The sun., 1894-10-29
Tho Candidntes-A Contrast.

LEVI PARSONS MORTON, the Republican
candidate for Governor, deserves very well
Of his Republican party friends. He has
t,-ays been a consistent and unchanging
Republican. He has served his party with
loyalty in Congress, with distinction as an
American Minister abroad, and with rare
tact, fairness, and intelligence as presiding
officer Of the United States Senate. These
services have been supplemented by gen
erous but Irregular pecuniary contributions
TO the party war chest. He has taken in
other campaign work no active part. He
has enunclated no new principles lie de
fcnds no policies. He has delivered no
speeches He has left TO others the onerous
task OF organization. Usually he has been
successful but occasionally he has been de-
fea'e'l: sometimes in caucus, sometimes in
nominating convention, and once at the
polls. But lie has taken these defeats
philosophically, and has continued, I'M
swerving and unresentful. his support of the
Republican party and its principles.
Mr.. MORTON is now the Republican candi-
date for Governor Of New York, and his
party friends, remembering his honorable
servces and mindful Of thu Importance OF
tho contest. are giving him their aid. His
old associate on the Presto ential ticket Of
1SsS, BENJAMIN HARRISON, is to speak in
his behalf during the closing week of the
campaign. Ton REED has already spoken.
Major MCKINLEY is on the stump for Mr..
MoRro~, beginning in Buffalo
DAVID BENNETT HILL, the Democratic
romnee for Governor, has been as loyal to
the Democratic party as Mr.. MORTON to the
Republican party. His labor has been of a
different sort. He has fought as stoutly for
other Democrats as for himself He has
taken upon his own shoulders for years the
hardest labor Of organization, and the con-
diton of the party in New York at this
time. better here than In any other
Northern or Western State, attests his
political skill. He Is the most ac-
tive, tireless, and popular OF Demo
cratic campaign speakers in the United
States. He has been at the front Of every
fight for Democratic principles in New York
since he attained the age Of citizenship. The
first Democratic United States Senator
from New York since HERMAN, his public
services as Governor turned New York from
doubtful State into surely Democratic
State. His battle for Democratic principle
IN Congress is the mainstay of the party's
Democrats elsewhere.
Is GROVER CLEVELAND proposing, like
Gen, HARRISON, to aid the candidate OF his
party by speech anywhere in New York in
The closing days of the campaign No Mr..
HILL was his colleague on the successful
State ticket of 1889. Mr.. HILL was his
successor in the Office OF Governor when
CLEVELAND became President. Mr.. Hill
Is the senior Senator in the Senate from
New York, and as such, is CLEvELAND's
Constitutional adviser. Mr.. HILL Is the
nominee for Governor Of CLEvELAND's own
party In CLEvELAND's own State. And yet |
ignorant of the amenities Of his position, in |
different to the most solemn party obliga-
tions, careless Of the interest of 800, 900 or
more New York Democrats, who. with HILL |
at their head, have three times consecutively
supported him as their nominee for Presi- |
dent he has not registered Public duty, IL
not party obligation, should have dictated |
the performance OF that obligation, however
reluctant or however unsteady his footsteps |
might he In walking around the corner to |
The polling place
Happily for the cause and interests of |
Democracy, menaced by the invasion of Re |
publican orators and statesmen from In |
diana, Ohio, Maine, and elsewhere, we have |
IN the field for Governor this year Demo |
crat who does his own fighting.