El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-27
Hills Coup d'Etat.

ms coup q etaG pldnbeu Dy tue
former senator during his recent visit
to New York vas disclosed recently
with his sanction. by his confidential
friends and advisers. No bigger stone
has been thrown into the frog pond OF
state pol itics for many a mouth.
That the erstwhile reciuse of Vol.
ferris Roost should lay his baud uoon
is heart and say. 81, David Bennett
Hill, voted for Bryan and don't care
who knows it. is enough to rob those of
their breath WHO have been chanting
dirge over him as moribund states
man and plotting to seize the power
from his nerveless hands.
The author of the cry, II am demos
crst stillr' 1 am no deserter, no
traitor, no goldbug! L stood by the
Chicago platform at the polls-sl-
though. TO be sure, didn't say any
thing a bou it-aud 1 stand for the reg
ular democracy now, against those
who abandoned the cause of 1885,"
More specifically and more signifi-
caotly, Mr.. Hill says to the democrats
OF the state:
your CD ndidates for governor and
United Stat senator must be men
who fought for the Chicago platform
IN 1896. 1 understand that Mr.. Croker
and his friends are planning to nOmi-
and platform. Mr.. Croker himself
fed the country to evade the issue of
that election. Such is the an who ia
reaching out for the control of the de-
mOcracy of the Empire State! Perry
Belmont and ia Oh A. Cautor, both of
whom he is grooming for the guberna-
toriabrace, are out and out, uncOmprO-
misipg, bitter gold bugs, who helped
to defeat the candidate of their party"
Il o,tx bryh "a fria dc 70
name the man he would prefer for the
gOvernorship, but he would not COM
NIT himself to that extent.
THAT must wait till the fall,' he
said, sententiously. January is no
time for indicating such preferences.
But in the course of general conver-
satlon the former senator spoke in high
terms of Judge Robert G. Titus, of
Erie: National Committeeman Frank
Campbell, of Steuben; State Chairman
Elliott D ,nforth and others whose To-
yalty to the party in 1896 was unques-
toned.
In regard to John B Stauchfield, who
had BEEN reputed to be Mr.. Hills
choice for TIE head of the tick ct next
fall, one of the leaders friends ventur-
ed to remind him that Mr.. Stanchfield
had refus to preside at Bryan meet
Jog.
"Much as 1 might like Stsuchfield,"
David b. Hill is reported as baving re-
piled, ''if it is established that he was
a traitor to the Chicago platform, he
need not expect my support"
But you yourself" be WIS reminded,
''were accused of having bolted the
Chica.o nominees and platform.
sit is true replied Mr.. Hill, "that
[ took no active part in the presiden-
tial canvass of 1896, but 1 voted the
str icrht finkof ira tho
same
Before leaving The Hotel Normandie
yes.e rday for Albany. Mr.. Hill appear
ed in the highest spirits and seemed to
his LIEUT. nants to whom he confided
his lpan of c@mpai n, to have a keener
insight into Things political and
stronger grasp OF the situation than
ev. r before. Although his name had
for SO long been ASSOCIATED from
politics, be exhibited the old ex-
haustive familiarity with the do:ngs
in the smslles s.hamlets in the state
that familiarity wherewith he was
wont to amaze such men as Elliott Can
forth, William F. Sheehan. and even
Hugh Mclaughlin, by telling them
more than they had ever suspected
about tt cir own individuals districts.
But it Was in regard to the larger
question that be was most emphatic and
cain conviction that democrats up
The state would not listen tt Mr..
CrOker's proposition of omiaating
gol burg ticert and assured his friends
that the country democrats would come
V ry snear controlling the convention
He ma e it apparent that batween now
suG the fall ne wnuld bend all his pro-
digious energies on the task of rehabi-
lita'iog b msef in the confidence of
the silver democrats, especially above
the Br, nx, and to join with them 10
s. l. ct ng one of III cir number to run
for governo or with an entire state ticket
Of tried and true Chicago
p atFOrm men N. Y. Journal.