Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-09-03
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1892
Blaine and hin.

Day after day the papers of the country
have something TO say in regard to the
willingness of Messrs BLAINE and HILL to
take an active part in the campaign now
going on. The Republican papers say that
Senator HILL Is sulking in his tent. The
Democratic papers say that Dir. BLAINE IS
doing likewise. The former is represented
rs being willing to allow CLKyKLASD to
gain victory without his assistance. The
latter Is represented as being willing TO
allow Mr.. HARRISON to gam a yictory---t
he can. Both these stories arc based upon
the assumption that Messrs. HILL and
BLAINE were so disappointed at not
being nominated respectively by the
Minneapolis and Chicago conventions that
they are indifferent as to whether the
nominees of these conventions are defeated
or not. However. il is now reported that
Mr.. BLAINE will soon write q letter calling
upon bis friends and all other good Re-
puolicans to enlist for the short campaign
that Is 70 be carried on between now and
November. In his case he risks nothing.
HIS ca-eer lie ended. He could gain no
reputation in the United States Senate
worth more to him than the fame which
fell 10 his lot when he was member OF
that body. As to tho presidency, he will
be ruled out IN 1896 as too old. No man
over 65. except successful military gene
raj, has ever been nominated for Presi-
dent. we think. by the national convention
Of either the present parties or any of the
previous political organizations of the
Go Nv Rr 10 n
not 10 write. He is not only all that we
have represented him TO be, but is big
ger man y than his whole party.
Senator HILL is not circumstance as
Mr.. BLAINE is. On the contrary. be is an
active, vigorous. healthy man. He is COM
psratively young--young enough to lead
the Democratic hosts in 1895. Nobody
dreams for one moment of retiring him. On
the contrary. he is regarded rs the man
first In the minds Of the Democrats OF the
whole country as promising to be the sue
cessor Of our next President-the invinci-
BILE GRovxR CLEVELAND. He has everything
to hope for If he enters the political cam
paign and that campaign results IN CLEyE-
LANDS election. He has nothing TO fear
from any source If he makes speeches for
Mr.. CLEVELAND. He would stake much If,
like ACHILLES, he were 10 sulk in his tent
and sulk not because O friend had been
mistreated. but because he himself
had not been nominated for an Office to
which he considered himself entitled by
his labors Tor years past in season and out
of season in behalf of the Democratic
party. II he were asked directly by sorae'
friend entitled TO an answer whether he
intended TO take part in the pending cam
paign, we should expect him to reply, -
am Democrat" Yes. Governor HILL is
Democrat who cannot but feel that duty
calls him to the front in the present
crisis. He will not sulk in his tent or
elsewhere. He will not fail to do his part.
lie knows what the world expects Of him.
He knows what his party expects of him.
He has done more than any other living
man for the South. and the South expects
him to show his greatness by refusing to
become offended with his party. He would
prove himself to be Democrat of sorry
kind if he should refuse to work fer his
party because that party had declined to
put him at the head of its hosts.
But why has not Senator Hit come out
in letter before now? First, no doubt,
because nothing has happened since MIR.
CLKyELASD's nomination which, in Senator
HrIL's opinion, made Ii incumbent upon
him to let the public know his individual
and personal views in regard to the distin-
guished Democrat who defeated him of
nomination. Senator HILL Is modest
man, no doubt. and does not regard the
failure TO nominate him for President as
at all likely to result in the defeat OF the
Democratic party next November. And if
he writes letter on the general subject
he will let II be known. If PLAIN words can
effect that result, that he is as confident
OF OLKyKLkNp's election as he would have
been Of his own election if he had had con-
ferred upon him the high honor which
fell 10 the lot of his distinguished fellow
New Yorker.
Another and perhaps better reason for
Governor HuL's silence may be found IN
the fact that he desires TO permit Mr..
CLEVELAND TO speak first. just as soon as Mr..
CLEVELAND shall have given to the country
his letter Of acceptance Senator HILL
will second il, no doubt. and send out a
ringing appeal. His voice, too, will be
heard upon the hastings. He will arouse
glorious enthusiasm amongst the Demo-
Gratis of the Empire State particularly, and
will relieve and remove the fears of those
few Democrats. if there be even a few,
who do not yet seem to appreciate his
sterling qualities and unselhsh devotion TO
duty.
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