The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-14
THE DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS
In New Torls-Clovelnnd and lis Friend
RcSpDnsiblo for tho Situatiou-Jetta

In New YorIs-Clovelnnd and lis Frient,
Responsible for tho Situation-Letter
From 4 Democrat.
To The Editor Of hae InteIiigcncer
SIR:-The New Yorl, World and many
other Democratic newspapers Of, the
country have been publishing broad
cast, and they speak it out boldly, that
Governor Flower, Senator Hill, Gcn'l D.
E. sickels, Edward Murphy, Henry W.
Slocum, Manton Marble, the seventy
two delegates and alternatcs to the Chi.
caso convention, the Democratic state
executive committee and all Democrats
that attended and conducted the state,
county and city conventions ofNew York
were tricksters and dishonest in poiti-
cal matters; that they got up a snap
midwinter convention to take advantage
OF Cleveland and his friends, and to
carry out their own selfish purposes.
Now, it strikes me, Mr.. Editor, that
these newspapers have taken broad
ground in this matter and that what
they have said will seriously COM
promise tho harmony and best interest
OF the party.
The state Democratic executive COM
mittee OF New York, no doubt gave the
usual timely notice for holding the
state, county, and city conventions,
and presume that no one prevented
Mr.. Cleveland and his friends from at
tending them, and if there was wrong
done Its was their own fault, for they
should have been there to prevent Gov.
ernor Flower and his unholy gang OF
burglars, as they are called, from carry
ing out their selfish and fraudulent piir-
poses and just here | should like to
know why it is that Mr.. Cleveland and
his co.kickcrs have no complaint to
mako OF the parties who gave, that
Rhode Island State convention and put
it through just nine days after that
foul snap thing that was held at Albany.
Mr.. Cleveland and his friends, pre-
sumo, were the architects OF that Job,
and OF course there were no burglars
about when that affair came oil. Oh,
consistency!
tits true that Senator Hill is now,
and always has boon, favorite OF the
Democracy Of the Empire state for the
reason that they know him to be 4 true
Democrat and that he never went bacl,
on his friends. tits also trne that Mr..
Cleveland is not now popular in New
York Tor the reason thai he went back
on his friends there and elsewhere
when ho was President byputting Dem
ocrats aside and gave some of the best
paying Offices in the country to Republi-
cans and MuGwumps, and for the fur
Their reason that he said in that cele-
bratcd civil service letter of his pub
lished shortly after he was elected that
Democrats asking him for office would
not strengthen their claims by telling
him that they were Democrats; and
still further by allowing Republicans all
over the country to remain in office up
to near the time OF Harrisons election.
These things are remembered bv
Democrats everywhere, and many OF
them refused to vote for his reelection
on that account, hence his defeat in 1888,
and now to cover up his own mistakes
and want OF sympathy and care for his
Democratic friends, he and his co-bolt.
ers howl out and say that Senator Hill
defeated the party at the last prosiden-
tlal election. l fail to see, Mr.. Editor.
what our Democratic friends in New
York have done to justify tho harsh
criticisms upon their. course that is now
going the rounds OF the Democratic
press OF tho country. Possibly these
men whose honesty and character have
been SO bitterly assailed and called in
question may feel like striking back
next November, let the candidate for
President be whom he may. 1twould
be but human. if they should, and l
would not blame themi they did. 4
{. The World, since tho town elections
in New York, whines like u kitten and
asks what is to be done to paciiy and
bring together tho warins eicmen.sof
the party, war thatits editor organized
and set in motion.
| can tell that gentleman that it will
DO no easy matter TO pacify men that
have been called burglars and schemin.
tricksters and Setthem 10 compromise
their manhood and sclf.respect by en-
ipracing theymen and the party that
smote them. And ii New Y ork and tho