Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-09
CLEVELAND AND HILL.

CLEVELAND AND HILL.
Grover Cleveland and David 3. Hill,
who began their public careers together
fourteen years ago, as Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of New York
ended them or March 4 Commenting
on this coincidence, and contrasting the
two men in an article dealing with the,
future plans, Holland says in yester
days Philadelphia Press
''Mr. Cleveland's friends here are as
sured that in selecting Princeton the
ex President was wholly influenced by
the wishes of Mrs. Cleveland. while she
had the welfare Of her children chiefly
10 view when she made this choice.
ut is true tnat we do hear from some
at those who have long had the habs
OF studying Cleveland very closely that
this step, like almost every other of i'm
portance that he has taken since he was
CHOSEN Mayor OF Buffalo, seventeen
years ago, was taken because his eyes
are set on future political ends.
''Some of the ablest politicians in
New York are inclined to thiuk that it
Is Mr.. Cleveland's view that within the
ueXt four years there may come re-
action which will, by overwhelming the
popular sentiment, designate him as
leader of a regenerated democratic par
" 10 which has been attracted all the
conservative forces of the country.
why such q conviction as that
should lead Mr. Cleveland to choose
quiet university town as the home OF
ois retirement does not seem very clear.
Yet i, is suggestion that is male here.
.Ir Hill goes TO his Albany home to be.
sin where he left oil when be, with
Cleveland, went to Albany in 1888 to
teke otlce. Heis to have branch law
Office in New York city, and the i'm
pre-, sion is that much of his practice will
he before the courts of the Greater New
York.
Referring to the relations between
Cleveland and Hill the press letter con-
tinues: They were antagonistic from
the moment they first met. Neither
one attempted to hide his opinion OF
the other, and it is fact that each rec
ognized in the other antagonistic po
Iitical purposes and high political abil
ity.
"Mr. Hill is not one OF those who de-
nies Ceveland's political ability. On
the contrary, he has always esteemed
Cleveland as politician, pure and sim
pie, although playing the game after
method of his own. sometimes with ex-
trsordinarily successful violation Of all
the rules and traditions of politics, and
as q politician seeking first of all per-
soual preferment and of whose methods
success is the criterion. Mr.. Hill is re-
por ed to be OF the opinion that Cleve.
land has been the master hand of that
game in his generation.
"Hill strips aside the veil of ideal
purpose and lofty motives which hes
50 greatly impressed so many men and
5, e., as he thinks, behind it Clevelpni
revealed as nothing more than poll
tcian, who played upon the chords Of
popular passion, prejudice, discomfort,
with master touch, and with the deft-
est skill appealing from the profession.
al politicians TO the people beyond
them, just then tired of the domination
of the bosses, gained all the advantage
that lay in this new and unexpected
method.
"Mr. Manning. Mr.. Cleveland's first
Secretary of the Treasury, once limited,
although he did not say so in exact
words, that when Cleveland in his first
letter of acceptance wrote that tie
temptations that beset President 10