New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-27

ERISGs = THE CANDIDATES AARON
BURR AND DAVID D. HlLL-THE
OUTLOOK FOR NOVEMBER.
frgoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUyRl
Chicago, June 24.-The divnities that hold II
charge the weather had evidently prepared for
Thursdays session Of the Democratic convention
Il looked this morning as though they would con-
tnue to spit fire, spout rain and keep up for
another day the rumbling and grumbling that have
been going on so long over and around this water
soaked town. But by noon they seem TO have
become convinced that 1t was all overs that the
Wgwam was coming down and no more mischier
could be done in il and that 1t was time wel!ds-
posed and inofensive people should have whacK
at the sunshine. So the clouds broke away, the
sun came out and all this afternoon we nave had
clear skies and the perfection of June day. The
great hotels have been all day sweeping out cigar
stumps, empty bottles wet badges and torn head
quarters signs, and-a much more cheerful occupa-
tion-counting their cash. At the AUDITORIUM
only melancholy ravelling or two Of the fringe
Of flying Tammany fingered to kick at the motel
bills and "cuss" the whole watery waste. which
under the name of Chicago had first beaten Tam
many out of the Columbian Exposition, then in
weighed the organization out here to NATIONAL
convention, in which it sat under water
Kissed and jeered, nsulted and abused, had seen
its deadiest enemy nominated for Presidents and
been coolly requested to make it unanimous They
had leftover look 1t may be that they are
staying until they can get enough dust together
Ito shake on leaving, so as to depart III
Scriptural fashion. There's nothing to shake yet
but mud. Meantime the street around The
Auditorium Is full Of carriages. the sidewalks are
all a-hutter with ribbons and lace, and where for
week past the voice of the Tammany heller has
filed the night and the day with music, there Is
now a cooling sound Of turtle doves ana ue
twitterlng of several hundred sweet girl grad
yates. The Chicago High Schools have thelr In
nings to-day And the weather divinlties have
given them fair skies
The Chicago papers do not attempt to defend
the local management Of the convention. lndeea'
they unite In condemning it without stint 1t
may be stale topic by the time this letter
reaches YOU. but it seems to me that it Will De
great misfortune If the lesson of the week IN tue
whole matter Of arranging accommodations FOR the
auadrennal conventions is suffered to go unheeded
Mr. Collins Of Massachusetts, deserves praise for
bringing the matter TO the attention OF the Nd
tional Committee. The same thing should be done
by the Republicans. There should DO no more
cattle mems barns. or wigwams for holding Ma
|tional conventions Of either party. The dreadful
Imismanagement Of the present convention oughu
to suffice in the direction Of enormous structures
for men-packing purposes. From every point OF
view this building was failure IL had not
rcdeeming feature. Being in itself sham ana
a nuisance il was made still more intolerable by
the speculative persons who built and controlled
it, II it has served to demonstrate the futility
Of all such efforts to crowd an enormous aggre-
gate Of individuals into single pen for the pur-
pose Of witnessing or participating in the proceed
ngs of so-called delberative body it has served
az least one very useful purpose. II the wigwam-
building madness stops here, 1t will be well. II
10 keeps on it must end some time in a dis
tressing calamity. This convention was on the
edge OF being precipitated into panic by tho
fall OF an electric light just after Mr.. Collins
made his motion, the consequences OF which would
have been frightful. Nor was that the only time.
During the terrific thunder storms which occurred
while the convention was in session IL was evident
that the audience whole was In state Of
nervous tension that very slight alarm would
have developed into q panic. IL seemed to me
that everybody in the audience experienced a SEN
sation Of relief upon getting out Of the building
at each adjournment. and know that the final
adjournment without any serious accident was an
occasion for congatulation among those who were
| responsible for the management.
Now az 10 the results Of the convention, the
questions il sent here TO settle and which it
has, 20 the extent Of it's power, decided As to
the candidate, 1t seems TO me that he is beyond
all question the one most 10 be desired by the
Republicans. And this view, let me say in all
frankness, is half-partsan and haf-patriotic and
non-partisan. From the partisan point Of view
il seems u me 10 mako certain the reelection OF
President Harrison. On the other hand, should
the ticket, by any chance, be elected, there IL
the consideration that Mr.. Cleveland has been
once tried, that we know what sort of man he
is and what his Administration would signify;
while under any other candidate we should, in
the event of his success, be stepping OFF into a
wide unmapped and unknown dark l am aware
that great many practical politicians in the
Republican party have hoped all along for the
nomination of Senator Hill because they believed
him 20 be the weakest candidate. lie has always
seemed TO me so, but have never desired TO see
him nominated. There is too much uncertainty
in popular elections, and Senator I'LL has given
his opponents too many disappointmsnts when
they thought he had made his fatal mistakes, and
they had him down, for me to wish 10 take any
chances his having reached the end of his
rope should not like to see the country take
the risk OF having Mr. Hill President though the
chances seemed enormously against him. This
because he seems To me IA very dangerous man.
The more dangerous because he has-wcll let me
blurt IL ou-no rcdeeming vices. He is the sort Of
man who, without the ordinary passions and appe-
titcs that inhamc his fellows, uses all of them for
his own purposes in the pursuit of the one en-
crossing passion, the one absorbing appetite Of
his life No one in our history is his counter
part Aaron Burr nearest to him But
Burr had vices and was not half so dangerous. l
would much rather see Cleveland the candidate
with ten chances in his favor, than Hill with half
" one.
But Hill, as have said before, was never in IL.
There was never any real danger of his nomination.
That being ont Of the way, the next danger, as
IL seemed 10 me WIS that Clcycland mioht not be