The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-02-26
The Prestdential outlook.

Mr.. Hill has successfully carried
through his mid-winter convention
and instructed the delegates from
New York. That in matters OF THE
kind Mr.. Hill is invincible, no one
will deuy. He can carry New York
against any man in it. He is the
most daring, expert, cunning poll
tician living. When that is said OF
Mr.. Hill, that is about all that can be
said.
Is he good Presidential timber?
Do the Democrats of this Union want
a politician for their leader? Do |
they want a nominee who will make
doubtful more electoral votes than
New York can cast? Do they want
a nominee whose name at the mast
head will strengthen them at one
place, and weaken their outer lines
wherever the fighting is to be done?
Do they think that because New
York has been allowed to name the
nominee to Democratic conventions
heretofore, that New York can elect
President? What il Mr.. Hill can
carry New York, will it avail the
Democracy anything If he loses
Indiana, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and West Virginia?
Mr.. Hill is unquestionably strong In
New York. and his strength there
makes him strong before the National
Convention. But is he strong before
the people of the states?
What about Mr.. Cleveland! Is he
not the choice of the people? Is he
not the choice of every doubtful state
except New York? Is he not a
statesman without a peer? Does he
among men? Is his name not
synonym for honesty and courage,
for patriotism and statesmanship?
Does not his name or his presence
create enthusiasm at all times and in
all places?
AS the nominee of his party would
Mr.. Cleveland be weak in New York?
There are those who say Mr.. Hill
holds New York in the hollow OF his
hand, II so-and we admit it-can
not he deliver its electoral vote tc
the nominee of the Dem"c ratio party?
II he can and will not, ought such a
traitor to his party and renegade to
principle be favored for his treachery
aud rewarded for his selfishne5s.
Aside from any prejudice for or
against the Candidate, on clean cut
question ~ principle, New York is a
Democratic state. Added to this
fixed Democratic vote Mr.. Cleveland
controls larger independent vote in
that state than any other man. Mr..
! Croker controls Tammany and Mr.
: Hill controls Croker. IF Mr.. Hill
o will do the work he can, aud Mr..
q Croker will do the work he can, does
any zane man doubt that Mr.. Cleve'
!, land as the Observation-Disclosures can
1 carry New York?
When the Hill men speak OF Cleve-
=, lands weakness in New York, is II
u. not on the hypothesis that Hill will
: sulk and Croker will knife?
New York wants Hill. The De-
mncracy at large want Cleveland
. Is it not better to disaPpOint Ne"
York, than todisappOint the country
Cleveland, with HIPS assistance cal
carry New York. Hill, with Cleve
lands assistance, cannot carry th'
Z other doubtful states. Cleveland, a
- the nominee of the Democratic party
with Hilps assistance, can be elected
President OF the United States. Hill
>, as a nominee, with Cleveland's assist
ance, cannot be elected. Which i
the available candidate? There is NJ
- question but that the daring and ag
- gressive campaign Of Mr.. Hill has tt
some extent disconnected thu
Cleveland forces. 1t has not per
suaded them or converted them, bu
has more or less, disheartened them
We believe.a reaction in Cleveland
favor, however, is inevitable. Tn
great body of the people are for CleVe
land, and this country is too large 10
, Hill by his installations to manlPu
late. Hill has played his hand; he
; out of trumps; he has pulled himse
-. to his utmost capacity. His boon
~ will either burst or shrink between
, now and June.
As to Cleveland, the closer the da
p the quicker will be the heart beats
40 the people, the clearer their voices
the greater their enthusiasm. Wit
his rugged honesty, his matches
individuality, he will overshsdow a
m other aspirants, and when his nam
is called in the convention hall, Liz
s. an irresistible avalanche, the DELE
in gates fresh from the people will foe
Id to his standard and crown him wit
We victory.
a. Cleveland is not strong with pol
of ticians, because by his own bo!dne
to he commits his party squarely to
all principle, and politicians prefer
ee trim and dodge But he is first
n. the hearts of his cOuntrymen, al
,st thew will nominate and elect him.