The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-04-22
"scRArCu RUSSIAN AND You'LLFiS
A TARTAR"

-, ,ho newspapers inform US has been done
in this city They inform us that ABOUT
twenty Democrats met in the circuit court
room ON Wednesday night to organize club
the aim aud object of which is opposition to
the nomination of Grover Cleveland.
The bare statement of this proposition
naturally creates surprise. People naturally ask
What has Mr.. Cleveland done to them that they
should be 90 opposed to his being President,
And the answer comes back when the personnel
Of this meeting is examined. and it is found
that each one present was an advocate OF the
nomination of Mr. Hill We have cleared away
a good deal of rubbish then when we are able
10 determine that the Anti Cleveland Club is
nothing but a pro-Hill Club under another
name and this being determined. let us stick
pin right there.
Another circumstance connected with the
matter should not escape notice. The meet
! ing OF the proposed Anti-Cleveland Club was
fully announced for several days in the nows-
papers, yet when the meeting was called to
order. there were just twenty-five persons
present. and no additions were afterwards
made. To what shall we ascrbe this small
attendance? Was 1t because there are 50 few
anti Cleveland men in Richmond or SO few pro-
Hill men? Or was it, as was suggested by one
of these present. because the Hill men are
| all devout church goers, and II was Wednes-
| day night? We are compelled. we suppose. TO
| adopt the last hypothesis. in spite of what
| took place in Henrco. Accomac and Ian
| caster.
| Knowing where we are now. and knowing
that we are dealing with the acts and utter
ances Of pro-Hill club instead of an anti
| Cleveland club, il is most important to note
that the principal speaker of the evening,
Mr.. H. X. Pollard. congratulated the party
that the Senator from New York had spoken
in Congress in no uncertain sound on the IN
crease of the national currency on Tuesday"
The case in which Mr. Hill gave the vote re-
fe.red to was this The people of the terri
tory of Arizona wished authority to sell their
bonds. and. in order to increase the chance of
selling them they provided in their bill that
the interest should be payable in gold coin
The silver men, resentlng this as all insult
to silver moved to strike it out and insert
that it should be payable in lawful money of
the United States" and Senator Hill voted
for the amendment
Now the amendment per SC is one that
snti-free-silver man could perfectly we'll vote
for IN the absence of any uncalled for point
being attached to it, and we refrained at the
time from commenting upon Mr.. Hills vote
for it as evidence of his having cast IN his lot
with the free silver men. But the fact is that
the silver men very illogcally contorted it into
an issue over free silver, and Mr.. Hills friends
| admit that his vote is evidence that Mr.. Hill
is a free silver man, and he himself. in an in
.erview with tho New York Herald's CORE
spondent. refuses to discaim this interpreta-
ton of his vote. We are therefore completely
! justified in uniting with Mr.. Pollard and pro-
claiming to the world that Mr.. HILLS vote on
Tuesday shows that he is in favor of coming
an unlimited number of legal tender silver
dollars containing only 1927 grains of alloyed
silver. worth in the market less than 66 cents.
This being so, what is the use of discussing
| Mr. Hill any farther as a presidential posi-
| bility! What mailman supposes that the
States of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut
and Indiana can be carried on free silver
platform or for free silver candidate and
| YET IL StculS IthsCudDlc W bay LudL uD OLo
but mailman could think such thing pos
sble
In the meeting of the Hill Club-called
Anti Cleveland for short-Mr. Harmon moved
that committee of five be appointed to APP
pear before the city committee and represent
their views respecting the method to be
adopted for selecting delegates to the State
Convention. Mr.. Hicks opposed this upon
the ground that no effort should be made to
control the committees judgment. Captain
Curtis favored the appointment of the COM
mittee on the ground that the Cleveland Club
would have similar one TO advocate their
plan of primary meeting and the Hill Club
(nicknamed Anti-Cleyeland) should be there
to protect its interests.
Now all that the Cleveland Club asks Of the
city committee is that it will order u fair pri-
mary election for selecting delegates. and it
| has nothing TO ask for but plan that will
secure to each Democrat an opportunity to
cast his vote. and have it counted. and that
will exclude all ghouls from voting the corpses
| of our dead fellow-citizens. Ii is true also
that they prefer that the brother-in-law of
Mr.. Slatterly-who was not registered att the
time of the late primary at the Third precinct
of Jefferson ward, and who did not live in
Richmond but who was. nevertheless. voted
there under the very nose of his brother-in-
law-should have as little as possible to
do with the elections at that or any other
precinct. But beyond these very natural
suggestions the friends of Mr. Cleveland ask
nothing from the city committee and it
would seem that in making such suggestions
they are attending to the interest of Captain
Curtis section of the party as well as to those
of all other Democrats. Captain Curtis might
very well. therefore. have made his motion
one simply that the committee will give us a
fair primary election. and. in doing that it
will do all that Mr.. Clevelands friends ask
for, or that Mr.. Hills friends should wish.
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