Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-19
DEmocRArIc PRESIDENTIAL AsPIRANrs

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS
The Republican newspapers seem to
worry themselves more about what they
would like to consider serious dissen-
is any possible need for. They have
tried to make mountain out Of a MOLE
hill of the contention in New York
about the time of holding the state con-
vention. The Cooper Institute meeting,
that was to blaze forth, according to our
Republican friends. into something om-
inous of wide and disastrous split, has
come and gone, and left not a single
track behind" The state convention
will meet at the time it was called for,
on Washington's birthday, and will
select delegates to the national conven-
tion. Whatever friction there is on the
surface between the friends of the two
prominent men in that state who are
spoken of for the presidential nomina-
tion, it will all pass away or be smoothed
over when the national convention has
settled upon the Democratic choice.
The HERALD has all along believed
that if we can secure strong man from
New York at the head of the ticket, that
win 60 great way toward assuring the
success of the party With that state
assured, the election of Democrat to
the presidency becomes matter of easy
accomplishment. Therefore we are dis
posed to pay unusual Difference to the
wishes.of the Democracy of that state.
If it should be shown that two-thirds, or
even a majority, of the delegates to the
national convention from New York are
in favor of David B. Hill, we should be
disposed to give great weight to that
TACT, the same as we would if the show
ing was in favor of Mr.. Cleveland. We
fear that Mr.. Cleveland, however, will
now find that an element in politics to
which he has shown especial friendli-
ness heretofore is of very little service to
him now. When a fight has to be or
ganized strictly on party lines, the epi-
Gene, or mugwump element, is without
much direct or indirect influence. The
virile men, who have clear-cut and un-
compromising political opinions, are the
ones who shape the party's course in
such emergencies.
Mr.. Hill is undoubtedly man of
great strength of character. He is
leader, with leaders, force of mind and
brain, and with determined courage to
carry out whatever line of policy he has
mapped out as the right course to pur-
sue. That he is ambitious is conceded,
and leader without ambition, if there
were such thing, would not prove
safe one to follow in the long run. A
successful party leader must have some
thing more than the mere interest of
seeing his plans triumph; he must have
the interest which comes from personal
ambition to render his work supremely
successful. Mr.. Hill has this kind of
ambition. Some people would have us
believe that this is a dark spot in his
character, and that it has led him into
grave errors. But if it has led him into
errors, it has also led him into great
successes. He has certainly proven
himself to be leader in whose iudg-
ment and plans we may place the ut
most reliance, for he has shown that he
can poll more votes in his own state
than any other man in it. This he has
done repeatedly.
Now, if it is considered necessary to
the success of the Democratic ticket at
the next election that the presidential
nominee should come from New York.
then the question Of the candidate who
can the most surely carry that state be-
comes one of the greatest Importance.
But if for any reason the national con-
vention should deem it hazardous to
take it's candidate from the Empire
state, then we have wealth OF leaders
in other states who would give character
and strength to any cause.
We believe, however, that public at
tention will be directed with more and
more earnestness upon the merits of Mr..
Hill as the time approaches for the
meeting OF the Democracy in national
,ouncil. His name is being very favor
lbly canvassed in many parts of the
,0uth, and outside the immediate
riends of western candidates, men who
ire set in their belief that we should
rave Democrat from the great west at
he head Of the ticket, Mr.. Hills quail
ications are being very generally dis
'usssd, and his strength and fitness are
,ecoming more formidably apparent the
more they are discussed.
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