The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-04-07
CLEVELAND IN THE LEAD.
Rapidly Growing in Favor as a Presi-
Dental Candidate:

6apluly GfOWInS III FstNOr as d HFcS'
Dental Candidate.
From the Philadelphia Times.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Despite all
the efforts of the politicians to pre-
vent Mr.. Cleveland s denomination his
star is now in the ascendant. The
barometer of public opinion is fiuct-
uating and responds quickly to any
change in conditions. But at no
time within the past six months has
there been such a complete and radi-
cal change of sentiment at the nat
ional capital as has been going on
during the past few weeks. Hills
stock is rapidly falling, and as it
goes down Cleveland's stock rises.
The result of the shelving of the
silver bill last week has given great
impetus to the feeling that Mr.. Cleve-
land is the logical nominee of the
party on a platform of tariff reform
and sound money, and the tide now
is running strongly in his favor.
Hills strength is rapidly fading
away. The Hill-Gorman-Brice COM
y
defeat Mr.. Cleveland, seems to have
been entirely dissolved. At least the
members of the ''triumvirate" do
not appear to be working in the
unison they did a few months ago.
AS matter of fact, the anti-Cleve-
land combination seems to have
blundered badly in its estimate of
the situation. The friends of Mr..
German, for instance, joined in the
Hill boomers, not with the idea that
Hill could be nominated, but in the
belief that Mr.. Cleveland's nominal
ton could be rendered impossible by
the candidacy of Mr.. Hill, and finally
that when the latter was forced to
withdraw the anti-Clevelands strength
would be to the Senator from Mary
land. In other words, the Tro-
gramme was to kill Cleveland with
Hill and then nominate German.
A few weeks ago, however, the
friends of Senator German concluded
that Hill was becoming too formid-
able, and they began to systematic
ally backcap him among the politi-
ticians here. At the same time Mr..
Hills inherent weakness began to be
apparent to every one, and
the consequence was the almost
complete collapse of the Hill boom.
At the same time the train of events
here, capped with the shelving of
silver last week, pushed Mr.. Cleve-
| land to the front as the logical nom
| inee of the party, and now the Cor
| man men and other anti-Cleveland
men realize that they pnlled the
props from under Hill too soon.
| Mr.. Germans chance of securing the
nomination was dependent entirely
| upon the disposal of Mr.. Cleveland s
candidacy by Senator Hill.
Looked at as a past Presidential
possibility Mr.. Hill has been a great
disappointment. 1t is admitted now
very generally by his friends that
his great mistake was made when he
entered the United States Senate,
where he could be ranged alongside
of men of national prominence in his
party. AS long as he remained AT
Albany and won victories for the
Democratic party, his fame was daz
cling, but like the Yelled Prophet o
Khorassan, he made fatal blundel
whenhe removed his mask and showed
himself for what he was. When hi
came to the Senate his colleagues
there who had admired him from. {
distance, expected to be impressed
by his qualities of leadership and hi
sturdy Democracy, and his friends
assured the public that he would no
suffer in comparison with any OF tn
men with whom he should come il
contact when he entered the nation
| al arena Rut il did not take hi
colleagues in the Senate long to as
certain that Mr.. Hill had little il
him of the statesman and mnch Q
the scheming politician.
They found him skillful wire-pull
err, who was chasing the Presidenc,
with the zeal and ardor of candi
date for Constable in a small coun
try town. His whole attention wa
wrapped up in plans for advancing
his own interest. He talked abou
nothing else, and seemed to think a
bout nothing else. If he had an
views on public questions he was s.
cautious about expressing ther
down with SO many conditions tina
many became heartily Disguised wit
him. When a man aspires to tn
highest office in the land he must b
a lion and not a fox. The inabilit
of the Democratic Senators to ascel
tain where Mr.. Hill stood on publ
! questions is admirably illustrated
the case of the silver bill.