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Show the Foti oven had the conviction that Hi f.i. is a man of "principlo" it is being be-ing undeceived now, since the demigod demi-god of Tammany liu- proposed to cast principle aside for the sake of spoils. "There must bo something wrong in BlU'l moral and mental make up." says our awakened contemporary, "to countenanco such an idea." Something Some-thing wrong, forsooth! Oh, no. Everything Ev-erything is rationally ac counted for in the declaration: "I am a democrat." There is but one plank iu the Hill platform: "Get there." What will tho harvest be! This is a questiou which is now troubling the democratic masses who cannot fail to perceivu that if the Tammany boss cannot can-not be controlled ho will rend the Empire Em-pire stat-j democracy in twain. If he succeeds in knocking Ci.r vi i.and out for tho nomination the friends of the latter wiil sufficiently numerous to defeat de-feat hi:n either in tho convention or at tho polls, unit a dark horso will bo the winner. 1: may be set down as certain cer-tain thai should Hill bo nominated he will lose his own state In tbo election, and tho same may bo said of "i.kvk-lanc "i.kvk-lanc should ho be the means of checking check-ing Hill's ambition a very fair illustration il-lustration of the "Kilkenny cat'' encounter. A IIAMil KOI n CANDIDATE. Tho democratic press has already he-gun he-gun to appreciate the fact that the jjrince of demagogues and tricksters, Senator Hill, is drifting his parly both swiftly Bad surely to dost ruction. As governor of New York he never faded lo impress upon his partisans tho ftict that he was living up to his motto: "I am a democrat." Ho v:is so completely .-i democrat la all his instincts and methods th;it ho was made a enator of i the United States, and in the dual eapa city of govci nor-sen.ttcr he still further demonstrated his capacity in the art of piactiea. politics. Uo trnntpled upon the laws, snapped his Ho gars at the courts, and finally succeeded '.n changing chang-ing the majority iu tho New York lefts-laturo lefts-laturo by tho most pnlpabia and shameless shame-less frauds and outrages upon lite ballot, 'ihe worst elomonts iu his party applauded ap-plauded theso acts, tho great body of democracy looked on them with complacency, com-placency, whilo :t few party papers hail tho opting to cither enter mild protests pro-tests or heartily condemn the rascality. ras-cality. Senator Hill bet oome to regard himself him-self as a great man, and nothing short of the presidency of tho United Slates will suiUco for tho gratification ol his ambUion. Tho fact that his disreputable disreputa-ble acts have brought him little else than plaudits from his fellow democrats has swelled him with the notion that ho is "a bigger man. than old Cleveland," and by applying substantially the same tactics in dealing with his formidable competitor for the nomination which ho would Apply in keeping duly elected republicans re-publicans out of ollico, ho proposes to foist himself upon his party whether it w ants him or not. No less than six democratic journals In his own state all journals of pro- njuncci! standing ami influence have joined in protecting against the methods which li : li. has adapted to securo tho New York de'egation to tho Chicago convention. Even "the only democratic demo-cratic daily iu Western Pennsylvania" a paper which stood up with stalwart brazenness in the defense of Hu e's rascalities ras-calities has como to tho conclusion that arrant trickster and political knave has gone loo far not in stealing steal-ing republican seals in the legislature, be it remark,'. I, but in the use of "political "polit-ical strategy Bad intrigue' which threatens tho loss of the electoral vote of New York in November next. If a |