The record-union., 1891-02-03
CLEVELAND And HILL.
Prospects for the Nomination for
President in 1893.
Death Of the Captain of the famous
Steamer Star of the West, Which
Received the First Shot Fired In the
Civil war-A Genuine Relic.

Especial correspondence of the RECoRD-UNIoNl
WASHINGTON ID. c., Jan. %, 1891.
An incident occurred here last week
which would not attract attention but for
the name of the person and his immedi-
ate known associations, and the sequel
which Immediately followed and its in
definite possibilities. Dan Lamont, pri-
yate secretary under President Cleveland,
arrived here at noon ON the 10th inst. He
Immediately drove to the Capitol, sent
his card to Senator German of Maryland,
Chairman of the Democratic Committee,
received an immediate interview of con-
siderable length and apparent earnest
ness, thence drove back to the depot and
took the train for New York.
Things of this kind are of daily occur
renee during session of Congress and
no attention is paid to it apart from the
unimportant fact that such person made
hurried visit to Washington. This par
ticular incident was supplemented with
the news that Governor Hill of New York
had agreed to accept the Senatorial chair
now occupied by Senator Evarts. That
was where the trouble broke out, and the
hotels, Hobbies, clubs and floors of both
houses of Congress have been severely
exercised thereby.
ceptance of this position was the result
Of an understanding with Mr.. Cleveland,
and it cleared the track for the latters re-
nomination in 1872.
In conversation with some prominent
New York statesmen it is learned that
such is not the case at all. That any alli-
ance or understanding of political ma
ture with Mr.. Cleveland in the State of
New York is not considered valuable, for
the simple reason that he has no consider
able following in that State, as witnessed
by the returns of the last Presidential
election. Nor would his movements or
wishes aid or antagonize any political ar
rangement any more than any other
prominent private citizen.
THE PROBABLE INSIDE.
1t is boldly asserted that, instead of there
being an understanding between those
rival candidates for the Presidency, on
the contrary, Governor Hill accepts this
place in order to get closer to the leading
Southern politicians who occupy positions
on the floor of both Houses Of Congress.
Through this nearer mountaineering he
can more effectively demonstrate to them
why it is that Mr.. Cleveland is not popu-
lar at home, and why his denomination
would be attended with no better results
than the last. If he succeeds in this uni
dertaking, Mr.. Cleveland could not even
be re-nominated for President, for it is
the "Solid South alone which affords
him any valuable support.
1t is very probable that Mr.. Hill is
prompted to do this in the interests of his
own expected candidacy, rather than
disinterested zeal for the success OF his
party. He is eligible for the place, and
there is no law to the contrary.
That Governor Hill is an ADLER man
than Mr.. Cleveland may be true, but
many Democrats, both North and South
pause when considering whether he
No I'D 1Nn+fa
dent, in view of MIR. Cleveland's past
services.
Great ability don't seem to be neces-
sary prerequisite with the American peo-
pie in their dealings with Presidential as
pirants at the ballot-boX. 1t is very gem
orally believed that neither Roscoe Conll-
ling nor Allan G. Thurman could ever be
elected President, and yet they are uni
versaily admitted to have been repre-
sentatives of the foremost intellect of the
two great parties.
In my letter to the RECORD UNION
dated December q, | stated that the next
electoral college would consist OF 453 votes.
That was an error. The electoral college
contains as many electors as there are
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress. The next Congress under the new
apportionment bill, if it be passed by the
Senate, will contain 1856 members; the
Senate has lightweight members, MAX
ing total of Al votes instead of 453.
Under this condition 223 votes are
necessary to elect. The solid South, I'M
less the Farmers Alliance and an earth
quake strike them at once, will present
their l65 votes as effectively stuffed in
the urn as was ever a ballot-boX stuffed
in Chicago, New York or San Francisco.
varying only in the magnitude of the
job. By adding the thirty-four votes of
New York, there will be only twenty
four votes lacking to determine the re-
suit. This statement of the case, Gov
ernor Hills friends claim, demands the
thoughtful consideration of his political
associates, reasserting that Mr.. Cieve-
lands candidacy would lose New York
beyond a doubt.
SOME INSIDE FACTS RECALLED.
1t will be recollected that Mr.. Cleve-
land was Sheriff at Buffalo. and was a
pronounced antagonist of the Irish ele-
: ment which had very generally con-
trolled that city. His determined antag-
onism to them attracted the attention of
Mr.. Iilden. On account of his bitter ami
mostly to John Kelly, Mr.. Tilden aided
largely, and probably did personally
nominate Cleveland for Governor, be-
cause he could depend upon him as being
'agin the 1riSh.''
1t was rather forlorn hope, but it will
be also remembered that at this time
President Arthur sought by unfair means
to nominate the Republican candidate for
Governor of that State in order to secure
the machinery of the party for his subse-
quent nomination to the Presidency. The
facts were that Secretary FoIger was
showed under through the desire of the
Republicans to condemn Mr.. Arthur's
methods and Mr.. Cleveland was elected
Governor by over 10000 majority. This
was an accident which was hardlv-antici-
pated by either Tilden or Cleveland
Serving his term he was nominated for
President because he had carried the
great pivotal State of New York. The
appropriately of Mr. Blaine's candidacy
at that time, aided by the .'Mugwumps,' .,
and the disaffection of Senator Conklinp
and his friends, made it possible for Mr.
Cleveland to be the happy recipient of
two political accidents. The last time he
was a candidate he relied solely upon his
merits with a record, and the result was
wholly different.
On the other hand, Governor Hills
friends claim that all he is, he made him-
self, and his achievements were the result
of unequal rather than favorable condi-
tons. Hence TO renominate Mr.. Cleve-
land the creature of accident, without a
disinterested political follower of prom
inence in his own State, is simply an in
suit TO New York.
While that State is not exactly the
pivotal State which she was, vet, she
stands so close to it that twenty-four
votes from the outside are only lacking.
Indiana and Massachusetts, with their
thirteen votes each, under the new ap-
portionment, does the business unless
they reform.
CIoture, force, appropriations, and the
cold clouds that are gathering for grand
burst up to some of them on the 18th day
ofMarch next, furnishes no such theme
for conversation to-day in Washington as
Hills election.
AN HISTORIC DEATrr