Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-02-04
GATH'S EULOGY ON HILL.
The Political Career of the New
York Statesman Sketched.


Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The personal panorama of the gov
ernment has rolled out David b. Hill
in the United States Senate, the man
long expected, like Shakespeare Boil
ingbrok9 succeeding the anointed
Richard II.
Everything transpired to deepen the
interest in q governor who had made
sure the abortive essays of Hoffman.
Seymour and Tilden to put New York
permanently in the Democracy. No
New York Governor since Fenton has
b,en member of the Senate Before
Fenton the notable Governor Senators
had been Seward, Marcy, Van Buren,
and d. Witt Clinton. Some other New
York Governors, like Van Buren,,
Tompkin, and George Clinton had pre-
sided over the Senate, like the present
Vice-President.
In old times it was consl dered prop
er and great for the Governor Of New
York TO be master of the Stale, and,
having set the State in order behind
him, To come up, not down, to the Som
ate. and from the Senate to proceed to
higher places in the nature of his ex-
ecutive education, such as Secretary
OF State, Vice-President and President.
For violating this code of ethics Aaron
Burr and Vice-President Tompkins
We're turned down by the irate and
grsat G. intons, the younger of whom
reversed the system finally after he
had made Ncw 70 k Create tnan tho
nation. De Witt Clinton wis in tho
Senate at Washington when IL young
man, but resigned 10 become mayor of
New York, and ran for President b.
fore he became Governor.
/ II the procession of time New York
presents two or three Governors ut
once for President. but Hill alone has
raised New York to the supreme place
as Democratic State. which was due
to it long ago. Ti1sn failed by max
ing war upon the largest body OF voters
in his own party and undermining all
the old deans OF the party like Sey-
mour, Church and Herman. He made
a shrewd young friend, however, when
in the Legislature, of David Is. Hill,
and Hill has united the vigor of Til
den as a egisiato-eXecutive with more
mutna!ity and liberation of and for the
! party m,.ssss and plain leale j OF men
IN large sew YORK cities.
Coming himself from city, OF which
he had been alderman, mayer and city
/ attorney. Ae was content%ith the pa n
place Of Licutenand-Govern a.. tuat sill
| uaiiou De Witt Clinton WAS humby
great enough to accept after he had
been UAitea States SeAato' aal tn Q
powerful master for Il dQzel years of
the emporium Of tia couhtrf. From
! Lieutenant Governor, Hi becm M Gov
ernor by succession, when Cleve-
land went on to Washington 10 be
President. Twice since lie has been
elected Governor, and held the State
till its Leg aislature became Democratic
and it had put in his Democratic sue
cessor by q great majority. All this
was done under formidable hostility,
growing out OF the perception of his
power to supplant older favorites, and
astound sc ibes and pharisees with the
divinity of something great out OF Naz-
ereth.
Those enemies bantered him to enter
the United States Senate, crying that
he would dissolve into something thin
and unnoticed there. He held the
State till his successor was inaugerat-
ed For this it was predicted that the
Senate would turn him back, an as
toundingly decivilizing proposition to
come from the apostles of reform and
higher law. Senates in these days,
do not receive the popular Caesar SO.
While prosecuting his party's advan-
tage, Governor Hill has refrained
from bitterness. has not pursued and
punished men, has allowed no ire
pressible sef-esteem to wound and in
suit tn ose OF opposite attachments to
person or party, and he has the good
will OF reasonable Republicans -thos Q
not eaten up bo secondhand or a
gratuitous bitterness; ana as Alexan-
der Hamilton paid civil encomium to
Jefferson as the natural President of
the opposition when Aaron Barr was
loing back at Albany and winking at
the support OF the beaten tederalists,
SO the Republican senators, ied by
Hiscock. received Hill us the probable
next President OF the Unit ed States,
and nearly every Democrat in the low
or house came ovsr to give him al ova-
tton.
From. the moment Governor Hill
was received into the body Of the coun-