The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-17


has made in the Senate upon
Grover Cleveland fills one Of the /
chapters of a long story of strife
between two men who became
pro uiueut at the same time, upon
the same ticket and by virtue OF
like circumstances. In 1850 neither |
was known beyond the Indigenous |
of his own small parish. Cleveland .
was a citizen of Buffalo, New York |
and was LAWYER of such moderate |
practice that he had found IT adj |
vautageous TO take the Office OF
Sheriff. Wholly without political
influence he was not even given a
seat with the Democratic city nota-
bles upon the platforms which the
orators Of his party occupied in
Buffalo from week to week in the
fall OF 1880 while they advocated
the cause of Hancock and English
in the national hastings. To speak
of Grover Cleveland then was to
name a man whom few could call
to mind outside the geographical
lines of Erie county. As for David
B. Hill he was but one Of group
of young attorneys each Of whom
was glad enough at any time to
get a horse case. Many a day the
writer of these lines has seen him
in Justices court laboring to con
vince the gaping rustics of six
man jury that the gelding in the
suit was glandered when the
plaintiff bought the animal as
sound of wind and limb. In less
than two years, however, his name
and Cleveland's were household
words through the length and
breadth of the American continent.
Cleveland had been chosen Gov
eIlOI Ol New Olh ny lS%,OOO
majority, and Hill Lieutenant
Governor by a majority Of 1876, 900.
The blunder of President Arthur in
projecting Federal office-holders into
the New York gubernational con-
veution of his party and thus ere
att 1g a Republican revolt had been
the making of these two obscure
blrristers and had wrought mo-
meutous changes in the history Of
the country.
From the first there was jealousy
and rivalry between the newly
elected chiefs of State. Cleveland
Joined himself to the civil service
reformers whom men Of Hills mold
despised as doctrinaires; and Hill,
on the other hand, made common
cause with the practical and sys-
tematic politicians who do not
believe i'll running parties
on sentiment and leaving their
fate to chance. AS time
went on the gulf between the two
widened. Cleveland going to the
Presidency left the Governorship
for Hill who at once made himself
the chief of his party machine. He
was reelected over Davenport in
1885 and his friends rapidly ex.
cluded Cleveland's friends from
Office under the State Government
In 1888 when Cleveland ran fol-
the Presidency a second time Hill
was once more a candidate fol
Governor and was elected, although
New York State was lost to Cleve
land, that fact costing him the
great office III which he aspired tc
remain. Since then there has been
a battle royal between the great
rivals. Hill sought to defeat
Cleveland in 1892 when the fght
came on a third time for the Presi
dental nomination of his party anc
by securing the New York dele
gates imperilled for a time the
Cleveland cause. Then when the
Presidents turn came he endeav
ored to defeat Hill for Senator and
Hills friend Murphy, but without
avail. There the matter stood
until Hill came out with his grear
speech against the tariff and Ha
waiian policies Of the Administra
ton. 1t was then and is now
evident that Hill means TO take
advantage of all of Cleveland
plumbers; hence it is probable tha
he may be depended on for firm
friendship with the Hawaiian
democracy to the end that his atti
tude may serve to contrast with
the throne-restoring policy Of his
rival and keep it before the public
and the party eye,