, 1891-12-30
whsrs "Fhs Daily Leader" May be Pound.
PEN PLCTURE OF RILL.

PEN PICTURE OF HILL.
We have not lately came across a racier
bit Of writing han an article on Governor
David b. Hill, lately printed in the New
York Advertiser and written by W. j.
Arkell of fudge, a political opponent but
personal friend Of the governor.
Hill was a great admirer of Mr.. Til
den" says Mr.. Arkell, and the latter
was equally infatuated with Hill. In 1880
or thereabOuts, when Hill had a very tar
record as an ex-assemblyman aud the
existing mayor of Elmira-also not so
good a record as a parliamentarian Though
he is now among the best because of a
gross blundcr as the presiding officer of
the state convention. a blunder which
took the convention from 1ilden mana
gers and gave it to Tammany hall was
the guest, for a brief period, OF the
rapidly aging sage. One evening while
nursing himself in his library he spoke
freely of the statesmen and politicians of
the period and directly touched upon Mr..
Hill. That young man, said he, has
suggested some of the brightest moves on
the political checker board, and some of
them | have made. l consider him the
brainiest aud shrewdest man the Demo
cratic party has today and you
will see. if his lie is spared that
he will be the leader OF the Democratic
party before 1885 l put that down in
a little scrap book devoted to sush things.
| thought it a remarkable expression
coming from such a man, in view Of the
fact that Hill was about as much known
at the time as franklin Pierce was before
he was nominated for president. Really,
however, Hill and Tllden were very close
friends, and had been for some previous
years. They had worked and planned
together, and the admiration each had for
the other was as sincere as it perhaps was
deserved They would have been Damon
and Pythlas, or perhaps twins. but for
the lamentable distance between their re-
s%pective births Sometimes these accidents
are not to be avoided. But If Tilden had
had a heart he would have remembered
Hill with at least a legacy OF 800, 600 in
his will. Hill was the faithful servltor
always at Tilden's beck and call, and never
got back so little as the expenses attend
ing his devotion.
81 had no idea until last year OF the
political power of this little man at
Albany. 1t was one of Mr.. Tiden's
methods to know the strength, and
through his licutenants pretty nearly the
voters, of every ward 10 every city and
every assembly district OF the hardy yeO-
manry. Well, il Mr.. Tilden knew much
Governor Hill knows more. He has a
stronger and more faithful following, be
cause he is young. He has proved his
personal power and astuteness through
more years of successful Office getting and
more years OF Democratic power through
his management. Nobody questions the
fact that he is as faithful to his friends as
he is remOrseless. and to some extent I'M
s~crupulous, in his dealings with his Dem
ocratic enemies. His friends are not in
varlably selected with the purpose of get
ting strictly virtuous and honorable men.
They are taken care OF, just the same.
Nothing happens to or within the
vicinity Of the governor which is not poll
tics. A bride. ACCOMPANIED by her hus-
band. called on the governor. and to the
latter his excellency remarked, Accept
my congratulations, my dear madam
then added to the lady in an easy. of
hand manner, Marriage is a good thing.
By the way, are you going to return
Smith from the second Columbia district
As to his personal habits he is an unusu.
ally clean man. / don't know why a
hounds tooth is cleaner than anything
else, because the hound never uses a tooth
he has. As to his bites, he has rather
the teeth as well as the logged persist
ence of a bulldog. But, as most people
know, he never drinks. He uses tobacco
in no form whatever. He is probably as
pure a man in most other respects as
lives. Yet he is no preacher. and his
assumption OF superior virtues has yet to
be presented. He is the pet of the
boys'-the ideal of the Democratic sa-
looms and slums. Some jobs. as that of
the aqueduct, have run suspiciously up to
him, though they have turned into other
channels before they threatened his polit-