New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-20
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HILL PREPARING HIS VIEWS.
SPEECH THAT HE WILL DELIVER TO The
CONVENTION.
SOMETHING EXPECTED TO PLEASE EVERYBODY
on SILVER AND PRoTECTIoN-pLANs
FOR THE CHICAGO DELEGATION.
[BY TELEGRApM T0 rME EkIsUNE.I

into the city and secure their rooms. Hill has
| spent his last few days in preparing the speech
| which he is TO deliver at the convention. This
speech has been arranged for so that the WHY
| politician and seeker after the Presidential nom
ination can correct some OF the Impressions thsu
| have gone forth over the country as TO his posi-
| tion on the silver and the tariff question, on
account of the ridiculous cross-eyed speeches that
he made at Elmira and here these two great
subjects. On either topic il has been Impossible
| for the most astutc and the most cafeiui anu
shrewd thinker TO find out anything as 10 hliis
position. His Elmira speech worse pro-
duction than the speech he maze mere ao '.0
dinner his ofice-holders gave in his honor on the
| last night of the year. Nothing that ne thep
said could be construed to be in favor Of either
| tariff reform or of an honest dollar. lnereione
the friends Of Mr. Cleveland have had great
strength added to their fight against Hill on
account of his occupying the position Of TRIM
mer on the two most important and vital ques-
| tions now before the American public
Hill homes that in the speech he now is work.
| inc ON 70 sav something that will have the enecs
| Of breaking somewhat into the ranks oil the roo'
Traders and the Tariff Reformers of the CleVe-
| land fold His attitude will be that OF man
| winking one eye at free trade and the Quiet "'
martial perfection while he squints at ireecoihdsc
and planccs in the direction of honest money
IUU has been at work on this speech with all the
cora and the shrewdness that he personally couid
| command and at the same time ne mas nao 'no
advice Of several well-lnown writers and tninKefs
ON these topics Many books have peeh ushoi.
| TO his rooms in the Delavan HOTEL and al u
tboro borc titles familiar to the student of poti-
! cal economy and the reader on srea' nn,noia'
,onics IIll expects that the speech VIII simply
| lapOa
breadth of his knowledge and his apparent ac-
ouaintancc with questions of finance ana pontical
economy. =. -,
His great opponent Grover Cleveland. was
once charged with TOO close attention 10 ,no
encvcloDedias when he was making speeon''
through the South: but if one went lhoo ii'
! Hills room at this time he would ihu oh h,'
| tahle before him books Of reference OF All soiN
from which he is culling ideas and Suggestions i'f
his great effort as Presidential candldae liih hHs
non loon altogether happy and well contened witi'
uf, in the LIST few days. Things have not gone
with him as well he expected. ineic aio
sigrs of a storm arising on the politlcal horHon'
that he daily scans with so mucn ahAe|' 'io
made his boast that in the hodaK ION
no was RESPONSIBLE for calling there would no'
lac a voice that would dissent IRON nominating
him as Nesv-York's choice for President
want?o he is quoted as saying.
The machine has been worked for all II
| worth and vet Hill has not captured qcie AZ
the State Patronage was distributed with all 'l,e .s
libcrality that both Hill and his servant, Ros"eu
p Flower could command, and still there af0
,ro or three districts that he did not capture In
spite of mdwinter primaries. lie falled 10 capture
| the delegates in Clinton and EsseX coun'ies' anu
the Ist District Of Niagara County; and one man
,ri11h no
| Io,. ! not for Hill The three delegates from
v;scaro County and one delegate from Fulton
Comfy are out and ont Cleveland men, while
tho doleoatcs from Essex and Clinton counties
| arc uncertain Quantities Hill says that they are
NOT for him, but he does not think that they are
,or CIevcland Smith VI. Weed controls these
Counties and he il a Protectionist Hill is there
foro in hopes that Mr.. Weed will come over TO
| him instead of going to Mr.. Cleveland
| II WAS pretty bitter pill for Hill TO lose even
four delegates positively. and perhaps ten fnaliy'
| Ian, his sorrow and agitation have been visiby
| increased by the cooneSs that seems suddenly
- have sprung up between him and Senators
: Brice and German. This has necessitated his
| ma king n new deal all around lie has found tha1
Rrice could not be trusted to follow his fortunes
| far in fact, no farther than To the point "helc
| ,bo ohio senator saw that the Democrats at
|
small-mindcd political tricIlster Hill Is. Gor-
| man. too is reported as being on the verge or
| boltinc into some other camp, the camp that
| seems most likely TO win. Hills new deal Is
s,id TO be with Gray, of Indiana and That Is
| based on pure question of barter and sale.
He knews that he will have the seventy-two
| delegates from this State, who are wiling 10
| stick by him to the last. and who VIII go whcrc
| he tells them to go. Gray will have thirty dele
cafes from his State. who will be willing to fol-
low his directions and vote as he tells them to.
4 combination of Hill and Gray, with Hill for
| the first place and Gray rs the candidate Tor
Nicc-P President, is now reported 10 ne the
latest thing that has been done by the
pirant. Such a combination will give to
| lin loe dclcagtes who will vote for hin on the
first ballot, and that. with the other delegates
vho can be influenced" will give Hill a good
showing at the outset. The Ex-Governor declares
that he and Brice are just good friends rs tney
| ever were That may be true in a social sehse'
| but he would not be So disturbed and worried as
| he now is if il were altogether true Ill pohucai
sense 49, IN o. L.,.
| an Monday morning at o o'clock At that hour
! the representatives of the committee oi hlN Wiz
20 before the State Committee ana iahe Tot" 1%.
less argument in favor OF an adJourhiheht oi 'no
convention until later date. II Is ABOUT as GER
tain that this will lc refused AS IL Is thao 1ry
light will come OF the convention iHoi ~. 1.ia,c
committee of fifty who are 10 ask i0I thio IT''y ~
will have headquarters at Van |ccheh nan LA
StatcSt. $1,000, i, a.. uol;+;
Several men have been selected by the POLL OIL
cans as most likely 10 90 TO the ohlcago n, uol,
| vcntion as dclcgatcs-at-large. But their names
will NOT he settled upon until Boss Mcl.augnlin.
Of BROOKLYN reaches here on sunday night lhen
| il will hc determined who VIII go from thst Pars
NJ Tho state or course the boss can 20 40
dcicgate-atlarge if he wishes to, bq, ne aSss pss
not want to- James W. Ridgway or p,rry bel
mnnt is liScy 10 represent this part OF the State.
George Ranes will 90 10 do Hills talking IN the
convention. That i, pretty we'll settled. TheSs
is some talk here tonight that perhaps hoeweiI
= Flower will consent 10 90 as dummy at the
head of the delegation. John BOYD lhacher o!
aIhanv can 90 if hc wants la. and X. g. Lang. OF
Buffalo may be sent if another deal Is not made
DELEGATES TO TIE ALBANY CONVENTION.
Canandaigus n. " Feb. 10 tspeeial).-Despnc the
combined opposition and patronage oil "oVernor Flower