New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-19
THE FIGHT AGAINST HILL.
GROWTH OF The SENTIMENT IN THE STATE.
CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD ANSWERS JOHN BOYD
THATCHER.

preparations
Of Fifty Albany continued at the Demo
cratic Headquarters. No 10 Wall-st.. yesterday The
members Of The Executive Committee had several
sessions consultation aud announced TINT all the
arrangements for presenting determined front 70 the
creatures Of HIS machine convention on Monday
were going forward In an entirely satisfactory manner
News from large proportion of the other counties WIS
to the effect that similar preparations are going on IN
every part the state and that the friends Of TIE
| movement in great spirits everywhere
conference which will be made up Of represent
alive members OF the NewlorI City Committee Of Fifty
and Of prominent Democrats who are members Of the
committees from the other counties Of the state VIII
10 held at Van Vechten Hall, in Safest. Albany on
| Monday at p. m. The Hi State Committee meets
at 10 a. m. and the Convention at noon. rs the coh
ference does not take place until after the state Com
| mittee and the STATE Convention have had an OPP
porInlty act upon the protests AGAINST ii'lS MD
| winter schemes. uay be presumed that 1t has been
| called to decide upon the future Of the movement ana
| what shall seem ~ DO the best means for securing
proper and genuine representation of the Democracy Of
| the Empire state In tle Democratic NaIOAai Co'-
| vcuticn AZ CLcalo on June -. That measures VIII
I've taken then AID there for calling an anti Iih peho
| cratic state Convention there can be htIe dDnDt'
The mails of the Committee OF Fifty ore hIIcd WIN
letters from Democrats In otNr states showing the
| elect OF the movement the waning fortunes OF
| Mr. HILL 4 letter from former COheie'Shdn lro'"
| Indiana, rocevde yesterday, sad
tn, D1.,ctacy OF the West watching the work 81
the anti I, Democrats Of New-Yorh with deep interest
I'M, desperate ia husiyinq his STATE convention
,oeA,hcr amid tive SHOWS Of February to elect Delegates
to BODY which will not convene until midsummer SAT
sacs the uoqe Of our that his popularity AZ homo
must be- Of a very neotinq kind. why dd not MI ill
enter into a fsir manly contest with Mr. Ol'v"'shu
for the nomination du" notice OF tho "'cuh Vi
dslssatosi canddat' for President VINO Is
driven tEckeTy and harp practice 70 oo"h hs u''0
gst.s.
t.It fr,1rn rQn
ern New-Yosk l. oven " n sample of the sentiment
prevailing at the other e1d II the state
| au, tnr~rv~iiy in accord with the sentnent ana
vmposos u the meeting held at Cooper institute and am
| wiling "a 70 th" most teaious ~ your com
m,oc ahvsc. in tlwartans the attempt to 'tT,nsi'
u,- dec.u: Denocrgtr. For thirty years nave
s,rr.d on the STUMP the pohs. the candidates
81 the Dernoc,atc party. For fifteen years haze be-"
| msnibor Of Central Committee q THIS county ana III
Ia, was one q dStro: d4'aat"s 70 ~" N"'l"'a
| Convention. with such record. You can really imagine
| u,st tn evsency which would -em to justly ~N'r
| ,r-e o, NY relations the party must De- 81 WY
| cogert na,lr such an cxgency. however, hos ar''n
and ia tie Hin shall b" nominated then am
| man without a patty only abhor iAl's methods
rt have AL utter contemPt Tor HI and Will never
,csa for him any oce hereafter nos -N'n Tor u"S
, whpr.r This dclarlto ha. strng to IL. II can
pls. IS arrange my bus.n">- "neas"n"ni' Wal Ntcha
| The conference Albany the 20 Inst
Ey secretar- Charlie, : FaIrchld. who is the chair
mnn of the Committee of FLY yesterday nude answer
| ws,lnc,fay ~ prove that Illlls tHctics lad been
straightforward and honora le. Mr. t.rchild said.
among other tIincs:
II is not true that faction had GOOD chance
"a. tho other o carrying for the md"ini-r
conyention II f. for very that he con''n.
lion was cullcd In ridwintr II was the fer ~ NJ I'M
dat he fact Tut the candidate II snail minority
II the Democrats which led Ia his snappni the call IN Surh
IN unusual and unfair manner IN" siwato" was pc,
culisr Only two candidates had been prominently talked
- in the state Of New York-Ar. pm aud eNirs MT
Cleveland Mr. Hi had been WORKING ini' ~tHousy Tor
vcars perfect the machinery for this purpose In 'r
b. control the Stlt Committee at tho last convention he
throw OUT regularly elected tion> from the stat" Con-
v.nnon and substituted contestants vino had no shade"
q risht according to strict doctrines Of party rSu'h"'
| ~ ,,o,r sat. From that TN. has boon working
with All the power complete control Il patronsS" couid
give him This STATE Is such n Tor the capital 81
the country and such important int ro-s financially
and the ndln 81 the State Il highly d"N'oPn
buraucracy the poison IN CONTROL Of the ortHu|a-
ton ha, an enormous body Of paid and skilled "orAmt
nornoatinc every town whom he can can upon 70 90 MS
bidding
r,onlc often talk ae II a. four wookS call by the con
y.nton meant that the voters had "erks notice Of
| 49, hc,,nr - Tho nrnaries II the had been the caNe
a oroantzaoo might have been elected oven on Hieh
short notice carry tho STATE against inc "''''S'
For bureaucracy. ~ against "e '1'n''"'
given bv ite paid organizers, has inc OIL " OH' VI 'p
-..,,,,, a ,unort, N Democratic v'"fs. Ire ph-
| rcaucracv however. had the additional adN"h'" VI pr
Won, knowledge that this convention was " !" 7h'ppu
l'Itn WORE
There has been for twenty-five years SetG'o pic'e
IN mi, state of holding the conventions In the spring or
early summer. This practice mas n"'" - u'''o'" AZ"
T -, ,h,, the voters have conormcd their plans 10
and had the rerfrct right TO me mat 10 choIe "o"!l
,r,r ;, mad, nv 4, ncr, state COMMITTEE" which would
~ n necessary for them proone their POLITICAL WORK
by the three months ia the PrrSid'h''' 5eN' W. '''o
that this urotce 20 uniicfm ust " oouV hoV "
ao,,.i hr stat. Committee without ne" uIesuo" o'
| authority from convention VI "'' i''' W WV '
VOTERS should have null notice
a., rnoch.r 1 sor SAYS that only handful OF the
~. I, our,ur after the convention, and that the
20. will chccrniIy fall into line Tor mn Id l. uouot''h'
can. ,h,. ,h.ro ar, NJ Muqwump- among the men VINO
have been prominent in this movement ana 'l' h'a'
All nj t, men who had been connected Wien II HrIu -
vote and viii vote the REGULAR DEMOCRATIC ticket THIS Is
no, tue however such an extent oil Ae rank ana ne
- rho ,o,,.r.ut have been astoundod at III" large
number Of oil Democrats not only anont the ou'ih''
men Of arge connections. but among ''-"" U"o'I' ~
tho voters of all kinds. who say that they VIII not vote
for nm und,r any circumstance II he Is nominated
,,t,k the n,r.r Of votes which the Democracy would
lose by his nomination could s'arcey be ovr matea IN"
independent Votc. also, Is known On p' N"3 'N' INV
i The bureaucracy profess The as'stanc Of ths
vote H. must be- remembered that the National committee
. ,uat ,beir ,aIl for the Convention broad enough 70
luclrl. H. The I'm men have claimed that Cleveland
could not carry state. ~ u i Known t''t uV
lnrluds the so.calel workers o' thr pniN III U'f own
faction th,. must that Trey expect TO knife the
ticget If their f,vortc not nominated do not THINK
however that such world be- tie 70 nrgc enough
extent to affect election Of candidate nominated "c
coidiEg to Democratic nt'h'''
IN. ui,niroi. votes for IIll In some coun-
tie, which were supposed to Le doubtful at con
vettion. recently held seems to msa1 some Of
the newspapers. It was decided week ago mat Is
their convention Is irregular and 10 f. impossible 10 obtain
fair cxpr,on Of the VIII u Tie Democratic voters under
this call the bureaucracy should BE- left to control it, own
convention and FOR this reason the antfil men stayed
away from the primaries many most o the counties
p,.,, Oh, hail y, done by will De determined II
our conference I'm Albany ncN Monday 'it'rnoon.
The Antlsnap Convention Democrats of brooklyn
represented BY committee Of twenty tvo adopted lA
the IbitysIx delegates to HIS convention from Kings
| County. , o-,..-- - A.. 90