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e convention then adjourned.
ANTI-HILL MOVEMENT.
Address Issued Calling for Another
Convention.

~AAUASSS lSSucI Su1lIHS LOT another
Convention.
ALBANY, Feb. PIN the recess interim
Of the State Convention the anti-winter
convention men gathered at Union Hall.
Charles S. Fairchild, as Chairman of the
Committee of Fifty, called the meeting to
order and submitted statement, in the
nature of q report as Chairman of the
committee.
He said: ''To the Committee of Fifty
report that in pursuance of instructions
given to us by a mass meeting held in
Cooper Union on the 18th of this month,
the members of the State Committee indi-
vidually and the State Committee as a
whole. have been requested to dissolve the
convention called by them for this day,
and that they have declined to comply
with their request. In that event you are
instructed to take such measures as you
might deem well to secure the proper
representation of the Democracy of this
State at the National Democratic Conven-
ton to be held in Chicago on the 2Ist of
June next. You will now enter upon the
work OF considering this and adopting
such measures as are necessary to that
end. Your work of to-day will, l believe.
be such that you will meet again before
June with countless thousands of your
acknowledgements, all inspired with
high purpose and high hopes for our be-
loved party, and then when we meet
again our trouble will be to find hall so
large that it can hold the host of Demo-
Gratis who will come to wish us godspeed.
May a blessing rest upon your work.
May the result be Democracy of prin-
ciple, owned by no man, party of honor,
truth and freedom"
Fairchild then presented the name of
f. d. Locke OF Buffalo as Chairman. He
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parties, as in the history of States, when
it becomes necessary for good citizens to
assert and maintain their rights, Such
an occasion now confrOnts the Democratic
party in the State Of New York Its or
ganiZatlon, which was created and in
tended as a means through which the
will Of the majority could be made mani
fest and given due effect, has been seized
by INSCRIPTIONS representatives of mere
factions and used as an instrument not to
subServe but to Illustrate the will of the
majority. 1t arrogantly deties the law of
the land; it arrogantly deties those rules
of procedure which from long and uni
form usage has received the sanction of
party law; it represents not the party. lint
a few who have received or hope to re-
ceive political benefit from one ambi-
tious politician; it is self-perpetuating
for it begets its own kind; it relies upon
the patience of the people, upon the short
statutes OF limitations for political Of
lenses, and upon its outcry against any
thing in the way of attack as a menace to
party success
E. Ellery Anderson made stirring
speech, after which an address to the
Democrats of the State was adopted. 1t
recites the incidents leading up to the
protest, dwells on the gravity Of the
issues of the pending campaign, and says
the State committee has become the in
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representative OF the whole party. 1t is
enlisted in the cause of a favored candi-
date, who shrinks from submitting his
case to the test OF the free and full vote of
the Democracy. It has used its powers
for the avowed purpose of serving his
personal ambition. instead of affording
all Democratic electors an equal and fair
opportunity to express preferences both
to issues and candidates. The welfare of
the party, both in the State and Nation,
demands that all Democratic electors be
equally heard and represented. There
fore the Democratic electors of each
Assembly District in the State are re-
quested TO choose three delegates and three
alternates to form a State Convention to
be held on the 3lst OF May, at Syracuse.
for the purpose of choosing delegates and
alternatives TO represent the Democratic
party of the State at the National Con-
vention.
The Chairman of the meeting was
authorized to appoint a committee of
fourteen members, which will have
power to add to its number and consti-
tute a provisional State Committee to
take necessary action to carry these reso-
lutions into full effect.
A din OF cheers followed the reading of
the address, and after several speeches it
was unanimously adopted.
Among the speakers. was a young
farmer from Otsego-a Mr.. Clarke-who
bluntly demanded that the name of
Cleveland should be placed squarely at
the front of the movement represented by
the anti-conyention.