Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-10
GOVERNOR HILL.

If David Bennett Hill can convince the democratic party of the nation that the knife was not used against Cleveland in his interest he is pretty certain to be the candidate of the party in 1892, with more than equal chance of being elected. The eyes of the country are uponHill andthe discussion is waxing vigorous as to whether or not Cleveland was sold out by the gov ernor and his supporters It will be pretty hard for those who heard Governor Hill on the stump-and those who heard him three weeks ago in Waterbury will bear witness to believe that he was not profoundly sincere in his support of Cleveland. But many democrats believe, and nothing can convince them to the contrary, that Cleve- land was sacrificed to the ambition of the Elmira statesman.
 Already those who believe that Hill used the knife on the president have begun to figure. They are looking closely into the returns, and some of the results they show are interesting. According to them, Gov ernor Hill organized the state of New York uluISell NIluouC pay IilSo any "'0NAA'AOAA 'N Cleveland With the liquor interests and others that were friendly to him he built up support that he neither tried nor wished to wheel in line for the president. All through the state where his friends are strongest he ran ahead of Cleveland. Where Cleveland democracy is strongest he suffered slightly, and not ill proportion to the number of mugwump votes found in those localities In his own county (Chemung) Hill ran 520 votes ahead of Cleveland in Erie county, where Cleve- land was once sheaiff, but where Governor Hills friends have now control of the democratic organization, Cleveland was defeated by over 5000, while Hill had almost 5000 plurality, a difference of about 1000 In Rensselaer, county, where Cleveland was defeated by 314, Hill had TAO plurality. This is the county where Chairman Edward Murphy of the dem oeratic state committee lives, and he is the local leader. In Monroe county, where Governor Hills friend Secretary of State Cook, lives and controls the German vote, Cleveland was defeated by almost 5000 and Hill ran ahead of Cleveland more than 5000 votes. Ill Ononda9a county, where Hill has many friends in the democratic organization, he ran 1900 votes ahead of Cleveland. Syracuse is in this county, and Hills friends control the party organiza tion there. In Oneida county Hill ran over 800 votes ahead of Cleveland. In New York city the liquor men had an organization of their own, and made enough difference in the vote to elect him without any gains through the state It is alleged that these men Were encourag- ed in their purpose of kniing Cleveland by the state committee, and that this or ganization cared for nothing beyond the success of Governor Hill.
 Governor Hill and his friends, in the face of the returns and charges that are built up thereon by the Cleveland men, will have no easy task to prove that they were true. A difference of 30,000 votes i'll favor of Hill throughout the state may possibly be accounted for by the support he received from the liquor interests and the labor men who approved his action relative to the Saturday half holiday, but some democrats will be skeptical in spite of all explanation. Certainly Governor Hills campaign speeches seemed to have the ring of sincerity, and it would be cause for regret if the disaster that has overtaken Cleveland should be visited on the man of warm impulses who has touch ed chord in the heart of every true dem ocrat by his simple but emphatic declara- tion ''I am a democrat"
 look out for him in 1899.