Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-28
FAIR PLAY FOR HILL.
The Injustice Done Him by Recent At
tacks of His Enemies
To NE Editor Of he Dispatch:
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To NE Editor Of he Dispatch:
read your excellent leader of this date
with infinite pleasure. 1t had the ring OF
a true old Virginia Democrat who earnest
ly desires the success of his party.
You ask, "Shall we presume 10 question
that the convention which nominated
Hill was regularly called by the regular
organization of the Democratic party
Shall we have the foOlhardiness to under
take TO set aside such body as the Albany
convention and substitute tor II Oolter
convention to be called by Ottendorter,
Anderson. and the rest of them! Why II
would be the very madness of the moon.
The foregoing paragraph IS very properly
and very strongly put and cannot be TOO
often published.
| am not. Mr.. Editor, an advocate OF
Senator Hills nomination for the presi-
dency, but / do insist that be shall have
Justice and fair play meted out TO hm.
| boldly affirm that Senator Hill Is not
surpassed by any man IN the country LOT
hls devotion to the Jefiersonlan-Jack-
soniau principles of the Democratic party.
During the seven years of his incumbency
of the gubernatorial Office IN New York he
did nothing 10 shake the confidence or
the Democrats OF the State or nation III
his earnest, infiexible devotion TO their
principles and their interests. His private
conduct as well a. his political record are
unassailable. BY the exercise of his extra
ordinary tact, wisdom, energy, and courage
he saved the Legislature and the State OF
New York TO the Democratic party. III all
human probability. for many years 70
come. And III 40 doing he greatly
strengthened the power OF the party IN inc
councils of the ration. And he performed
this wonderful political revolution WINE
under hot fire not only from the bat
teries of the Republican party, but from
those of the Mugwump and other pre-
| JUDGED and rule-or-ruin" TRENDS OF MT.
| Cleveland. But. undismayed by threats.
denunication, and abuse, suff1clent
| to try the mettle of the best men, he
marched boldly forward until he accom-
plished the grandest feat IN behalf OF the
rights of the people that any man can dare
| claim to have performed since the war. IL
was, indeed. almost miracle oil courage,
wisdom, and determination,
From the true Democrats OF New YORK
| and Of the country at large Senator HILL
received the highest commendation for
| his noble services TO the party. But there
were Mugwumps, soreheads, and man-wor-
| shippers who continued TO denounce him.
and some Of whom cried, and are still cry
ing, "Am COzdr. ant AuAus." And. strange
| 70 saw, that these classes of men have the
| braZen impudence TO assert that Senator
| HUI got tine ueltkHllOu 10 iuo RhlNo-S
convention through machine and by ma
| chine methods.
Think of it; here is a man who has done
more to advance the commercial greatness
| and political interests of the State OF New
York than any one of her great sons has
done, and who thereby has acquired
degree of strength and popularity such as
no other man IN the State possesses, AMI
vet il is coolly asserted that he carried
| the delegation to Chicago by indchin'
| methods. The idea is supremacy RIDICULOUS
and contemplate, for every Intelligent
man in the country knows that there ,od'
not the sliqhies, necessity for him to resort &c
any such means TO secure the endorse
ment OF the real Democracy OF New ork
There is no discounting the fact that the
| Democrats of the State, by an overwhelming
majority. prefer hun for President. A large
convention of the best men OF the party
regularly and duly elected and called TO
gether. elected the delegates TO the CHI
cago convention.
There was not, and IS not, the slightes
sem alliance of machine methods about the
matter from the beginning TO the end.
The truth is that the boilers and thei
supporters do not possess as much OF tn
spirit of true Democracy as existed II
| General Jackson's little toe-nail.
They clog the wheels OF Democratic pro
gress instead of helping them forward.
| February "a 1892 FAIR PLAY.