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Show 1 HILL ASD CLEVELAND. Senator Hill ardently hates the president. pres-ident. Not that he conscientiously differs from Mr. Cleveland in any important im-portant matter of public policy, but tolely because Cleyeland captured the New York delegation at Chicago, and the nomination had and was elected president,which did not meet the yiews of Mr. Hill. If they differed upon some ancient and accepted tenet of the party faith, or if Mr. Hill differed with the president upon the general course of the admistration, there would remain in the public mind some respect tor him, but he is simply and onlj jealous of his more lortunate rival. Mr. Cleveland with all of his great power derived from his high office, as well as his position as the unofficial head of the party,cannot drive us away from democracy, demo-cracy, or the benign principles it steers by. "We do differ earnestly and honestly hon-estly from him on his silver policy, but thatia not sufficient to force us to abandon tbe party faith. This secession of Mr. Hill will not injure in-jure the party, while it will eternally dawn him in the estimation of every sincere man in either of the two great national parties. If he goeB over to the republican party, it will be afraid of him, just as the British were afraid of Benedict Arnold, another traitor of much the same ilk. It will be remem-' remem-' bered that Hill was violently opposed to the propose J income tax, that he is ; a protectionist and has very little of tbe fundamental principles of the democracy de-mocracy in his entire political make-up. Hill has ever been regarded as a demagogue dema-gogue by the Bteady going masses of the party. He is a trickster of a very advanced school of trickery. It is necessary nec-essary only to recall his methods to capture the New York del eeation to Chicago to establith the entire truth of this charge. While there is one epeck only upon Mr. CleVi-land's CleVi-land's party escutcheon there is a thousand upon that of Mr. Hill. In view of the great probablity that a weBtera man will become oar Etandard-bearer Etandard-bearer in the next race Mr. Hill hae probably concluded that he has no chaa himself and so deserts in the very face of the enemy. Tais iB treason. But he is vastly mistaken if be supposes sup-poses that this act will weaken the democracy or strengthen the republicans republi-cans to any serious extent. He blackens his own name and blotches his" party record all in vain. There is nothing in it for him. He will die I without haying reached the goal of his ambition, because the republicans will never elect him preeident. If there ie a compact to this effect they will break faith with him beyond a doubt, and they would be right in doing so. Talk about Mr. Cleveland's subserviency subser-viency to the plutocrats of Wall street 1 It beard no comparison to that of David B.tlill. A man who is unfaithful to the m aG3es of the party princi pies could never be faithful to silver. Besides all this Mr. Hill's acts and votes liaye ever been for the gold bugs, his voice has often been raised for silver. The one act was to placate the bankers of New York while the other was to placate, and to throw sand into the eyes of the millions of free silver men of the west. It won't do. Both policies have tailed. Neither will trnet him after this. All can admire the manly firmness of Cleveland, even if he, in bis silver policy, is bitterly disappointing the west, but no manly democrat can re- IBpect Hill in his weak, petty and unpatriotic un-patriotic course today. |