Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-25
HILLS BOLD PLAY
Possible Effect of His Action at the
Syracuse Convention.
HS POLITICAL LIFE At STAKE
Tammany Will Remember Its Turn
ing Down if Defeated.
SENATOR'S RESPONSIBILITY

Senator Hill has taken his political life in
his hands. This play at Syracuse is re-
garded as the boldest he has ever made
He has staked everything on the November
result. If the democracy wins, the party in
the state will be his to command next year.
i 1t loses Tammany, at least, will charge
the disaster up to him and visit its dis
pleasure severely upon him.
A Desperate Situation.
1t was desperate situation that called
for the turning down of Tammany by Mr.
Hill. The braves had always stood by him.
They made the fight for him in 1892. There
would have been no Hill stock at all that
year but for Tammany. This very faction
which. with Mr.. Hills aid. has now forced
its way into the state convention over
with Mr.. Whitney's aid that year. raised
the Cleveland standard and made the
Cleveland nomination at Chicago. This.
there is every reason to believe will long
stick in Tammany's craw. Victory, of
course. softens many asperities. If this
Hill compromise Is ratified at the polls, its
hard terms may be forgotten. If it is de-
feated, nothing will be able to save Mr..
Hill from censure SO savage and SO sweep
ing as will cripple him for life.
Hill and Murphy.
A most important disclosure Is the rad
Murphy. This had for some time been re-
ported, but it was necessary for such a
report to be verified. Mr.. Murphy stands
with Tammany. He declares for harmony,
but thinks 1t ought to have been establish
ed on a Tammany basis. Mr.. Hills har-
mony is established on the basis Of the
Cleveland faction. Therein. as Mr.. Murphy
first time Mr.. Murphy has criticised the
length to which Mr.. Hill seemed willing to
go to meet the Cleveland people. The man
from Troy stands up for what he calls the
faction at home as boilers. He will not
allow that, as democrats, they have any
rights at all. He would have admitted
few of them to the convention as a matter
OF Kindness and encouragement, but only
after a promise on their part to chain their
heels in future and stop kicking. If this
difference should develop into anything
permanent. Mr.. Hill must be the loser. Mr..
Murphy has no ambition beyond his pres
ent office, but If Mr.. Hill is to remain
presidential quantity, OF. failing to reach
the presidency, to hope to return to the
Senate even, he cannot well get along
without Mr.. Murphy.
Hill's Responsibility.
Everything now, it is predicted, will be
thrown upon Mr.. Hills shoulders. He will
be held responsible for the welfare of
all the tickets and for the full vote of both
him to throw Tammany solidly for the
state ticket, while Tammany will warn
him about bringing out his new allies at
the polls. But, unfortunately for Mr.. Hill,
the new alliance Is limited. He cannot use
1t in TammaEyS behalf The Fairchild peo-
pie gave a sort of defiant notice that no
recognition of them by the state conven-
ticn would insure their cooperation with
Tammany in local matters in New York
city. That was probably the bitterest drop
in Tammany's cup.
Another Embarrassment.
Another embarrassing thing for Mr.. Hill
is the fact that a number of state senator's
to be elected this year will hold over and
participate in the election of his successor
to the United States Senate. 1t is but
natural that he should feel greatly inter-
ested in the result in those districts and
the intimation has already been thrown
cut that he will give especial attention to
them. His friends think this intimation
Goes him ar. injustice. He could not, they
declare, afford any such program. The sue
cess of those meE at the expense of either
the state ticket or ally other local ticket
involves Mr. Hill in the same sort of con-
troversy that grew out of the election of
1883. when he carried New York for COVER
nor and Mr.. Cleveland lost it for Presi-
dent. His enemies made great capital out
of that, and, despite his repeated and
vigorous denials, some Cleveland men still
Insist that he knitted the national ticket
that year.
Mr.. Whitney Waiting.
Meanwhile, things may be ever so warm
at Syracuse, they are cool enough at Bar
Harbor. Mr.. Whitney is at Bar Harbor
entertaining his friends and talking yachts
If Mr.. Hill disappears from the New York
horizon as the result of this years strug-
gle, the brightest luminary left in that
quarter of the heavens will be the ex-
Secretary of the Navy.