The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-23

what 60 you lnlIh oL Ildtt' AS
 was asked
 He's a great man." Hill replied. He is the one man in the state who knows politics better than l do. He knows the little fellows, and he can tall them all by their first names. He re- members them as Jim and 'Bilp and it fiatters them" Then Hill. with real
 pathos, added: My memory isn't as good as it ought to be. l forget the little fellows. The names slip me. I'd
 give anything if had Platt's memory.
 As he sits by the window and looks
 out on Broadway, Hill sometimes talks of men and things in way the public seldom hears of. It was so the other
 day A visitor from up the state had
 asked him what he thought of Hearst.
 Damn Hearst,' said Hill. Don't you think Hearst is strong with the laboring people?" the caller suggest ed.
 The man at the window turned and looked at his visitor.
 ''The laboring man loves Willy Ran dolph just as much as Willy Randolph loves the laborer,'' he replied. Every word was uttered with a biting sar- casm. T know Willy Randolph. When a laboring man sues Willy Randolph. Willy comes to Shearn. Then Shearn calls me in as consulting counsel The case never goes to trial. It never
 would do for Willy Randolph to fight a suit even though lie knows he is be- ing worked. Shearn gets Willys
 money and get his money. Oh, yes, 1ovo 10 Ia hnrinp man."
 And as Hill damns Hearst, so he damns Pulitzer His hatred of Joseph
 Pulitzer is of long standing. One of the widest outbursts of temper Hill ever displayed was in this city just af- ter the publication of a famous edi- torial in the New York World address, ed to Hill and headed Don't" It rip ped into Hill in a spot where he was tender. and he shrieked in his rage. By the strange workings of politics these
 two men are hand in glove for Parker Hill has blundered woefully in his political course, but he never has lost confidence in his own genius. No man
 gauged Hill better than George F
 Epinney did fifteen years ago, when he QUUG0Q IlllIl RSdilQl pOllllSloils Shl
 ward or town of county politics Hill un- occasionally is unequaled. No detail l is, too small for his attention. He will keep a hundred threads in play, but he
 seems utterly unable to take a broad | view of a question or to hold men | through any other claim than their sell | fish interests. Of personal following | he has none.
 When it became known that Hill had bought Wolfert's Roost from the es- tate of J. K. Emmett a friend said to | him:
 You must have grown suddenly rich?"
 "No. I haven't" said Hill. thought fully, and never will have any other acquaintance with riches than to fight l them. Money had stood in my way al ways. When I was struggling with the 1 legal profession in Elnnira and trying t. keep Chemung country in the Demo cratic. column I had one rich Republi can after another to contend againss Finally one died, another moved away and another quarreled with the ma chine and quit politics. Just as | thought the sailing would be plain i young Fassett went away and married
 one of the Croker girls. Then l gave ] up, for didn't care about fighting the 1 Croker millions"
 Tt that why you left Elmira? ?"
 "Yes, that--and few other things. i When Samuel J. Tilden died Hill lost
 his best friend and his most faithful
 adviser. Hill tells a story about Tildeu l in his connection. When he told it to ! the writer question of appropriating l $9,000, GOO for the canals was being dis 1 cussed in the legislature.
 | The canals were always a worry to
 me when I was governor" remarked
 Hill. Once bill came to me for big 1 appropriation, and all the newspapers | in the state were wondering what l
 would do with it. One night jumped on train and ran down to New York and asked Tildeu what had better do. Stand by the canals said Tilden, and
 the next day the bill was a law" | Hill added, with a laugh:
 T made many flying trips to get the old mans advice, and he never refused | it.'
 | Hill is noted for gathering about him | as helpers men of poor mental callber.
 They are cheap men, who scrape before
 him and are thankful for crust. As
 rule they are typical parasites. Of
 course strong men are useless to boss
 because they won't be bossed, but Hills | helpers are usually poor.
 | What's the matter with your people l through the state?" he was asked after
 Coler's defeat for governor They
 don't seem to able to hold any votes" You ought to see them,' replied l Hill, "They are a scurvy lot"
 Years ago, when Platt was the Re-
 publican boss, Platt sent word to Alle- | gheny county that because Fred A.
 Robbins had voted against the Greater | New York bill and had favored certain
 antitrust bills he should not be renom- l mated for the assembly. An indepen- dent convention nominated Robbins
 and the Republican party in the county l was split in two. Hill saw a chance to | elect a Democrat and sent word to the Democratic leader to nominate strong
 representative man. A few days later | the leader appeared in Hills office.