Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-23
Gossip Started by Mr.. Stevenson's
Visit to Albany.
SOME REGARD IT as SIGNIFICANT.
The Vice Presidents Relations to
the President.
LOOKING FORWARD TO '96

The recent visit of Vice President Steven
Hill is affording some of the politicians here
a new topic. Mr.. Stevenson was invited to
Albany by the New York Bar Association,
and went to attend a meeting of the asso-
citation. The New York Senators became his
escort by reason of their appreciation of
the honor of his visit to the state and Mr..
Hill, In particular being a member Of the
Bar Association, took especial pleasure in
making the journey with him. Naturally,
too, Mr.. HILL keeping an establishment in
Albany. invited Mr. Stevenson to be his
guest while in town. This is the simple
statement Of the case; and yet by some it
Is seized upon as an important pointer.
They are able to see in 1t the existence CT
very cordial relations between the Vice
President and Mr.. Hill. designed to grow
and to strengthen. and to cut an important
figure in affairs at no distant day.
Perhaps this talk attracts a little more
attention than otherwise 1t would by rea-
son OF the fact that this journey took place
Immediately after the rejection by the
Senate Of the Hornblower nomination. The
Vice President. therefore. is made to appear
as having taken the arm of Mr.. HILL as
soon as the Senator had downed the ad-
AAA'AASAotioh Lu ludI contest, ana WalkoQ
of cordially and even approvingly with him
to become his guest and address his friends
This comment is little guarded as yet
1t may be heard. however, both in ad-
mintstration circles and i'm circles friendly
to Mr.: Hill. The administration people
plainly do not like the circumstance, but
Mr.. Hills friends are quite as plainly
pleased with the Interpretation of 1t which
assigns to the Senator the credit of having
been the leading instrument of securing
the Vice President as the principal attrac-
tion at the Albany meeting. 1t helps, they
think. to strengthen the impression in the
ranks of the empire democracy that Mr.
Hill is fast becoming a power in the coun-
ellis of the Senate.
Mr.. Stevenson and the President
Mr.. Stevensons attitude toward the Pres
ident is friendly. but reserved. His friends
say 1t is necessarily reserved. The Vice
President under any administration must
keep somewhat in the background. During
the last administration Vice President Nor
ton was scarcely heard of at the White
House. He attempted to secure no patron
age nor was his advice on that subject
sought by Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Stevenson is
pursuing a similar course. He rarely ever
visits the White House and he never asks
for office for his friends. He is not taken
into account in the distribution of the IL
linoiS patronage. He asked last spring for
a judgeship for his brother-in- law, but OBJ
tained instead a small foreign mission for
him. Since then the Vice President has
asked nothing of the President
During the silver debate at the special
session Of Congress there was some COM
plant of the Vice President on the part of
the Presidents friends. OH the score that
his rulings indicated no sympathy with the
Presidents policy. Subsequently, however,
this Judgment vas revised, and the opinion
very generally reached that the Vice Pres
ident. like the Senate itself. was the victim
Of an extraordinary code of rules. Mr.. Ste
venson has taken no ground on any of the
great and pressing questions though the
impression is very distinct here that both
on the question of Hawaii and that relating
to filling the Offices promptly with demo-
Gratis he Is not In agreement with the Pres
ident, but Is in exact accord with Mr.. HILL
What the GOssips Say.
This gossip connecting the names Of Mr.
Stevenson and Mr.. Hill carries with 1t the
prediction that they will enter into an
agreement looking to influencing the action
of the next democratic national convention
and to support the prediction the announce
ment Is made of the organization of a Hill
club at Chicago with a membership OF one
thousand. Other clubs. 1t is said, are to fol-
low, both east and west. and the work
pushed on lines of appeal to old party feel
ing. Mr.. Stevenson's friends say of him
that he is an old-fashioned democrat who
believes I'm putting the party completely in
possession, and at once and Mr.. Hills
friends say of him that he would stand
shoulder to shoulder with Mr.. Stevenson in
carrying out such a policy. This Albany
trip, indeed is bringing out for the edifica-
tion and instruction of their friends the
Vice President and the senior Senator from
New York