The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-25
THE NEW YORK SPLIT.
The Boilers Preparing to Make a Deal
With Tammany.

! NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-It now transpires
according 10 statement published tins
| morning, that late on Saturday night last
| twenty-six of the anti-Hill leaders, then at
| Albany, were in secret conference IN the
| private Office of State Senator Chase.
! During the conference the question OF the
| amount of money needed was raised. EX-
Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild said
that he did not think that a large sum
would be needed Mr.. Anderson said that
from the promises received, he was salts
fed that every penny needed would be
raised in New York. The intention now
is to elect at Syracuse on May 81, a dele
CATION of representative Democrats, who,
upon their arrival at Chicago, will make a
demand of the national Democratic COM
mittee for recognition. Whether the del
cation will capture the committee or not
is matter of doubt Mr.. Grace thinks it
is possible Mr. Fairchild believes it GER
tain. With the backing of the national
committee, the delegation will be in excel
lent position to appeal to the convention
for its own recognition. 1t does not eX-
pect to demand that the Hill delegation
be threwn out, but it will ask that both
delegations be seated, each to have half
the vote The feeling at the conference
was that if the contesting delegation were
admitted, even with only quarter oil the
vote, the victory would have been won.
1t was agued that the convention would
be composed of many delegates who favor
the nomination of Cleveland and of others,
who, while not favoring Cleveland, are
opposed TO Hill These elements combined
may make Il majority of the convention
and be able to constitute the committee
on credentials, which would vote to give
the cOntestipg delegation certain votlng
power, and would vote to support such
report of the committee in open conven-
tion. This would admit the delegation
with fractional vote, and what would be
of far more consequence, would give 1t a
tone and standing which would enable it to
play politics in accordance with its chief
design, which Is the nomination of Cleve-
land. The contesting delegation being
recognized, nobody would be SO quick to
see its influence as Tammany hall, Tam
many could not accuse it of being un-
warranted The opposition reply would
be, I'VE have the warrant of the national
convention"
If Croker does not take this hint, he will
have lost some of his political astuteness.
So it was said at this bolters' conference.
and the alternative will be offered to him
of making an alliance tacit or outspoken
with the contesting delegation, by which
Tammany will receive II promise not to be
interfered with in the municipal elections
next fall, while, on the other hand, it is
to support, tacitly or openly, the candidate
upon whom the contestants and their
friends in the other delegations may agree,
1t is believed that Croker, Knowing the
immense value which the recognition OF
the national convention would prove 20
those who contemplated an opposition or
ganiZatiOn TO Iammany, would hasten to
make terms. Tammany would far rather,
it is believed, have clear field in New
York city next fall than to play tag to
Senator Hills ambition and run the risk
of seeing Grace candidate for mayor, with
all his prestige and influence, and with
the recognition of the national convention
behind MIN.
NEW YORK, Feb 24-The Herald's
Washington correspondent telegraphs that
the boiled-down, doubIe-distilled and clar-
iied sentiment at the capital concerning
the Democratic presidential outlook is that
neither Hill nor Cleveland can win the
fight for the nomination, and that the
nominee must come from the west.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. "A. - Chairman
Springer OF the house ways and means
committee, who has been heretofore an
ardent supporter of Mr.. Cleveland, has de-
livered himself of a statement on the Ques-
tion of the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation. He says that the action of the
Albany convention rules Cleveland out of
the race. 1T would be folly" he says,
'for the other states to insist on his nomi-
nation, when his own state has unani-
mously declared In favor of another man.
Harmony must be maintained iu the Dem
ooratic party if it expects TO return to
power. The boilers will find no favor
among the Democratic masses, and if
Cleveland's name be presented to the con-
ventiou it must come from his own state
and by the front door, or not at all. IL
may be necessary to go outside of New
York for candidate, and If 50 Illinois will
present the name of John ". Palmer"