The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-15
Looking to 1902.

The New York Herald had an Al
bany dispatch yesterday in which its
very astute correspondent said
Governor David Bennett Hill is out cunning
for the Presidend& there is no reasonable doubt.
Reports from otHer States show that his agents
are beating the bushes early and late to drive
the game his way. The first horn since election
is sounded tonight in New York State. The
Albany Times, always the Governors staunch
supporter and the only Democratic organ which
does give him whole souled support, has a leader
which smells of the executive chamber. =
There is no mistaking the meaning of this ut
terance in the Hill organ at the capital. 1t means
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. business-and Is the cue
for such other organs as the Governor possesses
to take up the cry. Possibly, however, 1t would
have been just as well for the Governors friends
not to have said, f" view of the recent election
The Herald's analysis of the semi-ofhcial State
returns showed pretty clearly that it was the
distinctly Cleveland and not the distinctly Hill
counties that elected the Democratic State ticket.
Had the Hill counties stood alone in the fight,
Republican officers would soon sit in the seats
of authority in the Empire State. This is hardly
a showing on which to claim the right to a Presi-
dental nomination, but perhaps, after all, the
only IulnR lit OOVGruOI Io2thy lCfiCS OA j Tic
supremacy of his friends in the State Committee,
as the Herald long ago asserted.
1t is remarkable that on the same
day when this was published, an in
terview with ex Speaker Carlisle was
going the rounds OF the press, in
which that able statesman and politi-
clan expresses himself thus
1.-The election means nothing else than Cleve-
land in 1892. Although Mr.. Cleveland was not
the originator of the tariff reform, he emphas-
lied it and intensified interest in it.
81 will say that had the Presidential election
of last year been repeated a month afterward
Cleveland would have been elected. 1t was i'm
mediately after the election that the people saw
the way they should have voted. Now it is EN-
phatically Cleveland.
cleveland is in the air.
We ventured to say yesterday that
the recent contests were won much
more on the strength of National issues
than even the politicians themselves
knew. We think this is becoming
more and more apparent, day by day.
But who, pray, made the national
issues. Who built the platform on
which the Democracy fought and
won? Who is the man who stands
before the enlightened and patriotic
people of the country in contrast with
Mr.. Harrison, the Republican cham
pion? Is it Grover Cleveland or David
Bennett Hill?
1t is too soon yet to begin to talk
candidate for 1892. Before that year
comes around, New Jersey may have
a claim to put in. But as between
Cleveland and Hill just at present. we
believe the majority do not want
Hill.
IT seems to us, in our poor finite
Judgment, that certain gentlemen,
who think they have a right to dictate
to their fellow citizens on account of
the syllable Rev. usually prefixed
| to their names, have been passing the
limits of decency of late. The Rev.
H. C. Applegarth, of New Brunswick's
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