Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-02-21
HILL FEARS A BOLT
Tammany Delegates are oivid.
ed Against Each Other.
PLOTTING AND DIscoRD RIFE
An oppositioa Meeting win - Held, and
Thsre Nay b. An Irrepasabls Split
IN the Regular Convention.

ALBANY. Feb. 3o.-In anticipation OF
the democratic state convention. % Be
held here Monday, spectators have
engaged rooms in boarding houses and
fitted them up with cots and have sold
them out in advance TO lodgers. A
week ago one man leased all the unoc-
cuplcd rooms in i've houses. Today
he 10 fitting them up with temporary
bcGs. aud says he viii clear pile. Al
bAny has nevee seen such crowds - are
expected 10 begin coming tomorrow.
with the TamnlAny hrayes. Preparn-
tons have been made for the hold
ing. Of what will probably be IN OPP
position convention. The leaders Of
the Cooper union movement have hired
hall on State street. In this place
will meet the committee of fifty from
Brooklyn and New York and about
nifty moro protestants against the
early convention from other parts OF
the state. Their proceedings. it u ex-
pected, will be conducted just the same
as the those of conventions As the
state committee is to meet 1T 10 o'clock
Monday morning. the protestants will
get together before that hour aud APP
puint q committee which will draft res-
oluiions of protest ana present them to
the state committee. Some Ut their
friends. who are delegates 10 the regu-
lar convention, will also be asked to
present these resolutions to the whole
body delegates. The one hundred and
fifty will then await in the hall an an
swer from Harmanus Bleskerham. Il
is likely that they will get tired before
the answer comes. for the regular lead
ers are not inclined to recognize them
in any way.
Timid Onss Are Nervous.
Some of the timorous ones believe that
plot is broaching to cause discord In
that CONVENTION itself. If the Yesolu-
tlons offered by the anti Hill delegates
nre rejected they believe that these
men may refuso to take any further
part in the proceedings and walk ont
of the hall in . body and Join the oD-
position in Van vechten hail, whencs ;
call may be issued for the holding OF
another convention or general meeting
shortly before the date set for the ma
tional Convention at Chicago. This
prospect 1T an opposing gathering OF
the anti-Hill men 10 tho only sub
ject talked of. Not since 1879, when
John Kelly and the Tammany men
refused TO support Lucius Robinson, hAs
there been q holt from = democratic
convention. The leaders here all feel
that such = move ~ that, such = spiint,
no matter how small it D,ight be, would
have moro effect on the party leaders
outside this state than any number Of
n,ass-mt otlngs and protests, no matter
how large body Of voters they mied1
renreeent. oonseeu eu6ntiy loAe{S = much
sc.t16kerrinK fofnR on - 81 how sqcfr4 &
move may be headed OFF.
OF all things just now that Senator
Hill most breads is split OF bolt from
the convention. and yet that is just
what seems likely to occur. The
Cooper union men may show after all
that they know q thing or two them
selves about practical politics. Some
talk is heard about the choice of dele
gates-at-large, but it IL nearly all talk.
That part OF the etate Is not yet made
out and will not be till the last moment.
The names of John Boyd, Richard
Croker and Edward Murphy. Jr., and
some Brooklyn man to be named by
Hugh Mclaughlin, are in the cir to-
night. hut there are not many who
think that either Mr.. Murphy or Mr..
Croker will 60 as delegates, except
from their own districts.