The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-06
THAT NEW YORK BOLT,

over the election OF delegates to the
national convention.
If the information these papers give
out fairly represented the case, the IN
TELLIGENCER would let the matter rest.
But the issue is too vital. The peril
to the party is too great.
The most important thing for the
democratic party to do this year is to
win the presidential battle.
To do this it must have the. right
kind of a platform. 1t must then
have the right kind of y man. Given
the right kind of a platform and the
right kind of a man, it must have unity
and harmony. II must have organiza-
ton, compact and smooth working.
Party committees and conventions must
be respected and obeyed. There must
be the discipline of an army, that con-
dition OF order and service that brings
out all the latent powers and forces of
combined movement.
With a number of candidates and
only one to be chosen, there must be
disappointments and unsatisfied hopes.
But absolute acquiescence to the will of
the majority is one of the cardinal
principles of democracy and the con-
v~ention is used to express that will.
From that decision there can be no
appeal made without the greatest peril
to the party's campaign.
Last week there was a meeting of the
democratic state committee of New
York. The object of the meeting was
to fix a date for the holding of II state
conventions to be held for the purpose
of selecting delegates to the national
democratic convention.
Only n or two of the regular COM
mitteemen were absent, and they were
represented by proxies, duly accredited.
1t was argued that many states would
soon be awaiting the action of New
York. Besides, u redistrictinS of the
state would soon be made under the
enumeration bill just passed, and it
was desirable that the familiar lines of
the old districts be recognized in the
convention to be held. The argument
seems to have been potent, for when
the motion to hold the state convention
on the 22d of this month was put to 4
vote, every committeeman and every
proxy voted aye upon the call of his
name.
1t is not stated that all these COM
mitteemen and proxies were advocates
of Senator Hill. But it is stated that
several of them are earnest supporters
of Mr.. Cleveland.
But no o was the result of the
action made known, than
the nemie of Mr.. Hill denounced it in
vigorous terms, declared it to be a
move on the part of Hill to take snap
Judgment against Mr.. Cleveland by
''calling n convention in midwinter."
Nothing could be more puerile than
this charge. In the first place, no
when the convention was called,
the friends of Cleveland would have the
opportunity of attending as those
Hill or any other man. In the
place, Cleveland has been be-
fore the people of New York as long as
Hill, and his friends are, if they care to
be, just as active. In the third place,
if the early convention was called to
give Hill an advantage over Cleveland,
why did Mr.. Cleveland's friends in the
committee vote for it?
But suggestions like these are lost
upon a few mugwumps, monometallists
and boilers, and these are trying to Or
ganize a movement in revolt against
he action of the state committee.
This revolt of mel whose party record
is non too good at best, is spoken of
by certain newspapers, as being Il move
of democrats against machine methods,
and in the interest of democracy.
What kind of a democrat is Otto
Otendorfer, who bolted Flowers nomi-
nation last fall and worked for the
election of j. Sloat Fasset?
What kind of n democrat is ex-Mayor
Grace, who four years ago bolted the
nomination of Grant for mayor and
tried to elect a republican?
What kind of n democrat is Charles
S. Fairchild, the monometallist, who
charged the democratic silver men
with the murder Of Dan Manning?
These three are specimen democrats
of this bolt. The others are mugwumps
and tools of Wall street, who don't
want Hill elected president because
Hill is in favor of bimetallism and free
silver coinage.
And yet it is the boltof these gentry,
these marplots and party renegades,
that u few of the leading democratic
papers, so-called, are aiding and abet-
ting in their desperate attempt to dis
rupt party organization IN New York
and leave the state IN easy prey to
issue.