The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-02-04
FOR PRESIDENT.

cTatic party IN tne apprOacninS cauNas
en- was assured. He was TOO late. We We
not ready to 20 To trial on that issue. The
was no time left to us to prepare, nor eve
n to procure evidence. II that message ma
80 been seni in Mt the beginning instead
rhe end of his administration, it woul
n have wrought no disaster TO himself M
l., his party. Four years would have bee
ample time for discussion and explain;
lie ton; the people would have been fully e'
o. ucated upon the subject; disabused of til
impressions with which the Republican
had debauched their minds. They woul
a. have clearly disc Dvered the abuses, and II
less clearly have apprehended the neces
:, ssry reforms. The policy would have re
% celved the approval of the people at Large
and Grover Cleveland. not Benjamin Har
rison, would have Seen president TO day
G But as things were done, our case wa
wholly past praying for. Not well in
formed and jud:cious minded Democrat il
Y the United States doubted the consequenc
of raising that issue at the time 1t wa
4 done. We were benten already; that wa
l. a furegone conclusion. To defiantly rails
and present q national issue oftthe yer,
first Importance, when time for defendlns
it was an element of vital nee' and n'
time remained TO us; when a fierce and
d frey contest was Utmost upon uS; when al
e possible disadvantages namperei and hin
dred rs. and all advantages were with the
enemy; that enemy, enger, active. alert
5 powerful, unscrupulous and desperate: full
ly aware of th value of time 10 us; time
which we could not have and the want OF
! which was of most value to him; was per-
haps, the most opportune movement ever
made by a prominent Statesman In this
: Country. 1t was like that OF general
who should draw out his forces in line OF
battle, In front of the enemy, before pro-
vidins them with ammunition. That Gen
eral might be man OF most approved
bravery and integrity; but the defeated,
battered and routed army, would surely
and verv energetically anathernatise his
ljudgem ent, and utterly refuse TO march
again under his command.
Again, quite recently, we have suffered
defeat on this same issue. Our defeat in
Chic last November was a disaster of the
same kind. The contest was fought out
on the Mckinley tariff. There is no use
denying the fact: that the tariff was the
sole issue. No effort of the Democrats
could divert attention from that, ard turn
IL to anything else. And the result is, Nc
KIM ey is now governor OF Ohio.
Now what does this signify? Merely the
defeat of the Ohio Democrats by reason OF
not having votes enough? By no means.
That election WAS regarded as one OF nat
| ional Importance, and the outcome, as
every one knows, is accepted ;.s of national
Significance. 1t means, consequently,
t1at the Cleveland Mills policy is again
rejected. 1t is mere folly to deny. or attempt
TO disguise this fact. That is its plain
meaning, and no ingenuity OF pettifogging
argument can put it out of sight, or give 1t
/ any other aspect.
| But this Is not all. In the recent contest
| for Speaker of the National House of Rep
resentatives, Mr.. Mills OF Texas. the lead
| er of those " no support the Cleveland pol
icy, and himself the foremost exponent of
it, was defeated, This connot be misun- |
| derstood. 1t is more palpable and un-
conditional rebuke than the Ohio election !
gave. That mi ght, by possibility be miscon |
strued: This canEot, 1t was the rejection
OF tn e eCleveland-Mills policy: this time /
cot ~ Republicans, but by Democrats,
and these Democrats, the representative
men of the party,
Now wat does all this. mean? Simply
this: Cleveland has already suffered three
distinct defeats: III the last Presidential
election, in tn e late Ohio election, and in
the defeat OF Mills for Speaker. There is
no mistaKing the import of al. this. The
dullest voter in the land can Understand
1t. Mr.. Cleveland is, for the coming Pres
idential Canvas, au impossible candida tie.
He cannot be elected. He is defeated be-
yond all hope already. To nominate him
will be equivalent to letting the election
go by default. We cannot carry him, and
whatever may be his inerits as Il man, a
citizen and a democrat, and We concede
the utmost that may be claimed ior him
In thes. particulars, We yet say that II
place him in nomination. will be mere
act OF political suicide.
Thus regarding Cleveland as an lmpoSsi-
billy, it remains to be considered whom
we shall ha We. The time is cow for coun-
Sci, aud Democrats should deliberate and
assemb les, SO that delegatcs may know the
general sentim ent. and be able to reach Il
final Judgement acceptable 10 the party at
Inc w est uSSlfeS ~ "tSltiu / I
and the South concurs fn that demand.
This Eastern democracy insist upon a man
from an eastern State as n condition indis
pensable to success. All these cannot be
gratified. yet it is reasonably certain that
all can be harmonised, What is most I'M
portant is to select one who, though not
the earliest PREFERENCE of either. section, is
YET not personally or politically objection
able. 1.-THE objection be, not to the per-
son and his views and principles, but i,
merely TO the locality from which he may
be taken, and, any dissatisfaction grow
ing out of that will be short lived, and
VIII scarcely outlast the Convention. AS
all sections cannot have their preference.
Some must give way, and the problem of ,
selection is simplified. A man not held in d,
disfavor by the democracy of any
section must be chosen. As matters now
stand. il seems evident that an eastern
man, will and indeed, mus: be selected,
and of all that are spoken OF in this con-
nection, the leading names are those of
Grover Cleveland, and DAVID Z. HILL,
hoth of New York II seems just now not
only probable, but inevitable, that the
co ntest, soon or late, will narrow down to {
these two. No others seem to have an c
abiding chance,
As between these two, it seems to us,
there can be no difficulty in chosing The !
purpose of the Democratic party is, not to
please or honor any man, but to elect the
next President, The success of the party,
lnu the advancement OF its principles and
policy, not the elevation OF any man is the
object OF its desire and efforts. 1t is near.
y, If not quite self evident that this OBJ
ect can not be attained with Cleveland as e
he nominee. A defeated candidate always
.rters upon the next canvas under disaG- E
yantageS, and Cleveland has suffered three =
ieieats already, as we have shown. That
'ught to settle all Questions as to the pro- C
'riety of 81 ging him the leadership of the n
party. He can lead us only 10 defeat
In ihis condition of things. all Indica- !
ions point to DAVID B. HILL as the COM II
ng man. He is Democrat of the most n
pproved type. He is Objectionable To no fl
bo iy OF the party, and aside ..
rom the fact he is an eastern man, there :"
$ not in sight any objection TO him at all, L
lie IS a strong, sagacious, wise and patriot II
e Statesman: always clear headed; always a
rompt to meet any emergency; always II
moving what to co. and Low TO do 1t. He
5 second to no man of his party, or any u
arty in point OF talent, familiarity with
n hi il. "a fairs and "a WIDE EnO,s ledoa af