The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-04-02
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1nls ID IL IUtItI tHttIlUlniiiO spectacle
now on view before the American peo-
pie. Two quite conspicuous persons
are engaged-in different ways-each in
his own-in a desperate struggle for q
nomination ont of the reach of either
which, if it should fall 10 either, would
be hollow mockery, leading only to
defeat. Neither of them seems to be
aware that his only claim to be includ-
ed in the census of political possible
ties is the fact that he remains TN,
buried. Both are politically dead
Compared with David i. Hill or Grover
Cleveland, the late William NJ Tweed il
on deck in his shirt-sleeyes, and the
late Julius Cesar is III a state of bolster
Gus activity getting ready to make 4
home-ruu in the Olympan games amid
the enthusiastic plaulits of the Roman
popuiacc. Still they keep right on
running against each other iuSt a.
though there was something at the end
of it and it would be worth anything il
they got it. 1t all comes OF their not be.
ing sufficiently alive TO what is going Oh
around them to know that rs a matter
of fact they are dead as a doornail, both
of them; counted out of the presiden-
tial race by all Intelligent observers ot
current politics. Mr. Hill has keen
dead for at least three months, and
Grover Cleveland nearly four years
Big-head killed them both. One got
fat and forgot his friends; the other GOT
saucy and did too much for them.
Mr.. Hill goes pranclng through the
localities in the South made Historic"
by what he calls disturbances, de-
claiming loose incoherencics about the
great Democratic party and state rights,
Force bills and the day of deliverance;
calling upon Democrats to "unite" and
Organize" in the only section of the
country where they are SO thoroughly
organized and solldly united that no
opposition is permitted; and he evil
IDENTITY thinks he Is making great prog
ress in scooping in delegates. In none
of his speeches has he said anything
worthy, we will not say OF statesman,
but of fourth-class political stump Ora-
tor His eloquencc has consisted In
stale repetitioEs of the most tiatulent
phrases of forgotten campaigns; his Vi
tuperation of political opponents has
been borrowed from the vocabulary OF
the dead and gone tire-eaters, and re-
hashed to inspire their descendants.
By what the Evening Post describes
as "a happy coincidence" simultane-
ously with this Eruption of Hill into
historic places with his mouth open
Grover Cleveland appears on the scene.
Not abruptly or Intruslvelv, but Coyly
and with apparent dittidence, as If he
had responded with reluctance to the
call of duty, reinforced by the tumult-
uous summons of an oppressed people
who would not be denied. As a matter
of prosaic fact, the call came from his
old friend, Gen. Bragg, who Loves him
for the enemies he has made, and was
not at all tumultuous. Bragg, being an
old cnum of Cleveland's s and apparcnt-
ly as unconscious that he had been po-
lltically dead for nearly four years IA
Cleveland was himself, wrote him au
urgent letter asking him to save the
country from going to the everlasting
bow-wows through the operation Of the
iniquitous Mckinley bill. Cleveland
responded with uncommon prompt
ness that it was an awful re-
sponsibility. and something that even il
lie wanted 1t he should not push a
self-seeking canvass for, but on the
whole. as Bragg seemed SO much IL
earnest about it, he would leave him
self in the hands OF his friends. Which,
freely translated, means he thinks he Is
very much alive and may get there
The reading between the lines in the
allusion to self-seeking Is that Hill is 10,
ing that sort OF thing, and by that token
exhibiting himself as blooming idiot
He tells Bragg in closing that this is 6
time for Democratic thoughtfulness and
deliberation." Well, he can bet il Is
And he can make UP his mind to
another thing, that Democrats have al.
ready thought and deGberated enough
to reach the conclusion that neither he
nor Hill has the ghost Of show for the
nomination. They have killed each
other
By-and-by Mr.. German, Of Mary land,
will step up to these deluded shades
and SAY Now, gentlemen, your part
of the show being over, will Won kindly
take away YOUR remains and let Us pro-
cetd TO husiness 2,'-Ncr Iork Ir.bnne.