The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-05
The Outlook in New York.

All indications point to the certainty
of Republican success this fall in the
Empire state.
New York has long been the strong
hold of the Democracy. Ever since the
downfall of Roscoe Conklin, the Demo
Gratis have held that state. They have
the state officers and both u. 5. sena-
tors But it has become apparent, even
TO the Democratic leaders, that their
ascendancy is doomed. Gov. Flower,
noting the handwriting on che wall,
declined TO be candidate for reelec-
ton, though he had every motive, save
the apprehension of defeat, to accept
the nomination. The convention met
and in its desperation nominated Sena.
tor Hill.
Governor Flower did not say that he
did not want the nomination; he said
he did not think he could obtain as
many votes as some other man. plainly
intimating that the party was in des-
perate straits and wanted a Moses
OluCi lIldu HllhSClls hO Ptl
convention-evidently thought that Mr..
Hill was the needed Moses. Whether
Mr. Hill contemplated this result of the
assemblage, is uncertain. But we can
readily understand the utter divergence
of interests that must influence him.
He has now an assured position and the
prestige of success. thus far he has
never been beaten. In this emergency,
if he consents to run, with so many
hopes conferred upon his success, and is
beaten, great would be the disappoint-
ment. The fortress of success, hereto
fore impregnable, would be entered
and the immutable idol shattered. But
if he could succeed; if at such a crisis
of anxiety and despair Senator Hill
could bear up the standard of Democ-
racy in the Empire state and maintain
the party hold of the governorship, the
gratitude of his adherents would be
boundless. Henceforth he would be
canonized and his name added to the
list of Democratic saints in their party
annals. The temptation is no doubt
great, but the danger is much more so.
The task of retaining Democratic con-
troll of the state of New York is too diff
ficult for even David b. Hills astute-
ness and political strength. In fact, he
himself has pronounced his own doom
in his speech made in the senate in OPP
position to the tariff bill He said, in
this much quoted speech, that if the
Democratic party should pass this bill,
the action would lose to it in the com
ing election, and in many future cleo
tons, the states of New York, Connec-
ticut and New Jersey The bill was
passed and has become a law in pre-
cisely the form it possessed when Sena-
tor Hill denounced it.
1t no doubt remains as apparent to
the senator now as it did then that in
consequence of the action of the party,
the states which he designated will be
given to the Republicans. If there is
any safety in conjecturing from indca-
tons that are unusually apparent, the
states named will go Republican by
maiorities unprecedented. Maine has
given the largest majority to the Re-
publicans in the history of the state
over 80, 000-and why should not New
York do proportionately equally we'll?
New York is great agricultural and a
great manufacturing state, and both
these industries i'm that state are fear
fully stricken by the Democratic tariff
bill. The state borders upon the best
portion of Canada, and the products
along the border, on both sides, are
similar; and thus the New York farm
ers are now subject to the competition