What Will The Hill Democrats Do?

The Democrats of the country hope to see Mr. Cleveland nominated in Chicago next week. Never before has there been a stronger popular demand for the nomination of any man for president. With his nomination Indiana, Wisconsin and at least two other western states will cast their vote for him. He is 200,000 votes stronger than any oiner man in me party, hlow is ït with New York? We believe Ihat Mr. Cleveland is a stronger man in New York than Mr. Hill. He will get thousands of votes from men who are not politicians and who do not care for office. Will he get the votes of the New York Democratie politician: On this point the New York World of last Monday editorially says: The probabilityof Mr. Cleveland's nomination at Chicago is now nearly a certaintv. The fact gives peculiar importance to the question, Can he carry New York? That is a question of immediate and vital interest and The World is trying to find ouf the probabilities. It has been asserted over and over again that the friends of Mr. Hill will not support Mr. Cleveland. It has been contended that they are not Democrats for principie but Democrats for Hill or nothing. The .World has not believed this slander, and after its usual method it has asktd the Hill men, the members of the Committee who will have charge of the campaign, the categorical question. Their answers are printed this morning. They are the answers to be expected from true and loyal Democrats. These men are for Democracy. They prefer Mr. Hifi for candidate, but they will give loyal and earnest support to the Chicago candidate, whoever he may be, as every Democrat will who desires the triumph of Democracy for the sake of the principies and policies which Democracy represents. Their motto is that of all Democrats, that The next President must be a Democrat. Sínce the above editorial was in print the World has come out and taken even more advanced grounds in favor of the nomination of Cleveland and says: It is constantly asserted that if Mr. Cleveland is nominated at Chi cago he cannot carry New York. As Mr. Cleveland seems likely to be nominated, and as New York 's support is essential to his election, it is important to know whether or not the assertion is true. The only opposition in this State to -Mr. Cleveland'snomination comes from the supporters of another candidate. The only question of his ability, in case of his nomination, to poll as large a vote as any other candidate, turns upon the other question whether or not these men will support the ticket if Mr. Cleveland shall head it. The World has put this question to the leading Democrats who are opposed to Mr. Cleveland's nomination. Yesterday it published the answers of the State Committeemen. Today it presents the replies of the delegates chosen at the February convention to represent the State at Chicago. The result may be summed up in j a sentence. Hill Democrats and all Other Democrats unite in sayingthat they will support the candidate nominated at Chicago, whoever he may be. Many of the delegates in declaring their loyalty to the party take occasion to express the opinión that Mr. Cleveland cannot carry the State, but none of them offers any reason for this conviction. Without such reason the conclusión seems able that if he is nominated Mr. Cleveland's chance of carrying the State will be as good as would be that of any other Democrat nominated in his stead. Whoever the candidate may be his election should be the desire of every man who believes in Democratie principies and hopes for the dominance of Democratie policies. Whoever he is he will have received a two-thirds vote in the National Convention, and no man will have a right to regard himself as a Democrat who is not ready and willing to work and vote for the triumph of Democracy in his election.