The herald., 1894-09-26
TIE TRUE INwARDEgss OF THE sIrU-
ALTON.

ALTON.
When Mr.. Cleveland was elected pres.
ident in 1854 most people who were in
the habit OF paying any attention to
politics supposed that the Democratic
party had entered upon lease OF power
which would last at least quarter OF a
century. And that would undoubtedly
have been the case If any body but Mr..
Cleveland had been elected in that year
OF grace. Nobody knew, when the Bui-
falc sheriff was made the chief msgia-
trate of the nation, that he was bull
headed and about as wrong-headed as
George Ill, of happy memory. His
potentialities for evil were not even
guessed at in 1884. Those enterprising
politicians who forced his nomination in
1892 have committed the objectionable
sin-something that in theology is
known as the Bin against the Holy
Ghost-thst is to say, they sinned
against light.
Once again we are face to face with
Grover Cleveland and his marplot tao
tics. All his energies have been con-
centrated, with his usual misplaced
vehemence, upon throwing the Demo-
cratic party out of power. and keeping
it out, from this time forward and for
ever.
The complete paralysis into which
Cleveland has thrown the Democratic
party could not be better shown than in
the condition in which that time-hon-
ored organization finds itself in New
York. Not one of the distinguish ed
statesmen of the party is willing to run
for governor. By universal confession,
Governor Flower has made an excellent
executive of the Empire state. He de-
serves denomination and reelection.
But he will not take the nomi nation be-
cause he is afraid of Senator David Ben
nett Hill, and he knows that President
Cleveland would 60 over to New York
to vote against him and would tip the
wink to all his followers to do the same
thing.
Implored to run himself, David Ben
nett Hill is wise in his day and genera.
tion. and although he could get the
nomination with wilder yell than has
greeted any candidate for governor since
New York was state, he announces
that seat in the United States senate
is good enough for him, and he declines
to be party to the political act de-
scribed in the school book rhyme,
Won't you walk into my parlor," said
the spider to the fly.
1t is as clear as the rays OF the sun at
MONDAY OF a cloudless May that Mr.,
Hill and his friends are not going to al
low themselves to be the victims of mug
wump treachery. Consequently, some
known as the stuffed prophet" will be
obliged to step into the gap, and William
@. Whitney appears to be the predes-
tined individual who will wear a politi-
cal crown of thorns in the Empire state
this year. He will be nominated for
his money. just as Levi P. Morton was
nominated by the Republican conven-
tiop. But rich ss Morton is, he repre-
sents no Standard Oil company, as Will
lam @. Whitney does. Should Whitney
be the nominee money would flow like
water on both sides, but Morton would
have an advantage whose weight and
significance all ssgscious persons at all
familiar with politics recognize in its
full force.
And that is, we have arrived at one of
those interesting erss in which there is
fight in the Democratic ranks OF the
Empire state-a fight bitter and implac-
able, and which yawns into abysmal
proportions. No man of sense wishes to
be the scapegoat of this perennial un-
pleasantness, which is sometimes
bridged over for period of twenty
years. The men who do not wish to
carry the Democratic standard in tine
gubernstorial race in New York this
year have developed all their wisdom
teeth in full perfection.
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