Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-14
CLEVELAND AND CAMPBELL.

A Report That the Ex-President Favors the
Buckeye Governor as the Democratic
Candidate in 1S92-A Good Word for
Hill Also.
An intimacy has sprung up between
ex-President Cleveland and Mr.. E. C. Bene-
dict which the friends of both regard as
somewhat strange, writes New York CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Press: Mr..
Benedict, while most energetic broker and
an agreeable companion in his private rela-
tions, seems hardly the sort Of man whom
President Cleveland would have found con-
genial or who in turn would discover in the
ex-President that sort of fcomradeship which
breeds intimacy.
Mr.. Benedict is one of the few brokers of
Wall street who have been making money
the past year or two. He Is q leading spirit
In the Chicago Gas Trust, and is reported to
have made million or so out of his con-
nection with that syndicate within the past
ls months. He is clear-headed and de-
cidedly enthusiastic business man, and he is
one of those Wall street brokers who are in
clined to think that we should have rattling
good times in business If there was free
coinage of American silver.
Probably the common interest of Mr.. Bene-
diot and the ex-President in yachting and
fishing is what has brought them together.
Mr.. Benedict owns a pretty fair steam yacht,
which is capable of making good speed and
has comfortable quarters for party of q
dozen or So and can provide well for them
on a cruise of considerable length. Last
summer he had Mr.. Cleveland with him on
his yacht, and this summer he has been in
the ex-President's company, and has seen
him in that most trying of all experiences
when man undertakes to go fishing i'll a
choppy sea with a stiff cross-cutting breeze.
Good Word for Jimmy.
On the day after Governor Campbell was
renominated for Governor of Ohio MIR. Bene-
dict sailed up Buzzards Bay on his yacht,
taking with him the New York papers
which Mr.. Cleveland had not received. The
ex-President, after congratulating him on
his quick trip to the city, asked him what
the news was, and Benedict replied that the
principal news was that Campbell had been
renpminated for Governor. Thereupon Mr..
Cleveland said: "well l am mighty glad of
it, and hope Jimmy will be elected. He's
a fighter and he's one of my sort of men.
Yes, Jimmy is q good fellow, n good Demo
crat. and if he happens to be elected this
fall he's bound to become pretty conspicu-
ous man.
Cleveland then Tread the account of the
doings of the convention which nominated
Campbell very carefully, and seemed speci-
platform. Later on in the day, while chat
ting with friends about him, Mr.. Cleveland
intimated his belief that if Campbell carried
Ohio he would prove very strong candidate
before the convention which is to nominate
the Democratic candidate for the lPresi-
dency. Those who heard Mr.. Cleveland talk
thus were rather strangely impressed, and
1t seemed to them as though he had in mind
not only the possibility, but the desirability
of the nomination of Campbell
A Western Candidate Possible.
1 was told to-day by a gentleman who has
recently had frequent conversations with
the ex-President that he has been talking
rBther more freely than has been his habit
lately. Among other things he recently
spoke very kindly of Governor Hill, and |
when he was asked whether he thought that |
the Governor had acted in good faith in the |
canvass of 1883 he replied that he had no |
doubt of it. He did not believe that Gov |
ernor Hill had acted in any manner treAch- |
erously, and he said that the fact that Hill |
was elected, while he had lost New York, |
was due to circumstances over which Mr.. |
Hill had no control, and that lie was satisfied |
the Governor was as keenly disappointed |
over the national election as any Democrat |
could be.
However, Mr. Cleveland, speaking as a |
mere on-looker, seemed to think that Hill |
would not be an available candidate of his
party for the Presidency, because he has not |
developed such strength elsewhere as he
has in New York State. Among other things |
Mr.. Cleveland said was this-that he did not |
know but that the best thing the Demo- |
cratic party could do In tile next campaign
was to take its candidate from the West. to
nominate strong candidate west of the /
Allegheny Mountains, and it occurred to
those who had heard the remark that he |
then had Campbell i'll mind.
No Anxiety for the Future.
As for himself he said that he had once |
had the chief honor that could fall to any |
American, and that so far as his personal |
feeling was concerned he could truthfully |
say that he had no anxiety or concern about |
his political future. He said, laughingly, |
that it sometimes seemed to him as though |
he would be perfectly content if he could |
earn money enough during the winter
months to spend the summer OF ease in fish
ing and sailing in the vicinity of Buzzard's
Bay and he emphatically declared that dur
ing his whole life he has never had the en-
ioyment which he has found down there by
the salt water.
OF course, these conversations were mere
chats, the Gilt chat of the verandah
or of a yachts deck, when there is no FORM
atty and when words are not weighed.
those who have heard Mr..
Cleveland talk are inclined to think that he
spoke what was in his mind when he said
these things.
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