The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-08
THE REVOLT AGAINST HILL.

Senator Hill. of New York, has forgotten
the old admonition, "Be bold, but be not too
bold" He has ignored the latent moral
sense of tho people, powerful factor in
large politics which constituencies men
always leave out of their calculations
Stephen A. Douglas made this fatal
mistake when he said that human slavery
was nothing but question to be settled
by 'minding your own business. For
himself he did not care a pepper corn
whether human slavery was voted up or
voted down" AS well might right
minded man say today in Washington
that he did not care next April whether
the state of Louisiana voted its gigantic
lottery, its national gambling scheme,
up or down. Douglas lived to find
out that there was public moral
sense which transcribed the mere
petit appeals Of commercial self-interest.
which overfowed state lines, and could
not be forever insulted and outraged with
inpunity. The people ofthe North proved
taat they did care whether slavery was
"voted UP or voted down." IL Mr.. Doug
las did not. and the election of Abraham
Lincoln proved the sincerity of the awalI-
ened moral sense of the North.
Senator Hill is in danger of repeating
the mistake of Douglas; he is crowding
the moral forces of the Democratic party
so morcilessly in New York that they have
revolted against his rule lie had his
state committee call tho state convention
TO choose delegates to the Democratic Ma
tionai convention of next June for the 22d
OF this month. The call was issued Janu-
airy .. and two days after Hills managers
began to hold primaries and elect solid
delegations for Hill. It is reported that
the liili machine proposes to abandon the
old Democratic plan of selecting delegates
to the National convention, outside the
delegates AZ large, by congressional, dis
tficts, and have them all chosen in bulk.
The New York Hor'd, the Albany Arg,ts.
the buffalo Courier. the Utica OBJ
saeer. the Syracuse Courier. the Brook
lyn Eagle at once vigorously pro-
tested against holding the state con
vention in February as unprecedented.
unfair, Illogical, un- Democratic. unwise
and wrong" but in vain. The protesting
Democrats DO not propose 10 tamely sub
NIT to this snap judgment of senator
Hill. A meeting was promptly held in
New York city, which was attended
and addressed by such consnicuous
democrats as ex:Mayor Grace. ex-
Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild
ana Euery Anderson. As the out
come of this meeting an address has been
issued 20 the Democrats of New York
state urging them 10 contest the
control of the state convention at
the primaries, The protesting Demo
Gratis are men who represent influences
aud interests without whose CO. oneration
the success Of the Hin machine in No
femeer next is impossible II Hin per
sists IN has purpose there will be = bolt
and eonteStinG delegation AZ Cbicaeo
and II the appeal OF this delegation j.
treated with contempt, the state of New
YORK IS likely to see Democrats bolt as
formidable as that led by Martin van
Barren and Samuel J. Tllden in ISIS. 4
bolt that pooled l2o.5l0 votes, gave New
York TO Taylor aud defeated Lewis Cas-,
ios The presidency. This same Van Buren,
bolt defeated Cass in Connecticut. Mass..
chnseits and Pennsylvania.
Cleveland nemocratie-Nfu rwu,nr b,,l.
against the nomination OF Iiill or inns
tool for president would make Democratic
success IN Connecticut, Massachusetts or
New Hampshire impossible. The Brook.
lyn Eagle warningiy says that the exper..
ment Of machining the Politics Of the
largest commonwealth In the Union Will
probably succeed, bat a programme -
machine the politics of al the states and
territories in the federal COMPACT may be
50 large as 10 30 TO pieces in the eadeavor
20 carry IL out"
The Immoral audacity Of I'm is excit-
ing very strons hostility to his nomina.
ton throughout the West and Soath.
where 40 leading party organ tavors his
nomination, aa3 many e she most praui-
neht newspapers are outspoken against
lsiin The Galveston Nesrs. the uaost pow
crfsl Democratic joGrasl ia Texas. de-
nounces Han rs nothing bat IAN aole and
resolate sealper IN tue Indian warfare Of
pariy politics"
The Charleston Ne;ss Esa Cessr;er says
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