The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
SENATOR HILL.

lNoW tndt CSudtOi I1ll is again
brought into prominence through the
nomination for Governor of New York
being thrust upon him, just when the
Presidential bee begins to bu ~, his
peculiarities private and public and
his social and political status are all
of course being carefully weighed and
measured.
While the Presidential nomination
would have been more to his liking,
perhaps, it seems to be fateful in his
case and that Of many other political
marksmen to shoot above their mark
proper by drawing their sight little
too high. In such cases they gener-
ally fail to drive the Presidential nail;
and Mr.. Hill, we think, will be no ex-
ception. While in our opinion there
is no good presidential timber in
Senator Hill in view of tariff reform
and income taxation, yet his nomina-
ton for Governor of New York under
the circumstances is a piece of politi-
cal STRATEGY on the part Of Democracy
which proves that evil is sometimes
overruled for good, and that parties
like individuals are sometimes wiser
than they know. AS stroke of po-
litical policy there is no questioning
the advisabilty Of Senator Hills nomi-
nation for governor. We can think
of nothing more apt to disconcert
Republican calculations, so far as the
Empire State is concerned, than this
very same nomination. If the money
power is indeed a power anywhere
within the Union then the very hub
of that driving-wheel is in New York,
and the power Of its propulsion is to
be found in the favored constituents
of Senator Hill. Give him a poverty
stricken set of constituents and it is
quite possible that he would endeavor
to serve them as well and represent
them just as faithfully as he now ad-
vocates the cause of the more af-
fluent and luxurious. We think we do
HIM no injustice when we say that
Mr.. Hill is politician first, last, and
all the time, and such being the case
his geographical location if nothing
else places him at variance with the
more equitable lines of policy of the
Democratic party north, south, east
and west of New York.
In speaking Of his personal charac-
teristics and peculiarities he is re-
ferred to by those who know him
intimately as recluse from society
who cares no more for female charms
than for the inanimate attractions of
the sphinx of Egypt. So, at least the
bellies of Washington charge against
him after wasting their most fascina-
ting allurements upon him in the vain
effort to draw the bachelor out of his
shabby room and into the vortex or
giddy swim of Washington society.
They say he is devoid of natural ap-
petite and passion.
Though described as quiet in
manners, quiet in dress, and quiet in
every detail of his life, he is yet
capable Of making considerable po-
litical noise when noise is deemed
policy. Neither wine nor woman
having any special allurement for him
the uprightness of his private life is
never questioned and the foul breath
of society scandal never soughs or
sighs through his whiskers. From all
of which we are driven to conclude
that if his public career will bear the
same crucial test that his private life
has thus far borne then worse men
than Senator Hill, after all, have rep
resented New York in Congress and
some among them also have presumed
to aspire considerably higher than
they ever reached. If he enters the
gubernatorial contest in earnest he
will make very hard man for Mr..
Morton to beat for Governor.