Evening star., 1895-10-18
Mr.. HILLS ATTITUDE
His Change Of Policy From That
Pursued Last Year.
WHAT TIE REPUBLICANS ALLEGE
They Believe He Sees Defeat Ahead
in New York.
VIVA HIS ENEMIES SAY

A feature of the New York situation
highly encouraging to the republicans is
the attitude of Senator Hill toward the
campaign. Does the Senator sniff defeat
from afar? If not, what is the explanation
of the difference between his bearing this
year and last? Though not a candidate
this year. he is still the leader of his party
at home, and still expected to direct it's
more important movements.
HilFs Change of Plan.
It is noted that during the campaign of
last year Mr.. Hill was the most active of
men He was in evidence every day. Not
blade OF grass was permitted to grow under
his feet. From the hour of his acceptance
of the nomination for governor until the
polls closed in November he was on the
stump rallying bis friends. He appeared in
every part of the state and glve himself
no rest whatever. But 1t is very different
this year. Whole weeks have gone by since
the fiasco at Syracuse without even the
mention of his Lame. His movements are
not chronicled, If he is moving about. He
has spent good deal of time at his home
near Albany, and late report has it that
he is preparing to go to Ohio to help Camp
bell. Are his party's affairs at home in SO
prosperous and assuring condition that
the succor of the buckeyes? Or is 1t that
he realizes that the jig is up with him at
home, and that his best card is to throw
himself into the breach elsewhere?
What the Republicans Think.
The republicans hold to the opinion that
Mr.. Hill sees defeat ahead in New York,
and goes to Ohio to forward the effort to
finish Mckinley. Ohio is the vulnerable
point in the republican line. There is no
election either in Mr.. Reeds state or in
Gen. Harrison's state. Mckinley is the
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strike him. And it woul be a great win
ming, too, to finish him, or even to cripple
him. The effect would be to deprive his
party of the use next year OF much Of his
prestige.
In Case Of CnmpbelTs Success.
To the suggestion that Campbelrs sue
cess this year would make him formidable
presidential candidate, and that Mr.. Hill,
by going to his assistance, may be blocking
his own presidential game, the reply made
is that the New York Senator has reached
that stage of his career when he must take
chances. If democratic success in Ohio this
fall means Campbell for President next
year, SO be it. One man cannot play against
fate. Mr.. Hill in such circumstances could
at least hope to stand well with the new
leadership. He would have helped to es
tablish it. On the other hand, if Campbell,
even with the prestige of victory obtained
this year. should fail in national calcula-
services will still be fresh and may affect
the situation in Mr. Hills behalf 1t is 10
the good for a candidate when his friends
are able to point to the fact that their IA
vorite in an engagement always moves to
the sound of the heavy artillery.
A Risk in This Policy.
1t is conceded. however, that there is a
risk in this policy. 1t SO happens, too, that
Mr. Hill himself has established the fact.
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his state and made speeches in Ohio, New
Jersey, West Virginia and Indiana. The
act had every appearance of generosity.
He was a candidate for governor, and he
left his personal interests exposed to speak
for his party in states where the issue
seemed to he in doubt and where his influ-
ence was represented as of value. But the
result was attended with embarrassments
so serious he has never since entirely re-
covered from them. The state ticket which
he headed that year was successful but
the national ticket failed and he and his
friends were charged with the failure.
They were accused of having made the one
safe at the expense of the other. No Won
der, the anti-Hill democrats said, stump
Ing tour could be made to. other states
when affairs had been SO arranged at home
that Mr.. Hill himself could not lose. AS
indignant the denialS were and still are
of Mr.. Hills friends. this charge is now
and then still heard, and there are adj
mirers of his who believe that. it cut an
influential figure in his defeat at Chicago
in 1882.
What Hills Enemies AIay Say.
1t may be, too, that these same men will
attack Mr.. Hill on his new move. They
may insist that, black as the sky is in New
York. he yet should remain there; that the
campaign of this year should equal in the
earnestness and activity displayed the cam
raign of last year: that half-heartedness in
ness in the ranks. and that politics, like
charity, has always its first and most i'm
pressive application at home. Let Mr.. Camp
bell take care of himself. The redemption Of
New York from republican rule is of far
more consequence, 1t is held, than whiting
down a republican majority in republican
state like Ohio. and nothing should be done
to encourage even the assumption that New
York this year cannot be redeemed.
AN INQUEST TODAY.