People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-04
THE SITUATION IN NEW YORK
STILL UNSETTLED.
THE ALTERNATIVES NAY BOLT.
The State Democracy Wing OF the
Party Intensely Hostile to Hills
Nomlnation-The Senator Getting
the Lay of the Land-Bit-
terly Denounced by Two
Mugwump Papers.

NEW YORK, Oct. of almost as
much interest in this state is the
question still unsettled as to whether
Senator Hill will or will not accept
the gubernatorial nomination is the
question as to what the state DEM
ocracy and other bodies of Democrats
opposed to Tammany and machine
rule will do. Opinion is divided as to
the matter, and more than one
shrewd politician declares that Hill
will delay his reply to the committee
of notification until he can receive
some definite information as to the
lay Of the land in the direction of
those who have heretofore been OPEN
ly hostile to him and his machine
methods. His statement yesterday
that he would open the campaign in
Brooklyn, provided a united Dem
ocracy should greet him, is peculiarly
significant on this point.
Equally significant the other way is
the fact that ex-Secretary Charles S.
Fairchlld, chairman of the state Dem
oeracy executive committee, and two
nti-Laughlin Democratic leade of
Brooklyn had conference yesterday.
Mr.. Fairchlld refused TO say what the
outcome of the conference would be,
but declared that the state Democracy
could not publicly indorse the Sara
toga ticket, and acknowledged that
many of the members of that faction
were intensely hostile to the head of
the Saratoga ticket
PLAIN WORDS BY TWO PAPERS.
The Times, which has been an ad-
ministration organ, in an editorial
yesterday morning said:
E''The nomination of Mr.. Hill wrecks
all plans of party harmony, since he
is the rleader and creator of the
faction that is responsible for In
harmony. After loudly proclaimrng
that victory was hopeless without
union, Mr. Hills friends have taken a
step that makes disunion chronic. and
puts new life into expiring dissent.
There is death and destruction for the
party in this kind of management. 1t
is unintelligent and unnatural. 1t
dries up enthusiasm, weakens party
attachments, and destroys the basis
OF party loyalty. The Times would
not do its duty to the Democracy if it
failed to denounce the work of this
convention, begun in such hopeful
ness and ending in this act of incred-
Utility. The Democracy has lost a
great opportunity"
The Evening Post, administration
paper, in leading editorial said:
I'VE consider Mr. Hill the most
dangerous man in American public
life. He is dare devil and de-
lights to be considered such. He is
attractive to Tammany hall and all
the bosses and bad elements of
society because he represents what
they all aim at and strive for. Look
ing back at the list of Democratic
leaders in New York, where do we
find his likeness? Where is his place
in the list with Van Buren,, Marcy.
Wright, Seymour, Tilden, Cleveland?
The mark of all these men is found
in benefits to the state. They all had
ambitions. They had their battles,
their friends and their enemies, vet
the candid judgment of to-day ac-
knowledges that each and all of them
had just claims to statesmanship
What has David B. Hill done or
aimed to do that entities him to a
place in the process I? The people
OF New York owe mselves the duty
of putting an e his unprincipled
career and bad example. That thew
will do so in the coming election we
have not the least doubt The ma
jority against him ought to be larger
than that against Maynard, because
he was the principal, where Maynard
was only the puppet and tool"