The Portland daily press., 1895-11-29
ALWAYS INTERESTING
Are the Doings And Sayings Of SeDa-
tor Hill.
HOW Willy DAVID CAPTURED
MILWAUKEE.

Broke Into the City of Beer in the Midst
of a Blizzard and Captured the Hearts
of the Unterrifed-Talked on Liberty
Gets in Few Quiet Thrusts at the
Administration and "Brer" Bayard.
Milwaukee, November 26.-Dayid B.
Hill of New York broke into the city at
O'Clock this morning, pried his way
through snowdrifts for three blocks and
effected an entrance to the Plankinton
house. He came here to lecture tonight.
and incidentally to see the western
county and meet few Democrats. If his
reception in other western cities is in
Keeping with the one he received here
today the political significance of his trip
wlil completely hide David Hill the
lecturer in the shadow of David Hill the
democratic leader. He slept late to-day,
and long before he.got up leading Dem
ocrats Kicked the snow off their boos
heels in the hotel corridors and patiently
waited to clasp the hand that had clinch-
ed itself before the nose of Grover Cleye-
land
A few years back Gov. Geo. w. Peck
made remark that has become historic
IN the northwest. ;, Dave Hill is poll
tical burglar trying to break into the
White House with a Jimmy" So today
it was quite the popular thing to recall
this bit of history and to ask if the SEN
ator had his jimmy with him or a club
But before the day was over ex-Gov Peck
sat at the same table in the Milwaukee
club with the man from York state and
they told stories and laughed at each
others jokes like two sensible men.
Later there was a reception to the
senator in the weirdly decorated rooms Of
the Press club, which was attended by
several hundreds of the leading Demo
Gratis of the city, with number of prom
inent gentlemen of Republican affiliat-
ions mixed in. The attentions paid to
the distinguished New Yorker here today
were such that it was in every respect a
distinct personal triumph for him. He
came as plain lecturer, but he could
not have been accorded much more at
tent1on or awarded more enthusiasm
among Dem mocrats had he been the Pres
ident.
The ex-governor of New York gave the
ex-governor of Wisconsin to understand
that he harbored no ilI-will for having
been called burglar, and it was a long
time between drinks, for the senator
dosen't drink, not even beer in
Milwaukee. At O'Clock Senator Hill
was driven to the press club rooms and
was soon standing with Gov. Peck under
a chandelier, from which some waggish
club member had suspended two picked
olives IN lieu of an live branch.
ALI efforts to get Senator Hill to express
any opinion on political matters here
today We're failures. 81 have tabooed the
subbject of politics on this trip at least''
he said, sandEI never break one of my
own rules. | am out here partly Ito de-
liver several lectures in the west, but
mainly to combine business with pleasure
by getting chance to seq your western
country. If I could afford to spare the
time l would like to see all sections of
my country" A reporter reminded him
that Gov. Peck had called him IA political
burglar. '"Life is too short to harbor
such things" he replied. "Men who are
the warmest friends today may be bit
row, or vice versa Circumstances and
conditions over which men have no con-
troll are the usual cause of their being
arrayed on one side or another of a oues-
tion, and what is said in politics of a
personal nature comes in one ear and
goes out the other, with me at least. y
1t was only a fair sized audience that
greeted the lecturer, the tariff being
somewhat high for the rank and file Of
humanity, but it was an enthusiastic
one. The title OF the discourse was
Liberty" and it was the first time that
Senator Hill had delivered it. As rrNe
the New York senator falls far below the
genearl average of platform speakers.
He read his address tonight, rarely rails
ing his eyes from the type written man
uscript and his voice was pitched lin so
low d key that those in the back rows
were able to hear OILY at intervals. The
text of the discourse was oouched in
vein calculated not to startle any one and
non--oommittal, excepting on such points
as have been generally accepted by the
American people He indorsed the Mon
roe doctrine and lauded liberty in gen
eral.
In some respects the address had poll
tical significance at times. After review
ing the history Of liberty and dwelling
upon civil liberty he paid his respects to
the toadyism, which manifested itself
among certain Americans who gained
titles by marriage. In referring to Gov.
Mckinley he said that while differing
with him politically he admired him for
his frankness and honesty in boldly
announcing himself as candidate for
the Presidency and not hiding behind
such meaningless phase as 81 am in
the hands of my friends - The besetting
sin Of American public life, he said was
hypocrisy. He made several thru ts at
President Cleveland, but they were dis.
gulsed very cleverly, but not significantly