Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-12
HILLS FRIENDS IN A RAGE
Over Cleveland's Visit to Buffalo,
,ocial 70 the New York Herald


Special to the New York Herald.
ALBANY, N. Y, May 11.-From the Hill
standpoint the visit Of Mr.. Cleveland to Buffalo
seems to be regarded as move worth resent
ing 1t evidently has excited David's suspicion.
The governor shows his appreciation Of the
visit by volley of hot shot from Castle Cal
lcot.
Listen to the tale of woe in the editorial
leader OF the governor 8 organ, the Albany
Times. "Grover Cleveland" it saws ''must
have felt like cat in a strange garnet when he
stepped into Buffalo this morning for the first
time since 1885. when he went there for the last
time to vote and said he could never come
back again. In the past the proof has been in
disputable that Grover Cleveland did not care
snap about Buffalo. This visit indicates that
he is anxious to return to his first love. to be
forgiven for what he has said about Buffalo
and about leading democrats in it and to en-
deavor to restore himself to his old-time pres
tige there.
BUT WILL HE?
"But will he? Time has made many changes
in the democracy of Buffalo. Influential
hackers and supporters of Grover Cleveland in
1882 and 1884, with their influence energy and
money, have retired, and new leaders have
come to the front who owe no allegiance to Mr..
Cleveland for political or personal favors. And
these leaders will look on Mr.. Cleveland's sud-
den desire to reingratiate himself with his old
home democracy with suspicion.
They wip see in this move secret effort to
embarrass, possibly prearranged, state and ma
tional party policies, to tread down, if possible,
the power Of these new energetic leaders and
once more to create Cleveland regency, such
as existed prior to 1885, when Mr.. Cleveland
announced he had left Buffalo for good
This long but frantically sustained sentence
Is one Of the most significant expressions that
has come from the Hill camp for years. 1t
states pretty clearly that Hill has ''prearranged
| state and national party policies" and does not
| want interference with Billy Sheehan and
other new and energetic leaders, who are
carrying 1t out in the western part Of the state.
THREATS OF HILLS ORGAN.
After thus indicating a fear of secret effort
| to break down the power of tho Hill local
leaders the governors organ threatens in this
style: Buffalo democracy has outgrown the
narrow confines of selfish and close corporation
regency ideas, and democrats there now think
| and act entirely for their own party's good
| without fear or favor from any one and the
brazen attempt to influence them back into the
| old monopolistic Cleveland plan of 1882 and
1884 might meet with nothing more nor less than
rebellion.
| "As a distinguished fellow citizen Buffalo
democrats, aided by hundreds of independent
republicans in the past, did not hesitate to as
sist Mr.. Cleveland materially in all his political
| plans as an honor to him and to Buffalo But
Mr.. Cleveland is no longer a citizen of Buffalo.
| He is a winter resident and voter Of New York,
and summer rosident Of Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
| JUST A ''FEELER."
"Certain Buffalo democrats are honoring Mr..
| Cleveland today as feeler' to see how he
stands in his old home, as a preliminary step to
foisting him again, If possible, into the conf
dence Of the Buffalo democracy, purely for
| party purposes. II is to be doubted whether
| this plan will succeed. Time has been q great
educator of Buffalo democrats as to Grover
Cleveland's democracy and his uncomfortable
| way of ostracising his friends after he has used
| them for his own selfish ends. He did thii
once He would do it again, and nobody knows
this better than the average Buffalo democrat
The Times heads its dispatch Of the ex-Presi
dents reception: Cleveland in Bufalo-Re-
spcctful Reception Of a Former Citizen" There
is q great deal more in the ''head" than there
is in the dispatch.
This outburst in the governors organ hal
created q sensation here tonight. The infor
nation given by the Herald recently that thu
Cleveland men are gathering behind Flower
and securing delegates for the state convention
has angered tho Hillites, and IL looks a. i
somebody was real mad.