New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-07
NEW YORK DELEGATIONS.
THE STATE AT CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS.
PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES OF CHOSEN REPRE-
sESTATIvES-GEoRGE RAINEs SELECTED
TO NOMINATE CLEVELAND.
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lSr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
ALBANY. May e.-The delegates to the Demo
cratic State Convention at New-York on May o
and to the Republican State Convention at Buffalo
on May l6 have now been largely chosen and 1t
is possible to discern somewhat the probable course
Of those conventions. The Federal machine
controlled by President Cleveland well oiled
and the engineers were all at their posts when
the date of the Democratic convention was named
and when the Presidents hand touched the cleo
trica, button the beautiful apparatus began to
whirl at the rate of ten thousand revolutions to
the minute and turned out delegates about as
fast as machines make toothpicks Governor Hill,
while attempting TO pick up some OF the delegates
was nearly chawed up by the machine, and so
disabled by it that the Cleveland men are now
talking about running William G. Whitney,
Frederick Cook. or Alfred G. Chaplin for Governor
this fall Mr.. Hill also has had the modification
of seeing the State Committee with which he tied
Mr. Cleveland in February prospcctiveiy torn to
pieces and reconstructed in Mr. Cleveland's in
terest,
FIVE SEATS LOST by THE GOVERNOR
The selection of delegates thus far shows that
Mr. Hill has lost five seats in the Democratic State
Committee The programme of the Cleveland
machine" men is to elect an almost unanimous
Cleveland delegation from Newly orll to the Dem
ocratic National Convention. to bind the delegates
Democratic State Committee, one that will obey
without question any orders from Washington. A
resolution will be passed at the Convention in
structing the delegates to vote as unit at the
Democratic National Convention.
New-York always has had an influential posi-
tion at National Conventions" said prominent
Cleveland man to-day" and il was increased at the
National Convention of SS4 by the delegates vot-
ing as q unit under the lead of Daniel Manning.
The opposition of Tammany Hail delegates. under
John Kelly, to Ceveland's nomination was thus
suppressed If there are any Hill delegates acci-
dentally in New-YorlSs delegation this year their
votes will not be counted for Hill any more than
the votes of the Tammany Hall delegates for Hen
dricks were counted in SS4'
REPUBLICAN LIBERTY OF ACTION.
While the chiefs of the Democratic party are
thus preventing the Democratic voters from max
ing any free choice among the Democrats named
for the Presidency, the leaders Of the Republican
party are affording the widest liberty OF action
among the Republican voters when they are TO
state their preference among the eminent RepuD-
hcans named for the Presidency. There could be
no more democratic method Of electing delegates
to the Republican Convention than that of hav-
ing them elected in the Congressional districts
II is true four delegates are elected by
the Republican State Convention, but their mum
Der is insignificant in comparison with the sixty
eight who are elected by the free choice OF the
Republicans of the thirty-four Congressional dls
tricts Fourteen of the district delegates nave
been elected Their names and districts are: