Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-19
FIGURING ON FUTURES
POLITICAL SPECULATION AS TO
THE CONTEST or 1892.

A Letter Purporting to Come From Henry
Watterson and the Sensation 1t Creates
Forgery or Not Il Attracts Much At
tention.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.-The San to-day
will publish dispatch from Washington
referring to the report that the concln-
ssi6n of Gov. Hill, OF New York, to come
to the senate, was because OF letter
written him by Henry Watterson last
November. The letter is printed in full.
In 1t Mr.. Watterson says that outside OF
the state of New York there is a we'll
nigh unanimous demand among the
democrats for the nomination or Cieye-
land, too strong for the party leaders
and managers to resist. III Hill should
come to the national convention with the
New York delegation solid against
Cleveland he would be overwhelmed.
The letter says:
You are powerless to prevent his nomina-
ton, but you can defeat the election of the
ticket. There are democrats in every part
of the union who believe you did this In
1888. know It to be false. But it will
cling to you as long as you live, and will
meet you in every national convention If ii
be not dissipated ~ some act on your part
great enough to blot 1t out. In default OF
this, IL you have any hope of the presidency,
IL will defeat that, If you could reconcile
it with your judgment TO make peace with
Mr.. Cleveland and take the delegation tc
the national convention in 1892 to put him
In nomination, you will save the party and
place yourself on an elevation you can
never attain If you fail to do it. You
would be received by the country with en-
thusiasm, and don't see how you could be
kept out OF the succession. On the other
hand, even Ii you succeeded in defeating
the nomination Of Cleveland, you will stand
upon sinister and dangerous ground, with
stormy future before you.
Hnl Has Not Consented To Retire.
New YORK, Feb 11.-John G. Sheehan,
secretary of the aqueduct commission.
and brother of the speaker of the lower
house, state legislature, is probably as
close to Gov. Hill as any man in the
state. Mr.. Sheehan said last night:
Gov. Hill is as much Of cannidate fol-
the presidency to-day as he ever was. He
has entered into no arrangement with Mr.
Cleveland to wait until 1896. If Gov. Hill
is not nominated for president in 1892, he
never will be, in my opinion
But we, who are his friends.
are very confident that he will
carry off the prize next year. The
course of MIR. Cleveland's friends, since
InAU WOnuerIul QlnneF, mas Deen q praCGlCa
admission of the weakness of their candi-
| date. Before the dinner you will remem-
Der that they said that Gov. Hill was not
in the race at all, They professed to be.
| lieve that Cleveland would have walk
| over. Now they are making great parade
OF the alleged fact that Hill has with
| drawn In Cleveland's favor; that, Mr
| Cleveland NOW has clear field and thai
| nothing can prevent his nomination. The
| governor has relinquished none of his
claims on the democratic nomination in
| 1892. He will have a united delegation
| from this state at his back to the mex
| democratic national convention"
Hill Never Saw the Letter.
ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 11.-Gov. Hill
when shown the letter purporting to be
from Henry Waterson published in the
Baltimore Sun this morning, said: 81
never received any such letter. 1t is the
first have heard Of any such thing. II
must be a forgery"