Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-27
THE NEWSPAPERS AND MR.. HILL.
Various Comments Made ON the New
York NOMinhtiOn.


Various Comments Made ON the New
York Nomination.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
Instead Of turning thus hopefully to some
rev leader of promise. whose advent might
have opened a prosperous era in the party's
history, the delegates In a needless rush
and with yell nominated for the governor
ship David B. Hill. who Is not new lead
er, and under whose management the party
cannot be said to have enjoyed prosperity.
This, 1t must be confessed. was q sorry
outcome Of all the efforts that have been
made to put aside causes of dissension and
unite the party. The Times has attempted
to be Of some service~to the democracy in
appeasing its Quarrels and harmonizing
the factions But as We should have deem
cd 1t the height of unwisdom to urge the
candidacy of an active and conspicuous
INTERPRETATION democrat, SO with double
force 1t can be objected that the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Hill wrecks all plans of party
harmony, since he is the leader and crea tor
of the faction that is responsible for in
harmony After loudly proclaiminR that
victory was hopeless without union Mr..
Hills friends have taken a step that makes
piring dissent. So g ~. -
But that Is by no. means the most Sc.
rious or the most alarming aspect Of Mr.
Hills nomination. In the last days of the
year 1891 a great public crime was COM
mitted in. this state. An agent in the COM
mission Of that crime came before the peo-
pie at the election held last year, and al
though ne was candidate of the more
numerous party he was defeated by an ad-
verse majority Of more than 100000 votes
But II a mel e agent In the villainy was
punished with that severity how will the
electors Of the state treat the principal at
NIL lie f.
tor three years ag6, and last year Mr.. Lock
wood presided-oxer---the convention that
nominated the doomed Maynard. Are
tncse nominations an Intentional defiance
OF public virtue? Is It, assumed that the
ate? - >''-
All Hopes Of Harmony Are Smashed.
From the New York World Dem).
The result Of the democratic state conyen-
ton will create great disappointment. sur
prise and admiration. Disappointment be.
cause the most ordinary common sense ir
political affairs must perceive the crying
necessity for union. harmony, reconciliation
and genuine enthusiasm in the present
CRITICAL campaign. 1t was particularly
necessary that the moral and the indie
pendent elements In the party be satisfied
The machine is always bound to accept the
situation. BY rejecting the claims Of the
state democracy and the reform delegation
from Kings county and nominating Senator
hin, the brains. the directing hand and
the unQuestioned master of the machine
organisation the old divisions are, intensi-
fed-certainly not healed, The disaffected
democrats will see only the candidate for
governor. ~, ~-
Will Reckon With Maynard's Master.
From the New York Tribune (Isep)
There never was a more stupid mistake
In American politics. The people of this
state have not slept or last years revul-
sion of conscience against the political
brigands who despoied them of their liber-
ties and then attempted to crown with
honor confessed thief-the tool and crea-
ture of Senator Hill. They dealt last year
with Maynard. This year they have where
they want him the man who was behind
Maynard: the man without whom there
would have been no theft of the legislature
ana all the accompanying outrages; the man
who ordered Maynards nomination for the
court OF appeals as q vindication Of crime
IN violation OF morality and conscience.
There will be a reckoning with Maynard's
master at the polls. They will deal with
Tim. not as a miracle worker nor as a
presidential candidate. but as the last
democrat in the state who ought to have
been nominated after Maynard's rejection.
thinks There Will he Party Harmony
From the New York Herald (Dem.).
There is every prospect that Senator
Hills nomination will receive the supper,
OF all the democrats In the state. Animosi-
ties will be buried for the good of the party
There is no doubt that the chief cause OF
the burying of the hatchet was the platform
adopted by the convention. 1t was regarded
as an unqualified Endorsement OF Cleveland
and his administration, and this served tC
reconcile the former anti-snappers to the
candidacy of a man they have in the pas;
freely execrated
Approves the Politics Of 1t.
From the Philadelphia Press tl,epJ.
The action of the New York democratic
state convention in nominating Senator Hill
for governor was probably the wisest course
| that could have been followed. Mr.. Hill
will be enthusiastically supported by the
machine that he has carefully built up and
by the brewers, who have always been his
main support. and defeat will not hurt him
He will not have to resign his seat In the
Senate. and his term does not expire until
March I. 1897. Hence. whatever the result,
before the people as the leader OF his party
in New York. ------- .----- -
A Desperate Game.
From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.). -
For Hill is playing a desperate game, tina,
must either make him or undo him quite. II
he should be elected governor of New Yorh
he would be- the master Of the democratic
party and almost of necessity its candidate
for President in 1885, If he should be de-
IeatSu MS power WOulO De broken lrretr1ev.
ably. AS there are evidently a great many
good democrats in New York who would
rather lose the' governorship this year thar
help to put Hill IN the saddle he would seem
to be playing against odds. But Hill Is q
man of great resources and indisputabls
ability and courage, and 1t will not be SAT.
to count him beaten till the returns are in.
Led to the Slaughter.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Rep.).
1t is doubtful II a more pathetic scene
was ever witnessed in state convention
than the forcible nomination of David Ii.
Hill for governor of New York. 1t was an
exciting scene, of course. Every delegate
| was for Hill. The enthusiasm was tre-
mendCus. His course in antagOnizing
Cleveland was Endorsed. His fractional lead
ership was given the regularity of unan-
imous vote. He was, above all others, the
one democrat in New York, and yet 1t was
pathetic. There was the strong man, agitat-
| ed, pale, with the knowledge that in the
very house of his friends he was being led
| to the slaughter. His protests were UNI
availirg. His destinations feIf on deaf ears
He must have realized what was before
him. He appealed to his friends to save
him, but there was no pity. He was nom
mated by a convention which had sought
to name Gaynor, Whitney and others, all
of whom had declined. And so Hill was