St. Paul daily globe., 1892-02-21
SPOILInG FOR A SPLIT
Republican Hopes Rising at
the Prospect Of a Bolt at
Albany.
Anti-Hill Folks Reckoned on
to Hold a Convention OF
Their Own.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Jones Is Gut
With Advice and Hints to
PPotesters.
Blair, Of New Hampshire,
Launches a Boom for the
Presidency.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 2o.-Not until
this evening did Albany assume the ap-
pearance of convention town. All the
arrangements for Mondays state con-
venUion.to elect delegates for the ma
tional Democratic convention are COM
pleted. The convention will consist of
3S4 delegates, outside OF the 10S dele
gates from New York and Kings coun-
ties, which are supposed to be friendly
to Senator Hill.
Mr.. Hill claims 263 of the remaining
276 delegates. The thirteen delegates
unfrendly to Hill are three each from
Clinton and Essex, the First Chautau-
qua district and the Second Niagara dis
trict. and one from the Fulton and
Hamilton districts. Mr.. Hill is author
ity for the statement that the
Essex delegation are unfriendly to
him. The twelve delegates from Al
baDy county, comprising one congress
slonal district, are uninstructed. Hill's
friends say the Albany congressional
district is the one which cannot be con-
trolled to send national delegates for
him. 1t is known that Senator Hill be-
llONCo VIII iLSdl UCb tAiC
New York delegation to present his
name at Chicago, and that the unit rule
will be adopted by the convention.
David Is Independent.
There are those who feel that Mr..
Hill is independent of New York and
Kings counties, and that the effect of an
oStenSible difference between Tammany
and the country would be wholesome
and helpful to Mr.. Hill before the
national convention. Such an osten-
sible arraignment of the cities against
the country, it is urged by
some, would prevent the assumption in
some quarters that Tammany is bound
to Senator Hill, and that Senator Hill
stands or falls with Tammany. Some
who were present at the September
convention at Saratoga, and who wit
messed there the defeat of Hugh Nc
Laughlin's efforts for Mr.. Chaplin as a
gubernatorial candidate, are wondering
tonight if Mr.. Mclaughlin really has
grace enough in his heart to bind his
Brooklyn followers to the unit rule in
behalf of Senator Hill. The other ele-
ment of speculation tonight, the proba-
BILE action Of the so-called anti-Hill lead
eTs Monday. has been intensified by the
arrival here tonight of Ellery Anderson.
He has made tour of the chief cities
of the state, and expects delegations
from each to arrive here Monday for
Cooper Union against Mr.. Hill. pro-
test to this so-called early convention
will be presented to the state committee
previous to the meeting of the state con-
ventIon at noon Monday, accompanied
by request that the convention be dis
solved and later date be fixed.
Hope of H republicans.
New YORK, Feb. 2O.-Special dis
patches from Albany relative to the
Democratic state convention to be held
Monday say that spectators have en-
gagged rooms in boarding houses and
fitted them up with cots, and have
sold them out in advance TO
lOdger5. One man went about a
week ago and leased all the unoccuped
rooms in five houses. Today he is fill
ing them with temporary beds, and
says he will clear a pile. Albany has
never seen such crowds as are expected
to begin coming tomorrow with the ar
rival of the Tammany braves. Prepara-
tons have been made for the
holding Of what will probably
be an opposition convention. The
leaders of the Cooper Union movement
have hired ball. and in this place will
meet the committee of fifty from Brook
lyn and New York, and about fifty more
protestants against the early convention
from other parts of the state. Their
proceedings. it is expected, will be con-
Quoted just the same as those of con-
vention.
To Assail the Committee.
As the state committee meets at 10
O'Clock Monday morning, the protest
ants will get together before that hour
and appoint committee which will
draft resolutions of protest and present
them to the state committees. Some of
their friends who are delegates TO the
regular convention will also be asked
to present these resolutions to
the whole body of delegates. The 150
will then await in the hall an answer.
1t is likely that they will get tired be-
fore the answer comes. for the regular
leaders are not inclined to recognize
them in any way. -
Some of the timorous ones believe
that plot is broacning to cause diseord
in that convention Itself. If the reso-
Iutions offered by the anti-HilI dele
gates are rejected they believe that
these men may refuse to take any fur
ther part i'll the proceedings and walk
out of the hall in body and
JOIN the opposition, in which
event call may be issued for the holdI
ing of another convention or genera
gathering shortly before the date setfor
the national convention or general
meeting at Chicago. The prospect of an
Opposition Convention
or gathering of the anti-HIll men is the
only subject talked of. Not since 1879,
when John Kelly and the Tammany
men refused TO support Lucius Robinson
has there been bolt from Il Democratic
convention.
The leaders here all feel that such
move as that, such split, no matter
how small it may be, would have more
effect on the party leaders outside this
state than any number of mass meetings
and protests, no matter how large body
Of voters they might represent. Con-
sequently there is much comforting
going on as to how such move may be
headed off. The one thing just now
that Senator Hill is said to dread most
is a split or bolt from the convention.
Some talk is heard about the choice of
delegates at large, but it is all talk.
That part Of the slate is not yet made
out, and will not for some time. The
names Of John Boyd, Richard Croker
and Edward Murphy Jr. and some
Brooklyn man to be named by Hugh
Mclaughlin are in the air tonight, but
there are bot many who think thateithe
Mr Nnrpbv hr CroI-aY will -