Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-06
Result in New York Makes Hill
the Probable Candidate
for President
CONDUCTED THE CAMPAIGN
He Is Credited With Having Made the
Fight Which Came So Near Putting
Bird coier in the Governors Chair
in New York-Tom johnson Out of
the Running.


nificant results of Tuesdays election
which becomes more apparent as the
political atmosphere clears, is the fact
that David B. Hill is the logical candi-
date of the democratic party for the
presidency In 1904.
Foremost of the causes which have
enabled Mr.. Hill to step back into the
center of the democratic stage after his
temporary exile at Wolfert.s Roost is
his magnificent work during the cam
paign in New York.
When he undertook to conduct the
fight in behalf of Coler, a man who was
discredited by the greater part of Tam
rash enough to foretell that he would
not only roll up q splendid plurality in
greater New York but would be able to
make the contest in the state itself so
close that the democratic leaders are
still able to claim victory until the
uttermost hill towns are heard from.
AlthG there is practically no chance
thet those claims may be substantial
ed there will be the narrow republican
margin to HilIs credit.
Many political experts thought the
Tamnany leaders would outwardly af-
ford Coler the support promised during
the campaign, only to knife him on all
sides at the polls. 1t was not believed
the New York machine would submit to
being directed by an outsider who
would be certain to receive all the cred
It for g. Coler victory. Rather defeat
than to surrender even apparent con-
troll to man from up the state, and to
David B. Hill of all men.
But Mr.. Hill seems to have re-estab-
lished himself firmly in the good graces
of Tamrnany. The face of the returns
prove that he has been able to COM
mand the democratic forces of the city
as well az thu state, without both of
which he could not hope 20 claim ma
tional recognition from his party.
This logical candidacy becomes all
the more apparent with a. glance at the
situation thruout the country. No other
candidate able to offer substantial op-
position is in sight. Tom Johnson of
Cleveland, who was running political
foot race with the nomination for the
has been so completely showed under
by the Ohio blizzard that he is not even
on the political map.
Mr.. Rose of Wisconsin. who was
making d fight for the governorship
with considerable chance of success at
the outset and with the democratic
presidential nomination in the back
ground of his day dreams all the time,
has met fate only slightly less as
pfiyxiating in a political sense than
Johnson's.
Mr.. Pattison Of Pennsylvania, who
has twice been elected by the democrats
of his state and asked for a third in
dorsement by his party, would have
been a most formidable opponent to
any presidential aspirant If he had won,
yith the democracy of the Keystone
state at his back. Not only did he not
win, but he was defeated by an old
fashioned Pennsylvania plurality. and
is no longer possibility for national
honors,
Never before In his career has Mr..
Hill enjoyed a clear field. When his
prominence made him national figure
before there was in his pathway Grover
Cleveland who, by virtue of cireum-
stances alone, was an fnsurmountable
obstacle, and there were always other
factors to be eliminated, even If Cleve-
land had been side tracked. Today
there is not in the political horizon a
man who can dispute. with any degree
of success, the claims of Mr.. Hill to the
of the national democ-
racy.
Still another factor which bears upon
the case is that all taint of Organism
seems to have gone out of the demo-
cratic party Nevada and Wyoming ap-.
pear to have been carried by the repub-
licang, thus knocking the last props
from under the silver advocate. Even
In Colorado, the home of Teller, the 16
to / plank seems to have been smashed
by republican victories in the congress
sional fight.
1t was his inability to swallow this
doctrine that brought Mr.. Hill into dis
favor with the democracy of the west,
and his opposition to the support of the
silver plank by Tammany caused the
between himself and the
,Tammarly leaders. Today this is only
: memory. of shadowy texture at that,
and Mr.. Hill need not swallow anything
to himself or his constitu-
ents when he proelaims his original
watchword, II am democrat"
EpAijD in PUBLIC LANDS.