Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — Hilton Has a Defender. [ARTICLE]

Hilton Has a Defender.

Col. Tom Ochiltree says that, next to John W. Mackey; Judge Henry Hilton is the best rich man ho knows. “Those snobs down at Newport,” Col. Ochiltree 6ays, “build walls around them. They shut everybody out who doesn’t belong to their set. Here is Hilton, living like a gentleman in his magnificent park. The gates are open, and every body in Saratoga is .free to ride or walk through Wood Lawn. You can tell something of a iman by his home life. Judge Hilton has built his home in the midst of his park, and close around him are grouped the houses of his two married daughters and of his two sons,one married, the other a bachelor. In the Judge’s house is the finest private diningroom on the American continent That single apartment represents an outlay of $150,000. The walls are paneled and hung with the finest tapestries. In that dining room Judge Hilton delights to gather about him at every meal his sons and daughters and their children. If you had seen him as I nave with that family group of sixteen about him you would say he could not be a bad man. ( He lives like a gentleman. His cellars contain the finest wines in the country. He has been thirty years adding to

the contents of his cellars. But he isn’t a snob and he [isn’t selfish. His action in throwing open his private park to everybody is characteristic of hftp. Down in New York City people Mine to me to help them out in all of charitable schemes. I have been to Judge Hilton fifty times with appeals of all kinds, and he has never failed to respond, and liberally, too. ! When the newspaper people were getting up a benefit entertainment to endow a bed in the hospital Judge Hilton came forward and put down 1 SSOO for a box.” j “Who are the Stewart heirs?’’ asked Col. Ochiltree. W'ithout waiting for a reply he continued: “Do you suppose they would have mado such good use of the Stewart] millions as Hilton has? Don’t you suppose that Mr. a: d Mrs. StewaH knew their own relatives better than other people did? Don’t you think that they intsnded Hilton should have the money? Of course they did. If it hadn’t been for Judge Hilton Stewart would have been selling tape and thread when he died. Hilton gave up his seat on the bench and devoted himself for thirty years, j His mind conceived the gigantic enterprise which resulted in the building up' of this collossal fortune. He suggested the ideas. Stewart carried out the) details. Hilton made Stewart the. wealthy man be was. He is entitled morally to every dollar he has got’’

“Does he mind the attacks that have been made of him?” repeated the Colondl. “Not a bit. Why should he? He is right. He has the respect and support'of his friends. Such attacks do him no harm wit)?; those who know the facts. He Is toe good a philosopher t? be troubled by such things.”