Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-24
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY "a. 1892.
New York-Now WhatY

New York has spoken. Her seventy-two
votes In tho Democratic National Conven-
Zion will be cast for DAVID B. HILL With
. unsnimity that was surprising under the
circumstances the immense convention
that assembled in Albany on Monday last
declared him to be her first choice for
President Of the United States, and in
structed her delegates to vote 40 unit for
his nomination.
The Cooper Union delegation OF boilers
presented to the State committee protest
and resolution which were laid upon the
table. Will ST conversation was going on
between the boilers and the regulars, Mr..
grady brought out the significant fact
that the first preliminary meeting OF the
boilers was to protest against too late
convention, but that they had soon
changed their tactics and decided TO pro-
test against too early convention.
Governor HLL's speech was q very
strong one. He rose with the occasion.
He measured up to the requirements OF
the crisis He allowed expressive 81
lence" to muse the condemnation of the
boilers. and kept the noiseless tenor of
his way as il there had been no giants
waylaying him. He hewed TO tho line.
He said not word too much. He omitted
70 say nothing which ought to have been
said. The convention followed his exam
pie; or rather both the convention and
Governor HILL had probably decided be-
forehand that the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ought not to DO dignifed with words even
of contentious censure.
We can add nothing to the story Of Gov
ernor HrLL's triumph in his own State as
told in yesterdays kilograms. No man
this country has produced has ever re-
ceived grander ovation. No other Demo-
crat in the Union can expect to go to the
Democratic National Convention with such
On endorsement from his own State or such
Q delegation to present his claims.
And now what will the Democrats OF the
rest OF the country do? What will the
Democrats Of Virginia, always tried and
true, say to the New York boilers? Are
we of the South to see the presidency lost
20 the Democratic party because MI
nority OF the Democrats of one State
have determined to rule the Demo-
cratic party or ruin it Are we
TO bolt IN the face of the fact that the
force bill will become law before 1896 if
we lose the presidential and congressional
elections of 1892 Are we. indeed, pre-
pared to bite off our noses to spite our
faces Are we to sacrifice the interests
of our section to the ambition and
spitefuness of men in another State who
refuse to keep step to the music OF the
union OF the Democracy for the sake of
the Union? Shall we stamp out the first
boiling that threatens to disrupt the Demo-
cratic party. or shall we countenance 1t
aud thus invite more boiling? Shall we
undertake to decide for the people Of New
York that they ought to have nominated
our favorite and not their own? Shall we
presume to question that the convention
which nominated HILL was regularly call
ed by the regular organization OF the
Democratic party? Shall we have the
foolhardiness to undertake to set aside
such body as the Albany convention and
substitute for 1t a boilers convention to
be called by OTTENDoRFKn, ANDERSON, and
the rest of them? Why, it would be the
very madness of the moon.
Read the platform of the Albany con-
vention. Was there ever O better one
II includes all the platforms OF the Demo-
cratic party of New York from TrDEN's
day up to our own. II Ia not clear on the
silver question; but as that question will
be side.tracked by the Chicago convention,
1t was well enough for the Democrats of
New York to say but little about it.