The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
THE DELAWARE DEMOCRAT
WANTS TO REVISE ITS
RECORD,

RECORD.
While the able, affable and distinguished
editor of the Delaware Democrat was in thil
city attending to his duties as States Attor.
ney, the temporary editor in referring tc
Governor Hills nomination stated that
"In the matter of Civil Service Reform
Governor Hill occupies the same platform
as the President, and the knowledge thai
% he was the Presidents candidate did 8
great deal in effecting his nomination"
AS a matter of fact Governor Hill is dia
metrically opposed to President Cleveland's
utopian Civil Service schemes, and further.
more instead of his being the Presidents
candidate, the entire force of the admins
tration was harnessed to the end that Cover
nor Hill should be defeated.
The Philadelphia Times which essays to
speak for President Cleveland says that
Governor Hills nomination was distasteful
to he President.
The Eoening Post said that the defeat of
Governor Hu would be "the warmest kind
of an approval of the national administra-
tion."
But the Central New Jersey Herald the
ablest and most fearless expounder of the
Democratic faith in New Jersey, in speak.
ing of Governor Hills nomination says:
''The New York Times and EUcning Posi-
are disgruntled and are just now chewing
tacks as it were. Ever since Clevelands s
Inauguration they have taken charge of the
President and the government generally.
They convince the executive that if he
would be ''frm in the right cause"-keep.
ing Republicans in ofice-they (the Times
and the Post) would see to it that he car.
ried, with hurrah, not only the Democrat
ic state convention, but the multitudinous
hermaphrodites who fix and unhx the elec.
tions of the Empire state.
The President, in an evil moment, listened
to these bad councils, and we had one part
of the legitimate outcome, whereat the
Times walls with the overwhelming elo-
quence Of woe. In word, the Mugwumps
and ofice-holding Republicans may rule
Cleveland, but when it comes to Harvesting
up the Democratic party the horses will not
irtf tIa eJ,a ,,l ~ l.;
the whole vehicle to pieces. The New York
Post joins its lamentations to the walls OF
the Times, and we look for either a
Presidential or Mugwumpan funer.
al. Here is the Z jmes' anathema, hurled al
irashfaa .,f ~, ''.onrrieShle Demoeracy. Is
Pora noddsdM1n2- eyes. sparkled
ssed with the spirt of Beelzebub ant
tammany Hall, the New York De.
has rushed violently down steel
into the sea. A fixed purpose to nom
Governor Hill was cherished by a larg'
Iber of delegates before the assembling
A. convention, for the dumb herd of th'
nocracy is still far from that stage of po
cal enlightenment where the inevitable
bnsequences Of habitual stupidity can b'
fither perceived or understood. This wa
Shown in the July convention in Chcag
hast year, when the burden OF the fossilfer
GUS Hendricks was SO nearly put upon th
sshoulders of the party"
al But, Mr., Times, Hill will not be defeated
if the convention of to-day rises TO an enact
ment of its plain Democratic duty by re
turning to Democratic principles. Til
labor vote of New York is for him and
solid Democratic support will be his. LC
the Times, the Post and the Star go over t
the BlaineiGes and the people will have a
opportunity of ascertaiuing just how stron
the Civil Service law delusionists are"