Arizona republican., 1904-09-04
PHoENEX, ARIZONA. SEPT. f, 1904
The Wrong Practitioner.

The democratic national campaign was opened by mistake. There was a Bs1pulAF understanding that the aper- lent would be administered by Sen afnf David Bennett Hill but the case was taken out of the hands of this erhlhent practitioner by a young man living iu Deposit, N. Y., reporter on democratic newspaper of that city who compounded a purgative which has disturbed the party. Its action was regarded as entirely too violent.
 MT. Hin as the most intimate friend and sponsor of Judge Parker had been selected to make the opening speech of the campaign at Detroit. It was expected that he would outline the plan of battle and that he would prescribe the kind of ammunition that was to be used. The keynote was eagerly await ed by democratic newspapers through out the country. It was a most viru- lent personal attack upon President Roosevelt who was described as a fraud and he was charged with dis honesty of purpose. It was not at all such an utterance as had been expect cd of Mir. Hill. There was no definite criticism of the republican national policy and no attempt to show why the policy outlined in the St. Louis plat form would be of special advantage to the country. It was tiradc and noth- ing more and secured for Mir. Hill the title of the peanut" politician, the muddy" politician. etc.
 Tae speech was disappointing to the better democratic newspapers of the country. Some of them passed it in silence. others commented upon it briefly while others less discriminating said it had the true ring though they intiHsated that the sound was perhaps little harsh. Others, however, of the more fixed democratic habit at tuned themselves to the keynote which to them was loud and clear, a clarion call to campaign of mud singing.
 It tFanspires that the man holding the .SsN jacks or better was an Asso- c!ated Press reporter<to whom had been assigned the duty of reporting the speech of MT. Hill. In an explanatory dispatch sent out by the Associated Press on Friday night it was stated that this young man did not hear the speech at all. He did not attend the opening. He was a democrat and thought he knew what Mir Hill would say. He knew what he would say If he were in the place of MT. Hin and relying upon the good judgment of the New York senator to say it, he caused a Bpeerh of his own invention to be spread broadcast throughout the coun- try. What MT. Hill actually said is known ealy to the members of his aud ieme@. the readers of the Deposit papers and the readers of such other papers as may have had special correspond ents at the meeting. This extraordin- aFy case of gathering news was not made known to the Associated Press uhtil last Friday.
 What Mir. Hill may have thought when he read this report of his re- IGaV&s has rot yet been divulged. But b@ returned directly from Detroit to Albany and the day following his ar rival, it was given out that MT. Hill would retire from politics at the end 9f the current year.
 It may be imagined that he, too, was deceived by the Deposit reporter and reVd with surprise the speech he had delivered. Unsuspicious that his speech had been counterfeited he may have thought that he had actually said that case he had certainly been in pol itice too long