Evening journal., 1892-06-18
THE BALAsCE OF POWER
Hill Men Said to Hold 1t at
Chicago.
aORMAN wILL sUPPORT OLEvELAND
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Tlfe MARY land Dark Horse Announces
HIS Preference-Iowa boomers Flirting
uhvith Hfn's Followers Ex-secretary
whitney's Answer to Edward Murphy.
CHICAGO. June ls.--Ex Secretary Of the
Navy William c. Whitney, leader Of the
Cleveland forces here, has made the follow
ing reply to the structures Of Hon. Edward
Murphy, Jr., chairman Of the New York
state Democratic committee:
In his interview Mr. Murphy seems deSirous
OF giving the, impression that the leaders in the
May convention movement have been IN the
habit Of opposing Democratic state tickets in
New York, and particularly that OF 1891. The
facts are to the contrary and he knows it very
well.
MIR. Murphy Forgets. He Says.
Does Mr.. Murphy forget that last fall both
himself and the state committee were very
anxious TO make the fact prominent posi-.
bic that Mr.. Fairchld and his friends were
warmly supporting Governor Flower as wen
the Democratic state and legislative tickets
Does he forget that the state committee re
quested me to prepare an address 10 the Demo
cratic and independent voters Of the state for
publications. Does he forget that ! prepared
that paper. and that it was finally given out by
that committee with the statement that IL was
one Of the most important events of the cam
paigni Among the signers 10 this document
were seven gentlemen who are now delegates
from the Syracuse convention to Chicago. Ac
cording TO Mr.. Murphy, the rank and fle OF the
Democratic party are prepared 70 vote against
the most popular Democrat in the country FOR
the presidency because they fear his election
would please the Syracuse delegation To this
we say that if Mr.. Murphy believes what he
says, then he regards his own followers as
Mugwumps rather than Democrats.
"His Interview an INSULT"
No
mocracy Of the state. There are two men
prominent in the Hill organization who are re-
gardod With suspicion by the Democracy in gem
eral. These men are Murphy himself and Lieu.
tenant Governor Shoehan. There s a general
impression in the state Of New York that they
were trcacherous to tho national ticket in 1883
and think It not unlikely that they wiz be se
again this year II they do not happen to be
pleased with the nomination made But they
VIII not be able TO carry with fhem as many
Democrats as there ~ere before and have yet
to fnd any evidence that they viii be supported
10 their treachery BY Tanmany Hall the
Kings county organizations The man whc
pretending TO be a friend, sticks a stil~tto int
your back is man who is known only among
Murphy's own followers But hts power FOR
evil h nmiinizod this year by the new ballot re-
form act. Heis a man who wiz be treachorous
10 anybody. d.
Eyefy other Democrat in the state of Kew
York WI vote for ar Cleveland II he il nom
1uat8d, 0udih he can hold an nludepcuoellI and Itt
publican Vote Of a size never before known in q
national eosnpaigu. Nobody else can do thu
nor scof81 anywhere near It. For that reason.
although there many Democrats WHOM
would have personally preferTed 70 Cleveland
for tho presidential nomination, have no
doubt he Is BY Ear the most available candidate
for the state Of Now York
Fairohnd Denies Story.
Charles 3 Frrchad said to a refussenta.
tive Of the United Press: "Tho stoSy pub
kslied that the Hill people are making in
roads in our solid state delegations is she
purest bosh Instead of that, in many from
states where HHi has been given votes by
Hs in our S0hedUle, we are receiving asxur-
aaces that the delegates will not vote fer
hiSa as AL BY tsrdghs we wiz be able -
give assurance to Mr. Cleysland's adhereAts
shat he will have suficient votes TO nom
mate him on thu first ballot"
Thomas J. DowliRg, president Of the New
York State Trades assembly, and repre-
senting 250 0Os workingnen Of that state,
arrived here. When asked his position by
q representative Of the United Press, said.
6As the president Of the trades assembly
am here 70 favor the nomination Of David
B. Hill Without any personal prejudice
against Mr. Cleveland say unsquivecally
that he cannot get the workiHgInen's votes
OF New York state. Ny organization IL
supposed to be nonpartisan, and IN fact n
So but tho nomination Of Mr.. Reid on the
Republican ticket forbids our supporting IT,
We therefore look forward to a candidate
Of the Democracy that we can support, and
we believe that Mr.. Hill, having done SO
much for labor, is the man"
Senator Mccnren, a Hill delegate from
Brooklyn, says: "The delegates from King
county are unalterably opposed to the
nomination Of ex-President Cleveland and
unqualifedly in favor OF the nomination Of
Senator Kill"
The Hill men literally covered the in
torior Of the Auditorium hotel with litho
graphs Of their candidate A Tammany
literary bureau has also commenced active
operations It's ammunition includes
bulky pamphlet filed with extracts from
newspapers favorable to Hill OF antago
nistic to Cleveland.
Chief Croker, OF Tammany Hall, and
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan are holdin,
the fort pending the arrival Of the rank ant
file Of their braves, when they propose t,
make the fur fly. Croker s inclined to bl
sarcastic at the expense Of the Cleveland
leaders. He says that Fairchild is a mug
wump, and altogether too much given L
talking at random and that Tammanv is 10
Hfl to the end, and that the people VIII
profess TO know differently don't know
what they are talking about.
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan is bitter il
his denunciation of the opposition. He tell
every visitor to the headquarters that Will
his people may consider a western maj
after Hill they win not under any circum
stances indorse Cleveland.
Bosom Friend Bissell Talks.
William S. Bissell, Of Buffalo, who wa
Grover Clevelands partner before the ez
president went into politics, is quartere
near the apartments which ex-Msyor Grac
win occupy, and he will be taken into th
counsel OF the anti-Hill forces.
'Mr Cleveland viii, I believe, be th
nominee Of the convention, but il he
turned down believe the Democrat
panty viii have made the greatest mistak
OF its political existence said Mr.. Bissel
Certainly the conditions and situation j
New York city call for the nomination {
no other man. have read the manifest
issued by Messrs. Murphy, Croker an
Sheehan, in which they made an assault o
the so called Mugwump voters. The indl
pendent voters they scof at are by n
means to be lightly alluded to. In Buffal