The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-05
NEW YORK POLITICS.
Some SpeculatiOns on the Probable Candi-
dates for the Governorship.

Joe Howard in Philadelphia Press
Is there anything more tickle than political
popularity9
spent considerable time in Albany this win
Mr. Hill, the present Governor. kind of relic
Of the late Cleveland. Physically he is a very
nice fellow, With long beard. Morally-well,
that depends. Mentally he is acute without
solidity. bright without conscience. He is the
kind of man who does frstclass thing in
third rate manner, who makes mistakes unin-
tentionaly His course on the freedom of wor-
ship bill, the enumeration act, and on sew
eral minor private matters, has been such as to
persuade the powers that be in Washington,
legatee to Grover Cleveland. We are in the
State of New York, on the eve of vital struggle.
The election pro con of this or that man will
determine the introduction of this or that man
into the next presidential campaign az a candi-
date for the Office now held by Grover Cleveland.
Mind you. if Hill succeeds himself, it will in no
way affect the struggle in 1885, but if Senator
Evarts were to be elected Governor it would
mean beyond peradventure the wheeling into
Republican line of the Empire State If Ira B.
Davenport, who made an admirable Comptroller,
and who is now member of Congress, should
be chosen, it would have no weight whatever in
the presidential campaign, nor would the selec-
ton of Judge Andrews, now in the Court of
Appeals produce any impression whatever upon
the struggle with which we are SO so0n-for
time flies very fast-to be confronted
don't know that you ever took pains to look
at it. but the fact is that no Roman Catholic was
over elected President of the United States, and
no Roman Catholic has ever been Governor of
the State of New York Our present Secretary
of State, Mr.. Carr has on every occasion pro-
nouncedly led his ticket, yet if he were nonli-
mated for Governor, being an out and-o Ro
man Catholic, he would be overwhelmingly de-
feated, and l doubt if he ever gets the nomina-
ton even, much less the election, Why2 Be-
cause he is unfit Not at all, for his long years
of service in the various departments of State
government have eminently fitted him for the
work.
had a talk with friend of ex- Governor Cor
nell to-day, called by his friends the best Govern
or we have had since the days of Dix; called by
his enemies the blind-pool Governor He says
that the coming campaign bids fair to be SO ex
citing, SO Close so bitter and so expensive that
Cornell will not permit his name to become
football for the convention, and if he were GER
tain of a nomination by reclamation he would
not accept it. Little Mayor Low, of Brooklyn,
has aspirations Aspirations, when directed in
the proper channels, are good things to have,
but beyond these doubt if he will get anything
else.
Money will have considerable to do in this
campaign more, perhaps, than an ordinary cb-
server would think Suppose, for instance, that
Senator Evarts, who expected in 1860, Seward
being nominated at the time Lincoln was nomi-
mated, to succeed that eminent wizard in the
Senate Of the United States and who, by most
felicitous combination, secured that position
in the present Senate, should be elected Gov
ernor Of the State of New York. Personally
believe mind you, that Evarts could carry this
State against any Democrat who might be
named, by from $4,000 to 5000 majority. Now,
suppose that that were to be done. Don't you
see that at once it puts him in the front rank os
Republican presidential candidates for 1882
Beneath that calm front, that imperturbabe
visage, Evarts hides immense ambition. Nobody
knows the thickness of the Cleveland hide better
than he Nobody knows the real weakness of
Manning moro absolutely than he Nobody
comprehends the real ncisive power of Whitney,
backed as he is, by millions and millions of
commerce. more thoroughly than he. Nobody
recognizes the hard times under which every
man in this country writhes to-day better than
he. He represents a State in the chief city of
which move a population of over 30, 900 wage
earners who have not earned dollar in six
months.