Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31
Grover the Great with Gusto
Greets Douglass the Black.
loBBIES FOR MUGWUMP NEGRO
sut Bids His Sweet Wife Remain at Home
for Fear She Will Meet
Ehe wInsomest Flower of AN the South,
Fair Winnie Davis-And Hill All
this Time Battling Against
q Force Bill
Hnl or German.

Hill or German.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, EEx,, March 26.-Knowing that
Wiley Mangum Imboden, Senator Chiffon s
private secretary for some months at w asn-
tngton. knew something about the Ieellng
in the East with reference TO the standing
In the Democratic party Of Senators Hill
and German, / asked him TO tell what
he knew about both gentlemen In reply
he said:
That we will win the next presidential
election, l have but little doubt. The
Democratic leaders in Washington feel
quite hopeful, and nothing can possibly de-
feat us but mismanagement on our part in
the selection of candidates and the
making OF a platform. Senator Cor
man is more popular with the Democrats
In congress than any other person whose
hame has been mentioned IN connection
with the presidential nomination, and in
deed he is regarded with great favor by the
leading Democrats of the nation so far as 1
have been able to gather from those 1 met
during my several months stay in Wash
Ington, and goodly number of prominent
Democrats, too. German is a profound
statesman and a thoroughly trained leader,
wise in counsel, bold in leadership and sa-
luscious In management, Senator German
lmands the universal respect of those
o come in contact with him. We people
he South owe him debt of gratitude we
scarce repay. His splendid fight against
1==terce bill was without parallel in the
sls Of debilerative bodies and every pa
tic citizen in this country who cares
ybe free from the domination of the negro
N the ballot-box in the exercise of con-
stitutional suffrage is indebted to Senator
Gorman for the defeat of that fearful
y uoustrosity and the presidency is not too
big an award, IN my opinion, fol- this val
liant and brilliant and patriotic service
rendered us Think Of it! A few
minutes inattention on the part of
this brave man at Divers and
sundry times pending the long and bitter
struggle over the force bill, and it would
have been saddled on US. You can scarcely
find man about the nations capital who
doubts that Senator German can be elected
II he should be nominated. His election to
the presidency would, in the opinion of
many leading meu with whom / have con-
Tersed, obliteraue every yestige of sectional
prejudice, and certainly this result is to be
devoutly wished for German is put down
as free-silver senator. Next to Senator
German in popularity with the Democrats
g. Washington Is, have no hesitancy in
saying, Senator David Bennett Hill whose
wise leadership has wrought political won
ders in New York state. When he sue
ceeded Grover Cleveland to the governship
OF that state he found a large state debt
and small cash balance. During his serv-
ice as governor the several millions of dol
lars Of indebtedness was paid OFF and he
left huge cash surplus and lower tax rate
than that state has had in over thirty years.
HIS PElYate life Is unassailable and his
name has mayer been associated with cor
ruption fund nor the misrepresentation of
dollar of private or public funds. He is
devoted soul and body to the principles and
policies Of the Democratic party. met Sen
ator Hill hair. dozen times and
found him at all timeS as approachable as
any gentleman ever came in contact with
Governor Hill is most remarkable man.
He at once strikes his companion in CONVEX
satie1 as a giant-not in size, but in great
ness l cannot doubt his honesty or his
Rbility He is both an honest man and 4
very great statesman. His invincibilIty in
the state of New York is not questioned by
men who have taken the pains to post
Shemselves as to the political conditions in
that state. I know Southern Democratic
congressman who previous to visiting New
York recently was a rampant Cleveland
man on the score of availability. But after
his return from New York l never heard
him advance or support the claim of Cleve-
lands availability. l questioned him as to
the whyness of his wherefore and he told
NE a number Of mighty interesting things
touShing New York politics. he told me,
for instance, that all the people in New
York belonging to the laboring classes with
whom he Mad an opportunity to talk were
insly irrespective of their former political
Affiliations This class of voters do not
get into the newspapers, and it is only by
accident that the public becomes acquainted
with the real strength enjoyed by Governor
Hill In New York. Hill 81 Ds +locrat on /
the principle that Democracy IS right AND
that the man without a coat and with the
sleeves of his shirt rolled up and with anvil
In hand can be as good Democrat and as
sound patriot as the leading citizen of the
district
"Hnl is most genial, but the boldest man
IN public life in all this country He doesn't
hesitate to discuss any question of public
interest you can mention IN his presence.
He has done more for the Democratic party
than any living man. Under the light and
power of his genial but widespread in
duence the New York legislature will be
Democratic on joint ballot for the next
twenty years or more. If Hill is elected
president, and he is dead certain 10 be if
he Is nominated, Democrat will succeed |
him in the United States senate, and
Democrat will likewise succeed the present |
Republican senator, Hiscock, whose term
expires next March. 1t is senseless to say |
that 9 weak or corrupt man can hold the
undivided confidence of men like Governor
Flower, Chairman Murphy of the state |
executive committee, Gen. Daniel Sickles
and Gen. Slocum, all lifelong Democrats
and time-tried patriots, delegates at large |
to the Chicago national convention from
New York state and warm supporters of |
Senator Hill for the presidency German
or Hill as president and our party will be
strengthened in every precinct. IL would |
be next to impossible for the Republicans |
60 prevent Democratic succession. They |
are both wise and good men and strong |
with the people and winners in every |
emergency. Governor Hill can carry New !
York with q great deal more ease than |
Cleveland can carry North Carolina. 1t |
S really believed by many North Carolina |
Democrats with whom l met that Cleve- |
land cannot carry that state Hill can |
carry every doubtful state and he would |
no more veto free coinage of silver bill |
than he would approve force bill Cleve- |
lands uupopularity with the Democratic |
congressman is not any more on account of |
his opposition 70 free coinage than because |
Of his well-known siekening regard for the |
political situation of the negro. While |
president it is said Of him that he would re- |
caive Fred Douglass a burly mulatto him |
self, with his black negro daughter on one |
arm and his white wife on the other, with |
al the gusto and social tomfoolery he |
would or could bestow upon the most dis
tinguished white family in the land. Con- |
trast this treatment of Fred Douglass and |
his musty family with his refusal 10 permit |
his wife to visit Richmond with him on a |