Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-06
DIVID BENNETT mn.

Rochester Democrat: David b. Hill is the
most dangerous man who has achieved pub
lie prominence in this country. Aaron Burr
was q patriot beside the unscrupalous gov.
ernor of New York.
Philadelphia Ledger: One sentence in ex.
Governor HIPS speech on Thursday night
In tho long pending case of the state verse;
the man, let US ever side with the man and
his ltberty-recalls another. 1t is the one
which tho state gave Welch, the ballot
jugglor, with whom the ex-governor promptly
sided, with a pardon that gave the man his
liberty.
New York Sun: The difference in feeling
between the democratic and mugwump amp
over the determination of this important con-
trOVersy is that the democrats are happy over
1t, and the mugwumps are so disguised at
Mr.. Hills advancement to a height of leader
ship rarely attained in his party's history,
that they even do not venture to claim the
victory for the Stuffed Prophet of Broad
street.
Globe Democrat: With David b. Hilrs
retirement from the governorship his decline
and fall as q political factor has set in. 9 = u
indeed, the split In the democracy in
New York which Hills crusade against
Cleveland caused puts HILLS own nomination
out of the question by revealing to the ma
tional democracy the fact that neither of
these two men can carry that state under eX-
lstiug conditions.
New York Tribune: The governorship of
New York is at length rid OF David b. Hill,
who has dishonored it for the past seven
years. = 4 q To say that he has s~teaiily
subordinated public interest to partisanship
OF the most selfish and narrow variety that
he has never pretended to be governor of and
for all the people, but merely of and for those
belonging to the democratic party; that he
has exhibited u vulgar contempt for public
opinion that he has been an unwaverlng and
malignant foe of practical reform measures;
that he has uniformly pondered to the worst
elements in the states population; to say this
is to take his photograph.
Indianapolis Sentinel (dem.) There is no
use minclng words about this program which
Governor Hill has laid down with such an
air of authority. 1t is q program of coward
ice, dishonesty and partisan imbecility. 1t
is a program of trickery and false pretense.
1t contemplates a shameless violation of
solemn pledges and q deliberate abandon.
tnent OF sacred principles. There is nothing
IN it TO appeal to the pride, the patriot ism,
the manhood OF a single democratic voter i'll
all this land. 1t is Ia program born of an un-
bridled ambition which would ruin where it
cannot rule. 1t represents no respectable
body Of public opinion and voices nothing
but the wishes of a little coterie of political
adventures and mercenaries.
Washington Post: He Is not only a man
of infinite resources, but of interchangeable
agRressiveness and unexampled audacity. 1t
IS much TO he questioned if any other man
living could have piloted a democratic ma
JOrltv INTO LnO New YORK senate as he has
done in the face of majoritles the other way,
even if he had occupied the same official po-
sition, for there is no other man living who
knows so well the capabilities of such a po-
sition, and who could master courts and can
vassers so absolutely to his will. He may
not be a born leader of men, nor a magnet to
sway the multitude, nor "a statesman able to
more than straddle great public questions,
but as n setter of pins in his own interest,
and general diSturber of the peace of the re-
publican family, he beats EN- all.
New York Times: In truth, it is a great
relief 10 all honest folk to get this Hill
packed OF to Washington, where he will be
powerless, officially mt least. to do further
mischief. There is a pleasure III contention,
as Governor Hill said at his banquet. But
always to be fighting an ignoble adversary;
to be forever stirring up the watch dogs
against a marauder who is known to be
ready to steal anything he can lay his hands
on and carry off to be under the necessity
of repeatedly warning the traveller upon the
public highway that a sneaking assassin
with u longish stiletto is creeping up behind
him; and continuously for seven years to
perform the duty that civilization and Christ
ianity impose of warning the youth of the
community against the debauching example
of David B. Hill is not a pleasure, but a task
that needs not seven years or one to make it
previously distasteful.