The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-04-06
ANTI : HILL DEMOCRATS
OPPOSE THE MACHTNE ETHODs.
ES-secretary OF the Treasury Fairchild. TX
Mayor Grace and Others Speak.
Resolutions Adopted.

BUFFALO, n. Y. April "a large and en-
thusiastic meeting Of anti-Hill Democrats was
held in Music Hall tonight. The great hall
was packed.
IL had been announced that there would be
no procession or fireworks, but nearly 1000
men from hastily organized clubs and headed
by the Cleveland Democracy escorted the
speakers. ex-Secretary Fairchild and OK
Mayor William II. Grace, of New York. from
their hotel to tho new hall.
The Polish Democratic clubs were ont in
force. about one thousand strong. Their
transparencies were: "llil is not in it," no
SNOWFALL conventions for us" AMI other li'.s
notices. The Eighteenth Ward Democra C
Club proclaimed from their transparencies.
No 67-cent dollars for us Cleveland :
name constantly appeared.
The meeting was called o order by john
lrhlDacker chairman Of the anti-Hill cOul'y
committee, and Mayor Charles +. Bishop
was made chairman. A large list of vice
presidents, some three hundred IN number,
embracing the names OF prominent Democrats
OF every vocation, was read.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
On motion Of Abram f. Kerr. a prominent
wholesale merchant. resolutions were adopted
affirming LOYALTY 10 the Democratic principle,
10 the Democratic party and condemning the
acts OF the politicians who had attempted %
'dlsfTanchlse the Democratic majority rat
fying the call for the Syracuse Convention,
dlsclaimng and repudiating any intention or
desire % disrupt OF IN any Wise inlure tho
Democratic party and declaring that Nv hat
ever may have been the estimation IN which
Senator Hill has been held in the past by the
Democrats OF this State II Is now evident
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% the vital issues of tariff reform and honest
money. his unscrupulous political methods
in this State since last NOYemuef,
his unseemly and disgracefnl efforts -
obtain the presidential nomination and
his continued and contemptuOus neglect OF
senatorial duty have estranged from his sup
port nine-tenths OF the Democratic votes Do
the State and his nomination. or the nOmina-
tiOn of any man supposed 10 be sub lect 10 his
influence or control would result IN an over
wheming defeat of the national ticket in the
State.
MR. FARcHHD's sPEEcH.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Farchild was
then introduced In his speech he laid down
as a starting point the principle that every
sented in the party lie asserted that for
wears an effort had been made in
New York State 90 build up an organiza-
tion 10 carry ont the wishes OF three or
four men. and not the wishes of the masses
OF the Democratic party He contended that
the delegation on the I'D, instructed for ID.
b. Hill. did not represent the Democracy Of
the State, and that the delegation 10 the
convention OF 3lst Of the May did. He
continued.
Very few of you and few Democrats any
where in the State believe that ii
the action of the Albany Conven-
ton should be ratified by the National
Convention the result would De anything
else than disastrous 10 the Democratic party
Therefore the motive which moved all OF us
was to save the Democratic party, 10 save
our friends in the South from all the conse
quences which come from disaster TO the
Democratic party IN the North. A truthful
history Of the caucuses from which the mem
bers of the February Convention trace their
authority will show that that convention ex-
presses not merely an ill-cOnsIdered. prema-
ture expression Of New York's Democracy. but
that it is false and fraudulent expressions
that there was a general conspiracy covering
the whole State TO deprive the people Of their
rights When we appear before the National
Convention in Chicago we will 60 before
that body recognizing that II IS court
of equity as well as a court of law. We viii
show that the delegation OF the February
convention as instructed by that convention.
grossly misrepresents the Democracy Of this
State. and that IL must. If II Obeys those in
structions as claim will be made that It IS in
honor bound 10 do. so vote and act as 10
bring disaster TO our party, and what Is worse,
dlshOnOr.
lie was followed by ex-Mayor Grace and
Frank NJ. Thorns.
The cheering was continuous and every
reference 10 Clevelands name was the signal
for repeated applause.