New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-04
HILLS DOrNG> IN ALBANY.
HE ARANDoXS TIE SENATE TILL HE HAS
FINED ALL THE DOUBTFUL COUNTIES

FINED ALL THE DOUBTFUL COUNTIES.
Albany Feb 3-Cnless Calvin : Brice can ne con-
sdcrrd ms representing both Ohio and New York in
bo rpited states senate New York state at present
has onIv one representative in that body; for David
u i'm Inns ,urned his back Washington and, al
though he Is drawing his salary at regular 1h'er'"is
for being there he persists In staying mere 10 uee'
the fight against Grover Cleveland and III faVor OF HIS
own candidacy for the Presidency. lie now has been
away from Washington for nearly two weeks ana
he SAYS that he does not intend 10
return there until he has assured himself
that IN every county in which Cleveland man mas
dared to nterpuse an objection 10 his "feeEcout ma
winter convention delegates are elected who VIII Oc
true 10 Hill He refused 10 take UP with the duties
or United states senator but did not refuse To accept
tho salary n long he could remain in the Executive
Chamber ard plot to overthrow Mr.. Cleveland ana
push himself forward aud that the law has forced
him 10 vacate the chair he persists IN denying 10 'e
state the services which he Is paid TO perform and at
the same tine draws the salary that comes with the
Office
But what i, Mr. Iilll doing In Albany so long, Ana
why /, he negectng his duties as "A uhted states eeu
,t,r, The answer TO hat question Is simply this lie
doe, not trust lIos,' Murphy and Boss Flower as
far a, he might. and allow them TO look out for him.
while he could be at the scat OF the National Govern
ment astonishing the entire country with the states
manlke qualities which he says he possesses WI
tho other hand. he openly asserts that lie mas
deserted his post to engage in directing the ward
caucuscs and the primary elections that are peihs
held I'm the various counties and cities Of the state
lie f, directing the movements Of his auomatons Just
az he directed his heeers in Duchess County TO count
ont n Republcan who had been fairly elected TO the
stotc Senate and iust as he directed Storm Emans,
the County Clerk and Isaac II. Maynard then deputy
Attorney General, to steal the corrected ietur1is
and carry them back to Duchess County. lie con-
stanty Is In communication with the various couhieS
in the state where the Cleveland men are yet awe
and from which protests had come against MS Jaohn
the box convention.
That is what has called him from Washington and
what keeps him here I'm Albany. In Wayne county III
Cavlga County IN Gcncsec County, in Erie county.
in Chautalqua County the majority Of tue Denocrauc
voters continue 70 believe that Grover CleVehhd IS
statesman and that David b. Hill Is poIiucal TRICK
ster only each Of these counties lill has mapped olt
for local leaders who have been here 10 see hnl plan
Of campaign in which snap primaries lightning ri
In and packed cacauses to play the leading parts
I'm fact he /, the director general of his own cam
pagn and he is paying personal attehu" % '"' most
minute detail Of it. lie has laid out his plan OF bat
Tie lust as a general in open warfare would Dut Win
Grover Cleveland as hi, enemy and the Cleveland
force, to fight "Rats" p Flower has turned
over 10 him absolutely every bit OF legsl~
ron IN which there may Ire the most minute
n,rticlc Of politics, and every appointment that
has been made and is to be made from that OF ths
notoriou naming Of Isaac II. Maynard for the Court
of Appeals bench down to the verest moor cieaheF III
the Capitol means Hill politics
60 see the Senator, he understands these matters
i an EXPRESSION often on the lips Of Rats p Flower
This /, the reply that he makes TO every one who asks
him about IL bill that comes to his hands
The Senator alone is allowed to determine
how the bill is to be treated. 80 far
has the Governor de jure placed himself in
Hills keeping that he has consented it is said, TO
become n tail to HIS Presidential kite. Rats
T. Flower has been told that he could head the Hill
delegation from this State II lie wanted to- Ii Is
declared that Illll has persuaded him that IT would
be a wise and profitable thing to do.
Mr. I'M did not give out today the rest OF the prec
edents which he said through " Boss Murphy last
night would justify him In causing the frceze,ont'
convention BE- called. Perhaps he did not d,slrc
To cite any prccedents Of the character OF those
that he named yesterday, for In two out Of three eases
the marty that called the midwnter conventions were
Ladly defeated on this point there has been today
positive silence at the Hill headquarters III sttest