, 1892-03-30
TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION
WASTED SWEETNESS

Hugh Coyle's press bureau in Washing
ton City is sending out some stirring dem
ocratic letters which are gall and wormwood
to the two claimants from New York
Senator Arthur P. Gormon of Maryland
and other eastern democrats who have the
presidential bee buzzing in their ears.
Hugh is giving them advice, which we are
afraid they will not heed. 1t is wasted
sweetness on the western air. That party
is fined to its idols. Coyle says: 'sSince
the New York Herald first made the an
nouneement that the nomination by the
next democratic convention, for the presi-
deney, to win, must come from the west
demonstrated clearly that its conclusions
in that direction were correct, everything
is now tending that way. 1t seems at last
as all the signs portend, that the demo-
cratic party, SO full of blundering, is about
to avoid its usual stupidity after thirty
years or more experience and stop playing
into their opponents hands by going in to
win and by the nomination Of candidate
by which such an event can be made posi-
BILE that candidate to be taken from tie
west. The light seems to be gathering in
the eyes Of even the old and tricky manip-
ulators who have led their party so often
in the past to disastrous defeat with east
ern candidates, especially from New York.
The fight between the Cleveland and Hill
adherents is nominally nothing, yet each
would make it appear that is Of import
ance. Dust throwing is all thatit amounts to.
Neither have possible ghost of show to
be elected if nominated.
Cleveland lisa long way out of the question
his supposed popularity myth-and it
would be an utter impossibility for Hill to
carry New York. This every man knows.
When he knitted Cleveland in New York
state in the last presidential election he in
ficted more stabs upon his own ambition
than he will ever have the opportunity to
efface if he should live thousand years.
The spectacle now presented by him, work
ing like ward politician for the demo-
cratic national nomination, is probably the
most degrading exhibition ever witnessed
in American national politics and is a gross
insult to the traditions of the time-honored
democratic party, which is the only safe
guard for the perpetuity of the republic
and its institutions. Look at the. legisla-
ture of New York, Can any self-respecting,
honest, law-abiding democrat on the earth
endorse some of the legislation it has ac-
compIished so far and the wholesale Job
berry it promises for the future. If Mr..
Hill and others think so, there is where
they and he make mistake. His nomin-
alton would make republicans out of dem
ocrats by the thousands ia every state Of
the Union. Nobody but professional poll
ticians and tricksters consider him in the
line Of possibilities in the entire Western
country. Then why waste time and words
over either of them. No New Yorker
or eastern man can be elected at the head
of the democratic ticket in the presidential
contest. The west makes no appeal to the
democratic convention to nominate a man
from that section. 1t is a demand. The
voice of the west must be needed else the
republican party will continue in power,
and the independent democrats and there
are thousands of them-who would let the
election go by default in the event Of the
nomination Of an eastern candidate, no
matter who, if indeed they do not take off
their coats and help keep the republican
party in power, because being an innpossi-
bility to elect, there is no use in working
for dead horse. Tammany Hall and all
other eastern wire pullers and professional
politicians and would-be democratic die
tators, who set up the pins and have set
them up for the past thirty years, must
take back seat because this time they
must be set up right and to win and it
must be done with candidate from the
West"