Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-02
New York Politics.

A dispatch from Albany dated yester
day says
"Senator Hill left for New York yes
terday afternoon, and it is expected be
and thei other democratic candidates
will there receive tnelr official notifica-
ton. 1t is also said by the Senator's
friends that he is going to the metrop
oils to view at close range the attitude
of the Grace-Fairchild and Shepard
democrats of New York aud Brooklyn,
who are still rebellious. A new element
of uncertainty has developed in the
threats of the indignant friends of Sena
tor Hill, who say if eX.Secretary of the
Treasury Fairchild and the Cleveland
democrats put out an independent
democratic ticket that Hill will decline
to run, and leave the field clear for the
Independents, and that Hill democrats
throughout the State will take great
pleasure in burying the Fairchild
proteges on election day. Senator Hill
says nothing himself about the matter,
and he has followed President Cleve-
lands example of neutrality, and de-
clined to interfere in the local demo.
cratic fight in this county. The demo-
Gratis realize that they have practically
everything ut stake this year. The
nomination of Senator Hill for Cover
nor e that they must elect a sufli-
GENTLY large majority in the Assembly
to control the Legislature on joint ballot
or suffer the loss of a United States
Senator in January in the event of Hills
election to the Governorship."
A dispatch from New York says:
1.-THE President has yet to express his
attitude. 1t is for this expression that
the democratic managers are anxiously
waiting. They believe that Mr.. Hill,
too, is waiting to learn the Presidents
position before he acts. They believe
that unless Mr.. Hill knows hat he will
receive the honest support of all the
democrats in New York, with the ex-
ception of the Fairchild-Brooklyn Eagle
contingent, he will not consent to en-
ter upon a campaign, what, at the best,
can only be a forlorn hope. Whether
MI. Cleveland will give this assurance
NAV become evident after to days
meeting of the independent leaders In
New York. The belief here is that Mr..
Cleveland will support Mr.. Hill, and
that Mr.. Fairchild will be as etfectual-
" suppressed as he was at Chicago ten
years ago. 1t is argued here that If
there is anything of gratitude in MI.
Cleveland's heart, he would not hest
tate to support Senator Hill"
A conference was held yesterday at
ternoon in the Office of Charles S. Fair
child, in New York, which was attend
ed among others by William R. Grace
and Wheeler II. Peckham. 1t was
held for the purpose of deciding
whether or not the State democracy
should nominate a third ticket for the
State Offices. Ar. Grace and Mr.. PecI1-
ham were closeted with Dir. Fairchild
for nearly an hour. They refused to
talk after they had left him. MI.
Faicchild said that nothing would be
done until tonight, when a committee
of the Grace-Fairchild democracy
would be appointed to confer with the
committee of seventy. He also refused
to talk about the possibility of a third
ticket In the State.
Members of the national democratic
congressional campaign committee be-
ljeve it would be q %grievous blunder to
continue the factional fight in the DEM
ocratic ranks in New York during the
approaching gubernatoriai campaign.