Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-19
David Bennett Hill
Will Not Bolt.
NV York Journal.

Watering the flowers and feel the cooler
for it. There is much talk of Hill
bolt That Black Brunswicker OF party
is described as immured az Wolferts
ROOg., and, save for some nOw-anG-then
excursion OF a Whiney-confdential
sor>, 70 be devCtirg himself TO the study
CT "BJlL" They say, these magpies in
politics, that Hill wants TO bolt; that he
is purJmbed and his soul sweaJs; that
the spirit and the bride say belt.
1t is a pleasure to assure a world wait
ing .cr news THAT all Jhis is balderdash,
and the merest hysJeria OF political APP
prehsn:iOn. Hill won't bolt; moreover,
Hill can't bolt. And nome is clearer On
this point than Hill.
Your agricultural person following
his plow about his acres, hoping and
fearing no Office, may, with safety, in
dulge in Jh6 past time OF bolt. The
sun VIII shine, the harvest nod as gen
erously 70 the sickle of boiler as TO
your strict party man, who aGneres like
glue to Whatever in the way OF canGl-
date tine platform aI& his convention
buings foI In. But this in not true o.
Your man who lives by sowing and reap
ing politics. lie can't bOl1 without
bhghting every succeeding harvest OF
his life.
Such is the case of NIL, VINO some
day hopes to be Presiden'; and VINO Is
Loc wild enough, nor in such frenzy as
TO invoke by any present boitin5 that
black brand coming 10 those who DESERT
,i0ir standards en- the stricken field; and
which would forever destroy jhe las
White House chance he might possess.
Hill Will not bot. 4 month from now
VIII find lim as violenJly at work for
Bryan as Bryan would have been for
Hill, had the latter been the party
nominee.
Why is Hill 50 deeply silent if he is
at last to plunge into the war? 1t is Uhe
biuthIigh, Of Achilles 10 suik in his tent.
And Hill is Ule UEch3IC-55G Achilles o.
his patty. Iha;e may be discussion as
to who : the Democratic AgamamnOn;
there may arise debate as 10 the idend-
Is of che AjaXes and Sccrateses, but all
admit the Achi,leship TO Hill.
As we had decided, II is .Jhe preroga-
tive OF AchiGss-H.ll to su.k in his pa
yiH0n Of WCllert's FJ0s,. And thaIe is
Jhis wisdom of politics in it. When
Hill at last yields and hugs again the
party 10 his heart he wants 1t to be i'm
pressiye, come hard and therefore high,
( a,d have reasonable advertisement
Th5re is more JOY over one sheep that
was los, and is found again than over
ninety and nine mat stayed with che
parry. HI knows this and viii pay
! the lost sheep Bit TO The end that his
reclamation may be the sigma. o. much
JOY. and ne himself more or less pedss-
| laLed as N Upccme.
You viii all notice that Jones, Of Ar
/ kansas, l. on his C..ye-beaIingq way 20
| Hill, And Hi is 10 NEE, jones. The
| history of tEe.r meo ING win be the en-
ing back Of Hill, heart and soul, II
| flag OF The Democracy and the
/ Of Bryan.
! Hill knows this now as well as you
and l. But he is bent ON the moderate
| ~ spectacular. How 90 | know that
| Hill is aware in advance of his CONVEX
/ SIGN 10 Bryan to come? | know it by
| Jones. This good senator is after all
| more bumptiCus than wise. He is no
| mach for Hill. Using Hill as XIV ma
| terial, ne would make over into a d0Z
| e. O. Jones. The latter could no more
| convince Hill or even debate with Hill
than he could scale a cloud. Jones is a
/ rabbit dog. not a bear deg. Hill is a
| bear; and when one is furnished tbs
/ spectacle of Rabbit Dog Jones bringing
Bear Hin into camp. one may be sure
| the bear is willing
Aside from hair-splitting as TO why
/ Hill stays with The Democracy, he will
display much good horse sense when he
! so decides. Indeed, were such sage
! hunters and holders of office as Fitch
and Fellows who, il would seem by
The public prints, are very vociferOusly
bol,ing-to take their hints from Hill
in this. they would come much better
of This last would cut no vast party
figure. for the going and coming of
! such as these is but a feather blown
matter; bu, they themselves would be
| the better for it.
With Hill, however, while it is i'm
por,ant to the party, his failure to bolt
IS of immense avail to himself. 1t will
undoubtedly name Hill for President in
1900-his support of Bryan now.
More than that. it will plasce Hill in
a high position N the administration of
Bryan. should the latter win, as it looks
nightly he VIII. 1t is some time since
H.ll had much voice in National way.
Cleveland never let him speak above
a whisper. With Bryan in the White
House Hi will be more than potent.
And the pro tempore recluSe Of VOL
ferl's Roost is thinking of these things.
He'll will be the administration man
for New York should Bryan win; he
may. perchanoe, be an actual Cabin
eteer.
1t IS well to revolve all these things,
because it is a broad chance they will
be more than avert5d to in the coming
talk between Hill and Jones, and 10 dis
cuss them now may aid one to under
stand q Hill-hereafter to unfold like
rose.
Hin IS playing to be President And
- q method he will do two things now.
He will support Bryan and he will
strive by direct arrangement to be as
close TO the leadership Of the party,
both before and after November as he
nav. And if Bryan succeeds Hill must
know reasonably in advance that his
Mace will be near ne!ghbor TO the
throne. In will be new experience
n Hill thus to have the friendly ear of
president: and fear not that he will
soi1 10 mae 1t pay political dividends.
Moreover. don't blame him if he does.
He ought TO.
cleveland destroyed every Democrat