New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-24
GOOD FRUITS OF BAD POLITICS.

The managers Of the Democratic campaign
are daily issuing for publication, though not
necessarily as a guarantee Of good faith, the
rosiest reports and the most cheerful prog
| nostications to which voters we're ever asked
to give credit in a Presidential year. If they
think that this policy is good politics nobody
can blame them for adopting it, considering
what an assortment of extremely bad politics
they have on hand. Lest some members OF
their party who may think themselves fairly
entitled to the possession OF at least few soild
facts should fail to obtain them elsewhere, we
venture to offer our assistance.
Mr.. Bourke Cochran is now busily and I'M
selfishly engaged in explaining to voters from
the stump why Mr.. Cleveland ought to be
elected. and assuring them that he is going to
be elected But public speaker cannot create
enthusiasm and win votes for the cause he
pleads unless his hearers are convinced that he
feels and means all that he says Now, of
course, Mr.. Cochran cannot produce this effect
upon his audiences and accomplish correspond
ing results, because only three months age at
Chicago he declared his deliberate belief that
Mr.. Clovcland's popularity was OF the kind
which produced "enthuSiasm Tor four months
before the convention and disappointment for
four years after; that the Mugwump oppos-
ton chad for its aim and its purpose the turn
ing over of the State of NcwYork to the Re-
publican party unless the Democracy would
nav blacl;ma to the Mugwumps'; that the
Cleveland forces in Ncw-York are the men
over whose PROSTATE bodies the Democratic
party has been compelled TO march to victory"
and that in the best judgment of himself and
H..
ton would mperil the success of the party, and
would expose it to the loss OF the electoral vote
| of the State" And so, when the campaign
| managers put Mr.. Cochran ON the stump, they
do so with the certainty that his hearers dis
count everything he says, knowing well that
his heart is not in the work, and that he does
| not expect n Democratic victory. This is bad
politics.
1.-THE New-York Tines pretends to be ex-
ceedngy cheerful and happy these days. 1t
TRANQUILITY accepts the leadership of Murphy
and Sheehan and eagerly welcomes whatever
announcement the beated activity of Senator
Hill affords. And yet only three months ago
1.-THE Tines was declaring with malignant
vehemence that Murphy and Sheehan were apo
litical black guards and pirates" of whom
an honorable course was unthinkablc" and
that Senator Hill was no more or better than
a spitefu ass" for whom it could see no con-
ISOLATION "not even that of LAZARUS the dogs
came and licked his Sores" And so, of
course, when "The Times and the Democratic
leaders whom it thus venOmously assailed are
represented as working together tremendously
and with mutual respect everybody must know
that such avowals are hypocritical prctence,
and that their real state of feeling is one OF
bitter hatred and dstrust This is bad politics.
"The Evening POST has posed for years as
the special champion of public virtue, and there
FORE according to its own logic, as the constant
and uncompromising foe of the Tammany Hill
machine. 1t has continuously, perhaps monoto-
nousIy, proclaimed that Mr.. Cleveland ought to
be loved, trusted and reelected because in him
were completely embodied the convictions,