The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-08
HARRISON IN NEW YORK.
STRENGTH OF THE REPUBLICAN
LEADER IN THE PIVOTAL STATE.


LEADER IN THE PIVOTAL STATE.
Sure to Beat observation-disclosures Claims
as to Hin's strength-A Leading Demo
cratic Paper Exposes the Scheme to
Throw the Election into the House.
To one thing the delegates to the DEM
ocratic, National convention at Chicago
may as well make up their minds, name
ly, that in the pivotal State of New York
BENJAMIN Harrisonis strong candidate.
No matter what difference of opinion
with regard to the nomination may have
existed among the members of his party,
every Republican vote in this State will
be cast for the present occupant of the
White House. That is fact, and the
sooner it is recognized the better for the
National Democracy.
From this fact follow some obvious
deductions. In the first place, Mr..
Harrison cannot be beaten by Mr.. Cleve-
land. That was demonstrated in 1888.
In that year Mr.. Cleveland had the
unanimous support of the New York
delegation in the Democratic National
convention, and throughout the cam
paign all the power and patronage of
the Federal Government were welded
on his behalf. This year all the resources
of the Federal Administration will be
employed for the Republican nominee;
and, what is far more significant, the
delegates from New York will present to
the convention the name of Mr.. Hill,
and if Mr.. Cleveland's candidacy is
forced upon Democratic voters, it will
be against the solemn protest of his
party in this State. No man of common
sense will say that under such circum-
stances Mr.. Cleveland is likely to run
better IN New York in 1882 than he ran
in 1888.
Mr.. Cleveland himself does not believe
that he could beat Mr.. Harrison in this
State this year. Neither he nor the inner
circle of his adherents would wish to
secure for him the nomination if they
thought that his attainment of the
Presidency depended upon carrying New
York for him next November. They are
PLAYING a much more devious and des-
perate game. They know that Mr..
Harrison and the Republican party are
committed against free silver, and their
purpose is to make the Democratic
National convention take in its platform
equally firm ground against the free
coinage of the white metal, thus forcing
the silver men to put up candidate of
their own, who, they assume, will be
successful in most of the so-called silver
States. Could this scheme be carried
out, Mr.. Cleveland might lose New York,
and still neither of the great parties
might command majority of the Presl-
dental electors, so that the choice OF
President would pass to the House OF
Representatives, in which the Democrats
have very large majority. We suppose
that there never was more unscrupu-
lous, old-blooded calculation than this
which we have outlined, for it exposes
great political party to the imminent
risk of shipwreck for the bare chance OF
furthering the selfish interests of an un-
important individual. 1t is calculation,
moreover, which events would never
Justify. 1t is too clever by half. The
voters of the silver States, when their
eyes were opened to the trap prepared
for them, would spurn it with derision,
They will not let themselves be made the
catspaw of crafty politician. The
people of the United States will never
deliberately throw the choice of Presi-
dent into the House of Representatives.
1t follows that neither in the open
field, nor indirectly by trick and device,
can Mr.. Cleveland beat Mr.. Harrison.
With whose name, then, can the
Democracy hope to outconjure that of
BENJAMIN Harrison in the decisive
Empire State? The events of 1888 supply
the answer to that question. In that
year, although the Republican candidate
for the Presidency beat Mr.. Cleveland,
the Republican candidate for Governor
was defeated by Governor Hill, and by a
larger majority. At that time the OPP
position to Governor Hill within the
ranks of the Democratic party was really |
stronger and mole dangerous than it is
now, for the County Democracy, con-
trolled by men avowedly or secretly his
enemies, was still powerful organi- |
cation, and had an inspector in every |
election district in the city of New York, |
The County Democracy is now practi-
cally defunct; and, compared with it,
the special organization evoked at
Syracuse has not voting substance |
enough to brighten babies or old women. |
No one alive to the results of the con- |
solidation of the Democratic vote in |
New York city doubts that Governor |
Hill would this year carry the State by a |
much larger majority than he carried it |
in 1888. If this were not evident, no in |
telligent Democrat would wish Governor |
Hill to be nominated, and we believe |
that he would not wish it himself. |
Therein he differs from Mr.. Cleveland, |
whose sole hope of becoming Presidents |
second time is built upon plot to wreck |
the Democratic party in the silver States,
and thus sidetrack the election into the |
House of Representatives.-Bu |
Prophetic Editorial.