The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-25

ClllS THO D6nclIb Aho pCO-
pie. Congress is making some pretty ex-
travagant appropriations, but it could
hardly be extravagant in appropriating
any sum, however great. for the purpose of
introducing our Indian puddings and
johnnycakes to the attention of a DO
nighted and hungry world.
A Wholesome Lesson to Would-Be
Bosses.
The action Of the democratic state con-
vention in Georgia is more significant.
perhaps, than that taken by any other
democratic convention held this year.
Something moro than year ago a number
OF Georgia politicians undertook the con-
tract OF nominating DAVID B. Hill for
president. They knew perfectly well that
in Georgia, as in every other state, North
and South, great majority of the democ-
racy was for CLEVELAND against the field.
But they depended upon their money,
their influence, and their skill in practical
politics" to prevent the sentiment OF the
party from finding expression. They went
to work with great flourish of trumpets
and a tremendous beating of tom-toms to
impress the country with the idea that
Georgia and the entire South were
ablsze with enthusiasm for DAVID B.
HILL. They clustered, bowed, bull
lied, claimed everything" secuted
at the bare suggestion of any
division of sentiment in Georgia or the
South as regarded Mr.. HuL's pre-eminent
fitness and availability for the presidency.
derided Mr.. CLEVELAND as "mugwump"
and stuffed prophet" characterizing
his friends as ''featherheads, and raised
such a terrible dust and CHATTER and such a
tremendous hullabaloo that the soul OF
CHARLES ANDERSON DANA was filled with
a great Joy. and such eminent patriots and
reformers as JOHNNIE MCLEAN and CARTER
HARRISON were in the seventh heaven of
delight. And then came Senator Hills
"triumphal journey" through the South,
his magnificent ovations," the "whirl-
wind of enthusiasm" and the "tumultuous
applause" which greeted him at every
step; and then, fzz pop bang THE
balloon boom exploded, and the debris
fell to the earth with a dull. sickening
thudl
For the last two months the engineers
of this grotesque crusade upon the presi-
dency have been making desperate eff
fort to save the pieces. But the end came
Wednesday. in the state of Georgia, where
but few short weeks ago everything
was on fire for HILL in the city of At
lanta, where, in the Constitution office, the
headquarters OF the Hill boom have been
located-(the headquarters being in the
Office OF the Butler-Dana organ at New
Yorkl-there in Georgia, at Atlanta, the
democracy in convention assembled,
elected Cleveland delegation, adopted a
Cleveland platform and never 80 much as
mentioned DAVID b. HILL
When the personnel of the anti-Cleve-
land managers in Georgia is considered
the profound significance of this result be-
comes more apparent The ring-leader
of the anti-Cleveland movement was
EVAN P. HOWELL, proprietor of a great
newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, There
was a time, not more than two years past,
when Capt HOWELL, although a protec-
ZIONIST, swore by CLEVELAND and at HILL,
protesting that he would never. no. never.
vote for DAVID d. for president, even if he
should obtain the democratic nomination.
But in due course Capt. HOWELL made a
pilgrimage to New York, and while in the
mighty metropolis he spread his aristo-
cratic legs under CHARLES ANDERSON
DANA's mahogany. And then he
hied him to Albany, and was
taken by DAVID BENNETT HILL to the top
of a high mountain and shown all the
Kingdoms of the earth, which were to be
his in certain contingencies. And when
Capt. HOWELL returned to Atlanta, be-
hold the Constitution forswore CLEVELAND
and began to sound the cymbals and beat
the tom-toms for the statesman of Elmira.
A few weeks later the redoubtablo PAT
WALSH of the Augusta Chronicle made a
trip to New York. He also broke bread
with CHARLES ANDERSON DANA and found
shelter under DAVID B. HILL's hospitable
roof. And the Chronicle forthwith lowered
the Cleveland flag. which it had been float
ing for years, and threw the Hill banner
to the breeze!
Messrs. HOWELL and WALSH, with their
Constitution and their Chronicle, supposed
they had dead cinch" upon the state
OF Georgia, but to make assur-
ance doubly sure they took U. S.
Senator COLQUITT and Speaker CRISP
and PAT CALHOUN into the deal, and then
gayly snapped their fingers at fate. SEN
tor CoLQUITT, who is first Colquitt man.
then a prohibitionist, then a protectionist,
and democrat last of all, is a Sund ay-
school statesmen of the Garfield arri-
son-Colfax type, with which We are
familiar in this part of the world. He is
very ready in prayer" comes out strong
at class meetings and in the Sabbath
school, is a sworn enemy OF the wine cup,
and with one eye constantly on the throne
Of divine grace, has always kept the other
out for the main chance. He had been
doing an extensive political business on a
very small capital in Georgia for many
years when Mr. CLEVELAND became presi-
dent. His political debts were numer-
GUS, and CoLoUITT insisted that the presi-
dent should pay them all of. regardless of
the fact that they were very largely due to