Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
RESULTS OF THE WAR.
New York Had a Big Time While 1t
Lasted, but 1t is Quiet Now.
HOW HILL Is PULLING THE WIRES.
Great Rejoicing Among His Camp That
Cleveland Is Out of Town.
NEWS ABOUT CROKER AND GRANT

CORRESPONDENCE Or THE p1srArcH.1
NEW YORK, Jan. 30-There is a certain
difference between a horse and great city
A horse can think of but one thing at
time. If he wants to balk and his intelli
forgets the baking idea and concentrates
his attention and his thoughts on his burn
ing tail A town, on the other hand, is more
like an individual man and can sometimes
carry as many as two separate ideas in it
head at the same time.
For instance, during this past week the
great and powerful city of New York ha.
constantly talked about war, and while il
was talking on that enhancing theme,
which was destined to amount to nothing il
was deep down in its mind turning over the
political situation, which has been develop
ing interesting features at such remarka-
Bile rate.
How the War Changed People.
Of course for the present the war busi-
ness is as dead as if it had not been heard
OF for ten years, but while it lasted it was a
very big thing to this town, which rarely
finds anything really worth taking an inter-
who bought the extra editions of the even
ing papers stopped to read them in the
streets as they got them and the man de-
layed in his onward rush by the perform
ance, instead of losing temper, sympathized
with the provincial behavior of the news
paper readers and looked over his shoulder
to see what the big headlines would say.
In addition to this, men who pride them
selves on their usual Indifference to the rest
of mankind were discovered carrying on
heated conversations with total strangers in
the elevated railroad cars, and waving the
American eagle by his tail with unconven-
tional enthusiasm. An interesting feature
of the war scare, and one of which the gen.
eral public knows nothing, was the doings
in the newspaper offices. Every man on
every big newspaper had some special in
terest in the thing.
War News at Dollar a Word.
The men in charge of the expenses wept
at the thought that all the important news
that the paper printed for the next few
months would cost 81 word for telegraph
ing alone, to say nothing of the cost of send
ing men to the seat of the trouble The city
editors, who are responsible for the local
news, and who in ordinary times despise
everything that happens more than a few
blocks away from the City Hall, have spent
days plunged in grief because some foreign
editor whom they had learned to despise
would have the right to look down on them.
Every small reporter has been beseeching
his editor to let him have a whack at the
war, and the sporting reporters, ordinarily
the representatives of Mars in the newspaper
business, have fallen IN the face of the great
fighting that has been impending to place
as low as that of the new men who are sent to
do sermons. Poor down-trodden reporters
who had knowledge of languages but apoor
idea of news have found themselves all of
sudden big men, because they could trans
late Spanish newspapers for the night ed
itor, and in fact the whole newspaper busi-
ness has been totally torn up while the
scare was on.
1t is not likely that anyone in this
country is more disappointed to-day than
the newspaper man whose boss has fine
steam yacht, and who was to 60 in charge of
that fast steamboat, with lot of assistants,
photographers, ETC., follow the fighting
boats as closely as possible and, with all the
exciting possibilities of having races with
hostile boats, do war correspondence as it
has never been done.
Hill Knows He Is Very Biz.
Senator Hills visit to New York has
added to the great interest that is felt here
in national politics just now. There is no
longer Cleveland Democrat or Mugwump
who will say with the old-time Indifference
to Hills scheming that he is not a serious
element in the Presidential question. He is
at this moment the biggest man in the
Democratic field, and he knows it. His sue
cess is perhaps due to all the wickedness
that is ascribed to him, but it is neverthe-
less full of a very fine moral. If ever in
this world a man has succeeded by hard
nd To hrci 81,
Hill is the man.
He had not been in town two hours before
he was hard at work LOOKING over his fences
and seeing whether any of them needed
patching up. AT the Hoffman House he
had his usual diplamotic arrangements of
rooms, a big room and little one. And as
hot work was expected, he had even added |
a second little apartment, which is unusual.
Each of these had its lot of visitors. In the
big room were the not very important men |
who like to be around the big man, whoever
he may be, and who must not be dis |
couraged, although it is not possible to let |
them know really what is going on. In the |
two little rooms were lodged the men whom |
Hill wanted to talk to privately, and for |
many hours he trotted patiently from one of
these two little rooms to the other, stopping
at intervals to get rid of some of the waiting
ones in the big room.
How He Made His Visitors Feel
Every man he knew and took the widest
interest in. Each call filled him with a
pride and qualification which he did not at
tempt to conceal, and not even the smallest
man went away without the impression that
his visit had given Hill a new feeling of
confidence that he would be President.
Next to his ability to make every man who
sees him feel very important, Hills most
precious faculty is his ability to saw no
matter what, and keep perfect straight
face. He is not man without sense or
humor, and yet when he was asked-before
the question was publicly decided-when
the delegates to the Democratic Convention
we're to be selected, he took on an innocent
air and replied: 81 have not the least idea
because the only men whom I have had a
chance to talk to as yet are Croker and
Murphy"
At this time it is safe to say that when
Hill, Croker and Murphy have been in con-
,ultation everything in the way of local
politics is settled but the weather at the
election. Therefore, Hills quiet earnest
of ignorance ranked him at once
IS one of the ablest actors of his time.
Hills course in having the delegates chosen
Is early as the 22d of February has been
7ery strongly criticised, and may do him q
yreat deal of harm in the eyes Of conserya-
i've people.
Chose the Lesser Danger
No one knows that better than Hill how
'ver. He has calculated the work before
lim, and has decided that the thing for him
o do is to make sure of the New York dele
,ation now while he knows that he can.
wen if some feelings are hurt.