Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-04
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it's present controllers have surrendered
the ghost. Being essentially Demo-
cratic, we have always believed that it
minifes great party to make it the
encourage of any leader, however able
or ingratiating he may be. We have
seen with dismay portion of the DEM
ocrstic party which shows disposition
to have the political sun rise and set in
the ample person of Grover Cleveland.
Our advocacy of Senator Hill is by no
means based upon the idea that that
gentleman is indispensable to Demo-
cratic success or to the dignity of Demo
cratic principles. If we thought 80 we
should fervently hope for reorganiza-
ton of parties in which the Jeffersonian
and Jacksonian forces should assume
more respectable shape.
We publish elsewhere communica-
ton from Mr.. William S. Creighton,
who presents his views in forcible and
vivacious manner. We have the utmost
respect for the gentlemen who differ
with US on the expediency of details of
the Democratic national platform, and
as to candidates OF the national Democ-
racy.
1t seems to us that Mr.. Creighton is
not fair to Governor Hill. He says, in
effect, that the Democratic senator from
New York only emerged into prominence
when Mr.. Cleveland resigned the gov
ernorship to accept the presidency, and
Hill then became governor. As matter
of fact our correspondent is oblivious OF
the circumstance that, in the celebrated
election in which Cleveland beat Folger,
the Republican candidate for governor,
by 1913, 900 majority, Hill, as the Demo
cratic candidate for lieutenant-governor
beat his opponent by $1,000 majority.
At the time when these distinguished
gentlemen ran for governor and lieuten-
ant-governor respectively, Hill was by
long odds the best known public man of
the two, and was, as that election
proved, the more popular by clear
1000 in a phenomenal majority.
Our correspondent assumes that Mr..
Cleveland made some memorable
strikes as a statesman. A large por-
tion of the Democratic party think that
the most memorable incident of the
career of Mr.. Cleveland was the throw
ing away of the control of the govern
ment of the greatest country on earth
because he admitted only three men, of
all the great Democratic leaders, into
his councils.
Waving this view OF the subject, Mr..
Creighton seems to think that Mr..
Hills career is without anything dis
tinguishing. A devoted admirer of the
governor, on the other hand, can be ex-
cused for agreeing with Governor Ros-
we'll P. Flower, fresh from his nearly
$4,000 majority, as governor of New
York, who said, at the Albany banquet,
that David Bennett Hill is the best
and ablest leader the Democratic party
has had in the last forty years."
1t is somewhat Unfortunate for Gov
ernor Hill that his speeches have not
been extensively quoted on the Pacific
coast. The HERALD has no hesitation
in saying that his great Elmira address
was the most comprehensive and able
political effort that has been made by
any public man since Roscoe Conkling's
Grafton in the Garfield campaign. All
his speeches are admirable.
He has made the best governor the
state of New York has had with the single
exception OF Samuel J. Tilden, since the
days of William L. Marcy and Silas
Wright. His leadership has been in
comparable, as it has given US Demo-
cratic senator in place Of William L.
Evarts, and will give US Democratic
United States senator in the place of
Hiscock. In addition to being one OF
the most vigilant, incorruptible and
sagacious executives any state of the
union has ever had, Mr.. Hill has re-
stored the Empire state to the rule of
the majority, which means that the
Democratic party can hereafter rely
upon having its cohorts reinforced by
the thirty-six electoral votes of that
premier commonwealth, and will profit
by the prestige resulting therefrom in
commensuraby. ..
Mr.. Creighton thinks that the Demo-
cratic nominee will be neither Cleve-
land nor Hill. The HERALD thinks it
will be Hill, but we assure our contem-
porary that we shall bend down to the
work of electing western man, should he
prove to be the choice of the Democratic
national convention, with great enthu-
siasm and devotion. We should plunge
into such canvass con amore, and no
congratulation would be warmer than
ours should we succeed with a west
erner. "Tyrian and Trojan are alike to
u.s." Whether the Democratic standard
bearer shall come from the east or west.
from the north or south, we shall hail
him with acclaim as soon as his per-
sonality shall be disclosed.
Still we advise our correspondent and
all Democrats to keep their eyes on
David Bennett HILL He has all the ear
marks OF sure winner. There is lit
tie nimbus about his bald head that
means victory.