Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-15
His Campaign Put in Charge Of His
Political Foes.
MAKEUP OF THE EIECUFIVECOMMIrFEE
The Democratic Candidate Anxious
About the Bolters.
HAS GRACE'S SUPPORT

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October Ex-senator Hin
| is trying an experiment that would not
even be thought of by a man less bold I'm
political moves. He has put the campaign
In the charge Of his party fees, the men
who bave called him hard names in the
past and have sneered at his every act.
Hill wants money, and he wants II very
| much. He supposed that because of his
fight against the income tax the New York
| merchants and millionaires would pour out
their money before him.
But his appeals for money were not high
ly successful. and he looked about for a
new eXpedient He had an executive cam
paign committee appointed, and two-thirds
of the men whom he had appointed to
this COMMITTEES are men who have fought
him desperately. But they have money and
| influence, and Hill hopes to secure both
! from them.
John Boyd Thacher heads the list He Is
rich, and he spends money freely, and al
| though he is a per sonal friend of Hilrs, yet
he Is Cleveland man besides Hill could
have nominated Thacher at Saratoga IL he
had turned his hand. and Thacher knows
1t, but. still, he is willing to head this conf
| mittee. Then comes Perry Belmont. He
| Is devout Cleveland man, too. The treas
| urer OF the committee is John T. Wood
ward. He is the president OF the Hanover
National Bank, and the strongest of strong
Cleveland men. He is the warm friend of
ex-Mayor william r. Grace. and was the
| man who, with John A. Stewart, president
| of the United States Trust Company, made
the recent S5O.OOO.OOO new bond loan a sue
cess.
Then. too, there is Walter Stanton, the
whole ale dry goods man. He fought Hitl
In 1888, and has never been his friend.
Jacob Rupert was put on to represent the
Cleveland and German democracy. Then
other members of this committee are Daniel
grimm OF WatertOwn. who COLLECTOR Of
the port of New York when Mr.. Cleveland
was President before, and ex-senator
Charles p. McClelland of Westchester, who
mas been strong Cleveland man for ten
years. and was the only democratic senator
at Albany who dared to vote ia caucus
against Edward Murphy, jr., for United
States Senator.
This is the committee that will manage
the campaign, a body of men who detest
the man whose candidacy they are formally
espousing. 1t Is dangerous experiment,
ana might be fatal were 1t not for the fact
that Hill does not intend to let anybody
manage his campaign for him. He knows
what he wants done and proposes to do IL
himself. He knows the state, and can put
his finger on the men whom he can trust
This committee is merely for moral, pic
turesque and financial effect, and Hill con-
SIDES its appointment as one of his master
strokes.
But Hill is anxious about the third party
movement. He thought he had stamped it
out, but Shepard came out ahead on that
is like the man he is fighting so desperately
Like Hill, he Is a bachelor, and like the
New York Senator, politics is his only love
Shepard Is without family or relative He
lives in magnificent old house over in
Brooklyn that has it's score of rooms but
he lives all alone. His valet and his seq
wants are the only other tenants of the
huge mansion. He does not like to enter
tain or to be entertained. When he is In
politics he is happy, and miserable when he
Is not.
When the crusade was made against Nc
Kane 1t was Shepard who fought in the
front rank, He worked day and night and
locked the door of his law office until the
battle was fought and Won. But he only
mad the satisfaction of seeing Judge Gaynor
reap all the credit. In the public mind the
opinion Is firm that it was Gaynor who
waged the whole fight. while Shepard s
work Is forgotten. Shepard wants fame
and publicity. He was deprived of 1t in the
McKane battle, but he thinks that his cr- \
portunity has now come.
Every vote that Is cast for Wheeler for
governor will add to Shepard's prestige
Shepard is a good politician of the practi-
cal kind He knows the state and he knows
It's men. 1t is the fight of his life and vic
tory means much. His every energy will
be spent in getting out the vote for the
third ticket, and Hill knows this we'll
But Hill can count on Mr.. Grace's sup
port, and the ex-mayor and "anti-snapper"
Is working loyalty for the New York Sena-
tor. Grace wants to go to the United States
Senate. If Hill is elected governor and If
democratic legislature Is chosen and II
the democratic caucus selects him. Grace
can obtain his hearts desire. OF course,
Grace really stands no chance for the SEN
ate. 1T another democrat is sent there next
winter 1t will be Bourke Cochran. That is
the plan now. and that was one reason WHY
Cochran did not care for a denomination
Graces record an anti-Tammany man
ana foe to Hill put him out of the ques-
tion. But Hill talks to him of Senate seats
and democratic legislatures and deals so
pleasantly in futures that Mr. Grace has
nope, and is doing good work for the regu-
lar ticket.