New-York tribune., 1892-01-01
tS IT LOOKS THIS MORNING.

Ono man dominates tho whole political s!tu'-
tion from tho ourlool; of New Years morning.
1892. We beg the attention OF our hiShilyihg
contemporaries 1.-The Evening POST and " ne
Tincsv to this fact And if we may be per
mitted. under the privilege which the festl oc-
casion offers 70 tho meek and low y 20 venture
timidly into the presence Of the great, we would
ike "a ask Mr.. George Fred Williams and Mr..
sherman IIoar. and other weIl-dressed, English
snoaking rpfonncrs OF Massachusetts who elbow
outward and carry canes bottom slde up a.
have not vet outgrown the belief than they ha'o
been called to the quarterback OF aiiaiis IN 4
very stormy timo because Providence was III
serious straits and could not get along Wu'o'
them. 10 take UP the same circumstance ana c"
carefully roun/ it and feel OF it and ge' me
measure of il and consider the bearing OF IT, ana
then at the earliest opportunity toll an anNoHs
and impatcnt universe what they think about II.
For nnrsons who have been dcvoting the full
strength of their powerful intollects 70 auScac-
tjons and theories and gallopins toward the
millennium astrde Of m0onbeams IL may not
h. oasy 70 settle down in front Of a concio'p
ovcry-dav sort Of fact, but this seems - be
abour the only fact Of importance Just now on the
nolitical honzon-a very largc and Impressive
one-and at this moment growing larger
Ono porson dominates tho situation DO we
nood s9v il is not Grover Cleveland? MOI not
since the election Of Mr. Crisp as Speaker has
that inlprcssiye figure been visible above thr
horizons i'm. A few weeks ago the sky line
was all aglow with him. Many earnest and SIN
core persons stood on their heads ana sgnihed
,bcir ador,ltion by waving their kicking ends .n
ha ffpf a
was not. They were standing on theIr hcads'
lie was in the Occident. lie has set And now
II is Mr.. David B. Hill who iuadates the horizon
and dominates the political ornament Is ne
rccoenized? It not let us introduce him.
Mr.. David B. Hill is of ElmiTa, in tho State
Of Now-Yorll bacheOr trfo bald; cool an
calculating in his mohods; industrious, per
sistcnt. aggressive, undisringuishcd by any OF
tho vices OF good fellowship that pass for hall
virtues with the thoughtless, unencumbered by
scruplcs Of any sort, a man who knows mon and
knows how to use them, Democrat whose whole
political creed is summed up in The idea and the
| duty OF Success at any price and whose ultimate
| pnrpoSe is to make Democratic success the means
OF promoting the ambition OF David b. lllii. At
the time, some twenty years ago, when another
eminent Democrat his prototype, was where he
is now, the dominant figure in his party, David
Il. Hill was just entering political liie. lie was
q member Of the Assembly. lie learned his
first lessons in politics Of William VI. Tweed
He was his devoted follower. lie answered 10
his call. did his bidding, and in the Legislature
served him faithfully. lie grew up in tha6
school. His comparative obScurty saved him
| from the general disaster which overlook Tweed
and his more conspicuous arompllccs. Like
most of tho allies Of the gang in the interior
/ towns. he kept quiet for time until the storm
bleyv over. but never relaxed his hold on the
party in his locality, never let his interest or his
ambition flag. So one time, in hurly-burly
| following a hot contest for the nomination for
! Governor, he stumbled into the second place
and bocqmc LiCutcnant-G Governor His chief
| lost his head got an idea that so far as he did
not mako himsotf the Mugwumps made him, and
so waXed fat and kicked. And David watched
him all the time Watched him. and felt round
for his fifth rib while he embraced him, saving.
4" Art thou in health, my brother?" His chief
became President of the United States and he
became Governor.
! When the time was ripe he opened his cam
pagn against the man who had broken party
, traditions and gone off with the Mugwumps, Iy
the simple announcement, " am Democrat "
! He had studied the conditions and chosen his
time His audience was electrified and he at
once famous. But the people laughed when the
attempt was made to set him UD as rival Of