Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27

stab my general in the back while the
enemy was scattering before his standards.
donot love him Tor the enemies ne has
made, but for the enemies of Democracy ne
has conquered
THE FALSE CRY THAT HILL CUT CLEVELAND
IN 1855.
The brutally false Republican outcry that
Hill cut Cleveland in 1883 is repeated. l
know the contrary. 1 know it from Hill. l
know It also from Cleveland himself. whom
heard in his Office rebuke one who made
such intimation and az the same time de-
clare Hill to be an honorable man and in
capable of such treachery. / know it from
the fact that no man in the country had
more interest in Cleveiand's election than
Hill, for it would have smoothed his path
TO the presidency in 1892. know II by the
fact that thousands of Republicans sup
ported Hill as governor on a state issue who
would not support Cleveland on a rational
issue. Governor Nichols, in Lou
isiana, got much larger majority than
Cleveland, and Governor McKinney's
majority in Virginia was nearly 10000 more
a year later We do not suspect these gen.
tlemen of any treachery. 1t is sin and a
shame to put the paltry falsehoods against
Hill upon the people.
WHY NOT DExoUNcE THE BOILERS MACHINEl
do not observe that those who denounce
the machine of the regular Democracy of
New York apply like denunciations TO the
their machine methods-their petitions,
manifestos, advertisements, list OF names
and finance neutrality-suspicious. by
| those who assault similar methods when
adopted by the regular Democrats Are
| those boiling Democrats more to be re-
spected, with their disorganizing machinery,
than the regulars with their organizing
machinery for the common Triumph
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION OF FEBRUARY %.
tits silly TO call the Democratic conveu-
ton of New York, held on February 90, a
'.snap'' convention. 1t was as open as the
day, and free for all Democrats. Had not
the New York Democracy the right to hold
their convention when they pleased to do
so2 Had they not the right to tell the coun-
try who they wanted for president, and who
| they could elect, when outsiders were boastzl
| ing that they were for anothera Is Neg
1 York to dictate when Virgins shall speak,
or Virginia when New York shall speak 3 =
Where was the snap judgments Is itpot
preposterous for boilers 10 pretend syhat
they did not have time after more than a
months notice to attend Democratic priRa-
ries inside the party, when they did have
| full time to hold their own gatherings out
side the partya Was q single Democrat re-
fused admittance to the regular meetingsl
Not so. Their pretensions are ridiculous.
| They could not carry a ward, or county, in
New York state, and yet they set them
selves up to dictate the presidency and run
the country.
THE PENNSYLVANIA MEETINGS on JANU-
AIRY 8.
CHANGED to be in Philadelphia on Janu-
airy 8, jackson day," addressing Demo-
cratic association, On that very day the
conventions were held ranging that great
city for another candidate Were they
denounced as snap conventions? Were
they derided as ''too earlyl' Are states
| that never give the Democrats an electoral
vote to dictate its nominee in early meet
| ings and is the great state whichtheld its
convention six weeks later to be rebdked
when we must rely upon it to give US the
| victoryl The truth is, the boilers in New
York were willing enough for an early con-
vention, but only cried against it when
they counted noses. A just suspicion ex-
| lists that they are more anxious for the sue
| cess of Wall-street machinery to suppress
the peoples views on the money question
than for Democratic victory. The eager
ness with which Hill was besought to get
] out of the way now and be president next
time" indicates that personal objections to
him are no deeper than the present neces-
sites of his rivals. The boilers supported
the machine last fall; why so suddenly dis
enchanted in the springl
DEMOCRATIC HARMONY ESSENTIAL TO
VICTORY.
We must stop abusing Democrats if we
hope for Democratic success. Our enc
mics are laughing in their sleeves at us.
Mephistopheles grins when he sees the Re-
publican editorials of last fall, which New
York rebukedvat the polls, rehashed in
Democratic journals this spring, and he
will grin again when he sees Republican
papers publishing them again this fall
with Democratic papers quoted as au-
thority. l have no sympathy with those
who pull down any candidate of our
cause, whether his name be Hill, German,
Cleveland, Flower Palmer, Grayor Boies,
and being myself Democrat would as
promptly defend one of them from unjust.
structures as 1 would another.
THE CANDIDATE QUESTION OF ExPBDIENCY.
Each of US is entitled to our preference
for president. If l had mine undiverted by
the expediences of the hour would have
Southern man from amongst those who
were veterans in Democratic service before
some who are candidates were heard Of.
But I realize that eXpediency must locate
our choice, and following expediency pro-
test against policy so fatal to its efficacy
NEW YORK NECESSARY TO SUCCESS.
It lis evident that we must carry New
York 10 win. Hill is New York's over
whelming choice. The farmers are his
friends. The workingmen are his friends.
The masses cleave to him. 1.-THE lambs of
Wall street, are against him, and are in
spring and feeding the attack on him IN
der mock cries of reform and purity.
Whether we nominate him or not, we will
need him and all his friends and their
vast courage and ability to pull as
through.
VIII we consolidate our ranks by insult
ing the men who have just plucked victory
from defeat and upon whom we must rely
to preserve it7 It is the game of marplot
TO do it. The country is ripe for an upFis-
ing against the exactions and extravagances
of Republican ruleand the threatened enor-
mites of force-bill legislation. If we are
defeated in November next it will be by
those who have turned their guns on their
friends and wasted ammunition which
should be reserved for their foes.
With Republicans Selling government
everywhere they can under any pretext as
witness Connecticut and Nebraska, are
there not marks enough for the rife-prac-
tice of Democratic gunners outside of our
own ranksl
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
will meet ere long. Let US be ready to
cheer its nominee Let us give every can
didate and every section calm hearing
and fair show. Let US restrain hasty
speech and premature conclusion. Let US
send men unpledged who have the good
sense and cool discretion to direct Judgment
to success and to subordinate all personal
ambitions. If we act less wisely aSssurely
as time rolls on the, Democracy. will be-
wrecked, the country will VINCE .vsFder
prodigaiity and extortion, the South will be
visited by the rigors of force-biH tyrannies,
L. Il -1-r.-1.