Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
BIG INSURANCE ALLIANCE
BY Which Public Sentiment Will Be
Nodded and Ducats Made.
SOLICITORSHIP FOR A PORTFOLIO.
Forakers Friends to Attack Sherman'S
Record in Pamphlet.
TIE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
rsrycrAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,


NEW YORK, Nov. N.-Mr. Cleveland's
friends have not been very much encouraged
by the developments of the past week They
have had convincing proof submitted to
them that Governor Hill is receiving in his
Presidential aspirations the financial support
of MANY of the most influential and most
liberal corporations.
Hills intimate friends have invariably
conceded that the greatest obstacle he had
10 contend against was poverty. Hill went
into politics a fairly prosperous lawyer
from Chemung county. He had put away
for a rainy day over $4,000 in gilt edged
securities. His practice was large and grow
ing. As lawyer he was regarded
IL one of the keenest, most thorough and
most resourceful in the Southern tier. He
seldom lost case. Elected Lieutenant
Governor he exchanged certain success in
his profession for the precarious existence
OF politician. Succeeding Mr.. Cleveland
as Governor, his heedlessness and indiffer-
ence in personal monetary matters, and his
habit to chip in prodigal sums for Demo-
cratic campaign committees uses led to the
obliteration OF his rest egg and the eventual
dependence upon his $4,000 a year salary
as Governor.
He Rues His Prodisality.
1t is only during the past year when he
became convinced of the security Of his
position as Presidential possibility that he
began 70 realize his weakness from fnan.
cial standpoint. All last winter to his in
innate friends he walled over his poverty
and the money he had squandered. He had
done favors of a positive and negative
character for nearly all the financial insti-
tutions of the State during the six years he
had occupied the Governors chair The
policy before him was plain and its e1ecu-
ton was not to be DELAYED Toattend upon
these various companies and TO enter upon
IN understanding, explicit and implicit,
vas matter of the highest responsibility
from his point of view to his friends.
The results have been gratifying in the
extreme. Outside of the missionaries
travelling in many States manufacturing
sentiment for the Governor-Senator and his
literary bureau, which has been working on
full time and under the shrewdest wire
Tullers since election day, Hill has within
the past week received assurance that he
could relr upon whatever assistance can be
rendered him by one of the leading insur-
ance companies of the country.
Insurance and Polite. Mixed.
One of the sblest insurance men in the
country is John A. Mccall. For wears he
had been an ordinary clerF in the Insurance
department at Albany. In this capacity he
learned the insurance business and every
phase of it In 1880 John T. Smythe the
icaa boss OF Albany county, having
pointed Superintendent of the In
Department by Alonzo B. Cornell,
nted Mccall his deputy, a position
n he held till 1883, when Grover Cleve-
.nd selected him to succeed Smythe. Nc
Call remained at the head of the depart
ment till 1886. surrendering it to accept the
SIS. 900 a year billet, as comptroller of the
insurance company referred too.
Between Governor Hill and Mccall rela-
tioms of the most cordial character were
established which were riveted into closer
bonds in 1888, upon Hills discovering that
the man he had made superintendent to
succeed Mccall, namely Robert A. Max
well. was bending all his influence to
promote and strengthen Grover Cleveland's
chances with the Democracy of the State.
From that time Maxwells advice was un-
Needed in the executive chamber and Nc
Call became the power behind the throne in
all matters Of insurance.
significance of the Alliance.
Wherever and whenever Hill has ap-
pesred within the past year, at a public
gathering or a private entertainment, his
insurance Fi0us Achates has invariably
been seen at his elbow. 1t has only been
leaned what the true inwardness of this in
tinlacy portended, since Flowers election
Throughout the country this insurance COM
pany, like its competitors, has established
agencies that are in charge Of and that en-
plov wide awake, energetic men. A candi-
cate for office who reposes any part of his
interests in the hands of such men ought to
be more than satisfied with the results; for,
habnobbing as insurance are with all
classes of people, in one town TODAY. in
another tomorrow, they are admirably
qualified 10 manufacture public sentiment
with apparent disinterestedness and without
the faintest suspicion that they arc playing
politics.
Besides, it is diversion that can be pur-
sued without discredit to themselves or
without compromising the company, while |
its effects upon the object of their admir-.
ation cannot be otherwise than gratifying.
n addition TO this, the rumor comes from
Albany that the moment Governor Hill
throws aside the cares of the gubernatorial
chair, his name will be placed on the vol
luminous pay roll of the Equitable as special
counsel, the salary to be determined here
after.
Mccall for the Treasury Portfolio.
Il is the knowledge that he has obtained
So powerful solicitor as Mccall and SO i'm
portant connection as the insurance COM
psnv that has given the Cleveland people so
much concern this week. And what is to
be McCall's reward? The Hill leaders have
already slated him. Two contingencies are
in the way, however, of Hills nomination
and election as President. Once Hill is
elected President his Secretary of the Treas
urv Will necessarily be chosen from New
York. In such an event, it is claimed, Nc
C2ll would have the call by large ma
jority.
This is discounting the future with
vengeance; but a politician is never happy
unless he is engaged in this occupation, and
the successful politician is never SO success
fll than when he happens to work out a
combination he planned a year or IS months
before.
SHERMAN Is BEING PRESSED.