St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-29
CLEVELAND OR HILL.
A Disagreement Between
Tammany and the County
Democracy,
The Former Favoring the Coy
ernOr and the Latter the
President. I
r.
Hills Campaigners Want the
Democratic Convention ,,e4
in New York. Isis
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Hewitt Has a Small Bee in His
Bonnet and May Get g ger
a Boom. ~
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe. 49,
New YORK, Jan. 2S.-The nOmina'
ton boOms of President Cleveland and
Gov. Hill come together with great
deal of clash here in New York. All
the talk at the Washington capitol may
be for Cleveland and all at the Albany
capitol may be for Hill, but in this city
there is disagreement. The knowledge
that New York state will be all-impOrt-
ant in the presidential election, and
that the state pivot centerS here in this
town, makes the local politicians feel
exceedingly consequential. COnse-
quently, the county Democracy and
Tammany Hall are striving against each
other to settle the question as between
Cleveland and Hill. There is hardly
any uncertainty about Tammany being
almost altogether for the governor
Cleveland diSpleased this organization
early i'll his administration by appoint
ing none of its leaders to office. That
feeling may have been subsequently
modified great deal, but the workers
for Hill are arOusing it afreSh. The
county Democracy is not quite so nearly
unanimous for Cleveland, but ma
jOrity of its influential men pronounce
themselves in his favor. They are less
active than the TammaniteS, however,
and have done nothing so positive in
the way Of action as that which your
correspondent is able to disclose of
Tammany. Hills campaigners believe
it to be. essential to his prospects to
secure the holding of the Democratic
national convention in this city, and
they have quietly provided quarters for
it. They have circulateda subscription
paper among the landlords of the big
hotels to raise fund for the rental of
the big
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE,
a refusal of which has been secured.
Premises better suited fer the purpose
could be found nowhere in the United
States. Instead of some barn-like Struc-
ture, with small provision for comfort
or convenience, the opera house would
provide an auditorium big enough, be-
sides cOmmodiOuS small halls, for COM
mittees and caucuSes. The five i'm
menSe tiers. with their facade of pr e.
cisely uniform boxes, would give dele
cations an equality of prominence, and
facility for their speakers in COM
handing attention never before known
in the history of conventions. These
arguments in favor of New York as the
proper city for the convention are being
put in shape for presentation to the
national committee, and in this move
the Hill men think they are making a
probably winning point. Tammany
has already passed resolutions against
the open sanction of Governor
Hill, as expressed by MIN at recent
dinner of the Harlem Young Mems
Democratic club. They count in Editor
Dana, of the Sun, and Editor Pulitzer,
of the World, who are both personally
outspoken for Hill, although neither in
his paper is taking such decided ground
against Cleveland. But if Tammany is
going to offer fine house for the con-
vention, the County Democracy is likely
to provide itself with still handsOmer
one for its own councils. The Manhat-
tan club is the stronghold of that branch
of the Democracy. This club is negO-
tiating for the purchase of the famous
Stewart mansion on Fifth avenue. Its
present quarters are too small and too
far down town. 1t desires to go up into
the neighborhood of that great Republic
can club, the Union League, and the
BEAUTIFUL MARBLE RESIDENCE
of the late A. t. Stewart, now empty
and in the market, would suit admira-
bly,. Delay is caused only by litigation
over the Stewart estate, but the sale
seems likely to be accomplished within
week or two. The controllers of the
County Democracy are members of the
Manhattan, and it is there that they
make their political plans. There is no
Obtainable evidence that President
Cleveland has worked personally in this
field, but his secretary of war,
ittn fl,n frrsx, 1c+ IL
COMPLEMENTARY under the late Samuel
very frequently this month and it would
be easy to prove that he has held nu-
merOuS conferences in the interest of
Cleveland. He rather disfavors New
York as the place of the convention and
so do most of those who fear purely
local, but possibly potent influence,
which Hill may use here. While Cleve-
land might command the active services
of the custom house officials and few
other federal officehOlders, Hill could
vastly Outnumber them with his state
appOinteeS whom he could mass in this
city. There is another and curious
reason why the Cleveland people
prefer Western city for the con-
vention. Mayor and eX-Congress-
man Abram S. Hewitt is no great adj
mirer of Cleveland to begin With. and
he may be a winning candidate for the
nomination to end with. There is an
appreciable Hewitt boom, and it would
assume crowding proportions very sud-
denly if there seemed to be any use of
it. Should the convention be held in
New York city, and should neither
Cleveland or Hill develop enough
strength to beat the other, there would
be at command hurrah for Hewitt
that might whoOp him right into the
nomination. In the midst of all these
uncertainties president making is chosen
for an occupation in which the Demo-
cratic politicians of the metropolis are
quite eXcitedly engaged.