Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-12
| HILL DEFEATED cO[ER
Yet He is Still | in Control in
New York.
M q
GROOMING FOR 1904
MAY FORCE HIMSELF AS A PRESI-
DENTAL CANDIDATE.
His Coal Plank in State Platform Lost
at Least Is, 900 Votes
to Coler.
GROOMING FOR 1904
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

! elected governor of the state this fall if the
! Saratoga convention had been permitted
| to nominate him. In justice to Judge
| Parker in justice to himself in justice to
| the democratic party in the state f New
| York, the present state leader, David b.
| HILL should now make public the mama CT
! the man who Is alleged to have brought to
| him the statement on the eve OF the con-
yention that Parker would not accept a
| nomination.
Judge Parker never declined to accept
| nomination at the hands of the Saratoga
| convention, and the man who told Hill that
| lied-lied unblushingly-lied wickedly--and
| he should be driven in disgrace from the
| ranks of the democratic party i'll TIE state
| of New York Greater New York would
have. given Parker as large vote it did
| Golfer and any amateur In politics knows
| that he could have secured more votes up
| the state than Coler
Judge Parker Is a product of the upstate,
| up Hudson river counties, and ne Is per-
sonany known to thousands and tens of
| thousands of the democrats up the state
| He carried the state of New York when
| elected Judge of the court OF appeals by
| over 10000 plurality. and his nomination
| would have been equivalent to al election.
| There is book Older than Homer that SAYS
| that the proper place for all liars Is at the
| bottom of the bottomless pit; and the man
| who acted as messenger and brought the
news from Kingston to Saratoga that Judge
| Parker would not accept a nomination
| seems in the light of the lates: election fig
ures. proper candidate for consignment to
a hot hole in the ground
Coler and Flower Contrasted.
Coler was banker and Wall street
man, and the farmers of the state do not
| naturally cotton to that kind Of man. 1t
is true that Roswell P. Glover was
banker and Wall street man, but he had
been poor farmers boy, a country school
teacher and the flavor of the soil chung to
| him to his dying day. He loved nothing so
much as to go to county fairs and FARMERS
! association meetings and talk to his rural
friends face to- face Perhaps II Hill, as
| manager of the state campaign, mad allow
ed Golfer to go among the farmers up the
state after his nomination and become ac-
auainted with them, they would have learn
ed to love the man and his ways But HIN
for some reason objected TO this. Coler,
after his nomination, was urgeI repeatedly
to visit the upstate counties and get. out
among the farmers, and mora than cnce
his reply was: Hill does not think Il best.
And when one has "a manager one should
do as that manager thinks best.
Inasmuch as ,Coles did not visit the peo-
pie I'D the state, they naturally argued that
he did not care anything about them For
the people like to- ses the men they are vot-
Ing for. and the people up the state are no
| execution to the rule
Bird g. Golfer made to the state commit
I tee the most generous. contribution ever
made by the candidate Of any party. Not
one dollar of this money was expended IN
| the boroughs of Manhattan and the BRONX
The local Tammany Hall organization car
| ried on a magnificent fight unaided- The
money placed in Hills hands by Coler was
! all expended up the state, and expended Dy
| Hill and his immediate friends ana asso-
ciates.
Hill as Presidential Candidate.
The failure of Bird s. Coler to secure an
election as governor leaves ex-senator
David B. Hill the only New York state man
whose name has ever been mentioned prom
inently in connection with the democratic
presidential nomination in 1904. Inasmuch
as there are certain so-called Hill counties
which the light of results indicates cannot
possibly be carried by any democrat except
ex-senator David B. Hill, his nomination
for that high Office begins to appear to be
of the nature of a political necessity II
/ New York is to be made democratic state
: two years hence.
The democracy of the greater city may
, nearly always be relied upon to furnish the
votes in this end of the state. The supreme
question to democrats two years hence
the paramount issue Of the next presiden-
tial campaign. will be how to carry the
counties controlled by Hill and his friends
J For fourteen years, or since the defeat OF
, Grover Cleveland in 1888, the problem In
state politics has always been how to get
out the Hill vote up the state unless David
B. Hill himself is the nominee. The logical
conclusion, the natural inference, therefore
is that the only way for the democratic
party to carry the Hill counties in 1904, is
to secure for Hill a presidential nomination
1t Is unfortunate for any party that mat
tiers should assume such peculiar shape,
1 and it is too bad that Hill cannot control
the actions of his friends up the state I'M
less he is himself candidate before the
people for some office. But 1t Is necessary
for New York state to go democratic in
: case the democrats win in 1904. And If
there is one thing that has been demon
strated more than another, II Is tnat lava
B. Hill must be candidate If full vote
is to be polled in the Hill counties up the
state.
: Things have an ugly look when a few
men In few rural counties can dlctate
) presidential nomination or else defeat state
, and national tickets again and again. But
everything is now In a fair way for demo-
cratic success, inasmuch as Mr.. Hill still
) has control of the democratic state organ1-
: Zation, thanks to the large campaign con-
, tributon of Coier, and as long as Hill re-
mains in control of the state organization
the Hill men up the state can be relied
: upon to come out and vote for him for
! President.
r Controlling, as Mr.. Hill does. the state
committee It will be comparatively easy
J for him to call another 'mid-winter con-
vention' and handle matters SO that the
e next delegation to the national convention
will be for David 3. Hill for President And
? inasmuch as HIPS friends will not allow
any other democrat to carry New York
state POLITICAL wisdpm would seem to in
| dictate that Hill be nominated FOR President
If for no other reason than to make sure
that the Hill anengup the state vote the
I | straight Tickets IS
: Snapped Crossing a Stream.
Coler was obHgedlto swap horses crossing
;, stream. always bad thing during a
campaign as Hill might have remembered
: to his sorrow had he, recalled the fact that
: in 1896 he forced the nomination Of John
s Body Thacheraa getd standard man, on a
free silver platform. and within one week
: was obliged to haul his man down and sub
!. sttute Judge Porter, because of the storm
of Indignation aroused among the demo-
Gratis of the state.
Things like the nomination OF a gold
standard man on free silver platform
= | and like the nomination of man opposed
: to the government ownership OF the coal
mines upon platform calling for the gov
$ eminent ownership of the coal mines puzzle
t the rank and file of the democrats of the
o | state.
q They are unable to understand hne dis
j. tinctions and the differences OF opinion be-
3 tween the ideas in platforms and the ideas
expressed by the candidates In other
words they expect candidate TO stand
sauarely on a platform and win or lose with
the issues. Analysed to the last resort, re-