New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-12
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SENATOR HILLS IRRITATION
YISPLACING THE EPITHET HOGS IN REFER
ENCE. TO A RECENT DINNER.


ENCE. TO A RECENT DINNER
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring 10 his Manhattan Club speech, D. D.
Hill is reported as saying, privately among the ram
many consprators that the hogs hadn't the decehcy
even TO stop eating when got up TO speak nlofe tnan
half of them never took their tom tcli pate''
The would be dictator appears 20 have been enIaSed
because he saw that than hall" OF those schuc-
men evinced their sense Of shame in being pfeSeh,
csenslbv to honor a whom they conid not but
desplse by utterly ignoring him while speaking ana
fixing their eyes and attention upon their plates! FOR
which considerate and pralseworthy conduct thes are
branded as hogs" What would be the dicators ap'
pelatlon for those prominent Democrats. urgently IN
vitedo who did not appear ?such as exMayor COOPER
cx.Mayor Grace, ex-Mayor Hewitt, eX-oecrtaIy Fan
child, Colonel Lamont, Messrs Anderson "heeier'
stelnway, Potter and others-we may readily lmasle
az lie is said 10 have ground his teeth IN rage when
ticking of the absenees who did not respond ID invita-
tons to honor him By their presence
The political hogs of the century are prominently
the Tammany conspiratos, with ID. y. lill at their
head, who muzzled the Saratoga Convention, IN the
exclusive interest of Hin, BY Kicking out OF us conseIs
those decent and patriotic Democrats whose cOnserVa
tive influence sadly needed to save tleir party
from disgrace and the State from political desradatoh
What has been the persistent and only policy OF Hill
during his whole Govern0rshp but TO shape all lcg1sla
ton In the Interest Of his personal poliiiacl ambition
by appealing and catering to every degrading ana de-
moraEng element In society, In order TO attract TO has
standard the dangerous classes to whom Cauihc
appealed In his conspiracy for the ConSulshp OF Rome
At this point II may be instructive TO contemplate
the portrait Cicero draws Of Catne lie says "Catl-
line was sngularly formed, both by art and nature, Tor
the head OF desperate conspiracy that, while he LAD
in him many sketches Of the great virtues, yet was
acquainted with great number of wicked and was
also pretended admrer of the virtues there never was
one compounded Of passions contrary and opposite
with Tho AZ u1Opp
In labor He had wonderful faculty for engaging men
to his friendship serving them by the most daring acts
OF vany moulding his nature 10 his purpose, anu
bending ii every way TO his will. BY temper so
pliable and he gathered about him the prohgate
and rash. vet held attached to him at the same time
many brave and worthy men by speciouS show OF
pretended virtue. With these talents. If he had OBJ
tanned the Consnlship, lie would probably have made
himself the yrant of his country. But despair and im
patience hurried him to the mad resolution of eX
torng by force waI he could not by adde's"
In almost every particular those best acquainted with
the personal life and absemous habits "and daring
acts" Of Hill cannot fail to perceive most startling
parallel. Holding to the two Offices of Governor and
the time, In defiance of precedent and
decency, he enabled to for himself those
fruits which long treachery TO the state doubtless con
templated and made possible. Even now, practically
welding powers belonging to the Governor and those
also of Senator, we find him -chcming and plotting
with Tammany and Others. both at Albany and Wash
ingtop in behalf only OF himself and his Presidential
ambition. II the brand Of hog is not burned into the
character of such graspng after llegtmate and dan
geIous power. look elsewhere In vain 10 find IT,
Such a has appropriately been styled a reptile
politician" In steahily gliding from one cOnsprator
10 another to outwit his party. and by secrecy and
Subtety 10 strike down and poison the intended victim
AS Caine. " in his despair and impotence was huI-
ried on to the mad resolution Of extoting by force
power he could not secure by other now We
find men scheming by snap judgment" and "kodak'
convention to shut out all opposition in their party, and
threatening with punishment whoever permits con-
testing delegation TO count against the nomination they
have consplrcd to steal.
The consummae skill by which the Legislature Of
This state stolen, through the tieachely Of high
officials, and bold defiance and contempt Of judicial
authority, is papsble evidence Of the mad resolution
extort by force" whatever the conspintors deem
necessary order to the Presidential nomna
ton The significant protests Of "The World" and
many Of the most powerful Democratic journals in this
state also treated with utter contempt and failed
10 delay for single instant carving out to The
elter the scheme the conspiIoIe had in secret dc
taxed, THE World" recently, In pictures and In print
Tiger Tiger Was Anything more than an innocent and harmless
tcon OF Republican imagination. and BY It's lGnuencc
comSined to encourage ana make possible the very
schemes against which in double loaded type 1t is now
A crisis has come when the Democratic party must
assert its Independence and dignity or ignoby follow
If there is not enough integrity and patriotism In the
members Of that pa ~ TO stand by their cOnvic
tons, in the Journals that have cried " halt" and
don't" against these Infamous tactics. then that party
would Justly be doomed 70 the dcoat that awaits it, for
II Is not possible 70 believe that intelligent layOv
Ing and lsw-ahidinc people will lamcly submit TO
having their civil and political rights stripped from
them by the mad ambition Of any OF Revolutionary |
club that seeks TO conquer and enslave them Where
the Cleveland in this crisis that TO open
to them. by magic. the way to vctoryat least.
against Hi ONEIDA.
Utica, Jan. 30, 1892.