The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-23
The Anti-Hil Men Win Have Convention

The Anti-Hill Men VIII Have a Convention.
ALBANY, Feb. 22.-Committee of the
anti-Hill movement this morning met in
private quarters where the situation was
canvassed for definite hearings and definite
action. The members of the committee
are E. Ellery Anderson, w. R. Grace, Col
onel Robert M. Monroe, Edward B. Whit
ney and Wallace Macfarland.
In the recess interim of the state coayen-
ton
THE ANTI-wINTER CONVENTION MEN
gathered at Union hall. Charles S. Fair
child as chairman of the committee of fifty
called the meeting to order and submitted
a statement in the nature of a report as
chairman Of the committee. He
said: ITO the Committee of Fifty
report that in pursuance
of the instructions given US by the mass
meeting held in Cooper Union the 18th of
this month, members of the state commit
mittee, and the state committee as whole,
have been requested to dissolve the con-
vention called by them for this day. and
that they declined to comply with their
request. In that event you instructed us
to take such measures as you might deem
we'll to obtain proper representation of
the Democracy of this state at the Demo-
Chicago the 21st of June next. You will
now enter upon the work of considering
and adopting such measures as you deem
advisable. Your work of to-day will,
believe, be such that you will meet again
before June with countless thousands of
your fellow Democrats all
INSPIRED WITH A HIGH PURPOSE
and high hopes for our beloved party, and
then when we meet again our troubles will
! be to find a hall so large it can hold the
US god speed. May blessings rest upon
your work; may the result be a Democracy
| of principle owned by no man, a party of
honor, truth and freedom"
Fairchild then presented the name of E.
D. Locke, of Buffalo, as Chairman.
He said there are times in the history of
parties as in the history of states when it
becomes Mt cessary for the good of citizens
to assert and maintain their ghts. Such
an occasion now confronts the Democratic
party in the state of New York Its
organization. which was created and in
tended as a means through which the will
of the majority could be made manifest 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; il
arrogantly deties those rules of procedure
which from long and uniform usage have
received the sanction of party law; it rep
resents not the party, but few who have
received, or hope to receiS e, political bene
fit from one ambitious politician. 1t is self
perpetuating, for it begets its own mind; i
relies upon the patience of the people, upor
short statutes of limitations for politica
offenses, and upon its outcry against any
thing in the way of attack as
MENACE TO PARTY SUCCESS"
E. Ellery Anderson made stirrin,
speech after which an address to the Dem
. ocrats of the state was adopted. 1t recite:
the incidents leading up to the protest
dwells on the gravity of the issues of thu
pending campaign and says the state com
mittee has become the instrument of fac
ton, instead of being the represen tative O
, the whole party. 1t is enlisted in tn
| cause of favored candidate who shrink
from submitting his case to the test of
| free and full vote of the Democracy.
has used its powers for the avowed pur
pose of serving his personal ambition in