Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — INSTRUCTED FOR HILL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INSTRUCTED FOR HILL.

NEW YORK’S DELEGATION IS SOLID FOR DAVID. 1 rhe Albany Convention Orders the Presentation of tho Senator’s Name for the Presidency and Adopts the Unit KuleAntls Will Bolt. York State Convention. New York’s solid vote will be cast on the first ballot at the National Demosratlc Convention for Senator Hill, and

there will not be one delegate of the sev-enty-two to follow the example of Tam-? many Hall In 1884 and protest against the use to which the unit rule put his vote. The Albany convention settled things as 'far as the first ballot >at Chicago goes, for ’the convention instructed the delegates to “present”the

name of David B. Hill, and that means that they must vote for Hill at least one ballot, and as much longer as the majority of seventy-two delegates say, for 'rom n 'jw on the unit rule governs them. The convention was for Tammany, Hill and tariff reform, tnd it applauded each of them. Everything was done with a view to its effect on Senator Hill’s presidential canvass. Not a speech was made except by Temporary Chairman Beebe, Permanent Chairman Sickles and Senator Hill. These speeches had been prepared in advance, submitted and revised and copies were for distribution.

The work of the convention was quickly done. George Standish Weed, son of Smith M. Weed, made a temporarily successful protest against the report from half the delegates of his Congressional district, giving the other half no delegates to Chicago. 'That was the only approach to a fight against Hill anywhere on the floor of the convention, and Mr. Weed did not mention Senator Hill’s name, though it was well known that if he was sustained at least one delegate hostile to Senator Hill would be sent to Chicago. Outside of New York, Brooklyn, and Troy there were few prominent Democrats among the delegations. Mr. Croker and Mr. McLaughlin made thein delegations as 3trong as they could, but in the country districts the leaders soem to have sent the lesser men to the State convention and reserved for themselves the place of delegates to the national convention. Ex-President Cleveland’s name was not mentioned during the proceedings at any time, and no allusion of any kind to him was made. Senator Hill, in his speech, talked of Governor Tilden, and the platform refers to the time of Tilden. The intermediate administrations are skipped. After the convention had adjourned, a conference of objectors met in Union Hall and organized. Ex-Secretary Fairchild called tho conference. to order, naming as Permanent Chairman F. D. Locke, of Buffalo. Mr. Fairchild said that the cons rence was to express disapproval of the methods prevailing at the other convention, and he hoped action would be taken of a forcible character. A large number of delegates from New York had arrived at noon and nearly every city in the State was now represented, not by paid politicans, but by men interested in the welfare of the State and nation. Mr. Fairchild said that a convention would be held later which would send delegates to Chicago. Chairman Locke, upon taking the chair, said: Gentlemen of the convention, there are times in the history of tho party when it is necessary for men to assert their rights, 'the will of the majority of the party has been seized by a small faction of tho party who wish to use the party for their own personal benefit, or what benefits they may receive from one man, and that man Is David B. HiU. What remedy have wo against this order of things If we are not protected by the law? What remedy, I again ask. If It Is not (p revolution? What Is the duty of self-respecting delegates under such conditions! We beileve In tariff reform, honest money, honest public administration for the public good. Wo believe that the office should seek tho man, not the man tho office, and It is such a man as this who should go before the Chicago convention with the Indorsement of the representative Democrats of the State The list of delegates was read and a large number of the names were loudly applauded. Thirty-six of the sixty counties were represented. After further speeches the convention adopted resolutions to hold an anti-Hill convention at Syracuse May 31 to elect delegates to the Democratic convention at Chicago and then adjourned. It is said that the plan of campaign of the provisional State committee, so far as determined, is to get 100,000 signatures of Democratic voters throughout the State to a pledge against Hill and lay this monster pledge before the Chicago convention

D. b. HILL.