St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
POLITICS NEW vopE

Gov. HILL OF New York is anxious to be
his own successor and is industriously at
work preparing the way and making the
crooked paths straight for his nomination.
He is proceeding on the old theory of prac-
teal politics and is Sl1irmishing around
through the state, either in person or
through friends, looking after the local eau
cuses and setting up the pins for the next
Democratic state convention. While the
governor is working most aSSiduouslv on the
old line, it is observed that his movements
are treated with indifference by the other
prominent leaders I'm the party. which is a
fact so significant that it is construed TO
mean that the era has been reached in the
politics of New York state when machine
methods do not count for anything. The
events of recent years and the changes
which have taken place in public
feeling seem to signify while the poll
ticians may control the nominations
the people control the elections. In other
words, while the politicians propose the
people dispose. a nomination is no longer
equivalent to an election. In the case of
Gov. HILL the indifference of the party
leaders to his scheming is encouraging. for
II indicates n consciousness of strength to
control and shape the nominations and
policy of the party without regard TO the
Vaccinations of individual aspirants. If
The interests of the Democratic partv in
New York demand the nomination of Gov.
HILL, he will be nominated without ex-
ertion on his part. If the interests Of the
party require that he should be laid on the
shelf the convention viii proceed 10 do so
in spite of his wire-pulling. This is in
deed a most fiattering condition of political
independence in the Empire state. The
man who commands public admiration and
public confidence is the man who will win
i'm the convention just as he will
win in the field. The recognition
of his strength with his people
is all that candidate needs TO make him
strong in a convention. So far as Gov.
HuLL's candidacy is concerned the Times
says: when the people begin really to
move liz this canvass. and when the politi-
clans set about the active work of prepar-
ing for the state convention. Gov. HILL is
likely To see forces set in motion which will
overwhelm the trumpery arrangements
which he has been so industriously making.
There is one conclusive reason for assuming
that the Democratic convention of this
year. which the leading men of the nartv
from all parts of the state will take part in
constituting and directing. cannot make
him the candidate for governor. and that Is
the fact that he is not a strong man for the
purpose, considered from any point of
view. and a man Of some kind of strength
will be wanted. Whatever Mr.. HILL him
self may think, the leading Democrats of
New York have sense enough to know that
he cannot command Il single vote ont
side of the most strictly drawn party lines.
and il is exceedingly doubtful whether he
could even hold the full party vote counted
on the naTroweSt basis; and it is an undo
niable fact that something more than a strict
party vote is needed To EJECT the candidate
of either party, unless both should take
measures to exclude all other support. and
even in that ease it would be hard to name
a Republican candidate who would not de-
feat Mr.. HILL.
1t is inconceivable that the Democratic
convention should be so constituted and so
Influenced as 10 select the weakest possible
candidate simply because he has been seek
ing the nomination and setting up pegs and
pulling wires to secure delegates. This
would imply deliberate purpose TO achieve
defeat. and there is 40 indication that that
is what the Democrats OF New York want
this year. They Will hardly accept a can
didate on account of his weakness, and on
no other supposition could they consent to
the nomination of DAVID b. HILL"