Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-26
HILL DEMOCRATS MAD
Over the Acceptance of the Senator
ship by the Governor.
LEFT WITHOUT A CANDIDATE
To Put Up in the Presidential Race
Against Cleveland.
FIGURING ON THE LATTER'S DEFEAT
LEFT WITHOUT A CANDIDA
FIGURING ON THE LATTERs DEFEAT
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FIGURING ON THE LATTER'S DEFEAT
tFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-There were good
many people in this State taken by surprise
by the acceptance OF the Senatorship by
David B. Hill. And they haven't recovered
from it yet. One particular class of Demo
Gratis, the anti Cleveland crowd, are fairly
gnashing their teeth for rage. Their prin-
'cipal reliance had given way and dropped
them in the mud. This, too, at time when
the position assumed by their pet candidate
for the Presidential race had fully justified
their belief that he would never accept the
Senatorship-no: never, never, never!
Their disappointment knows no bounds.
Not that they love Hill SO awfully bad, you
know, but because it leaves them for the
time being with no candidate of national
repute and Democratic fame to oppose
against the pretensions of one Grover Cleve-
land. All of their preliminary work was
swept away in a breath and by breath. II
stands as if it had never been done. The
oaths that were dropped around the Hof'
man House and other political headquar-
ters would, could they be materialized, have
built wall around the city. This was inn
mediately after the reception of the news oil
the situation at Albany.
Hills Acceptance Retires Him.
The subsequent attempt to show that
Hills acceptance of the Senatorship did Iot
mean a retirement from the Presidential
race, necessarily, was second thought and
not very salts factory to the thinkers There
are good many people who ought to know
better, who believe that United States
Senator in some way becomes ineligible for
Presidential timber. OF course, it does not
convince these people if number of cases
are cited wherein Senators have been nomi-
mated and have achieved the Presidency.
The general feeling here is that Mr.. Hills
acceptance of the Senatorial plum effectively
retires him from the Presidential field. On
general principles, perhaps, they are cor
rect The people of the United States who
regard Office as merely the spoils of the poll
ticians, will naturally conclude that Mr..
Hill has received the Senatorship Of the
State of New York as his share OF the spoils
and that he is satisfied with it. They will
not be inclined to force upon him any
further or greater reward.
Cleveland People Are Happy.
1t need scarcely be said that the political
friends OF Mr.. Cleveland are overjoyed at
the present situation. 1t is what they have
been laboring and hoping for for months.
While many of them believed from the be-
ginning that Governor Hill would accept
the Senatorshlp, and be glad to get it. there
were a considerable number who betrayed
some anxiety in the matter. The Cleveland
men, without exception, 60 about the streets
of New York now wearing smiling faces.
They think they see in this decided turn OF
the cards clear track ahead for them and
their favorite candidate.
IF anybody is inclined to express a
doubt, it is Immediately inquired where
is the man who can be named in the
same breath with Grover Cleveland as a
Democratic possibility? And, in fact, it
will really puzzle any one to answer that
question satisfactorily. The fight within
the ranks of the Democratic party has been
so sharp and incessant as between Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Hill, that all other possi-
bilities seem to have slipped from the pub
lie mind. 1t was accepted as a foregone
conclusion that either Hill or Cleveland
would receive a majority of the votes of the
next National Democratic Convention. On
this presumption pretty close canvass OF
every State in the Union has been made.
A disappointment to Dana.
From time to time the New York papers
have been filled with evidences of the popu-
larity of one or the other of these candidates
and the unpopularIty of his opponent. 1t
was indeed cruel blow to Charles A. Dana
when David B. Hill accepted the Senator
ship 1t fairly took the editorial breath
away.
Those who are not in sympathy with the
Dana movement are laughing from one end
of the town to the other at the result 1t
may be said without injustice to the venera-
BILE editor that the Presidential candidacy of
Hill was advocated as much for the purpose
of downing ex-President Cleveland as from
the fact that he was an able leader OF his
party. Who now will be found whose
name can be put up, who will concen-
trate the opposition to the ex-Presi-
dent? That is the live question of the
hour. 1t is question Dana has, so far, been
unable to answer to his own satisfaction.
Nor has it been suggested In any quarter,
except in the expression of q lingering hope
that Hill In the Senate of the United States
was not necessarily ineligible as a Presi-
dental candidate.
1t would be funny, in view Of all that has
happened within the last two months, if
political matters should so shape themselves
that the name of Grover Cleveland would
not be heard of when the convention meets.
From all the indications at Washington
there is single probability that this will be
the fact.
Possibility of Cleveland's Defeat.
The probable pendancy of the silver ques-
ton in the next Congress will leave an issue
to be fought over, on which Mr.. Cleveland's s
record is such that he can scarcely hope to
receive the nomination at the hands of his
party. The friends of Mr.. Cleveland might
as we'll take this into consideration now. If
they do, they will not be suddenly disap-
pointed as are now the hackers of David B.
Hill. The mugwump organs of New York,
that most warmly support Mr.. Cleveland,
are daily indulging in the most bitter de-
uunciations of what they style the silver
craze.
The silver issue promises to be fought
over from now on to the next Presidential
nominating conventions. There is but
single chance for it to be withdrawn from
public consideration, and that is the chance
that it may be settled by the enactment of a
free coinage law during the present session
OF Congress. This chance is remote one.
There is probability, in view of the cir
cumstsnces. that there will be a radical re-
adjustment of party lines before the next
election. 1t would NOT be easy to predict
with any degree of certainty what the
probable result OF this readjustment will
be. CHARLES T. MURRAY.
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