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Show went ant thri us'h the south, they eaine back thioiitli the north. State cl-baos. warm friends of the senati r, liavo .made many trip-i, poliiical pilgtimage here anil there iu the mmth niid west. !. .rnblicau and Mig'urp r-ews .uper-s called .nttentio.i to Kiein at (he time ard forgot about thuu, tliiiiking th--y had been fai nr-tf, tin t nothing lad i-ccn accoinplished. In New lork city nien may meet Han ami agaiii and ti, w.nld would never knciv who -v.-ie lh-.vernr Hill's fn-Jsu, what men of naiional fame uil he meet in hU fu riiient-stity.-i r.fc the Hc-ffimm houn ? These tilings never go info the iiou--papcr. Slowly r.nd surely in ti e pst ttvo or three yiarn ;ie v.as biil(!iMg"'ei, tlds other organiz.ttiou which v.c. tit-d reveale I to th-j public when Cti.-p .oni not Mills, was made speaker el t'.e house of repiese'uiatit e.J. 'iici v:a:i oue Kkirinlu'i line. It was to be the victory of a cornbiuatiou, jut i-a.it!-Cieveltitsd conbiiimion." Thus far Hill had remained asvay from Washington. Then he t.ut down to the capital himself. In the next contest ('ast Thursday) the same combination, t.tronger, more numerous, won again-, and iliid time it was n only anti-Cleveland but pro-Hill. The general had taken commad. "it's all Hill,"- said the politicians' camming home, and they were at a loss to know how it had been done. The quiet, pf-rsi.-tent- toil and effort have succeeded. The state commiit t e will meet Tuesday. It will be surprising if they don't issue an address to the people. They w ill call the- state com t-i:-tiou iu a few weeks, if the .programme of the Hill men is carried out, and it will declare for Hill. Thea the aeueiai will be iu the saddle. Old campaigners! men who "have watched such conies;;, say that Hill bus coiue out too tail? in the year; he is giving his enemies time ta concentrate on a campaign. With the feeling in the west iu fator of a candidate from beyond the A'iieghenif.s, t'uey say he should have remained hidden hid-den till all the western JJeaioerats were struggling to name that candidate. But ail sigus has failed in hie-career. Hi!!, like Napoleon, has faith in his star. A ge tlemao. who has kuown him since his youth says the senator is probably the !cnly man in public life' in the United Stairs, who when peer and 10;-kuovn, 10;-kuovn, has said to himself, "I will be president." When he first began jori for tha nomination of lirotenant governor gov-ernor they Pay ho looked up ;hpr efforis as merely the first stee3 on the road to the Wni'.e" House. i David B Hill NEW YoHk, Jan. 'Jd.-A World .'leeial fiimi Albiinv.N, Y. says: 1'oliteiruis.coni-itig 1'oliteiruis.coni-itig homo fi'Oiii Washington are Vstoa-iidied Vstoa-iidied at iiie sireugth of li.ivid P.. Hill aj a prcsid.cnii.il candidate. They b - lieved they would liud his name well up on the ii.t, but fe,v thought it would be at lite head. It i.i not ipiile a jar ago since JOdwaid AU-.riihy.Jr. chaiiinun of the, beimiciatie idate committe. fe.'.d to a friend, "Olevejaad won't- be men tinned as a candidate et the Jnaiionnl convention." Yeslrrdsy one o the ex-Piesident's ex-Piesident's best known friends in this state, arriving heme from Washington, said: " I won't be snprissd if it is Hill on the first ballot." This naiional strength of Hill which hrs come as a startling revelation to most people does not surprise those who knew him best ia the state Capitol. -They know that for three ycais past he and his closest friends havo spared no toil, no effort to put him in this position. While nouo could tell surely how far forward he was forging they felt certain he pushed ahead every day. Now, when he suddenly comes out into sight, those, who had knowledge of his running see how well the three "years work was done.- His plnu of action has been the same as w hen lie first made up his mind to go before the people of his state He wished to be a candidate for l.eu-tenant-governor. Alone, w ithout powerful pow-erful friends, not withstanding for any sentiments or policy, he went into the race.tUe darkest of dark horse.'. First ho got ihe purport, of his own county Local pride settled that. ' Then he wrote-or wrote-or visited every man who would be of influence in the convention. If they would not make him first choice, would they make him second choice? If not than third or fourth, but at ail events some choice. When the convention m,tt he came before. the delegates much as he came before the politician's at Washington Wash-ington iflst Thursday. "Who 13 Hil?" they asked first, and next, "How did he get mich a lead'." who are the chief backing him?" Every body knows who Hill is now. He has got hi3 lead today jnst as he did then, by constant effort, by. interviews personal or proxy, by correspondence dlreet or indirect, with all the leaders of national fame, Uh tho . mm 1km control state conventions' with the n l whom people follow- lie has recoi 1 every variation iu public setiiiments. All the wideet read papers of the laud were taken the capitol here, their political polit-ical views clipped out and pasted in books arranged by states eo that he conld tell at a glance where the polio cal weather was threatening, where it was cold and stormy and where it was warm and pleasant. He has the gn est respect for the press. At times it has been said that he cared little for newspaper; criticism becanse he is tne best abused man in the country, but he has courted this abuse- Samuel J. Til-den Til-den taught him the value of making himself and his acts a topic of dauy debate. When there was nothing to do he conjured np some deed for his ene-niios ene-niios to damn. "Talk about the editors and correspondents," he eaia one day to a friend, but I'd rather have on my side the fellows who writes the headlines. Thr-y influence public opinion more than any other class of newspapers, wiiters. Unlike Tilden ho has never tried to build op a new-paper foiion ing In the two years before 1356. when tne man of Gerystone wa9 laying his foundations, foun-dations, newspapers after newspaper in the west and northwest, declared in his favor. Some people called it spontaneous, spon-taneous, a shrewd jester once called it "epons" taneons. Tildon was a million-' aire and if Hill had the wish to imitate him he had not the "spons." He hed always been poor, thoagh there has been talk thftt he received a very large fee as council in a famous snite against Cornell nnivorsily, bnt that is not so. Wbat he has done has been altogetner by force of his own personality. Those who knew both men in All any say that Hill cas dons veiy much mere than Tilden Til-den with less means. To obtain and hold the leadership of his party in tins state has never taxed Hill's ability or resource . Inside onr own party it has been easy for uie to win, he said fieipieut-ly fieipieut-ly to those about him. What has kept me op nights working and thinking is defeat of the common enemy, the Republican Re-publican paity. Seven years of thought and aeuon have at last resulted in the complete rente of the Republicans iu i.'ew Yurie. Those who know him best understand what ho meant to advise, bnt did not make clear in his speeches at Elmira in bidding farewell to his state otlicer tho last hours of ISM: First put your enemy iu the most tlisailvantagous position posi-tion possible, thbu charge all along the line. To every leader big and little, ho has said, "Organize, organize." When we went into Ohio in li.iO and helped to rout Mi'K'inley. his first conference- with Congressman Warwick was as to Ins plan of organization iu the district. Karlier in the year, in Indiana, ha discussed dis-cussed with ex-Governor Grey tho plans of the party -to carry that stale. 1 he game is true of 'A'est Virginia, of Connecticut, Con-necticut, of X w Jersey. Couriers have gone into distant states with documents, docu-ments, with words of atlvics for local - campaigning; the views of leaders have, been sought on public question; "tacit agreements have been reached. It Is not full a year since Kdward Murphy, jr and Roswell P. Fowler went on a trip to the J. acifio ;co98t for pleasure. Yes perhaps also for politics. They also |
