Evening star., 1894-11-03

arrangements, indeed, were all that the
Senator could have desired, and except for
the character of the news received, they
worked like a charm.
The Convention at Work.
The convention got down to real business
on Wednesday, June 23 Senator Hill had
spent the day at the Capitol attending to
routine business. but keeping an eye. as
other Senators were doirg, on the conVen-
ton bulletins. He dined at the usual hour,
and then settled himself in his parlor to
await the momentous result. He declined
a number of cards, preferring to read the
bulletins and discuss them with only a few
people. His lieutenants--were all on the
scene of action and fully advised Of his
views. There was no telegraphing back
and forth between--them. The consulta-
tions had been thorough beforehand, and the
Senator had put his case without reserve
into the hands of those who had gone to
the convention in his interests. What he
awaited therefore was only the regular re-
port of the proceedings, and this he shared
and examined with those whom he had ad-
mitted to his chambers.
Some correspondent has recently describ-
ed Senator Hill as being deficient in the
quality of humor. This gentleman's esti-
mate must be based upon the Senator's
stump speeches. 1t is matter of choice
whether man tells stories in public or not
Senator Hill elects not to do it; but all the
same he has q keen sense of humor and in
private conversation tells story, and many
good ones, admirably. He was at his best
on this night, and enlivened his company
In the best style CT his art. He was not
posing or assuming the bravado of ease and
Indifference while the storm was raging
He was all alive to what was going on at
Chicago, and he read every bulletin pre-
sented with an eagerness bordering on
hunger But between bulletins the tension
would relax and the stories go round.
Stripped for the Fray.
The Senator was stripped for the fray.
He had laid aside his coat and vest, and
with 4 handkerchief run through and
caught under n suspender at his waist he
was a picture of comfort. The night was
little close, although in the carly evening
the stars were out. The windows were up
and Dow and then Senator, Hill would take
tuIn up and down the room, and pause
and look out the brilliantly lighted
square before him.
The bulletins came in a shower until the
long vrangle over the tariff plank in the
temporary let-uD. Senator Hill said moth
ing about this wraligle. but when it was
over ard the time for Domina tions had ar
rived one of the comp&1 suggested that
there might be an adjournment until morn
ing.
No" replied the Senator, they'll finish
the job before they quit"
The result showed how accurately he was
reading the situation, even at so great a
distance. Being a good fighter himself he
could see the best move for the Cleveland
men to make; for, strong as the Cleveland
forces were, adjournment at that time
would have been periiouS to their cause
The Senator knew that his opponents would
undertake to do unto him what in like cir
cumstances he would undertake to do unto
them. The politicians have a way of ap-
plying the golden rule that puzzles pious
people everywhere. And so, as Senator Hill
predicted, the convention named the candi-
date before adjourning.
The Knockout Blow.
All night long the bulletins kept up. and
the Senator sat up to receive them. But his
company dispersed little after midnight.
He was alone, therefore, when, broad day
light streaming through his windows. the
knockout blow was administered. The little
messenger boy-trotting along a little slowly,
probably from fatigue, and probably partly
through sympathy came in with the
nimSy that announced that Grover Cleve-
land had been nominated.
couple of hours later the representative
of an out-of-town newspaper received a dis
patch to call on Senator Hill and try and
obtain an interview for the afternoon edi-
tion. 1t was an unpleasant mission, but the
correspondent executed it, He found the
Senator still up, and now fully dressed and
reading the morning paper. He read the
dispatch, smiled, and asked to be excused.
They must have had a stirring night of it
at Chicago" was his only remark on the
subject.
At the regular hour that day Senator Hill
went to the Capitol, as usual, met his as
sociates without embarrassment and dis
cussed the situation without bitterness.
Some people pretended to wonder whether
or not he would support the ticket, but his
friends never had a moments doubt on that
subject.
A visitor to the Capitol that day asked a
Tammany employe: How does Hill stand
it?'
STAND it?'' the Tammany man repeated
why. like man, of course. Step in the
Senate gallery and have look at i'm. Why,
me boy, Davie is man all over"
And Tammany is still of that opinion