Morris tribune., 1892-03-09
ANYBODY TO BEAT HILL.
so SAYS THE PROVISIONAL COM
MlTTEE OF NEW YORK.

Tho Boilers Not Particularly in Favor
of Clevcland-General AiSer's Position
in the Presidential Race Defined by
His Friends.
New York, March 5.-:rhe following
announcement is made here:
Every member of the national Demo
cratic committee will receive in the
next few days letter approved by the
provisional committee of the anti-Hill
party in this state. This letter declares
in effect that the anti-Hill Democrats
are not welded to Cleveland, and will
accept any good Democrat who can
carry New York. They will contest the
Hill delegation chosen at the midwinter
Albany convention, because it does not
represent New York Democracy. The
most important declaration in the letter
is that Cleveland is himself to be blamed
for the ''mess" in which the party has
got itself.
The letter was written originally to
DR.. W. 4. Anderson, a prominent Cleve-
land Democrat from Wisconsin. When
read to other members of the commit
tee it was approved by Mr.. Whitney, ex-
Mayor Grace, E. Ellery Anderson, ex-
Secretary Fairchild and others, and
copies were ordered to be sent to every
member of the Democratic national
committee. 1t declares that thousands
of Democrats are opposed to Hill, re-
gardless of Cleveland. The letter con-
tniues:
"If the contesting delegation is
thrown out at Chicago and Hill is
nominated we cannot answer for the re-
suit. Cleveland and nearly all the
leaders will probably support the ticket,
but there are many men who are little
inclined to submit any further to the
impositions practiced for the past few
years. These men rightly regard the
Hill convention af proceeding which
would be set aside in a court of law for
fraud and duress. In some counties
these men have held off from the con-
testing movement for the avowed reason
that they want to see Hill nominated so
as to finish him forever. The majority
against him in this state would be any
where
From $4,000 to 100, 900 Votes.
eff Cleveland or any man of his wing
of the party is nominated by an organ
ization of the state the opposition within
the party would be a mere bagatelle.
Nobody really cares for Hill, and his
whole strength comes from the fact that
- =, 70 1>a IL
"a contest will not injure Cleveland
if the trouble is taken in other parts of
the country to investigate the real situ-
alton in New York. Whether it does
injure him or not cannot affect the
movement. Probably he is responsible
for letting them (the Hill managers) get
his friends into suca a bad mess. Of
course, it would be safer to nominate
the man who stands the best chance of
carrying other states than New York,
whether he be Cleveland or somebody
else. Cleveland would probably poll the
most votes here, as his great outside
strength would cause the Murphy-Hill
men to run to cover. But it would be
as we'll to nominate a good Western
candidate or Governor Russell.
In fine, we have not voted yet, and
we claim the same right to contest at a
national convention which our adver-
saries practiced when they contested
county and state conventions. We
claim to stand On precedent and we
claim that our opponents are irregular.
We are rapidly gathering in the old
Tilden leaders, and if our movement de-
velops as it has promised lately there
will be no difficulty in proving in Chi
cago that we represent the Democratic
party of this state"