The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-12


from defending the principles of Demo-
cracy."
The meeting closed with rafting cheers
for Grover Cleveland
Hills Adherents Afraid Of whitney
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.1
NEW YORK, Feb. ia Worlds special
from Albany says: Among the men who
built the Democratic political machine thers
Is widespread fear that there is more in
the New York movement against Senator
Hill than appears on the surface. Back of
all such movements they say there is al
ways some animating mind, some personal
treasury from which at least the first ex-
penses are drawn.
THE ORDINARY MACHINE POLITICIAN
never admits the possibility of large bodies
OF citizens moving spontaneously for COM
mon purposes as matter of principle. His
first question is: Who is behind itl And
his next: What are they afterl The DoIf-
tlcians here answer the first question with
the name Of William c. Whitney, the bril-
liant ex-secretary of the navy during Mr..
CleveIand's administration. They have
taken up the men who have SO far appeared
IN the movement, examined into their mo-
tlves, their past political conditions, and
the only man they can see in the state who
could have brought the movement TO
ITS PRESENT MENAcING PROPORTIONS
is Mr.. Whitney They say he will never
allow himself to be identified with the
movement until 1T shall become q success
those who speak-alI of them friends of
senator HllI-say the ex-secretary is seek
ing the presidential nomination himself:
that he hopes when Cleveland is seen to be
clearly out that the mantle of his old chief
may be put on him by the Cleveland men
al Chicago. Close friends Of Senator Hill
say that Two years ago Mr.. Whitney aud
Daniel ). Lamont were asked to define their
poAtlcal attitude, or rather, to say whether
they would oppose Senator Hills ambition
1t mi ht be inferred from what these men
say that some sort Of tentative offer was
mode for
A POLITICAL ALLIANCE
On the part of the Senator If it was made
IL was rejected. But, say the Hill men,
MIR. Whitney and his friends gave assur-
ances, or at least were understood TO give
assurances, that while they would like to
help MIR. Cleveland and would prefer to
vote for him, they would not seek to
| hght Senator Hill in New York state
Inc impression was created among the
| Hin men that Mr.. Whitney was deYOting
himself to building up his private fortunes
and would probably never enter politics
sga1n. Governor Hill and his friends were
more than satisfied with such a state of sf-
| fairs and they went ahead confident of sue
! cess Just before the meeting of the state
committee, however, they say they began
| to hear
WHISPERS OF WHITNEY" WHITNEY"
among some men of political influence.
Then came the issuing of the Reform club
circular and the movement in New York.
Inc Hill men have tried to find the connec-
tion between these events and Mr.. Whit
/ ney IN vain, but they believe that there is
such connection.
Others say that at the bottom this
new association is planned for theupur-
pose of building new political organiza-
ton in New York city in
OPPOSITION TO TANMANY HALL.
The County Democracy has gone down
| forever, and cannot be revived under auy
conditions or any shape which would get
the confidence of Democratic voters The
Voorhis faction is distrusted as a secret
alliance to Tammany Hall with but an
imaginary organization. Something en-
tlrely new was necessary, ana that some
thing new should be entirely Democratic.
To have strength 1t should be started in
the spring. These political reasoners say
that If some anti-Hill man should be nom
mated at Chicago, some one not in
THE HILL-GoRMAN-BRIcE COMBINE,
he would naturally owe great deal TO this
new movement, and if Democratic success
should come in November the organization,
supported by federal patronage, would de-
Vetop into rival worthy of Tammsny's
steeliest steel. Senator Vests letter to the
| NJ,
night, in which he pointed out Governor
Roswell p. Flower as the best kind of a
compromise candidate, has not attracted
much attention here. That phase of the
situation has been discussed here often and,
as was SAID, there are any number Of men
VINO would much rather take Flowers
chances of being chosen at Chicago than
those of either Hill or Cleveland. One eff
J feet of the Vest letter has been to draw
: out a declaration from Mr.. Hills friends
that in the event of Hill not getting the
, nomination 1t will not go to any other New
= Yorker; that the state delegates to be
chosen on Washington's birthday will
SINK OR SWIM WITH HILL.
Herein lies deep game, for if western
} man should be chosen that would not in
lure Senator Hills prestige in his OWL
. state, he would still be leader here, and al
! such q leader he would in the event Of
3 Democratic success, be in all probability
: the almoner Of federal patronage, and the
present organization would flourish anC
3 grow still stronger on this new meat II 6
: New Yorker should be chosen, however,
i SENATOR HILLS GLORY WOULD BE ECLIPsEI
{ Immediately. He would be only secont
Y man here and that position would depend
t on MS good behavior, for the new Presi
dent could, and probably would, flint
friends to show him how to destroy the oil
organization and build up new one witt
: the organizers name on the ownership
plate. Even as grand vizier or prim
' minister the Senator would be at tn
q mercy of another man, and take order
q from him, and he hasn't done that sine
Samuel j. Tilden passed away. Politica
:, experts think that German, Of Maryland
y is
a PLAYING THE sHREwDEsT OF GAMES,
l. and that he has overmatched Senator Hill
q They point out that by urging Hill on
t, hold an early convention and thus ar
,. nounce to the world that he was Ney
n Yorks favorite, he was sure to rouse u
t. the Cleveland men and start tactic
IS fight which might kill OF both of the Ney
d Y ork aspirants.
An Appeal in the Higgins Case Ordered.
n WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE attorne
ID general has directed that an appeal be take
81 in the case of Higgins & Co. against th
=, United States recently decided in favor {