The Iola register., 1891-01-16
WIDENING 1hE BREACH.
The Petty Practices of the Mugwum
Campaign Managers.

The Petty Practices of the Mugwump
Campaign Managers.
Mr.. Cleveland and his mugwump fol-
lowers manifest no disposition to ''get
together" with David Bennett Hill and
his thoroughbreds. In fact they seem
constantly studying to widen the
breach. When the Thurman banquet
was gotten up for the purpose of en-
abling Mr.. Cleveland to nominate him
self for third race for the Presidency
Governor Hill was studiously ignored.
| The gentlemen in charge of the enter
| prise did not desire his company nor
| did they care to hear him talk politics.
| They. therefore, overlooked him in
making up their list of notables to be
| invited. This was on the 18th of No
vember. Before the wound caused by
this snub had healed another was in
flicted. The other night the New York
Reform Club held high carnival in its
gilded palace, and speeches from prom
inent Democrats were the order of the
evening. OF course the whole affair,
like the Thurman feed, was'only part
of Cleveland's campaign, but the nan
ayers would have shown tact il they
had pretended to ignore Hills candi-
dacy by inviting him to address the
gathering. Instead of doing this they
requested his presence but omitted his
name from the list of speakers Gov
ernor Hill, of course. sent his regrets.
He is the gamer by the affair, for it is
apparent to every one that it was cow
ardice that prompted the Clevelandites
to insult him. They did not propose to
give him an opportunity to present the
opinions of genuine Democrat side by
side with the sniveling hypocrisy of the
''Stuffed Prophet" The contrast would
have been too great and it would lave
been decidedly to the disadvantage of
the Prophet
Governor Hill, whose practical work
for '.reform"-as Democrats are won't
to term any idea advanced by a Demo
cratic convention-has been vastly
more effective, notably during the re-
cent campaign, than any thing Cleve-
land ever dds working the insult for
all it is worth and the Democratic press
is greatly agitated thereat. The New
York World declares that the affront to
Governor Hill was due to "a small con-
tingent of mugwumps and single-tax
men who happen to have had dispro-
portionate representation on the COM
mittee," and adds that many members
did not come and many more were pres
ent under protest, because ''the tariff
reformer who rendered the most effec-
tive service in the campaign has been
hidden to the banquet in fashion Of
fensive to his self-respect." And the
Star says: "Unquestionably great er-
ror was made by the omission of Gov
ernor Hill from the list of principal
speakers, and therein the management
of the club showed regrettable narrow
ness, to the detriment of the cause to
which few Democratic statesmen have
been more consistently and efficiently
devoted than the present Governor of
New York"
A few more breaks by Mr. Cleveland
and his friends and divided delegation
from New York in the National Demo-
cratic convention of 1899 will be as
sured. Mr.. Cleveland is a great hustler
and never overlooked an opportunity to
lay his claims before the public, but he
lacks political tact. He needs guard
ian, but there seems to be none at hand
to take Dan Manning's plaee.-Minne-
aDOliS Tribune