Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-24
HILL, CLEVELAND AND THR DEMoC-
RACY.

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president. 1t is scarcely possible to
fitly characterize the twaddle that has
been written in Republican, Mugwump,
and, we regret to say, in some Demo
cratic newspapers, about the so-called
"midwinter convention" Tocall con-
vention which assembled on Washing
toms Birthday--the 22d OF February-a
"midwinter" convention shows the des-
peration to which the enemies of Hill
have been reduced. Senator Grady, in
the convention itself, said that the
kickers had originally agreed to protest
against the holding of late convention,
they having got the idea that the Dem
ocratic state central committee had
adopted the idea of late date for its
meeting. 1t is sufficient answer to
all this twaddle to recall the fact that
the delegates from New York to the st.
Louis convention, which nominated
Tilden in 1876, we're chosen on the Goth
of January-nearly month earlier than
on the present occasion.
To accept the theory of the New York
kicking Democrats and the Mugwumps,
David Bennett Hill must have been
standing at every poll in the state of
New York, surrounded by FOUNDERS and
heelers, to insure the election OF the
convention which day before yesterday
unanimously presented him as their
choice for president.
What were the facts? Every primary
in the state was as open to the friends OF
Mr.. Cleveland as to those of Mr.. Hill.
In not single precinct of the great state
of New York was there the slightest
duress or attempt at bbilldezing. The
only hardship which Mr.. Cleveland en-
countered in his own state was the fact
that Senator Hill had twenty supporters
to his one. The convention represented,
in singularly clear and emphatic man
ner, the choice of the people. Not all
the howls of a few disgruntled politi-
clans, like William R. Grace, can blind
sensible people to this fact.
Democrats everywhere cannot fail to
read Alright he lesson of the convention
of Monday. If, accepting New York as
the state absolutely essential to Demo-
cratic success, the Chicago convention
shall choose New Yorker as the Demo-
cratic standardbearer, it will undoubt-
edly nominate the man the New York
Democracy want. To do otherwise would
be to violate all precedent and slap the
Empire state in the face.
To counteract the force of this splen-
did demonstration for Hill all sorts of
wild rumors are being telegraphed over
the country. We are told that Mr..
| Cleveland will have five hundred and
fifty delegates when the conven tion
meets, and that we can win without
New York. A list of impossible states
Is given which will dwarf the impor-
tance OF the Empire state. Ex-
perienced politicians know how
to discount these wild rawlings.
They lack probability and consistency.
The action of the New York conven-
tion may not result in the nomination
of Senator Hill-although the chances
are that it will-but it settles the
chances Of Mr.. Cleveland at once and
forever. The distinguished ex-presi-
dent will never again be intrusted with
the fortunes OF the Democratic party,
which many Democrats think he
wrecked disastrously in 1888. All poll
ticians know too well the habit the
American people have of sticking by
any verdict which they have once rem
de-ed. We will not be treated to the
spectacle of seeing Cleveland and Har-
rison again in the presidential arena.
There is too much practical politics
abroad just now for such a dangerous
experiment.
That sagacious politicians are already
beginning to chop is shown by the
course of the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The versatile Henry Watterson has been
known in the past as one of the most
determined opponents of Hill. He has
written open letters to the New York
statesman and has Illuminated against
him in the North American Review and
in his own sprightly paper. That
change has come over the spirit OF his
dream is shown by the following edito-
rial utterance, which is taken from a
late issue of the Courier-Journal:
In the meantime, your Cousin David
Bennett Hill is neither idle, nor asleep
on his watch. Be sure of that. Brice,
or no Brice, German, or no German,
his line is picketed, and well picketed,
from Bar Harbor to Ell Paso, and all
the distance from Albany to Spokane
Falls overland, and round by way of
Los Angeles and San Francisco to Port
land and Seattle. There is not a state
capital az this moment which has not
detail of the Hill videttes. They may
be found in Frankfort, in Nashville and
in Jackson, as we'll as in Columbus,
Indianapolis and Lansing. The great
cities feel their presence. With one
wing resting on Atlanta, another on
Austin, in the south, and one ON Gin
cinnati and the other on St. Paul and
Chicago, in the north, the organization
of this intrepid and astute party leader
is making a Gordon around the Demo
cratic party, and if there are those who
expect to beat it they had better be
getting up earlier in the morning and
staying up later O. nights. That is all
there is to it. Nothing else in the
political situation is absolutely certain
and we give this word of warning now,
when there is yet time for the rank and