Middletown transcript., 1892-03-03
Letter From ). A. B. Dilworth.
IcoMMUNICATED.l

Mr.. EDIToR In you last issue, you
express unquali6ededly the opinion
that the delegates only from the state
convention, held in Albany ON the
22nd inst, should be admitted to tho
National Convention Of the Demo-
cratic party. I am sure that you do
not know the facts relative to that
convention. 1t was not an expression
of will of the Democratic party, it was
only an expression of very small por-
tion Of the party, and that portion OF it
which represents all that is abhorrent
in politics.
The delegates elected to that con-
yention from Chuatuaqua Co. were
refused admission into that convention
by the committee on contested cleo
tions, unless they would subscribe
to the declaration of the state
committee that they would sup
port the election Of Gov. Hill.
while the contesting delegates
were admitted, although no semblance
of primary election was held in their
case. The delegates elected from this
same county to the State Convention
which nominated Gov. Flower last
fall were treated precisely the same
way, and set of delegates to be ad-
mitted were made by the COMMITTEES on
contested elections, or that was practi-
cally the case. Primary elections we're
held all over the State, without any
previous call, to which only the select
ed friends of Gov. Hill were admitted;
in fact most of the county elections
were SO conducted. In this city, pri-
mary elections were announced to be
held in private houses in the majority
of cases, and when the citizens met at
those houses at the time appointed, in
some cases they were refused admit
tance, but in most cases were told that
the primary election had been held and
the meeting had adjourned.
That is the way that most Of the del
egates to Hills State Convention were
elected and to claim that the Conven-
tion elected by such methods can be
regular is absurd, and to claim that
the great mass of Democrats of this
State should not be represented in the
National Convention would be degrad-
ing, not only to the democracy of this
State, but of the whole country.
As an individual I prefer the defeat
of the Democrats to their success il
such success can only be reached by
fastening upon us such an unholy sys-
tenn of politics as that which the Hill
democracy OF this State stands to
And let me assure you Mr..
Editor, that the nomination Of Senator
Hill by the Chicago Convention will
be an announcement by the National
Convention that principles are to be
to success, or at least such
an action by that convention would be
accepted by the great mass Of men who
have labored without the hope of re-
ward, or ambition, for the success of
,he Democratic ticket in the past, be-
ieve such to be the deliberate work of
, convention of the party, elected at
lime when the apparent condition Of
politics leads them to believe that the
lime was ripe for an honest contest for
. great principle, what other conclus.
on can you reasonably reach than that
,hese honest, unseldsh Democratic
workers will leave the ticket nomi-
lated by such convention, for such
to attain that success without
heir aid.
1t is my opinion, an opinion reached
lfter many consultations with friends,
hat there are not less than rs, 900
Democratic voters in this State who
will not vote for Mr.. Hill il that gen.
leman is nominated, but who will vote
or almost-I may say-for any other
nan that the National Convention will
nominate. Jas. A. B. DILwoRFH. i
New York City, Feb %, 1892,