The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-02
irving to gulldoze Mr.. Cleveland.

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The effort that is being made to bulldoze
Mr. Cleveland into indorsing Gov. Hill is
rather remarkable, in view of the fact that
those who are doing tue most of the bull
doing Insist that Gov. Hill is the strongest
democrat in New York If Gov. Hill is so
! strong with his party, why is 1t that
those who are managing his canvass want
! Mr. Cleveland to ndorse him: 1t Is hardly
probable that anything that Mr.. Cleveland
might say in his behalf would help him, be-
cause those who are making the most Wig
| orous attacks upon him are not democrats
They are mugwumps, and if Mr.. Cleve-
land were to NEEDLE with the state canvass
with the view of helping him they might
resent it and become lukewarm in their
support of Mr. Cleveland The mugwumps
are not supporting Mr.. Cleveland because
he is democrat, but because they believe
that he will give the country clean and
safe administration. and will do more to
reform the civil service than Gen. Harrison.
They do not care what his opinion of Gov.
Hill is, and if he were to indorse Gov. Hill,
they would not cease their attacks upon the
governor.
who are opposing Gov. Hill, but who be-
leves they would cease their opposition if
Mr.. Cleveland were to write a letter saying
that every true democrat ought to support
him? 1t is not necessary to go into an ex-
PLANTATION of the reasons for their opposition.
They are doubtless satisfactory ones to
them, and unless Mr.. Cleveland could show
them to be groundless, he would do Gov.
Hill no good by simply asserting that they
were.
1t is urged that Mr. Cleveland wrote a
letter indorsng Col. Fellows when the
latter was candidate for district attorney
Of New York county, and that having
established a precedent for meddling with
local politics, he would not subject himself
to severe criticism if no were to render
Gov. Hill the same sort of service. 1t must
not be forgotten, however, that Mr.. Cleve-
land was not at that time candidate, and it
was not by any means certain that he ever
would be again He could do things then
without subjecting himself to censure that
he could not now, but it is a question if he
did not make a serious mistake when he in
dorsed Col. Fellows. There are reasons for
saying that he did not indorse him willingly,
but that he yielded against his better judy
ment to the solicitations of friends.
1t looks very much as if those who are
urging Mr.. Cleveland to indorse Gov. Hill
were influenced more by desire to hit the
mugwumps blow, and to get Mr.. Cleve-
land to do something to injure his own
prospects of success than to assist Coy Hill
They know that nothing that Mr.. Cleve-
land can do OF say will influence the mug
wumps to support Gov. Hill, and they
know also that the mugwumps would be
placed in a rather unpleasant position if
Mr.. Cleveland were to declare his approval
of Gov. Hill and all his acts as governor.
The result of course would be that the
mugwumps would become little less ear
nest in Mr.. Cleveland's behalf. Indeed, he
might lose u very considerable part of their
support.
1t is much more important that Mr..
Cleveland should be elected President tina
that Gov. Hill should be Endorsed by Mr.
Cleveland, or even elected Although Mr..
Cleveland might not do himself great deal
of harm by indorsing Gov. Hill, the
chances are that he would. He ought not
to take risks to assist political friends which
might jeopardizs his own success, and
which could not, under any circumstances,
do him any good. He is bound to consider
the interests of his party before those of his
party friends.