The advocate., 1892-03-16

caQo 70 present his name as a cam
dadate for president. They added to
the grotesqueness of this proceeding
by further ''instructiDg" the Chicago dele
gates to vote as a 'unit," as il there could
be any other way for them to vote when
one man and one only had conferred on
them the chance to vote at Chicago at all.
Now the Democrats of the state, without
waiting for the convention on the Slst OF
May, which will give voice in a regular and
authoritative manner to their wishes as
party organization, have seized the oppOr-
tunity afforded by the elections of super
visors and city officers in the interior cOun-
ties of the state to make an earlier and even
more emphatic declaration of what they
think of Hill and of Hllism, and of what
they will do with him and it if they are ever
reduced to the disgraceful alternative OF
dealing with him at the polls.
The most unmistaksble declaration comes
from Elmira, Hills own home, where he
has built up local machine on the pattern
of the one he is running in state politics,
and where his sway, obtained by chlcane
and buttressed by fraud and corruption,
has been undiaputed for the last ten years.
Il was this machine that gave him his nomi-
| nation as lieutenant governor in 1882, and
it has worked perfectly for its bad purposes
ever since until Tuesday, when the Demo-
Gratis of Elmira smashed it. Hlll's own can
didate for mayor, who happened to be with
out other handicap than Hills friendship,
being a very decent man himself, was defeat
I'd by some /, 100 majority, This is change
for the Democrats of fully so per cent, and
It was made solely on the issue Of Hill and
Hillism. The decent Democrats ere given
chance to overthrow HILLS rule, and they
did it,
It is a very moderate statement and far
within the truth, to say that the Democrats
have lost 40 per cent. of their vote in the
counties of the interior since last fall. In
other words, the splendid victory of Novem-
Der has been completely neutralized, and
on the sole issue of Hillism vs.. decent gov
ernment. These simple facts, which no one
can fail to understand, show several things
which we commend to the car full attention
of those who think that the New York De-
mocracy has fallen wholly into the hands
of Hill:
|. They show that Hill can never again
get the party vote, or majority of the pOpu-
lar vote in this state. That disposes of him
as candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for the presidency.
2. They show that the Democratic party
of the state is not represented by Hill ol
by Hills state convention, or by Hills dele
gates to Chicago, ,ince, at the cost Of giving
their rivals, the Republicans, the control oi
the several county boards, they have repudi-
cd Hill and all that is his. That Opposes
of his right to seat his delegation at Chi
cago when its place is claimed, a it will be,
by fairly chosen representatives Of the real
Democracy.
AH of the foregoing quotations, be II
remembered, are from journals that not
even give the semblance of d-votion to
the organized, msssrd, protests that are
yelling up from the souls and the voices
of the people, and which are expressed
so forcibly, so tersely as they appear, In
the reform press of the nation. The
classes as against the masses; the rulers
4s against the ruled; the patricians al
against the plebeians; these are the si1
word expressions that may designate the
living vital issues of 1892.
The Toledo, Ohio, Bee of March 2
1892. has the the following editorial, thai