Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-03
THE HILL CURRENT.

There have been no Democratic state
conventions of late, and it is therefore
all the more remarkable that the tele-
graph is so much burdened with mes
sages intended to show the strength o /
Mr.. Cleveland, mainly in strong Repub
lican states. Allthese multitudinous tel
egrams are designed to break the i'm
pressive force of New York's unanimous 8
declaration for Hill, and of the instruc-
tion of Democratic state convention
which consisted of 374 Hill delegates
and IL Cleveland delegates that the
Empire state should cast its vote for
Hill as unit in the Democratic national
convention. Since this splendid en-
dorsement for Hill in the really pivotal
state of the United States the Hill cur
rent is running like the flow of Iser, in
Campbell's poem of Hohenlinden, "rap-
idly"
In the kilograms published in this
journal yesterday there was computa-
ton, cleaned by the staff of the New
York Herald, on the opening of the
national convention, which will consist
of 900 delegates, which gave Hill 2S5
delegates to Cleveland's 265. 1t will be
noticed that, in this computation, Hill
already leads. When it was made, the
full significance of Hills superb victory
in the determining state of the union
had not had time to permeate the Demo-
cratic masses. There were also some
very grave errors in the forecast OF the
prediction of states. For instance, it
was assumed that Cleveland would have
the votes from California. If the esti-
mate shall not prove truer than this his
265 votes is a mere chimera of the i'm
agination. The strength OF Hill in Cal
ifornia is grossly underestimated in
such distribution of the vote of this
state. We should not be whit sur
prised if California should send Hill
delegation to Chicago.
Hill's strength in the south is growing
every day. He will have Virginia and
North Carolina. The New York Herald S
figures concede him Texas. In Missis-
sippi he is rushing favorite, and grow
ing every day with the masses. In
Georgia he has ex-senator Brown and
Senator Colquit-the two leaders of the
opposing Democratic factions of that
state, and the Atlanta Constitution, a
power in itself. As Il matter of fact, the
south is liable to turn up in the conven-
ton almost unit for him, after theil
first choice has been exhausted by scat
tering delegations.
The truth is that, when New York
speaks with an authoritative voice, her
preference is generally regarded. A sig
nifcant sign of the times is that the
New York World has already chopped,
and now frowns upon the proposition OF
second convention, which a lot of dis
gruntled Cleveland politicians are advo-
eating. 1t follows this up with an
article justly encomiastic of Hills splen-
did career as governor, and with an.
other leader enumerating the ills which
have followed dissensions in the Demo-
cratic party in the Empire state.
The fact is that there are going to be
no dissensions in the Democratic party
of the state of New York this year. Mr..
Hill will be nominated for president on
the first, or pretty nearly the first bal
lot. Mr.. Cleveland's Mugwump friends
will vote against him in his own state
when it comes to the election, but the
whole lion Democracy will come
forth to see that he shall receive the
biggest send-off any Democratic candi-
date for president ever rolled up in tina
state. As typical Democrat he will be
accorded a typical Democratic recogni-
ton. We have now entered upon the
domain of practical politics, in which
principle and expediency will combine
to assure the Democratic party a signal
victory, personified in the person Of
Hill.