The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-24


we have had hundreds of presidential
aspirants, every one Of whom subscribed
to the old fiction that the Office must
seek the man, etc. At the capital we
have become accustomed TO the little de-
ception practiced in the interest of dig
nifty by men o were spending their
days and nights scheming for the presi-
dency, and yet pretending to know moth
ing whatever about it. Governor Hill
doesn't believe in that sort of thing, and
he was not long in letting every one
| know it.
Some of the grave and reverend sena-
tors were so shocked by MIR. Hills
| bluntness that they have not as yet re-
covered; and l merely state a fact ap-
parent TO US all when I say that the new
senator from New York is not popular
among his colleagues in the north end
! of the Capitol lie doesn't appear to
mind that any more than he does their
Struggling shoulders when he tells them
how he is going to win the presidency.
In all his methods Of work Senator
Hill is businesslike. He is regular,
punctual, methodical, orderly in every
thing he does He has magnificent par
lors at the Arlington, the finest hotel IN
Washington. where he is surrounded by
clerks and friends His rooms are open
TO all callers. No man is more APP
proachable than Senator Hill. He has
q way of making every one with whom
he talks feel that the conversation has
been of specially co 'ential char
acter. The caller mary at the frank
ness of the man, but when he goes away
and thinks over what has been said he
finds it is not of any great Importance
after all. At precisely II 80 every day
Senator Hill starts for the Capitol. At
$50 precisely he leaves the Capitol for
his hotel. He breakfasts, lunches and
dimes punctually at certain hours, and
always-nearly always-retires at sharp
midnight.
Iregret TO say that Senator Hill does
not like women. The manner in which
he shuns the society of the fair sex is so
obvious as to cause much remark.
When the senator first came to Wash
ington some of our newspaper CORE
spondents played joke on him. They
took the head waiter Of the Arlington
one side, whispered in his ear that Sen
ator Hill was great admirer of coInely
women, and that it would doubtless be
many a five dollar bill III the head
walters rocket if he would seat the
pretty women near the senator's table.
The head waiter was not long in acting
on this suggestion. at the very next
meal Governor Hill was surprised to
find himself uuded By pretty young
married wo nd bluShing brides. of
whom there always great plenty al
Washington otels.
AL Of Il interesting creatures
soon knew their neiShbor was, and
they watcht i'm with so much interest
that it WAS Uncut TO say where the
greatest M or Of bushes waS-On the
fair cheeks the brides or in the pale
face OF Senator H.I. The governor en-
dured this tortUre-for torture it obvi-
ously was-for Just two weeks. Then
he gave the head waiter ten dollars to
seat the pretty women at the other END
OF the dining yoou.
Perhaps the most interesting OF our
presidential posi- eilit;es Is Senator Pal
mer. This remarkable old man, now
past seventy-tive,i Is Is lively rs q cricket. /
He walks 10 and from the Capitol. and
Is often Seen on Newspaper row talking
politics with the correspondents. He Is /
gTesf admirer of ueyvSuaners and news