The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-18
GOV. HILLS FUTURE.
He Is Going to Make the Race
for Governor Again.
STUFFED PROPHET WILL FIGHT.
Wall Street Brokers Not Earning q Liv-
ing-Homeliest Man in New York
Ex-Postmaster-Gener James.

Ex-Postmaster-Gener James.
NEW 1 DIRK, Jan. IL Correspondencel.-
governor Hill has about determined upon
an heroic course SO far as his political
career is concerned. After having looked
over the ground very carefully, since the
election OF Democratic legislature in
New York state, and listening to what all
MS friends had to say about the course he
should pursue IN the future. he has
determined to disregard them all, and
make the race again for the governoaship.
only brave man would do this, and no
other Democrat in the state of New York
is brave enough or has a sufficiently large
ioiiowing TO warrant him in pursuing
such course. Governor Hill has few
intimate friends, and none upon whose
Judgment he relies implicitly. He listens
10 all that Is said weighs the matter care
fully pro and con, and then usually decides
Tor himself. The majority of politicians
thought that the best course for him to pur-
sue would be to step from the governors
chalr into theUnited States Senate as he can
doif he desires. Others thought it would be
good plan for him to retire into private
lie, and await the result ofthe Democratic
convention in 1892. But no one but him
sell preached the idea of taking the bull
sqaarely by the horns and making the
hght on the goyernorship. Hill has prac-
tically decided to do this, and is busying
himself with playing politics all over this
broad state IN such manner that he may
secure solid delegation to the national
convention. He does not care pjcayune
who is elected to succeed Evarts in the
Senate as long as he be man who can aid
him in his presidential fight, for the race
for the governorship is but the beginning
of that contest. There are precedents
enough to warrant Hill in following the
course he has marked out, and if the Dem
ocratic party pull together he should
be reelected by at least 10000
majority. But it is not at all certain
that he will be. During his terms of
office he has made great many enemies,
and these men, disappointed and dis
gruatled, will consider it part of their
duty to try and defeat Hill for the govern
orship. Should they succeed in this, his
presidential prospects and his political flu
ture will be buried in the same trench.
But should he win, as he argues he will,
he will have no rival for the leadership of
the national Democracy. Hill very well
understands the dangers attendant upon
the fight for the governorship Tammany
Hall, in New York city, cannot be de-
pended upon to support him Loyalty, nor
can the other wing of the Democracy IN
Kings county, and the Cleveland men in
the other portions of the state will leave no
stone upturned to compass his defeat. And,
by the way. the Cleveland contingent rs
growing not among the politicians, for
Cleveland is intensely disliked by the
politicians, but among the people,
and the ex-president is unquestionably
more popular today than ever
before. There are indications, too, that
Cleveland himself will direct the fight
against Hill IS ambitious struggle for the
governorship, and if he does, there will
be battle royal between the giants that
must end in the political death of one or
the other. So far, Hill has the best of it,
and If the Democratic machine does its
work faithfully. he will have a solid dele
CATION from the state of New York to the
national convention. Cleveland will not
be in it, for however much the Southern
and Western delegates may think of him,
it would be political suicide to nominate
man whose own state is against him. The
fight Is now under way. The Cleveland
men are forcing il. and the result will be
watched with interest not only by politi-
clans, but by students of political economy
all over the country.
DULL TINES IN WALL STREET
The bottom seems TO have dropped out
of speculation in Wall street, and just
what the thousands of brokers and their
clerks are going to do TO get enough to eat
during the next twelve months is a prob
lem that they, at least, would be very glad
if some one would solve. There is abso-
lutely no business being done in stock
speculation, and those firms who have
heretofore occupied splendid offices are
now giving them up and going TO cheaper
quarters. The clerks have little or nothing
10 do, and receive but little or no pay for
doing IT, The head of one big brokerage
house, whose expenses average nearly $500
a day. told me yesterday that he had not
made $50 in q week on commissions. What
Is true in his case is true to an extent with
Others. Time was when the Jolly little
broker was described as a man arrayed in
purple and fine linen with good capon
lined, wearing a profusion of jewels, and
swimming in champagne. The real fact
is the average broker is decidedly shoddy
in appearance today, is content with a
ham sandwich for his lunch, and thanks
God when he gets glass of beer, for even
that is preferable TO nothing. In the cafes
where in the days gone by there We're rev.
els in the afternoon and an incessant pop
ping OF champagne corks, now one only
hears lamentations, ana occasionally Il
call for glass of beer, and in the mean
time. the dear public looks on and is con-
tent not to be in II. SO far as business is
concerned, Wall street is about as cheerful
as a cemetery is to healthy man.
THE HoMEIIEsT MAN IN NEW YORK STATE
Visitors to the Fifth Avenue hotel occa-
sionally see lounging through the corri-
doris man whose face is so homely as to
cause them To stop and comment upon it.
Without exaggeration State senator Irwin
can boast of being homelier than any other
man in this state, if not in the country.
His face is round and clean shaven. His
nose is big and out of all proportion 10 his
face His mouth buiges ont, and his lips
are as thick as negroS. There are little
mountains and hills of flesh on his cheeks
that give him very unsightly appearance,
and his eyes are big and stare at Won in
most wonderful way. As lady said about
him when he was making great speech in
the Senate one night-"he is mortaly
hornely." But he has other claims 10 dis
tinction as well. There is no better parli-
amentarian, and he is a splendid public
speaker. AS tor politics. he il as cunning
as was SilaS Wright. But he is MORALLY
homely.
X-PosTMASTER-G ESERAL JAMES.
One hardly ever hears of ex- Postmaster