Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-04
His Friends Are Presenting It With
Added Emphasis.
He is THE Hope OF HIS PARTY
Everything Depends Upon His Treat.
ment by the NJ Y. Democrats.
WILL HE SERVE IF ELECTED?

The supporters of Senator Hill are pre-
senting his case with added emphasis every
day. They now see in the results in Georgia
fresh proof of how absolutely essential TO
the democratic cause everywhere the can
didacy of their favorite is. They declare,
indeed, that his overthrow-either by a
forced declination of the nomination he has
received, or by his defeat at the polls next
month-would all but annihilate the de-
mocracy a national quantity.
The friend cf Senator Hill quoted in The
Star of yesterday had this additional to
say on the subject today:
The Party's Welfare Wrapped Up in
Hill.
Il do not put the case too strongly when
l say that the welfare of the democratic
party in every state in the Union is wrap
ped up in the candidacy of Mr.. Hill. Every
thing depends upon the treatment accorded
to him by the democrats of New York In
1892. when MIR. Hill was striving to secure
the democratic nomination for the presi-
dency, his democratic competitors and crit
les slurred him by asserting that he was
not national quantity. They We're good
enough to concede his strength at home
where, as they said with a fine sneer, he
had captured and drilled the rabble-but
they would not allow that the country at
large knew or cared anything about him.
Well, things have changed. Things, in
deed, have been tremendously reversed Mr..
Hill today is the only national quantity
available for anything in the democratic
party. The President is pOwerleSS, Mr..
Brice has bat narrowly escaped repuda
ten in Ohio. after being savaSely pelted
everywhere else, and the rest are really
nowhere.
He is Supreme.
But Hill is supreme. His popularity
he 10 pf arfv af
vas never so great. and his nomination for
governor of New York has sent thrill of
hope through the party elsewhere that has
given new aspect to affairs. 1t has trans
formed funeral procession into a move
ment resembling race. Ask Chairman
Faulkner. Ask the local chairmen in the
states beyond the Alleghanies. Read the
letters and telegrans that have been pour
ing in on MIR. Hill ever since the nomination
made, all urging him to accept it, and
all assuring him that his name at the head
of the New York ticket will be a positive
boon to the party in every Congress dis
trict in the country. In fact, great has
been the demonstration outside of New
York that the demonstration at Saratoga,
enthusiastic as it was, loses III comparison.
MI Hill is the man, and the only man,
capable of saving the day to the democracy
in the national contest. If ne should be
obliged, by reason of the detection of the
ClevelanditeS at home, to decline to accent
the gubernatorial nomination the demo-
cratic Congress campaign would virtually
collapse. The republicans would have fifty
majority in the next House. If he runs,
and with such assurances of support from
the Clevelandites as Indicate his election,
the democrats will be likely to control the
next House."
The slump i'm Georgia.
But Notwithstanding Mr. Hills nomina-
ton, there was big democratic slump in
Georgia yesterday was suggested.
fore the Hill nomination was made. The
natior al administration was the issue in
part, and the Georgia democrats on that
score were very apathe:ic. But If Mr.. Hill
runs and is properly supported observe the
difference in the Georgia vote for Congress
men next month. That will show how
Sreat an awakening the magic of Mr.. Hills
name has caused.
Will Hill Serve If Elected.
'Is it your opinion that in the event of
his ele .tion as governor of New York, Mr.
Hill will serve again in that office? Or viii
he hold on to the senatCrshp ard permit
Mr.. Lockwood to step up higher?' was
asked.
My idea is that that quest will be de-
cidet after ger 6r;l consultation of party
leaders. 1t wilt be distinctly a PARTY ,lles-
ton. MT Hills individual fortunes will not
be at all involved in the sGttl anent of it.
He will nave made his Jsck, ana Won the
game. Whether here or at Albany, he VIII
be the party's leader, SO declared By the
vote that elected him governor. lie viii
be the partyS choice for Pres ident, and 10
democratic leader in New York will attempt
TO change that. Certainly Mr.. Lockwood
as governor would net. He would, i'll those
circIInst tances be one OF the most loyal
and enthusiastic of MIR. Hil's friends and
supporters. So much for the individual
phase of the case.
The Party Phase of the Question.
THE party phase of it presents only the
question of the narrow democratic ma
jOrity in the Senate. There is a bare ma
jority of one without Mr.. Hill, with the
Vice Presidents vote in reserve in case of
a tie. John Randolph of Virginia used to
say that the best political majority in Con-
gress was one. 1t kept the party possess
ing it from 'pranking,' he declared. But
MIR. Hill Will do whatever it is decided in
council is best to be done for the party.
Continued national supremacy will be the
issue, and Mr. Hill will be the party's hope.
If il should be decided that he can best
serve the party at Albany, he will go there;
If in the Senate, he will stay here. The
party will then have, Mr.. Hill is now
forced, to take a great risk. A little un-
easiness as to the situat ton in the Senate
may have to be borne to forward the
greater question of the next presidency