Show ifor PI rESI DEITT V M j 1 Is friendly to tooth Clo cleveland velana n hill ii and anaToL many bosses eo saz 1 I 1 C feb 9 Is t mr 11 hitney of now york to be lie ile nominee of alic democratic c convention 0 n for tale presidency clever new nd york politicians it hose knowla ilac of matters political vie give to their 15 tell fell me that mr iiii hillh ncy is much inora than a 1 possibility one of the mot most intelligent men in public life lif a i new york Y ork senta live in congress r res whose cepil tation is not con confined fined to to the boundaries of his own state to me yesterday ile ho is identified v arith etli none of the factional figh ts is in new boik ire he would tic be highly acceptable to tammany Tamu inny hall and none tile less 1031 so to loss boss t of brooklyn ile he is univ universally popular both with republicans 11 and democrats ilis his 1 personal erson til relations with governor hill are arc of the most cordial nature and his intimacy cyl with ex president cleveland dales late from froin his acceptance of a place in that gentleman td s cabinet ho isi is a consistent democrat always lie ile has haa never been identified avit it the mug bump democratic alliances that have lave been formed to defeat the reo regular party nominees As secretary ary of the navy under the cleveland regime lie made a record ile he is still a young man I 1 think his age is about forty eight lie he is it a gentleman by birth and education it a man of warm and generous dyni bvm lia thies cs lie he ses that intangible quality which we describe as personal in for want of a better term terin quite as fully as sir ier 11 laine ile is charitable to tile the last degree i royal roval entertainer a Dello democrat cral in every fibre fabre of h his q being and a 1 prince of good fellows generally eno baliv 1 I loit dont see ce my 1113 friend went on oil inn how IMI hill or cleveland can W ure tile the nomination there is no doubt that governor ifill hill c can in if ile he besires Jf je sires secure tile the solid delegations of now now york new jersey connecticut and indiana this latter through gli g the operation cooperation co eo of governor G gray ray shrewd politicians who are arc more interested in ill the success of the alic party p uty than they are in the personal elevation of any particular candidate believe it bould be tile the height hei lit of fully folly to nominate either of these gentlemen if hill lie be nominated t here is a strow strong probability of his el election eption in ill vi view ew of the llie fact that lie ile can call no bobbt secure the electoral vote of the foregoing doubtful sta states ca but cleveland will be much stronger becore the convention than ifill hill and tho the ch chanc cesare an csare that lie willse cure the nomination in that event not the governor perhaps but many many of liis his pr personal rhonal adherents will sulk ku lk and b bolt it the ticket and make sir tr Clev election elc chion an impossibility it is for this reason I 1 say that other gentleman must be selected the su suggestion has bas been made tant we wl gogat v for I 1 a cint aie R 1 t tp 6 BreT aab 1 les Y yot oil k cita city anast acost I 1 I 1 bo be well elou enough gli i if f the IV I 1 ves p re dented a candidate who combined any elements of strength th but they to do not Gover governor jio r boise of 10 wa not do and moreover there is i i little probability that he could carry liis his state in a presidential pre i year year even if the other conditions rift ions w were ere favorable governor gray of indiana would fit well into the second place on the ticket but lie he would hardly do to lead it and our eastern democrats would not be satisfied with him senator vilas nilas of wisconsin is a bri bright ht clever man mail but he i iq ia q so t thoroughly 1 0 aly devoted to president cleveland that his nomination would bo be regarded a ai a distich victor victory for the cleveland wing iving of the party mr AN whitney hitney as I 1 have previously stated would be acceptable to cleveland and JIM hill bossy boss crocker of Tani tammany many hall is personally fond of him and so go i is boss mcl mclaughlin hughlin of brooklyn I 1 and liis his nomination would bring these discordant factions together ge tiler a again D ain without being in any an sense an cx exponent of the goody Sabbata iian school of poli politics t I 1 c s lucli is as president Ilar II arrison is is tile the bUSil business WAS interests of the country aside from politics would be satisfied with mr NN whitney hitney inasmuch is as it lie is not only a man mail of large wealth himself but his family connections are connect d wit with lison some is of the most 1 gigantic l r kontic 0 business oper irions in the I 1 c country these fact inight hurt him somewhat amongst amon the graci granger er of tile the wet tret allu and I 1 t hut but the democratic party looker g for votes in ill that direction those states are surely arely republican and no democrat at the time duic can carry them |