The Portland daily press., 1894-09-27
AN ASTONISHING PERFORMANCES.


The nomination of David Bennett Hill
by the Democrats of New York is prac.
ticalIy desertion of the Cleveland adj
ministration. 1t is an attempt to save
the Empire State to the party by repudi-
ating what the Official represen tatives of
the party have done during the past
eighteen months. The Vermont Demo-
Gratis stood by the administration, and
were buried under majority of $4,000;
the Maine Democrats did the same, and
are now fiercely squabbling among them
selves TO fix the responsibility for their
tremendous defeat. The New York
Democrats are going to see what they
can do by repudiating the administra-
tion. Perhaps they reason that as great
part of the Maine and Vermont Demo-
Gratis staid at home as the most effect
i've way under the circumstances, of
rebuking the administration, they may
get the New York Democrats all out if
they can furnish a candidate whose elect
ion would be severer rebuke to the adj
ministration than his defeat. Certainly,
cannot be pretended that the Democratic
campaign in New York will be in sup
port of the national administration. 1t
was only Few weeks ago that Demo-
cratic organs all over the land were de-
nouncing him as a traitor to his party
and were reading him out of it for re-
fusing to support the measures of a
Democratic Congress and fol. lnaking war
upon Democratic executive. Not more
than two months ago he stood up in the
Senate and repudiared the income tax
that had passd the House by Democratic
votes, charging that the men who voted
for that measure swere spurious Demo-
Gratis, part mugwump, part Populist,
the least part Democratic" The tariff
law, which was the, distinctive measure
of the Democratic Congress, he voted
against. not merely because sthe income
tax was attached to it, but also because
he regarded it as un-Democartic and a
practical reputation of party pledges.
Two months ago he arraIgned the DEM
ocratic leaders for their refusal to re-
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rallied at them for adopting ex-Speaker
Reeds quorum counting rule. His con-
duct since Congress met year ago has
been continued protest against the leg
islation of his party, and much of it he
has condemned IN more bitter terms
than the Republicans. But this is not
all. He has iantagonized the President
in some of his most important r-appoint-
ments to office. and two nominations to a
vacant judgeship on the Supreme bench
were defeated by his influence, after a
protracted and bitter struggle with the
President. 1t is perfectly well known
that he is MIR. Cleveland's personal enc
my, and that he has endeavored in every
way.in his power to thwart his wishes.
No matter what platform he is placed
upon, his nomination will inevitably be
construed as a direct and Intentional
affront to the President and virtual re-
Duke to his administration. Perhaps,
for this reason, he may prove an attract
i've candidate to the masses of the
party in New York who have not.
of late years, been very fond of Mr..
Cleveland. But the Cleveland men.
and the Mugwumps, and the friends
Of the two candidates for judges
that he defeated, how will they regard
this attempt to carry New York by NOM
mating man who is their bitterest foe?
How will the respectable Democrats who
helped bury Maynard under a hundred
thousand majority, regard this man,
who defiantly undertook to cram May
nard down their throats? How will the
Democrats who are Fighting Tammany
and the Mclaughlin ring look upon the
selection of the pet of those corrupt COM
binations Tor the highest Office in the
state? If these men don't repay with
interest the knitting which Cleveland--re
ceived at the hands of Hill six years
ago, human nature has changed good
deal of late. No doubt HIPS nomination
will satisfy one wing of the Democracy
better than that of any one else, but it
will correspondingly disgust the other.
1t will bring out more voters of one
class, but it will keep in more of anoth-
er.