Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — GREAT SPEECH BY HILL. [ARTICLE]

GREAT SPEECH BY HILL.

A MOST ELCfcIUENT APPEAL FOR PARTY UNITY. MUftlsslppl Legislator* Listen to a Powerful Address on tho Political Issues ot the Day and Pass Resolutions Thanking the Senator. Address at Jackson. At Jackson,-Miss., Senator Hill and party wtro met at tlie station by an immenso crowd und were welcomed to the oity by Gov. Stone, whose guests they became during their stay. A reception was tendered Mr. Hill at the Exeoutlvo Mansion, when tho Senator shook hands with several thousand persons. Tlie Legislature met in joint session in tho hall of the House of Representatives, with Liout. Gov. Evans and Speaker street as presiding officers. The galleries and lobbies wore crowded to the utmost und loud cheers greeted Senator Hill as lie entered the hall in company fkjth Gov. Stone. In introducing Senftor Hill Gov. Stone said: A* u MlsHtsslpplmi I fool greatly honored In huviug one among us so distinguished as tho gentleman who will speak to you here to-day. Ho comes to us undisguised as a representative of the groat National Democracy, a man endowed with every requirement and accomplishment nocessary to make him a great loader of parties and of men. Senator Hill faced his Mississippi audtonoo calm and collected, and after the applause which greeted his Introduction bad subsided, ho spoko in substance as follows: I am deoply sensible, gentlemen of the Legislature of the Btato of Mlsalsslppl, how rare your bestowal hus been of that distinguished honor which, with open pride, I come hither to receive at your hands and to acknowledge with gratitude. What statesman of our groat Republic, the most venerable, tlie most renowned among the living or tho doad In tho very flowering of his fame, would not hove made haste and travoled long for the gathering of such a loaf to bind with all Its laurels? The old world hus had 1U cordial embassies from sovereign state. In this now world, where tho people rule, shall wo not brighten overy tie that links our democratic denominations, principalities and powers, tn tho banded sovereignty of an lmpertsbablo Union? I will trust your white - haired veterans familiar with public caroa 1 will trust tho youngest mnn,who troads for tho llrst tlnio tho hulls and is burning to hurl his heart into tho service of the Btato to know thut thankfulness I shall over feel, gentlemen of tho Stute of Mississippi, to huve this for an hour, tho focus of that reciprocal goodwill to which I o(o the favor and return to you on bohulf of tho Btato of Now York. There Is good reason at all times for Interchange of thought between tho people of forty-four Htateq baml«d together for Ufa to Insure one another’s liberty In tho pursuit of happiness. Ilut thero Is excellent reason at the prciont time for such Interchange In the men whoso political philosophy und practical politics alike urn .summed up In preserving for our own bonollt, benefit of times to como, tho great Democratic faith and trndltlon. It wns never in such peril. Scarcely ovor till now, November two yours ago and November next, did popular oloctlpns puli tn Issue such extreme Ganger or so largo a deliverance. Tho grounds upon which Democrats of tho Btato of New York havo taken their stand Is tho whule Democratic faith and tradition—not some corner of it nioroly, not some special center of It merely, but tho whole. This Is tho ground upon which I would seo tho Democrats cf the Htutnof Mississippi, with all Democrats of the North, South. East und West, both of tho regular organization and tho Farmers' Alliance, unite and take tholr stand In the approaching contest. Other duties for another day. For, like tho victory of Jefferson, thli union, this victory will close a chapter of history: will doom to Anal disintegration a degraded party and Hx tho direction of our political prngross for somo decades In the century to come. Now, us In principle. I depend for triumphs upon parties and the organization of parties. They create parties. It Is tho Democratic principle which has croated tho Democratic parly. In Its union lies a greater strongth than all Its enemies combined can over finally subvert. It survlvos every disaster. It Is tho groat and most nfltdont organ of tho people's power. Tho Democratic party Is stronger than any man or sot, of men. No man Is Indispensable to Its success, for its strength Is with the people: It Is greater nnd more p-iwerful than any class, however numerous. Tbereforo It i« lurgo. tolerant, liberal, progressive. It Invites to Its membership and its control all men who will uphold tho Democratic faith and tradition and upply them to the people's no -di. j

“Tho Republican party,” he said, “passed the McKinley laws superadding to the protective taxes of tho tariff of 1882 tho reciprocity humbug, the new subsidy and bounty swindle and still higher protected taxes. Against united > Democratic \ otes the Republican Congreos also passed the Bnormnn silver law, into which every Republican monetary heresy is crowded that has kept our finance in perpetual disorder for thirty yours, torturing our merchants with uncertainty und fear and turning our foreign commerce, our sales of wheat arid our sales of cotton Into a dully gamble. “Those laws were passed under permission of tlie Constitution to make laws ‘to promote the general welfare.’ This was ‘ promoting the general welfaro ’ by promoting their own welfare with protected monopolies.” In concluding his address, Mr. Hill said no help can bo looked for from Republican partisans, but he called upon all good peoSle of tho country to make alliance in lovomber next with no other than with the Democratic party, in order to correct existing evils. “Unity," he said, “was to enable the Democratic party to call a halt in the growth and spread of the grinding monopolies. Tho fanners, for their own deliverance, should re-en-force tho Democrats, and enable that party to dethrone the indorser of every act of the billion-dollar Congress. Alone, he said, the farmors could do nothing but defeat their own hopes and re-eleot the party whose policy of protected taxes plundered tho farmer first and most of all. Continuing, Mr. Hill urged a close adherence and strict construction of the Constitution of tho United States, which he said was “the standing marvel In the history of civilized men.” The powers which it grunts aro few and specified, and it concentrates and centralizes these few. After a century of storm and stress, it remains almost wholly unruptured and has emerged unimpaired from tho torsion of our war. It is not any legalized excursions by congress outside the constitution which explaines why we still live and move and have our being beneath Its SBgis. It is in spite of transgressions, not by help of them that we still live. We have not profited by them; we have survived them. It is the old abridgment and limitations of the functions of government to its own proper business, despite transgressions; it is tho distribution and devolution of its powers, despite usurpations; it is the prohibition of State powers; it is the declaratidn of Btate rights; it is the reservation and surrender of the reeidue to the States, respectively, for the people, out of which we have truly lived and still bear our life; it is individual freedom, not a patoinal government rule, which explains our swift expansion frem a friago of thirteen feeble colonies to a continent of mighty States. Cheer after cheer resounded through the Capitol at the conclusion of Senator Hill’s speech. Scarcely had be resinned his seat when R, H, Henry offered resolutions profusely thanking the Senator.