Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
HUBBARD ON HILL.
A Friend of Cleveland, but
Grover not Possible
AS A CANDIDATE IN 1892.
Hills Strength aud Qualifications Beyond
Questionable VIII Have Over
Four Hundred Votes on
the First Ballot.

The following letter was published in the
Laredo Times, written by Ex-Governor
Hubbard, who was appointed minister 70
Japan by Cleveland:
Last evenings mail brought an appre-
Glazed letter from Ex-Governor Hubbard,
and while it is a personal letter. written in
reference TO an editorial mention in these
columns week or more since, its recipient
can not refrain from taking the liberty OF
giving it to the public Just as it comes, as
it contains so many good good points appro-
pirate to the present time:
Hon. ]. s. Penn.
My DEAR STR-You must allow me TO ex-
press the sincere qualification which a
perusal of the Laredo Tines daily and
weekly has afforded me-
That qualification has been doubly en-
HANGED by 4 knowledge of the fact that you
were the editor, and my valued friend at
the state capital during the eventful and
stormy days of our states history
from 1872 to 1879 1 am glad that
you coincide in my general views as
to the presidential contest-from Dem
ocratic standpoint-and especially in our
advocacy of Senator Hill of New York.
In the ''interview' first appearing IN the
Dallas and Galveston News (bOth of which
prominent and widely circulated news
papers differed with me and have seen
proper, as it was their right as journals,
to criticise my course on that interview.
! expressed my earnest and honest convic-
lions of both policy and duty in this polit-
ical crisis.
Ihave no defense for my action as think,
with all Difference to others, it needs none.
I was and am the ardent friend and admirer
of ex-President Cleveland, l said so in that
interview and repeat it again, and if he
could receive the unanimous nomination of
the great state of New York (his own
statel, would still advocate his cause
at Chicago as earnestly as / did in
1854, and the year that followed his
election As predicted in that in
terview, to which you kindly refer, it has
now passed into history the undeuiable fact,
however disagreeable to many, that regu-
lar convention, duly called and convened,
with due notice to all New York Demo
Gratis alike and with all the same oppor-
tunities to be represented, with singular
unanimity voted for Senator David B.
Hill, as the choice of the Democracy of the
Empire state for the presidential nomina-
ton
Any further advocacy of ex-President
Cleveland. with his own great state against
his nomination, it appears TO me to be fac
tional and unwise. 1t might and may defeat
David B. Hill, but could not, under any cir
cumstances, nominate ex-President Cleve-
land. l think that we are approaching
crisis in Democratic history! If we fail to
regain political power in this government
in 1892 "a power which we should have
never lost it will be generations before, If
ever, the Democratic party RECEIVERS its "lost
estate"
Hence I thought, and still think, that if
success is what we are after we must look
to New York as the great Indispensable
and pivotal state for candidate New
York says that her "favorite son" is SEN
ator and Ex-Governor Hill. He is as free
from guile or blunders, which in political
life as in war, are ..crimes,' y as any OF his
accusers or any Of his contemporaries. He
has shown wonderful executive and organ
izing capacity, controlling measures and
men with facility and freedom from mar
tinetism, so to speak, seldom seen IN our
national history. He redeemed a doubtful
state, and that his own, and the greatest
one in the union, when and whilst Repub-
lican administration was in power, with
millions of patronage poured out in thai
state freely as water
We. need Just such leader. But I did
not intend to write an essay. I think he
will be nominated at Chicago, because he
ought TO be by every consideration of good
policy and political wisdom which have
been always heretofore recognized and re-
spected in the national nominating conVen-
tions of the Democratic party. l think that
all the Southern states, with possibly tha
exception of Kentucky, viii vote for Hill on
the first balloting at Chicago. New York
and New Jersey and Connecticut will be for
him, and the ''free silver'' states of the far
West, though Republican at the polls, will
vote for Hill at Chicago.
He will go into that convention with over
400 votes to begin with, and after Illinois and
Iowa, Kentucky and Indiana have COM
plimented their own great "favorite sons
Palmer, Boies and Carlisle and Gray; and
PENNSYLVANIA her own Governor Patter-
son. think that manifest destiny" so to
speak, will turn these great states to the
strongest man. who will on the first ballot
have a decided plurality if not majority.
These are predictions only, but we have
a right to indulge them when based on
reasonable data, and with the history Of
past conventions fresh on our memory.