The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-23
LEADING EDITORIALS.
From the Denver Post.
rvs y.r Our old friend Dav-
o. HILL ~ ,euae'. ~"

probably take littlt
comfort out OF the equiyocal compliment
paid him by his fellow party men iii the
/ New York legislature yesterday. Anything
short Of unanimous Endorsement by his
own party in his own State could not posi-
oiS set well on the naughty stomach OF
the political Ho,spur. That ne had lost
caste ana credit. as well as following in
.ne rest OF the country. nobody doubted,
| oct thst his partial Endorsement by the
party OF his own State should have been
! received with such marked GOODNESS and
gwen IN such perfunctory way makes
palmer than words could possibly do the
political depths into which the once mighty
silil has fallen.
ohiy Few years ago Hill was the most
popular, at the same time the most dan ser
GUS democrat in the country. He had APP
parently all the elements OF leadership ex-
oep' deep sympathy with the masses. He
aoMIhatef the party in New York through
ms intellect rather than influenced 1t
through his wide sympAihies He hat a
genius Tor politics such as had not been dis
/ played by any other leader In his State aud
Party since the days Of Van Buren,. the
sage OF kinderhook. Had the conditions
been different his calculations would have
inevitably led him to the presidency
IN ordinary times, which are the aver
ase ana usual times. his methods would
nave been successful in all probability de-
spite the most stringent opposition which
could be brought TO bear against him. But
unfortunately for himself. at the most CRIT
lcai stage OF his career he was confronted
by condition which could not be met BIZ
the mere exercise OF political ingenuity and
cody balanced intellect. II was Just such
condition as Hill. by nature training and
ruuVation' was least able to cope with In
ldct, II was altogether a matter Of the
sympaihies rather than O. the intellect a
condition brought about by the necessities
OF the masses and forced from below, rather
than carefully calculated campaign with
everything worked down to a fine edge
when the rank and file more or less blindly
followed accepted leadership.
Under such conditions as these hill would
necessarily fail TO meet public expectation
constituted as he is. 1t could not be other
Wise II this We're all he still might be
forgiven and perhaps ultimately, to a great
extent, regain the confidence Of his party.
even though he never reached the goal of,
his political ambition. But, unfortunately;
II Is not. HIS chief stock In trade WIS
his assertion that he was a democrat at 4
time when the actual head Of the partv.
Cleveland. was known 10 be a deputy re-
publican. His announcement In the senate
previous to the meeting OF the National
tain things and disapproved Of others, he
would nevertheless heartily support the
nominee. was accepted as an exhibition OF
party loyalty such rs met with warm an
prevail. Subsequently, when defeated in the
convention, he left that body in {. hun. Peo-
pie then began TO suggest that ne was not
a free moral agent in the matter. and his
action during the campaign tended to con-
firm this suspicion into conviction.
Justly or unjustly. nobody credits Hill
with sincerity or even common honesty in
his opposition to the Bryan ticket. They
feel that his strange conduct demoralizcd
the party in New York and did more to
bring about its overwhelming defeat than
even Mark Hanna's money. They feel too.
that this result was part OF his calcula-
ton.
1t is for this reason, rather than any
other, that the loyal democrat of the coun-
try feel so bitterly toward iiill. which NAV
also serve to explain why his political ca
recr. in large sense. is now closed in
cldent