Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31
HUBBARD ON HILL.
A Friend of Cleveland, but
Grover not Possible
AS A CANDIDATE IN 1892.
Hills Strength and Qualifications Beyond
Questionable Will Have Over
Four Hundred Votes on
the First Ballot.

The following letter was published in the
Laredo Times, written by Ex-Governor
Hubbard, who was appointed minister to
Japan by Cleveland:
Last evenings mail brought an appre-
clated letter from Ex-Governor Hubbard,
and while it is personal letter, written in
reference to an editorial mention in these
columns week or more since, its recipient
can not refrain from taking the liberty Of
giving it to the public just as it comes, as
1t contains so many good good points appro-
pirate to the present time:
Hon. j. S. Penn.
Ny DEAR SIR-You must allow me to ex-
press the sincere qualification which a
perusal of the Laredo Times" daily and
weekly has afforded me-
That qualification has been doubly en-
HANGED by knowledge of the fact that YOU
were the editor, and my valued friend at
the state capital during the eventful and
stormy days of our states history
from 1872 to 1879. 1 am glad that
you coincide in my general views as
to the presidential contest-from a Dem
ocratlc standpoint-and especially in our
advocacy of Senator Hill of New York
In the interview" first appearing IN the
Dallas and Galveston News (both of which
prominent and widely circulated news
papers differed with me and have seen
proper, as it was their right as journals,
to cr1tlcise my course on that interview.
l expressed my earnest and honest convic-
lions of both policy and duty in this polit-
ical crisis.
have no defense for my action as think,
with all Difference to others, it needs none
l was and am the ardent friend and admirer
of ex-President Cleveland, 1 said so in that
interview and repeat it again, and if he
could receive the unanimous nomination of
the great state of New York (his own
statel, | would still advocate his cause
at chicago as earnestly as l did in
1854, and the year that followed his
election. As predicted in that in
terview. to which you kindly refer, it has
now passed into history the undeniable fact,
however disagreeable TO MANY that a regll-
lar convention, duly called and convened,
with due notice 10 all New York Demo-
Gratis alike and with all the same oppor-
tunltles TO be represented, with singular |
voted for Senator David B. |
Hill, as the choice of the Democracy of the |
Empire state for the presidential nomina-
ton.
Any further advocacy Of ex-President
Cleveland. with his own great state against
his nomination, 1t appears to me to be fac
Ilonal and unwise. 1t might and NAV defeat |
David B. Hill, but could not, under any cir
nominate ex-Presideut Cleve-
and l think that we are approaching
crisis in Democratic history If we fail to
n 1872 "a power which we should have
never lost it will be generations before, if
'ver the Democratic party RECEIVERS its 'lost
,State''
Hence thought, and still think, that if
success IS what we are after we must look
o New York as the great Indispensable
ma pivotal state for candidate. New
FORK says that her '.favorite SOM is SEN
tor and Ex-Governor Hill. He is as free
rom guile or blunders, which in political
lie as in war, are grimes, - as any of his
ccusers or any of his contemporaries. He
as shown wonderful executive and organ
zing capacity, controlling measures and
1eu with facility and freedom from mar
lnetism, so TO speak, seldom seen in our
ational history. He redeemed q doubtful
tate, and that his own, and the greatest
ne IN the union, when and whilst Repub-
can administration was in power, with
lllions of patronage poured out in that
tate freely as water!
We need just such a leader But did ,
OF intend to write an essay. 1 think he
Ill be nominated at Chicago, because he
1ght 10 be by every consideration of good !
olley and political wisdom which have
cen always heretofore recognized and re-
oected in the national nominating conven-
ons of the Democratic party. think that
1.-The Southern states, with possibly the
zcepnon OF Kentucky, viii vote for Hill on
le trst baIloting at Chicago. New York :
Id New Jersey and Connecticut will be for
m. and the free silyer'' states of the far
lest, though Republican at the polls, will :
,te for Hill at Chicago
He will go into that convention with over :
o votes TO begin with, and after Illinois and
wa, Kentucky and Indiana have COM
lmented their own great HfaYorite sons"
almer, Boies and Carlisle and Gray; and
her own Governor Patter- Z
n. think that manifest destiny.n so to a
eak, will turn these great states to the p
rongest man. who viii on the first ballot s
we decided plurality if not maioritys {
These are predictions only, but we have d
right to indulge them when based on
asonable data, and with the history OF
st conventions fresh on our memory. il
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