The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-11
Massachusetts.

We havc no wish to dc;ide misfortune.
but Il is our duty TO notice the fact that Mr.
GROVER CIEvELAND's great victory at the
polls in Rhode Island has been followed by
a less emphatic victory in Massachusetts.
That State Is his stronghold. Like oil
CLEVELAND States, like Rhode Island and
North Dakota. for instance. 1t Is Republic
can. and like Rhode Island 1t is to be car
ried by him and him alone. But the deep
aud passionate love of the Massachusetts,
Mupwumps for this candidate has no
parallel in Rhode Island or North Dakota. or
even among the Pad-and-pctition Mug
wumps of tho New York Reform Club. 1t
amounts to real monomania. and they are
ready to resort to Columbianism II ncces-
sary. For n number OF years they have
taken the Democratic party OF their State
by the neck and said to 1t: e II you refuse
to admit on Bonded knee that GROVER
CLEVELAND is the nblcst. greatest. grand
est man that ever lived. we won't play. He
has n greater brain than Mr.. WEBSTER had.
and he can use longer words than DANIEL
PRATT, q. A. r.. could. Give us GROVER or
we will give you death"
Well, tho Massachusetts Democrats held
their State Convention last Friday. and
passed u resolution in pcrfunctory praise OF
GROVER CLEVELAND. The reading of that
resolution brought out tho HILL men with
HILL resolution, and the speeches OF the
representatives OF the friends OF Senator
HILL were peculiarly unpleasant to Mug
wump ears. We take from the Boston Post
this report of the remarks made by Mr.
POWERS of Springfield. Il veteran Democrat:
ut seems to me that llnL is here to be court
n,artialed What for. tvoices-"Thatst"l 1sitforres
cu'ng the New York from fAsskrr AMI Plat.
(Gte Applause is 1t for not letting Plat shake dice
upon the election they in 1870 FOR TlLpfs. when
they had the loaded dice and shook eight TO seven
every tme' Applause. 1t would seem that IT wasa!
most unnecessary to stand up in democratic Conven
tiVn and advocate u who has carried his banner to
victory at all times. lGreat applause
"Oh. yes. we shall carry Massachusetts. We shall
carry Rhode Island. Iaughterl Yes. we snail carry
Kentucky; yes. we shall carry Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, and we will carry Vermont perhaps lLaughterl
But when the trial comes, gentlemen where you have
got TO expect your is in the Democratic states OF
this Union and not in the rotten Republican horouehs
lCheers.l am Democrat. older than many OF you.
and recognize this sterling worth Of the man who
says: Il am Democrat Tremendous cheering by
the HILL men Therefore. until that nomination Is
made in Chicago am for senator Hill Tremendous
cheering py the HILL ;nenT'
There could be no answer to these argu-
ments. All the CLEVELAND men could do
was to protest that tho HILL resolutions
ought to have been presented before the
Committee on Resolutions. and not in open
convention. AS the Committee on Rcsou-
tons had been packed by the CLEVELAND
machine, this was not an objection which
could have any force with the friends OF
Mr.. Hill. Finally. Gen. PATRICK A. Coll
Inns. one of the ablest and most adroit and
most respected OF the Massachusetts Dem
Ocrats, and by no means worshippcr OF
the Prophet, induced the HILL men to
withdraw their resolutions by urging that
to single out Mr.. HILL would be to slur
by indrection Governor RUSSELL. 1.-The
brightest young man in public life to-day"
Gen. COLLINS declared in effect that he was
neither u HILL man nor a CLEVELAND man.
but Democrat. and that II he was elected
us a delegate to the National Convention he
should vote for the man whom Mas
sachusctts favored in June, and not for
any man about whom she might
be guessing now. The HILL men
withdrew their resolutions. and the Con-
vention proceeded to elect delegates at
large. These are Gen. COLLINS. who is
not committed to any candidate. and who
has never hesitated to give n perfectly
frank opinion about Mr.. CLEvELAND: Mr..
JOHN W. CoRcoRAN. who is presumably a
RUSSELL man. and certainly no lover of
the Claimant; Mr.. JOHN Z. RUSSELL. who is
O CLEVELAND man. and Mr. ALBERT c.
HoUGHTON, who represents the western
pnrt of the State. and is classed as a
CLEVELAND man. Mr.. JOHN E. RUSSELL re-
ceivcd ,2S3 votes Mr.. JOHN w. CUMMINGS
OF Fall River. HILL candidate for dele
gate at large. received 55S votes. more than
one-third Of the total number of votes cast.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's victory. then, in the State
OF mis- utmost strength. and among his most
ardent admirers, consists at most in the
election OF two delegates; and ut least one
third of the Convention was in favor OF
Senator HILL. Moreover, Mr.. JOHN Z.
RUSSELL is rather tariff reform crank
than a CLEVELAND crank.
Massachusetts has been very unkind to
Mr.. CLEVELAND. She ought to have treated
her summer boardcr better.