of New York—The admission of Mr. Keliy that it ts impossible m New York to have a tar and jast primary i*, m my jodgment, an admission feat force to every intelh- it member of this Convention, He a holding, as e does, the machinery of Tammany Hall in bis hands, that even he cannot give to the democrats of Now York jair pri If that is so within the walls if Tamm juqaire what chance « man has who t recogn | hia the wails of that crea political institation? He admitted last night ve. the Committee on Contested Seats that there were only 800 mombers tn Tammany Hall, and yet the dis- sens‘on showed thero that there were polléd in the city of New York last fall over 99.000 democratic votes. When be admits to you that an orga ition which has but 800 members cannot give to know by what authority he claims to distranchiwe 99,000 democrat, He makes another admission that is it he nominated a judiciary ‘against which the breath of suspicion was never ‘That 1s rue; he nominated the best ticket that outside of ours, but whut was the result? The people rose up en masse against it, because John Kelly did it. Now that same jt which was mantfested jast fall nut only exists greater degree; and let me warn ticket ral me say to the Convention thut in| controlled that organization, Mr. Chairman, ia 1872 | beard one word of dweatisfaction expressed even by | elected a gentleman the prosecuting attorney ior tne | nd each of them won by 25,000, | six of them were democrats, according to his owa | New | jow, 30,000 of 35,000 people in the city | It they want to be, let us see the | hey won | gentlemen, I don’t want to velong to it because + mization. — i right, | fair primary I would like | all heard the story of the spider and the ily. Ab, it ts an invitation to which we will not respond, Decause in that organization, governed by its thirteen All we ask here is, that 40,000 democrats ‘as against 50,000 shall have some voico in this Conven- tion, Tammany Hall asks that we be excluded. Is this dqmocratic? If it 1s, it is a democracy that leads ulti- mately to the death of the pa: iad Mr. Ketty—I hope the gentleman will permit me a fow words in reply to Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Shat re ation to myself. Now, these gentlemen t i coed to the Convention that I dictate rytning tn Tammany Hall; fn yl some unexplaimed reason to myself and my frie that story has been carried from one part of Mate to the other, Now, sr, I dieclaim domg anything of the kind. Tho gentleman has asserted that be was turned o1 Tammany Hall with five additional delegations. i, vir, we have rules which he same, perhaps, that govern m of the organizations of this State. That gentleman, io a spirit of indignity for some disappointment o! his Own, instigated a mecting tha as held in Cooper Institute, where a large number of laborers met who tisfled with tbe action taken by the municipal fhe jo reducing their wages, ‘bat gentleman was one of the party whe contributed toward the meeting to denounce the Tammany Hail or- nization, of which he himself a meinber. Now t me ask the Convention, how it possible for us to preserve tho entirety of our organization if the mem- bers in it become rebellious and resort to the same action as this gentleman did’ If you were to believe the stories told to you by Sir, Shafer you would con- ceive, no doubt, that I had some great motive in con- trolling this organization. Now I have no motive; Ihave NO PERSONAL DESIRE of my own. [ioe coy by my side to build it up from the dirt wul been bedraggled in by them. (Applause.) I have spent four and a half yoars of my time; I have given to the organization of that party that amount of und [ have spent thousands of dollars, | first ame, with the exception of last evening, that ever ! 1 made such an admission personal to myself, It is time, however, that the people of tho State should un. derstand my position. Lam in Tammany Hall tor the | purpose of building it up and’giving to you, gentlemen, | & coadjutor which will be reputable aod that you will be proud of and T have no oer reason, | Now, they make a great ado about the large number of votes they polled in the recent fall election. Why, this same combination was beaten in 1878 by 27.000 votes by the Tammany Hall organization. our organization, where two candidates ran for the Mayoralty we elected our cand: by over 9,000 majority. But | this very cause, this labor cause, which we had nos anything to do with, and which only had relation to those employed by the municipal government, but tho offect of which permeated all the workshops of New York, and I aim told by som tho gentiomen living in the western part of the State that it also atlected them. They took charge of it. It was disastrous to ua It was no political reason, and I promise this Convention—and 1 know periceily well what Lam talking about—that this very combinatio: if mado im, will be beaten in New York by the Ta many organization by ut least 25,000, (Applause. THE DECIAIONS. | The-previous question was then moved and ordered, | Mr. Keury suggested that neither of the contending delegations vote on the pending question, which was assented to. ‘The question was then put on the adoption of the minority report, and it was lost, only two or three voting im favor of it. The majority report was then adopted as follows:— Tne Commitee on Contested Seats, 1o whom was ro- ferred the claims of ull parties contesting seats im this Convention, report aa follows :— First.—Columbia county, First district, in favor of the delegation neaded by Benjamin Roy. Second, —Onondi the delegation headed by N. F. Graves. the delegation headed by R Kk. Dodge, Fourth.—Westehester county, First district, in favor of the delegation headed by Abraham B. Tappan. Fifth.—New York county, districts Nos. 1 to 21, in- elusive, in favor of the aolegation headed by P. G. Datty. ANTI-TAMMANY WITHDRAWS. On behalf of the committeo (3. D. Morris, chairman), Mr. Sc. moved that the contestants be admitted to the privilege of the floor. Carried. The anti-Tammany delegates here left the hall in a ly. Mr. Dorsnziuer offered the following, which was adopted ;:— Resolved, That the temporary chairman be and he is hereby authorized to appoint » committee of two from each judicial % resolutions for the consideration of the Convention, and to which ull resolutions reluting to the platform shall be relerred without debate. Mr. Prckuax, of Albany, offered the following, which was ado; D Resolved, That the temporary chairman be and he is hereby suthorizod tv appoint a committee of two members from euch judicial district to report tho permanent officers of this Convention. THE COMMITTRE ON DELEGATES, D, Magonx, Jr., offered the following :— trict, to whom tthe National Dewveratic Convention from the Congreasional districts that may be reported gates to this Convention from each of said committee, and which names said commit: ‘Gonve)ision; aud that said committ tata ‘Soatontion the neues of tour “ alternat rge to the said Nati vention. Mr. Lirriasons said a very important duty is to de- yoive upon this committec, and alter referring to the recedents moved that the committee consist of one rom each Congressional district instead of two from | each judicial district. Mr. Frowse, of Jefferson county, seconded Mr. Lit- john's motion. , Weep, of Clinton. said the precedents were in favor of two trom each judicial district, and he could sce no good reasun to change it. Ho then proceeded to state the duties of the committee, and said the smatier | comnsittee could act better and more harmoniously than the larger one. Mr. Litteusoun called attention to the fact that th Jast Convention had but 123 mem! apd this o1 has three times that number. Hence he wanted the Committee increased. Besides, he insisted, It was the duty of the democratic party to come down as neur to the people as possible. Mr. Macone said that this was a question for the | State at large, and he believed that sixteen men could | discharge this duty better than a larger number. Judge MILLER moved to add to Mr. Magone’s resolu- | thon the foilowing, which was accepted :— But in all cases where the delegates from the several Con- | Greestonl distrieta bys mujority vote, agr | ten to St, Louis, such delegates shall be repur } this Convention. Mr. Beacu, of Queens, opposed Mr. Littlejohn’s mend: ~ Boo gow | New York und Kings, largely pop- | ulated districts, had not asked for it. The mover says the populous districts want a Congrossioual district | committee, but those he named hau not axked it, a mand oneytes » se sage ell - |. Mr. Scuxtt, of New supported the proposition | for tho larger number. sid asia The previous question was then moved and or- dered. The question was taken on Mr. Littlejohn’s motion to amend by having the committee cousist of cne trom | each Congressional district. The yeasand ways were ordered and they stood— yeas 163, nays 201, s0 the amendment was | original resolution was then adopted. } r. Ray, of Columbia, offered the following, which was referred to the Committee on Delega' slonal district hus six solid votes, if a dele, to the st. | Louis Convention is to be chosen therefrom, such county having the solid votes shall have the naming’ of such dele- gates. The Cuamm announced tho following Committee on Permanent Organization :— First Judicial District—P. G. Duffy, TMmothy J. Caulfield, . ‘Wen Judicial District—C. W. Ploasance, A. E. enze Tuird Judicial District—Rufus W. Peckham, of Al- bany; Jacob Willetts, of Columbia, Fourth Judicial District--H. D. Graves, of Clinton; ¥. D. Flanders, of Frankie, Fifth Judicial Disirict—W. A. Poucher, James J. Hanehett. Sixth Judicial District—isaac H. Maynard, Harris G. Rodgers, Seventh Judicial District—Benjamin Ruggles, G. G. Benham. Kighth Jpdicial District—C, W. G. Nobles, & 8. Pomeroy. The Cuaim announced the following Committee on Resolutions :— First Judicial District—Frederick Smith, John D. Townsend. ccond Judicial District—E. J. Beach, M. Schneider, ‘ihird Judicial District—A. T. Jones, W. Dorsheuner. Fourth Judicial District—T C. Cumpveli, Jobo Foley. Fiith Judicial District—T, Spriggs, 0. 8. Servis, 0. TMi Sixth Judicial Distriet—C, C. llowe: Seveath Judicial District—J. ton. Eighth Judicial District—F, M. Thorn, M. H. Peck. The CHAi® announced the following Comimitice on Delegates to St. Lows:— Firat Judieral I t—Joln Kelly, Augustus Schell, Second Judicial District—Thomas Kinsella, Mervin Sackett. Third Judicial District—Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. ; | Dennis V. O'Leary, Fourth Judicial District—Daniel Mugone, Jr. ; Smith ‘M. Weed. Fitth Judicial District—w. F. Porter, Jobn V. Norton, | Sixth Judicial District—W. W. Gordon, Ward Gregory. tga Judicial District—J. M. Wiltzey, George H. ann. Kighth Jadicial District—Burt Chaffee, Rodney R. | Crowley. Th | one o'clock, when the Cuaim anoounced that, the co:w- | mitteos not be Toady \o report yet, he had great | pleasure in stating that there were present two dis- tinguished members of the democratic party—Horatio Seymour and Francis Kern: | tinumng, tue Chairman said he would introduce them | tot nvention if it se dexired. ((ireat applause.) The Cuatn then introdaced Mr. Kernan, whet the Con- | vention rove to their feet, waving their hats and cheer- ing. SENATOR KERNAN'S SPEECH. Mr. Keaxax then proceeded to address the Conven- tion, frequenily cteiting rounds of applause :— 1am gratitied to meet te itatives of the de- mocracy je State of New York, on this occasion. It is one which rises in itm above the conyen- tiots that ordinarily bic in our State, bave met to select tire democracy of the State in making those prelimi. Bary arrangements and in selecting candidutes for tho Sachems, none of which we have, we would be utterly | I remain tn that organization with these | In another combination | a county, First district, in favor of | Third.—Oswego county, Second district, in favor of | ye . The | Resolved, That in ull canes where a county in» Congres. | Convention then took © recess until hulf past | o'clock BP, Convention reassembled at twenty minutes past | (Great applause.) Con. You | toact for you and the ed- | States. You meet inthe faith that in the election which isto ensue this full the party now in power | will be overthrown and the — ancient = de- Mmocracy, with its honest principles of ad- ministration, will come again into power. (Applause.) to reseue your country trom the administration which is vow in power, (Applause.) It is no mere question; 1 1s no mere personal question, bu question, 1p my Judgmeat, whether the people of this country will rescue their jorm of government trom the destruction which is now nnpending over it, 1 tell you bo news when I say to you (and ! say it in sorrow) that there is widespread in ali the branches almost of the auministration of your afuirs extravagant ‘uption and bold and fearless peculation, Your yovernment | cannot stand, and it will not lust unless the people of | | this country shall restore its administration to hou- esty, economy and purity throughout all its branches, (Applause.) Aod I am rojoiced to believe that the democracy of this State—the people whom you repre- sent—are ready and determined that they will do their share in reinaagurating @ democratic administration that will give us again purity aud honesty and econ- omy in puvlic affairs, (Applause) But, my ‘fellow citizens, | want to warp you that this is to be | XO TRIPLING STRUGGLE. ‘The men who are inirenched in power, the office. holders and the office-seckers who have been using | your government tor the benelit of rings and individ. | uals, entirely neglecting the welfare of the entire peo- ple, will not give up their hold on the administration until you have overthrown them by such an elfort as bus been rarely made in this country, axe can do, ail that the money that vorrapt rings ha’ stolen can do, all that the money that is peculated trom the Treasury under the pretence of preventing eri nd every other pretence, will be used to return the mon who have abused ‘t, to the detriment of the poople and to the endangerment of our government; therefore it | is that I say to our friends everywhere, remember t all mere personal feelings, all mere prejudices and pref- | erences wust be laid oside, aud you, as delegates, should eet at St. Louis with the delegates {rom other States, | dotermined with them, in selecting candidates and ‘ Jaying down a platform, that you will look to the welfare of the democracy of the Unio (ap- lwuse)—and from the spirit Ihave seen munifested ore I tec! | am not mistaken. | feel that our repre- sentatives in that National Convention will remember | that we are to select the men who, from their charac- | the record | | ter and from their principles, and trot | they have made tn lite, in public and pri the count y pure and honest men who will | restore to this government that purity, that that honesty that was taught by its founde: der which, and according to which, 1% was adinin' will give eck to | ‘onomy, | nd un- | | tered moro than hulf a century by the democracy that | | built up the precedents which’ we should follow, (Ap- | | plause.) There wiil ' THE GREAT NEED O1 that which every man feels as he sus by his fireside, | that which every public man who looks to the welture | of his country thinks of—is that we must go before the | pple with the evidence that we are honest and sin- | mers; that we will overthrow aud crudicate that we will drive all peculators and | plunderers and selfish men from the administration of | atlairs; that wo will install {nthe high places of the ad- ministration men who will trample upon rings and | corrupt men and administer it for the benefit of tho people, (Applause ) At the conclusion of his address three cheers were given. BX-GOVERNOR SEYMOUR’S SPRECH. i The Chair then iutroducod Horatio Seymour, who | was received with three cheers, waving of hats and | Quict being restored, Mr. S#ymouR proceeded to ad- | dress the Convention, receiving rounds of applause. | Ho said:—It fs now more than ten yeurs since peace | ‘was rostored to our land alter a bloody war, It left us then wora out and weakened by the contest. Our land | was filled by many green graves; there was mourning in our homes. Yet, in the midst of ull that sadness, there has been displayed virtues by the American peo-. ple that made us proud and lifted us up in the estima- | tion of the nations of the world. Nevor before had we stood so high in the opinion of men of other places, or in | the opmions of governments unlike ours, and we looked | forward with hope to the future to close the wounds | that war had made. We looked forth with coutidence | for renewed prosperity. Ten years have roiled around, | and we find our country more depressed than it hos ever been in its history; more care and anxiety in its fields, in ts workshops and in ite business circles, Why iathis’ Noris this all, During the last ten | years the courge of political even's bas been such that to-day it is a day of shame and sorrow to those who | estimation m the eyes of the world. (Applause) Peaco has brought to us more that has made us sud and sor- | ruwful, more that has been hurtful to our national | character, moro that hus suppressed honest labor and | thwarted the interests of those who attetmpted to baild | up our barorg 3 cde nied than ever war did with all | Mts saffermgs. It needs no spirit of ae agen to tell what the future historian, when he tell the past fifteen or twenty years of our country, will dweil upon when he comes to this period; be will warn all nations that a people may live against’ armed rebel- lion. It will teach the lesson that torce cannot destroy @ government when it is strong in the affections of a | people, aud it will toach the other great lesson that corruption jn reterence to public vittue and greed for*gold will destroy thoso institutions that were pow- erful to resist all outward pressure and all belligerent attacka Now, Ido not stand here in this hour ot our entury of our existent to speak to you ina mere | partisan spirit. I admit that the diflicultics which now surround us have grown out of A LACK oF ViRTUM | on the part of the whole American people. I admit | that wo have lost sight, without regard to mere party distinctions, of those virtues which did abound when our institutions wore formed, and when we started out tn our great and glorious career, Which has made us so | powerful among the nations of the earth. While t will, therefore, say to our republican friends that a part of the blame rests upon us as it does upon them, yet another thing is made trae by all this, aud that is | that abuses and corruption have come have lost sight uf the principles of those who | formed ovr government (Applause.) The na. | tional Treasury would not huve been robbed | if @ false national feel) had not opened the | | doors of that Treasu: 0 schemes th.t were uuconsti- tutional and that were averse tothe very gonius aud | spiritof our institutions, (Applause) The great les- | | gon that we are learniug Dow is not that. one party is | And, iny fellow citizens, I assure you it 1 none too soon | party | isa | / | Second, Tunis G. handkerehiets, and screams of delight, id love their couniry, and who loves its glory and its.| ph € the events’ of | shame and disgrace in many respects, this last year of | © because we | Hous which are advanced im regard to candidates. The question ts no longer a questivn of popularity or un. Popularity. That which is on the tind of every mua fore me 18 this:—When I so down to the next con test can I say of my candidate, “he has done work for reform. and I represent more than a man, | represent the principle of honesty.” (Appliuse.) We throw qut the cballenge to the refublican party. We intend, to far as we can, fo lay bare all that has been dove wrong im your ranks and all that bas been done wrong in ourown ranks, We expect you to unite with | believe that the rapublican party im its make-up, tu the great body of #t# organization, is as honest as car own, but they have held principles that have pioved, an proved more strongly than the wisdom of our fi could have proved it, that that goverument has ow stepped its limits. That government which from great central point undertakes to mierfere with local affairs, that government which opens the door of the Treasury to TEN THOUSAND SCURMES OF FRAUD cannot survive, in conclusion, | say ounce more to the democratic party and to our republican friends, We propose to enter into this contest vot lor the pur- pose of showing which party is the most ignoble, not merely for the purpose of bringing discredit upou them, net with the view of gaining a Victory because they bave gone wrong—I scorn such a Victory on the Part of the democratic party—but we intend to wi this victory because we mean to show that we ai | more fit to hold pow We have the better clain | not because you are so bad, but becuuse we have t positive virtues to enable us to carry on this gover: ment, until we do show that I for one pray to God that we muy never come into power. It is because [ | Velieve that now we have this revival of public | Morality and this refreshing of the purer sentiments | of the people, and an enlarged intelligence with: re- gard to the evils of bad ernment, | that 1 stand before you nt this moments buoyed up with the conviction that for many years to come we ure to have a better government, a | better people, a better condition of things, and a more active and carpest patriotism, and that is to be brought | about because we have returned to the principles aad to the wisdom of our fathers, and to the great prinel- | ples which the democratic party has ever upheld. It is in this view J do congratulate you most earnestly upoa | the success which I believe will attend our efforts (Great applause. ) PERMANENT OFFICERS. Mr. Peckuam, from the Committee on Permanent | Organization, submitted the ioliowing report, which was adopted :— Permanent President—Hon. John C. Jacobs, of Kings, Vice Presidents—Firet district, Edward A. Lawren Bergen; Third, Samuel P. Freoma Fourth, Churles C. Egan; Fifth, James J. Slovin Sixth, Patrick Keonan; seventh, J, William Guntze: Eighth, August Belmont; Ninth, Thomas 0’Calluha: Tenth, Joseph O’Donohue; El n, Menzo Dicfen: dort; Twelfth, Charles M. Scbieffelin; Thirteenth, W. fam’S, Ketetium; Fourteenth, ). G. Dusenbury teenth, Charles Holmes; Sixteenth, Z A. Dyer; Seven- teouth, John Fitzgerald; Eighteenth, Jeremiah’ Finch; Nineteonth, Francis D’ Flanders; Twentieth, A, W. Hunter; Twenty-tirst, H. M. Hooker; Twenty-second, W. F, Porter; Twenty-third, Waiter’ Bailou; Twenty: fourth, A, 5. Page; M. Benjamin; Twenty-dth, I. Twenty-sixth, William Bruyn; Tweaty-seventh, Vee James Faulkner, Jr.; Twenty-elgbth, Alvin Devereux; enty-miuth, D, B. Hill; Thirticth, Kdwin Vorter; irty-tirst, Zena B, Crocker; Thirty-second, G, K. Lester; Thirty-third, J. B. Strong. Seeretaries—Firat district, Fred White; Second, 'D. H. Hulett; Third, William H. Hura, Jr.; Fourth, J, N. Stearns; Fifth, P. Dever; sixth, J: Bagley; Seventh, T. Kelly; Righth, E. Givin; Ninth, W. Joyce} Tenth, J. K. Morrison; Kleventh, J. C. Fallon; Tweltth, W. J. Ackley; Thirwonth, J. Q. Johnson; Fourteenth, J.B. Kerr; ’ Fifteenth, L. Rovinson; Sixteonth, E. Macy; Seventeenth, T. O'Connor; Eiguteenth, A. G. H. Livingston; Niuetconth, Charles J. Hymea; Twentieth, D., 8. Quackenbush; Twenty-irst, W. H. Parker; Twenty-second, Wiliam Hunt; Twenty-third, M. B. Crogsell; Twenty-fourth, D. D. Walrath; Twenty-fith, J. Homunon; Twenty-sixth, William Church; Twenty: seventh, RG. Mancr; Twenty-cighth, J. 8, 'Staneliff Twenty-ninth, J. A, Sautord; Thirticth, James Feo; Thirty-first, J. P. Vincent; Thirty-socond, G A. Gre mard; Thirty-third, A. A. Van Dusen. Recording Sec- rotary—E. MM. Holbrook, Keuding: Secretary—E. 0, Perrin. ‘THE, RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Dorsuxmer, from the Committee on Resolutions, reported as follows :— The democratic party of New York renew their fidelity to the principles set ferth In their platform adopted in 1374 and 1875, thrice approved at’ the ballot boxes of the Em- ire Stato. woll vindiested in the ilust adininixtration ot Governor Samuel J. Tildou, and © ndod. anew to thelr faith aud adoption reoment creaslug majority of throughout the Uni readopt ntso. thelr tlous of 18U4, 1808 and 1872—to wit Resolved, That the delegates to the Democratic National vention, to be appointed, wi Convention as thereof, and in cuse any be appointed a delegate thereof ‘by. another organteatlon, und ‘should “not forthwith, In writing, decline such appolusment, hit seat shall’ be regarded as vacated, and tho uelegates sball nd it is hereby also empowered to y death, absence, tesignation oF ut arty ot New York, witle commtt the duty of Joining with the delega thelr foilow democrats of ull the states in the momentous deliberations of tho National Convention, declare their conviction that a return to tho constitutional prin- ure and the administrativs purity tulie in the first and most imperious tho commanding isus wow betore id they sugyost, with respectial ren of otlicr Ntatex, aud with . The der to their doleg the people of the 1 je of 1! Golerence. tw their recoxn of thks vita the pledge, of our, hixh ‘purpose and the guarantee of # succexstul achievement of this arduous work of national regeneration aud retorm. ‘Tne committee report that the resolution itted by Mr, Hay, of Columbia, and which was referred to this com- mittee, does not relate to the jurisdiction of this commit- 1’. The resolutions were adopted. The Cuatk then announced Mr. Ray's resolution iz order, Mr. Brepe raised the point of order that the matter embraced in the resolution was before the Committee on Delegates. Mr. ib moved to lay the motion on tho table, Carried. THE DELEGATES. superior to another in its morality. We ure all but | human and may fall by temptation, ‘The great lesson | | that we are learning from this condition of our country | | is that that party upnolds rigbt and principle; | | that party that closes the door of the freasury against corruption; tuat party that insists that the govern- | ment shali keep itself within rigntful bounds, is ine ouly party that cen safely be trusted. (Appluuse.) | We do pot say to you, republican friends, that you | did not love your country. We do not wish here to say one word that shall reflect upon any clus of American people. But we do implore you, in view uf the present condition of our country, to consider why it is that this sname has been brought upun it—be- cause you have forsuken the wisdom of your fathers; because you have overstepped your constitutional Tights; because you bave brought this government into action which did not rightlally belong to it, and in so dving not euly corrupt yourselves, but you corrupt us as well. What is the question of the day and what are we to meet’ What urings this assembiago here, comprised, as I see it is, of meu more than ordinarily thoughtiul, atih«time? Why have there been, as it is said b; our opponents, less of that irivolousness of spirit that 18 sometimes shown Upon such occasions. It is bo- cause We ali come together at this time, made earnest aud thoughttul by the condition of the couutry and by | the great proviems we have yet todeal with. We hear it frequeatly said that this is a day of development, that we are discovering now froin ume to time great malteasance on the part of the different departments of the government, When we have been im power and | wherever we have been in power we have come to , look at these developments and these exposures as af fording a hope that we are to have 4 BETTER FUTURE, i 1t is not mereiy the development of fraud and wrong doing. We have known these things for ten years. It 1 wot that there hus been something discovered that was covered belure. It ik becuse for tho last tou years the Aiaerican poopie did not care to #eo these acts, did hot cure tu hear the proois ot wrong doing, It means that ali of us have been stultiied by a greed tor gold, by unhealtuy speculution, by a desire to avoid honest Jabor aud that we have forgoltva the great priveiples ‘Uhat lie at the foundation of ail good government, and that the Ume bas come for us to cultivate ‘the virtues of simpheity, honesty, economy and patriousin, 16 is that that makes a peoplo— hot political patrouage, but the going back to the sim plo Virtues of our iaihers, (Appiause.) The develop. ment Which gives me the hope whicw apimates me us [ speak is a development thas the American people have had the scales tail irom their eyes. Their eves aro opened, and we are LOW Lo nave a renewal of integrity, | patriotism and virwue, beiore which fraud aud vor tion will fade out and aie, (Applause) The de ul is that Which 1 see before We In the jaces of Ul udience thut, laying wil aaide, has come together to- Jay iv a thougitiul, earnest spirit io save our country t and glorious commonwealth. erbups 161% HOt prolable tha: we should dwelt too upon the exposures that have been made upon ol our political oppooents, While it is our duty to expose Wrong, Whetner committed by our own Iniends or by those with whom we differ, and, while | tthe labors of thoxe wie have been engaged in rr opments, we ate to Lake care t edo not fail into anovher error. This great democratic party does vot propose to regain power simply because its Opponents are unworthy, but because wo aro fit to exercise = it Applause.) We mean, in common wih them, 0 punwh all wroug dogrs, and we ivoke to go with us in thi ¢ilort, But We propose Lo enter into a contest of a higher and more giotious character still, and we say to Our political opponents—we will forget Whe past if you ‘will only join with us in the great issue that we make now. Whi party shall have tue bighest aim? | Which party stall THR HIGHEST PLANK OF PATRIOTION? Which party shall outstep the other | noble effort to restore, to build up try glorious? (Appiause.) Now, what 1 it brings audience here to-day? Why is it that men who ha not always attended gour cunventious have left their buines and have come here on ay occasion when there | are not the ordmary influences at worky We ure not now about Ww elect a ticket. We do not have, us we | ordinarily have at our conventions, choice of men tu | put into offices of honor and fit. Men aro not here necking positions of honor. You come here tor a pur- | pose ligher, broader and more genoral than this, and T | think Lean ik jor each one of you when I say that | you were 1 to leave your homes because you’ | felt. that there was a condition of puvlic aflurs which / | made it your duty, ax good citizens, to come out upon this cecasion. (A use.) | am proad of tee Sisto 0 whten i Cceg tom a New Yorker shat this Stato did the whole column of Mr. MaGorx, from the Cotumitiee on Delegates, re- ported ax tollows:— The Committee upon Delegates beg leave to submit the following report:—That they have selected the tol- lowing as dviegates-at-large:—Francis Kernan, Oneida; William Dorsheimer, of Erie; Murphy, of Kings; Abram 35. He New York, and the foliowing ax alter: large:—Darius A. Ogden, of Yates; Joseph Warren, ; Homer A, Nolson, of Dutchess; Jamos C. Speucer; of Now York. That the following named persons’ were designated by the delegates of their Tespective Congressional districts us having beon agreed upon by a majority of the delegates of such di tricts, (o wit:—First district, James Oakley, of Queens; G.lbert C. Dean, of Richmond. Second district, Thomas Kinsella, of Kings: Roger A. Pryor, of Kings. Tuird district, William C. Kingsley, of ings; James F. Pierce, of Kings, Fourth district, John of Kings: Arctibald M. Bliss, of Kings. Fifth district, John Kelly, of New York; William R. Bob orts, of New York. Sixth district, Samuel 8. Cox, of New York; Jobn Fox, of New York, = Seventh district, August Beimont, New York; Om wald Ottendorfer, of New York. Kigath distret, Rd- ward L. Donnelly, of New York; Peter B, Olney, of New York Ninth district, William C, Whitney, of New York; Froderick Smythe, ‘of New York; Tenth district, Ed- ward Cooper, of New York; Manton Marble, of ‘New Y: Eleventh aisirict, August Schell, of New York; 01 Wilham H. Wickham, ot New York. Twelfth district, George W. Davids, of Westehester; Casper Childs, Jr., of Westchester, Thirteénth district, James Mackin, of Dutchess; Rovert E. Androws, of Columbia Four teenth district, Daniel B, St. Joun, of Cones y ray 4 M. Boebe, of Sullivan. Fifteenth district, William ¥, Ruwwell, of Uister; John A. Griswold, of Greene. Six toenth district, Danie Mani of Albay; Rufus W, Peckham. Seventecnth district, J. Russell Parsons, of Renoselact; Solomon W. Russell, of Washington, Eighteenth district, Smith M. Weed, of Clinton; Artoe mus B, Waklo, of Essex. Nineteenth district, Magone, of St, Lawrence; William H. Sawyer, of St. Lawrence, Twentieth district, James Shanahan of Moutgomory; Samuel T, Benedict, of Senonectady, ‘Twenty-tirst district, Wilham Youmans, of Delaware; Guibert H. Manning, of Cocuango. ‘twenty-secoud dis- trict, Allen C, Beach, of Jeiferson; Dewitt C. West, of Lewis, Twenty-third district, James Stevens, of J. K. Brown; of Oneida, iwenty-tourth district, Dew! C, Littlejohn, of Oswego; Christopher A Walrath, of Madison, Twenty-tifth district, Benton B. Jones, o Cortland; Alfred Wilkinson, of Onondaga. Ti Sixth district, Chariea N. Ross, of het ig) George Cayler, ot Wayne, Twenty-seventh district, GH Lapham, of Yates; 3. Hammond, of Ontario Twenty-eighth district, Samuel D. Holiday, of Tomy kins; JohuJ Taylor, of Tioga, Tweuty-nuimth disirt David } iil, of Chomang; Wiliam B. Ruggles, Steuben, Thirtioth district, Frederick Cook, of Mom roo; William Purcell, of Monroe, Thirty-tiret district, W. 5. Farweil, of Niagara; N. Glowacki, of Genesee, Thirty-second district, Aibert P. Lanting, of Erie, Thirty-caird district, Charics L. Carey, of Cattaraugus; William Bookstaver, of Chatauqua, In every cane, except in the selection of the two dele gates from the Twenty-lith Congressional divtrict and the selection of the name of William Parcel, of the Thirtioth district, the delegates. selected by ama jority of the delegates of the tive districts, and in these cases there was a tic d your commit Leo selected, D. MAGONE, Jr., Chairman, Ava 27, 1876, B. K. Crow ey, Secretary. Adopted. L The Convention, at a quarter past two P, Mi, od Journed sine dic, ARKANSAS REPUBLICANS. MORTON FAVORED FOR THE PRESIDENCY, BUI THE DELEGATES UNINSTRUCTRD. | Latte Roox, April 27, 1876. | The State Convention adjourned at bal!-past nint P. M., atter harmonizing all conflicting mterests whicd oarly in the day threatened serious tronbie, Resolu ions Were adopied reaifirming the principles of the re- | publican party, asking equal protection to all citizens ta | exercising their rights of ertizonship, favoringan hon- | est and economical adminisiration of the government, | commending the ndministration for its punishment corrupt offic demanding an efficient ayetem of ‘Unsectarian is, fecoynizing the debt dae | soldiers of the Republic and declaring the Hon. 0. P. | Morton the choice oi the republicans of the State for President A imovion to instruct the delegates Morton, after spirited debate, was withdrawn. Ttie generally understood that a largo humber of the dele gates are iriends of Conkling. Senator 8. W. Dorsey was chosen chairman of the Btate Commitiee, and the committee was authorized ve chovse au electoral ticket,