The Portland Daily Press

HILL'S CONVENTION.
David Bennett Hill's Presidential boom was successfully launched at Albany on Monday. The affair went off without a single hitch of any kind. Out of some 700 delegates present only about ten were opposed to Hill, while the rest were his enthusiastic supporters--indeed he owned them. The convention talked Hill from the moment it met until it adjourned. The speeches were filled with fulsome flattery of him, the resolutions were simply extracts from his speeches, the permanent chairman introduced him as the next President of the United States and Hill himself wound up the performance by declaring the issues of the campaign and the manner in which they should be treated: To make assurance doubly sure the delegates were bound by an iron clad instruction to use all honorable means-and there won't be any fuss if the means are not all honorable-to nominate Hill for the next Democratic Presidential candidate. Of course the little band of "respectable" Democrats who gathered at Albany to protest against the convention got no consideration whatever. Their protest was promptly laid on the table and suffered to remain there.
But Hill is not to be allowed to enjoy the fruits of his convention without a fight. The respectable element is going to hold another convention and select a list of delegates, every one of whom will doubtless be opposed to Hill, and send them to the Chicago convention as the only regular and properly qualified representatives of the Democratic party of New York. It is very doubtful, however, if they succeed in getting in, Hill's convention was properly called by the Democratic state committee, and though the time selected was undoubtedly chosen because it would be of advantage to Hill, that of itself constitutes no irregularity. The convention was undoubtedly regular in every respect, and furthermore it was more representative of the great mass of the Democratic party of the Empire State than the coming gathering of the respectable element can possibly be.