Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — COME AS CONTESTANTS. [ARTICLE]

COME AS CONTESTANTS.

CLEVELAND’S FRIENDS TAKE A DESPERATE STEP. They Decide at Syracuse to Fight for Seat* In the Great Chicago Gathering— The February Conclave Spoken OI In Scathing Terms by the Orator*. Favor Grover’s Nomination. A Syracuse (X. Y.) dispatch says: The “dandelions” are* on top to-day, as much as Hill was on top in February. The purpose of that early convention was to give Hill a grand 6end-off. It was believed by him and his near friends that a declaration by the Democracy of New York in his favor would be the initiative of a movement that would land him in the White House. Subsequent events proved the fallacy of this promise. Hill was short-sighted, and the ladder on which he expected to climb to the chief magistracy gave way under his weight. When the convention of to-day was called, Hill was politically prosperous. Since then Hill’s decadence has occurred, and Cleveland's rise into new prominence has been equally quick. The conditions to-day are different from those under which the call was issued. In fact, they were called into being by tho February convention, and a pretext was given for the gathering of the dandelions now. The consequences of the action taken will probably drive both Cleveland and Hill out of the field and leave the Way clear to nominate Bussell or Pattison from the East or Boies or Palmer from the West. Unprejudiced political observers of long experience predict that the nomination will not come to the State of New York. Everyone concedes the eminent respectability of the delegates that assembled, but old hands at the business of politics call it a mob that could not carry on a campaign because of the lack of working element. Such comments, it should be stated, conic mostly from Hill lookers-on. Chairman Neman's speech as delivered was not at all the speech that had been mailed by the Press Association. The most savage of his thrusts at Hill did not appear in the written pages. There was no mention of him by name. He was ignored as tot illy as Cleveland was in the convention of February, which Reman dubbed "the snows’.ioe convention,” but Hill’s administration and his control o’ the party were scored without mercy. “The delegates of the February convention,” he declared, “will represent what a few men thought then, but the delegates from this convention to Chicago will represent what the people want now.” When he reached the climax of Cleveland, and for the first time mentioned his name, it was the Blaine convention of 1884 over again as much as any (State convention could be with smaller numbeis. The delegates sprang to their feet, mounted chairs, and shouted themselves hoarse. Fairchild and Grace, from the j latforra, started the #aves of applause witli their umbrellas, and it was at least ten minutes before the speaker could go on. Another outbreak came when lie made a demand that Cleveland should be nominated, this was a step beyond the policy of the most conservative, but apparently every one joined in the applause. The way was then easy for saying; “Democratic disputes will end at Chicago. New Yorlj Democrats will accept (he decision of the court as final.” This sentiment was cheered to the echo, and it showed that the delegates were still loyal Democrats. The platform adopted contains declarations against Republican fraud, the tariff, and free silver.