The daily state chronicle., 1891-03-31

EDWIN ATW ELL ON NEW YORK
STATE POlETICa.

A Brilliant and Comp eha nsive Anaiy.
sis OF the Existing Situatiou..Cieve.
land as Compared With Hill. and the
Political Value of Nervous Sy stem.
Politics, as it is Played in theEmpire
State.
"Mr. Cleveland can hardly secure
a malority Of the next New York dele
cation to Presidential Convention"
said Mr. Edwin Atwell to The STATE
CHRONICLE last evening.
Mr.. Atwell is we'll known journalist
Of New York City of wide experience and
extensive acquaintance. He is ltlw stop
ping at the Yarboro House and is engaged
in>an effort to get lid of the gil, IN this
mellow cline. Mr.. Atwell Is a play
wright Of considerable promise, being
the author of His Lordship," kicks
| and Kisses and other successful plays.
But be likes best to be knownas a - ok
ing newspaper man. As metropo itan |
editor a. q as a correspondent at Albany, |
Washington, Kew Ocleans, london and |
Paris he has had unusual journalistic |
| opportunities which he seems to have
| improved. He has given particular
study to c0ntemporaneous New York
politics.
zone of the reasons why life is worth
liviag in New York at just about this
time, he continued, lis that the State
claims as citizens the two most energetic
and irrepTessible Democratic candidates
for the Presidency in this country. The
struggle between Gov. Hill and MIR.
Cleveland will not end until the adop-
ton of the unit rule will prob bly, have
forced the n. Y. delegation to tie neXt
Presidential convention to present the
Governor name as the unanimous choice
of New York State. There seems small
) doubt that this will b. ihe outcome of
the matches game Of politics which
Gov. hill is now playing"
"The Democratic situation in New
York is unprecedented. The November
cyclone which resulted in q Democratic
$ Assembly and Democratic Legislative
majority on joint ballot, gave the Gov
: ernor an unrivalled opport rtunity After
calculated silence, and after months of
: intrigue on the part Of friendly rivals,
:, .he Governor rs Paciicator, made him
o self Senator. In the organization of
e the Assembly, Hill neglected nothing
that would strengthen his control Of
|
It pending legislation is discreet and con-
Q sentative. He has made few friends
o but no enemies. He will go down to
i posterity as the "Brer Rabbit" of our
y political folk lore.
! Meanwhile Mr.. Cleveland has been
2 writing letters. Many New York Dem
! oc,ats think he writes good ones. They
are certainly fine, sonorous and muscu
U lar productions and as full of instruc
J, ion as ''Youth's Political Primer.
70 Tney show the writer to have ac ess tt
good libraries and to be possessed of
s. considerable power of selection. Mr.
\ Cleveland is still beyond question tht
g choice of majority CT the New Yorl
- Democracy, for the average Democra
ID values Mr. Cleveland's honesty, industr
OF and sobriety. Just how far his popular
i'll ty IN the South has been hurt by hi
ia views on silver coingae you can judg
III for yourself. New Workers general
agree with him. We have coin enough
Bat some of us would like to see it NOR
generally distributed.
1.-The Democratic leaders are bitterl
:" opposed to Mr.. Cleveland. AS practict
politicians, they have just cause. Nj
Cleveland consistently ignored and owe
n rode them, and they lay the defeat of 189
/ to his arrogance and self sufficiency
sh Ole cannot deny that Cleveland's ind'
i: ,eudence of Democratic leaders is h
ilo Chief element Of strength in the cOUl
IS try. This admiration for q solid bacl
~ bone is natural with thoughtless CT bi:
an oted men, But it doesn't do to decl
Il IL the politicians. They make histor.
- Any man can fight Jefferson and Han
~ ilton, Van Buren and Iilden were all CO..
~ spicuous advocates of compromise, ar
exDediencies Gladstone has done muG
-. for English liberalism and has alwa,
been consistent to his fundamental co
victions. No more consummate polite
trimmer and sausage maker lives in Il
world. The stout backbone is we
Oh enough but there ought to be a spin
d a cord running through it, full Of gr'
nes matter, with plenty of brain at the to
md Gov. Hill, now, seems to have nervo
ith system
Hill has bis popularity to make,
course. Whether he has the endurlr
elements of that in him time alone CO
show. He claims to be go
ter Democrat He is surely gre
politician, and though the people elec
uOV the politicians nominate. Moreover,
'me suppose it is generally conceded th
he plays fair" and no sensible M
the believes he sold out Cleveland VIII
lett even the picturesque Jones ran abe
Z Of Of Hill on the State ticket. the tradl
the against Cleveland was done in New 70
gun City by some of Cleveland's presumat
lace best friends.
,om Friends Of mine in Indiana and o.
al say Hills speeches there during the ca
and paign, and his bearing and conversatl
fore generally, won him many frlen'
the Well we shall see. Politics is about
uncertain as New York weather.
stod When asked as to the length OF
daT stay in Raleigh Mr. Atwell said:
was II find myself in a per ect CHINA
cad among the most courteous and hospl'
. il bic lot q people | have ever met
> shall stay here as long as can ST.
tice away from New York"