Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-04-08

buried. 10th srs politically dead.
Compared with David b. Hin or Grover
Cleveland, the late William n. Tweed %
on deck In his s~hift-sleeves. and the
late Julius Cesar 10 in . state of boister.
Gus activity getting ready to make a
hon1e-fun ii the Olympian games amid
the enthusiastic plaudits Of the Roman
populace. still they keep right on,
running against each other Just a.
though there was something ut the end
Of II and it would be worth anything il
they got 1t: 1t all comes 81 their not he.
ing sufficiently alive to what il goirs on
around them to know that as q matter
of fact they are dead ns . d~oornail, both
of them; counted out Of the presiden.
tial ace by all intelligent observers Of
current politics. Mr.. Hill has teen
dead for at least three months, and
Grover Cleveland nearly four years.
Big-head killed them both. One got
fat and forgot his friehdsj the other got
ssucy and did too much for them.
Mr.. Hill goes prancing through the
localities in the South made Historic"
by what he calls disturbances" de-
claiming loose incoherencies about the
great Democratic party and state rights,
Force bills and the day of deiiverance;
calling upon Democrats to unite" and
organize" in the only section of the
country where they. are 80 thoroughly
organized and solIdly united that no
IDENTITY thinks he is making great prog.
ress in scooping in delegates. In none
of his speeches las he said anything
worthy, We will not say of a statesman,
but of a fourth-class political stump ora.
tor. His eloquenee has consisted in
stale repetitions Of the most ~latulent
phrases of forgotten campaigns; his vi.
tuperation of political opponents has
been borrowed from the vocabulary of
the dead and gone fire-eaters, and re-
hsshed to inspire their descendants.
BY what the Evening Post describes
as "a happy coincidence" simultane-
ously with this irruLtion of Hill into
historic places with his mouth open
Grover Cleveland appears on the scene
Not abruptly or in~trusively. but coyly
and with apparent diffidence, rs If he
had responded with reluctance to the
cali of duty, reinforced by the tumult-
uous summons Of an oppressed people
who would not be denied. As a matter
Of prosaic fact, the call came from his
old friend, Gen. Bragg, who cloves him
for the enemies he has made" and was
not at all trmultuous. Bragg. being all
old cnum of Cleveland's and apparent
iy as unconscious that he had been po-
l~itically dead for nearly four years as
Cleveland was himself, wrote him au
urgent letter asking him to q the
country from going to the everlasting
bow-wows through the operation of the
Ubiquitous Mckinley bill. Cleveland
responded with uncommon prompt
ness that it VAS an awful re-
sponsibility, and something that even if
he wanted 1t he should not push q
self-seeking for, but on the
whole, as Bragg seemed 80 much in
earnest about it, he would leave him
self in the hands of his friends. Which,
freely translated, means he thinks he is
very much alive and may get there.
The reading between the lines in the
allusion to s~elf-seeking is that Hill il do.
ing that sort of thing, and by that token
exhibiting himself as a blooming idiot.
He tells Bragg in closing that this is u
time for Democratic thoughtfulness and
deliberation." Well, he can bet it Is.
And he can make up his mind to
another thing, that Democrats have al.
ready thought and deiiberated enough
to reach the conclusion that neither he
nor Hill has the ghost Of y show for the
nomination. They have killed each
other.
By-and-by Mr.. German, of Maryland,
will step up to these deluded shades
Snd say: Now, gentlemen, your part
of the show being over, will you kindly
take way your remains and let us pro.
coed to business ?"-New York Tribune