Identifier: onondagascentennial01bruc (find matches)
Title: Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
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Publisher: (Boston) : The Boston History Company
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ble convention was that of 1872, when the Democratsin Wieting Hall named Francis Kernan for governor, while their Liboral Republican allies were sitting in Shakespeare Hall and namingChauncey M. Depew for lieutenant-governor. Then came the marriageceremony—the Liberals, or anti-Grant Republicans marching over tothe Wieting, and the two parties to the coalition being duly united andthe union receiving, in spread-eagle speeches, the blessing of the lead-ers. The Greeley craze was on and the ticket went down in defeatbefore the hosts of Grant and Dix. In ls?4 the Democrats again met in Syracuse. Samuel J. Tilden,hairman of the State Committee, insisted, in spite of the contraryopinion of the Churches, the Wests, the De Wolfs, the Warrens andthe Comings and Parkers of the party, that he was the man for thehour. A vigorous opposition was made, and when Tilden was nom-nera) opinion was that the end had come—that TildensWarfare on the Tweed ring would insure such a depletion of the Demo-
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ANDREW D. WHITE. POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY. 305 cratic majority in New York as would cause his defeat. But Tildensprediction that he would be elected without the help of New York wasfully verified. A year from that date, in 1875, another Democratic convention methere. Tilden was governor and completely dominated the party. Hehad attacked the canal ring all along the line, and the very men whohad been his agents in obtaining evidence of the canal rings doingswere the men whom Tilden insisted on placing on the State ticket—thus challenging directly the judgment of the people on his course.The ticket headed by John Bigelow, and including Charles S. Fairchildand John D. Van Buren, jr., swept the State. When the Democratic State convention met here in 1878, the Green-hack craze was at fever heat, and the Democratic ticket, which con-sisted only of a nominee for associate judge of the Court of Appeals,was easily beaten by the defection to the Greenback candidate, whichcost nearly 80,000 votes.

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