St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21
Spelling FOR A SPLIT ,
Republican Hopes Rising at
the Prospect Of a Bolt at
Albany.
Anti-Hill Folks ReckOned Oh
to Hold a Convention OF
Their Own.
EX-Lieut. Gov. Jones Is Out
With Advice and Hints to
Professors.
Blair, Of New Hampshire,
Launches a Boom for the
Presidency.

ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. 20.-NOt until
this evening did Albany assume the ap-
pearance of a convention town. All the
arrangements for Mondays state con-
venIion.to elect delegates for the ma
tional Democratic convention are COM
pleted. The convention will consist of
3S4 delegates. outside OF the 1OS 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
unfriendly 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, HilPS
friends say the Albany congressional
district is the one which cannot be con-
trolled to send national delegates for
|
| lieves the convention will instruct the
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
| gubernatOral 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-
bic action of the So-called anti-Hill lead
ers 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. A 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 a later date be fixed.
Hope of R 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
dodgers. One man went about
week ago and leased all the unoccupied
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. Prepare
tons have been made for the
holding of what will probably
| be an opposition convention. The
leaders of the Cooper Union movement
| have hired a hall. and in this place will
meet the committee OF fifty from Brook
| Ign 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,
yention.
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 l50
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-
buttons offered by the anti-Hill dele
| gates are rejected they believe that
these men may refuse to take any fur
tner part Ill the proceedings and walk
out of the hall in body and
| JOIN the opposition, in which
event call may be issued for the holdl
ing of another convention or genera
gathering shortly before the date set for
the national convention or general
meeting at Chicago. The prospect of an
Opposition Convention
or gathering of the anti-Hll men is the
only subject talked of. Not since 1879,
when John Kelly and the Tammany
men refused 10 support Lucius Robinson
has there been bolt from Democratic
convention.
The leaders here all feel that such
move as that, such a 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 conferring
going OH 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 that either