The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-26


The senior Senator from New Yorh
has been illustrating the quality OF be
democracy" In the Senate, In way
which can leave no possible doubt Of
to the quality of his craftsmanship
and his patrlotlsm-if, indeed. be cal
be supposed to possess either OF thest
attributes In sufficient quantity to ad
init even OF q microscopical analysis
There are some things SO small tina
they cannot, for any practical puT
poses, be either weighed. measured Of
estimated. 1t is positively mortifyint
to read that such a cheap and arran
Idemagogue and sham patriot ae DAVE
il. Hill should have bad the audacil
to pose before the country as candi
date for the last Democratic nomina
ton for the Presidency. and that III
should have found sensible and re
spectacle people who wele willing L
support bis preposterous claims. II
lis cause for deep thankfulness that tbs
Democratic convention not only die
not nominate Hill. but selected The
man OF all others whom, probably
Hill most bitterly hates.
Hill mnde the most, for O time, o
his ehibboleth-"I am a democrat.
The people are beginning to find out
elsewhere, that calling oneself d demo
crat does not necessarily make mar
a democrat. There are plenty o
democrats who arc forever rolling
over the party name under theil
tongues as a sweet morsel, suggestive
lof the flesh-pots OF patronage ant
Iplunder. They pride themselves upol
being straight" and regular" ant
ARE always talking about the necessit.
OF unfolding the Organization"
!, That was the type OF Senator Hill
Democracy. His familiarity with ''ol
: ganiZation," methods tactics" an,
: the like. was profound. His acquail
tance with Democratic principles wa
of the enthusiastically amounting t.
) a speaking acquaintance" so to say
/ In the Senate on Wednesday. even hi
fealty to organization" and his sens
of duty as party man"seem to hav
{ deserted him, when he Brrayed him
/ self on the side OF PETER. the populist
Iron Kansas, in an attack upon tn
administration, and what is more upo
, THE public credit, at the time when t.
uphold the administration, and to re
vlye and encourage confidence, is Tn
} aim and duty of every statesman an
: lpatriot, not to say Democrat.
1t la probable that Hill has uninter
) ltionally committed political hari kar
i He has forgotten one OF the most n
cent lessons of political history ful
nished by the experience OF one OF hi
lown predecessors. An infinitely grea
or and better man than Hill, in ever
element OF political greatness, Senate
Roscoe ConkliHg. once allowed hi
own personal feelings of dieappointe
Iambitio and mortified vanity to bt
tray him into an attitude OF uncallet
Tor hostility to the administration c
This party associates in the Senate. Til
result was that Roscoe Gonkling, III
Idenlably brilliant and able man tina
he was, ceased thenceforth 10 figure u
1.-The politics of the country. In Conli
lling's fate it is easy to read Hills.
The only curiosity, possibly, that II
Ifelt In regard to any further OUTCOME
of the New York senator's iiasco is q
: to the course of Senator Murphy. vii
!; he prove another possible METEOR
Or, like so many other OF New York;
Ishrewdest politicians, ike the eloquen
orator of Iammany, Boufke Cochran
land Its skillful leader. Croker. and thu
3 brooklyn autoclat Mclaughlin, doe
. The realize that it 10 time to cut loos
lfrom any further following of an al
LEGGED democrat" whose democrac,
lis only lip.deep, and whose propensit
flor mischief rivals that Of wilderness
n of monkeys? 1t is a great saving 0
trouble to have mon like Hill rea
themselves out OF the party. withou
waiting to huve themselves read oui