New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-02
DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS.

Hills plan TO blackmall MS own party re-
ouired the passage and signature OF the Elec-
ton bill. Therefore Governor, who once
WAS a reputable business man but is now the
tool of political trckster, signed the bill, and
Hills contrivance is complete. He will now
saw to his party in National Convention :: Can
Won elect without New-York2 If So nominate
whom YOU will. If New-York is needed, name
me. and you know how the votes will be
counted"
The Democrats have not one chance in fifty
of winning without New-iork and they know
it, They have seen that town elections prom
isc anything but victory for them in this State
unless they have the counting machine In
the last agonies man will sometimes take a
very nauseous pill That Hill is nauseous to
many Democrats, particularly to men who will
find him too big load to carry in their own
States, will not prevent his nomination if DEM
ocrats conclude that he can count New-York
as he pleases, and that no one else can. Neither
honesty nor decency will prevail, but the pas
sonate temper of individuals, whose hopes
Hills nomination will kill, may thrust him
aside. From the disgrace of such nominal
ton his party will not be saved by any virtue,
but possibly by spite.
The friends of Mr. Cleveland lift up each
day their solemn warnings. Hill cannot carry
New York even by fraud they say. His
counting machine is actually the Democratic
machine, and will be used as readily for count
ing in another man. To name him would
drive ont of the party Free Traders and Tariff
Reformers by the thousand, and men by the
thousand who want good money. a large
body of delegates will go to the Convention
with these warnings on their lips. Enough
are instructed for Mr. Cleveland already, it is
claimed, to make the nomination of any one
else impossible under the two-thirds rule.
When the party sets aside that rule it splits
and goes down. So the Cleveland men de-
nounce the backmail candidate, utter their
warnings, and wait.
The third faction hopes that Cleveland and
Hill will kill each other off and leave the
nomination and the New-York counting ma
chine for some one else. 1t includes all who
are scheming for dozen other candidates.
One offers Maryland, which is Democratic in
any case; another Indiana. which he cannot
carry against President Harrison another Mas
sachusetts, and another Illinois, which neither
can carry in any event: and another Iowa,
which will vote for a Republican President,
Prohibition not being the issue. All these and
others have friends who would like to see
New-York candidates put out of the way, on
the broad ground that a strife here has made
it impossible for any Ncw-Yor man to sue
coed. They will quote the declaration of the
Hill delegation that Cleveland cannot carry
New-York. At the same time they will quote
the warning of the Cleveland delegation that
Hill cannot carry NewYork. Both are right,
| they will say; therefore, take man from -.
There comes the trouble. If the third faction
had one man, its argument might prevail. But
when the delegates who want to drop New
York" try to agree on one man among them
selves, they are quite likely to have part of
their votes drift to Cleveland or to Hill.
Behind the wrangle about men there looms
up with more and more threatening aspect the
strife of interests and ideas. The tariff smash
ers have been taught by the election of Gov
ernor Mckinley that they cannot go West for
gains. What they do must be done with the
Eastern importing cities and the Mugwumps
| as their basis. But that force is apt TO fade
out of sight if Mr.. Cleveland is shelvcd The
more money faction insists that the party will
| go to its death if it does not set things right
with the Alliance people. That means the
| shelving of Mr. Cleveland as the first step.
| But what man can be named whose nomina-
| ton can save the Democrats from division at
| the West and South, and yet can give them
| half chance in tie doubtful Eastern States :?