Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-05
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
David B. Hill Again Mentioned as
Factor in Politics.
MAY GO TO NATIONAL CONVENTION
Friends of Lieut. Governor Wood
ruff Get Up Boom.
Observation-Disclosures


Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, March 4, 1900.
For the first time in months. If not in
years. the daily newspapers of New York
city and state find it worth their while to
chronicle the movements of ex-senator
David B. Hill. 1t is even announced, though
not officially, that Hill has decided to bow
the knee to the democratic Bryanite Baal.
and that q reward for coming back into
the ranks of the democratic party the
ex-senator is to be allowed to head the del
egates to the democratic national conven-
ton at Kansas City on July 4. Mr.. Hill
is said to have expressed his willingness to
go as one of the democratic big four" 1t
is said that Mr.. Croker will be another
observation-disclosures: that ex-senator Murphy
is also scheduled as another member of the
quartet which is supposed to represent the
democracy of the state of New York. Who
will be the fourth of the delegates-at-large
has not been determined Now the unique
thing is that Mr.. Hill. of all men. should
be willing to go to Kansas City after his
unfortunate experience at Chicago four
years ago. In consenting to head the dee
cation from New York this year Mr.. Hill
is undoubtedly obeying the Scriptural in
junction, IF Il man Smite thee on the
right cheek turn to him the other ALSO
1t Is interesting to guess what Hill hopes
to gain by going to Kansas City this year,
even If he has concluded after four years
of silence to swallow Bryan. sixteen to one
and the much-hated income tax. Hill
will perhaps try to shoot off few politi-
cal skyrockets, but if he quotes the phrase
which he has made famous II am demo-
crat," he will be lucky if he escapes with
mere rounds of laughter, so far as the
Kansas City convention is concerned. He
will be far more likely to be greeted with
a round of Kisses.
Will Fight for Liberal Platform.
1t is announced that to Mr.. Hill will be
intrusted the task of conducting the fight
for a broad and liberal platform, in which
the currency plank will not be too conspic-
uouS. and upon which all factions can
stand. If Mr.. Hill goes to Kansas City
locking for trouble he will undoubtedly find
trouble. If he goes there to conduct an
other fight against the Chicago platform
principles he will probably conclude that
Kansas City is the political storm center
of the United States. Bryan and his friends.
who are in absolute control of the national
machinery of the democratic party, have
taken good care to arrange things so as to
eliminate Mr.. Hill political factor.
The truth is that Chairman Jones and the
other advisers of Mr. Bryan have arranged
these matters with consummate skill In
the first place they have selected July
the date. and it is expected that the pa
triotic fervor of the curbstone orators,
which. after all. has more or less of an eff
reactionary effect In favor of Mr.. Bryan.
In the second place, they have picked
upon Kansas City. the center of the popu-
listic forces of the United States, as place
Of meeting. Had they come to New York
city the New York delegates as the hosts of
the occasion would have been treated with
courtesy from mere force of circumstances.
But the men in control of the dest.nies of
the democratic party, even at the risk of
Snubbing the German vote, elected to pass
by the more staid and conservative city of
Milwaukee in favor of the market of Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Oklahoma farmers. And
Senator HILL in case temporary truce is
patched up between Croker and the sage
of Wofert's Roost,'' will find that the regi
ment of Tammany braves which may yet
act his body guard will count for less
than 50 many western farmers. for the rea-
son that the average western farmer
knows that 16 to l does not mean
the exchange Of sixteen silver watches
for one gold understanding that the
average Tammany politician. in spite
of the campaign of education OF
four years ago. has yet to learn. In fact.
it is safe to say that any one of the ten
thousand farmers which Nebraska is to
send to the Kansas City convention to rep
resent Bryans own state will have 50
much or more influence with the Bryanites
than ex-senator Hill, even though he does
go west as the head of the New York dele
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