St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-07

of them, denounce Hill as traitor and
migrate. They say he has surrendered
to the president. he has eaten the bread
of man who will turn on him and will
destroy him. They say Hill is playing
for the presidency. but after using him
to his hearts content, Mr.. Cleveland
will turn on him and exert all his influ-
ence to make another his successor.
This is the talk that comes from such
men as Senator Murphy and the other
New YorkerSlwh0 are unrelenting and
incoherent in their hatred of Cleveland.
Mr.. Hill must have foreSeen this, and
he mustialso.have foreseen thatsuch out
bursts would fill the air for few brief
days and then disappear. Mr.. Hill is
looking to the future.
German and Brice.
Nothing but disgust marks the feat
ures of German and Brlce. They un~
derstand this change of front on HIPS
part, and they do not like it. 1t BODIES
no good 10 them. liz this come ction it
should he understood that German and
Brice, who always pull together in poli~
ties and speculation, have not been.on
good terms with Hill. They speak, of
course. but there is no friendship. Hill
knows that in the presidential contest
of 1892 these two artful dodgers
'played" him. He realizes now, and
has realized for long time. that they
encouraged him to lead the warfare on
Cleveland with his snap convention for
their benefit. Since coming to the sem
ate the New Yorker has always chafed
under the leadership of German, as
sisted by his side partner, Brice, in that
body. He. has watched for an oppor-
tunity to overmatch them. Now he Is
making the opportunity. Those two
worthless understand fully that Hill in
tends to make himself power in the
senate and in the party at large, and
that he has chosen the best means of
doing il. They realize that they now
have to contend with a rival who is
alert, aggressive, as smart as they are,
and, with the help of the administra-
ton, which he will have when he uses
administration measures as his weapons,
possibly match for them. This is why
it is wholly logical for Hill to turn to
and help the administration with its
currency effort. 1t is the natural method
for him to employ in rehabilitating
himself in body where he has been
either sidetracked or compelled to play
lone hand.
May Not DO Much Now.
So far as the immediate future is con-
cerned, perhaps Hill will not achieve
any victories over German and Brice.
Those gentlemen are we'll entrenched.
They have the sugar trust behind them
for one thing, and the prevailing an
tagonism to Cleveland among the Demo
cratic senators for another. In this
session Of congress the time is too short
for action upon any disputed questions,
and German has been alert enough to
retain the ancient rules of the senate,
behind which he and his policy Of
intrigue have always found safe
haven. German is hand-in-h hand
with some of the Republican lead
ers, and the Republicans, like German,
are against the administration and
against any sort OF action. This com
bination will doubtless prove too strong
for Hill and those who act with him this
winter, but interesting scenes are prom
ised. not only during the remainder of
this session, but i'll the sessions to fol-
low. If the reader will fix in his mind
the facts that Hill is a bold cavalier.
fighting for himself and using the
strongest weapons he can lay his hands
on, even though they be those furnished
by his recent enemy. the president,
whom the administration most
hates and despises, he will understand
the play as its scenes and acts appear.
Hill has surprised the town with his
personal and social success. 1t is said
that he was witty ana talkatiye, genial
and interesting at the White house din
ner. He was at first trf1e silent, wait
ing for developments, and perhaps
little i'll at ease. This is not surprising.
considering the fact that he rarely or
uever dimes out. He is not a society
man. He is not ladies' man. The
stories that have been told of his ab-
horrence of society aud of the company
of ladies are not OYerdraWn.
Hill Shuns Women,
When he lived at the Arlington hotel
he actually asked the head waiter to
give him a seat at table where he
could not be by any possibility brought
to sit face TO face or next to woman
guest. He avoids parors and reception
rooms. He never accepts Invitations
out. At the senate the doorkeepers
have orders not to take him the cards OF
women unless they hrst state the nature
OF their erraIld by note. For bachelor,
recluse and Woman-hater like this to DE
suddenly launched into the midst of
brilliant assemblage al the White house
must have been a trying ordeal. 1t is
said by one of the guests of the dinner
that Mrs. Cleveland, before the COM
pany repaired to the dining room. said
to the senator: "Mr. Hill, believe 1t is
eight wears since we last met"
1T can't be possible it is as long as
that" was the senator's reply, "for
when l look at you it seems no more
than year"
This gallant remark was we'll re-
ce1ved. and it served to put the Dashful
senator at ease with himself and to give
him confidence. From that moment
OIL, say the guests. he proved himself a
l,riIIiant To Inar auan In tha nresannn of