St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-06
CLEVELAND BLAMED.
The Present "Mess" Is Laid a
His Door

The Present "Mess" Is Laid at
His Door.
NEW YORK, March 5.-The announce
ment is made here this morning that
every member of the national Demo
cratic committee will receive in the next
few days letter approved by the pro-
visional committee of the antiHill 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 mid
winter Albany convention. because it
does not represent New York DemOc
racy. The most important declaration
in the letter is that Cleveland is himself
to be blamed for the mess in which
the p arty has got itself.
The letter was written originally to.
Dr.. w. A. Anderson. prominent
Cleveland Democrat from Wisconsin.
When read to other members of the
committee it was approved by Mr..
Whitney, ex-Mayor Grace, e. Ellery
Anderson, exSecretary 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
. HiIl'regardless of Cleveland The let.
ter continues:
If the contesting delegation is thrown
out at Chicago and Hill is nominated we
cannot answer for the result. Cleye-
land and nearly all the leaders will
probably support the ticket, but there
are many men who are not inclined to
submit any further to the imp0sitiOns
practiced for the past few years. These
men rightly regard the Hill convention
a proceeding which would be set aside
in a court of law for fraud and duress.
In some counties these men have held
of, from the contrasting movement for
the avowed reason that they want to
see Hill nominated SO as to finish him
forever. The majority against him i'll
this state would be anywhere from 50,-
600 to 100000 votes.
If Cleveland or any man of his wing
of the party is nominated by all organi-
cation of the state. 1.-The opposition within
the party would be mere bagatelle.
Nobody really cares for Hill, and his
whole strength comes from the fact that
he is supposed to be lin it." Tammany
lis held together by mere handful of
leaders, and even with them, except in
the case of Bourke Cochran, it is doubt
full whether there is an atom of per-
sonal feeling for Hill. A contest will
not iniure Cleveland if the trouble
is taken in other parts of the country to
investigate the real situation in New
York. Whether it does injure him or
not cannot affect the movement. Prob
ably he is responsible for letting them
(the Hill managers) get his friends into
such a bad mess.
OF course, it would be safer to nomi-
nate the man who stands the best
chance of carrying other states than
New York. whether he be Cleveland or
somebody else. Cleveland would prob
ably 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.well to NOM.
mate good Western candidate or Gov.
Russell. In fine, we have not voted
yet. and we claim the same right to
contest at national convention which
our adversaries practiced when they
contested county and state conventions.
We claim to stand on precedent, and
we claim that our opponents are irregu-
lar. We are rapidly gathering in the
old Tilden leaders, and if our move
ment develops as it has promised lately
there will be no difficulty in proving in
Chicago that we represent the Demo-
cratic party of this state"