The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-22

| pointed our representative TO take Eohu 'itIt
| Of Senator Hill his way from Atlanta to
Savannah.
Mr.. Moran, who last week accepted The
urgent invitation of the society to be its
guest at once telegrapicd his accoptance
| OF the pleasant task.
EDITOR ng'CLURE'S BREAK.
His Opposition TO Hill Lands Him in a
Hornets Nest.
! From The Philadelphia Sunday Item.
| Colonel Alexander Kaleidoscope Mcclure
| has disturbed a block Of hornets nests by
| dccrying your cousin David Bennett Hill
| and putting Cleveland down in Dixie. Not
| only are the public men of many of the
| southern sections jumping on his venerable
back. but the newspapers are pouring
spherical shot into his rhinocerous-like hide.
! The southern people seem to know more
about who they want for president that the
ubiquitous editor of The Philadelphia
Times which is not only strange, but in
eXplicable. 1t now turns out that tie colo
ncls trip III the direction OF the southern
/ cross and The orange blossoms of Ioace de
Leon was for a twofold purpose-picnsure
and Clcveiand proselytism.
| Before he took his seat i'll the Florida
| special Of the Pennsylvania railroad, J.
repeatedly told him that the south is
| AGAINST Cleveland, and impressed hi1n with
| the cold fact that it would not take lin
| long to make the discovery for himself. lie
has run plump up against the anti Cleveland
| wall, and IS now undergoing the humiha-
| ton and the modification Of hearing and
seeing his dire predictions that iii!l could
| not carry certain southern states laughed
! at and sc0ted at. AS q political prophet,
! Colonel McClure's reputation has fallen be-
| low the freezing point i'll the south. lie
| appears to have greatly CNaspcrated the
fire eaters by his assertion that Hill would
Il,
| land, on the other hand. could carry it.
I The Virginia situation is this Mr.. Cleve-
! lands electors III 1858 were returned as
! elected by a plurality Of 800. The result
was in doubt for at least three days, and
there is just enough suspicion about this
| lean and WcaZcMed plurality to cast IL
| shadow upon its honesty. Now, one year
| afterwards, mark YOU. after the blight and
| weight Of CloYclandi&m had been lifted
! from Virginia the democrats gave Me
killey. their candidate for governor,
| plurality Of 42,17T, or 10000 more Votes
than the stuffed prophet had received
The total vote for electors WAS 2SJ, III,
ard for. governor 30i lis.
Here is the anomaly of vote for gov
eTI!or exceeding d vote for president.
| What does il indicate? Why that nearly
! twenty thousand democrats in their dis
| gust Of Cl"yclandism. refused to so TO the
| poles Now the question arises, is this OAR
| ing Of tfc nugWumps strong + today iii
| Virginia than he was whom - made so
narrow an escape fon defeat in 1888?
| Then there WAS he national 20 ( tnb from
| which to iced TIE democratic gentlemen
| of Virginia which should 90 20 the cred
| it Of So ] defy any one to name me
| single intIUc.rtial paper published IL tic state
| Of Virginia that is for Cleveland. The two
| United States senators, the entire congress
| Sional delegation, the f50yern0", the attor-
ney general and an overwhelming majority
| Of the legislature q see that /. has just
| been polIed) are opposed to the prophet.
| The Vir ina democrats were the first to
nail UP their protest against his nomiEa-
ton in this year of grace. I'rt Mcclure
| says Clcvt and can carry Virginia, and
| that ought 10 settle it. But H. said, too
| WRIGHT ANA 'IcCn would faNc 1u),GO0
majority in Pennsylvania last fal; but
| they had the returns thus far fail to dis
close it. Colonel Mcclure is one Of the men
| who bumper Horace Greedy o1 tie demo-
cratic oarty IN 1872. lie IS low doing bis
| level best to dunn, Cleveland on it in 1882.
Lave learn 4 nothing. His Cicza.;nd dump,
| however, will not succeed. The nonna-
ton Of Hill would prove. i'll business
| nsp, disastrous 10 The Tim .. The cit
,ntele Of The Times has alleys largely
| been deMctr"uc
This, i o. natural by JASON Of the in, in,
il each recurring campaign Ii would
le Impossible for The Times now 'f suPGi.9,rt
Hill, unless It's stomach for crow. IS IKE
hat Of q shark for bones With Mr. Nc
C Cur lalnbasting HiH. ard with It's
democratic readers melting away Ike
pha under the Iiarrity orsaniza-
| lion, publiSl or McI.aughlin would come
| TO me front VITA tonabawk all scGlping
Lnifc. There would he ? cr'1 between
| tie business Office and edit lrlil &C Ihe
| Times has gone through Ia 1"-h oA me
mr. In r 1SS3 Wien 1t fought Go Patti
; sn and Attorney General Ca ,si'Iy 50 vehe-
| mently. il lost its democratic readers by
the thousands, and it Wrcgke4 i lod rs hson
| Uackguard ~ Commodore Sineerly for
printing onc-ccnt frec-gift newspaper. In
| lhc cud, however, in order ~ survive; II
| was compelled to sell itself IKE o.hScfIH 3
| Record for cent. And 1t WAS upon me
| cont basis that it again got q Citculation
| This destruction of cCwspaper circulation
! hv illshapcn editorial management IS not a
| new thing in this country. Erederick i1ud-
son. in his History of Journalism re.
latps a number of Instances. can poihs
Won to the bones of The Sunday Mercury.
| IFS perfidy to its party i'll selling out 10
Stokley for mayor sent 1t reehhS 70 us
crave. The few hundred dollars 1t received
| for it's "eall-out" cost it thousands III an III
stantonnons dcprcciation cf It's value as q
! newsnaoer plant The New York suns
FOO, advocacy of General Butler in 1881
last + - 600 readers, which Pulitzer was
smart enough TO take ADVANTAGE o. ana lie
br;It The World circulation with them.
III, Th. World started ont np, and chic fey
weeks ago to pound David Bennett t: LII,
taking the side of the Cleveland klcEerS
| against Hills midwinter and snap conyGn-
ion New York newspaper men tell me The
W S7Tt lost thousands Of readers daily The
Sun. which is the great Hill organ of the
| metropolis, catching them: In TINS way Lhe
Sun has boon able t. politically square l'self
| with The World.
Pulitzer was so greatly alarmed at the
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