Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — WITH BOTH FEET [ARTICLE]

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Hon. T.i'. Reed of Maine Jumps on the Late Mr. Hill of New York.--Scorching Shot from the exSpeaker. Mr. Reed said: David B. Hill is a typical Democrat, and he ought to be the Presidential candidate of his party, because he represents it. He is like it. He understands it, and in a short time, if he is elected, he wilTbe"it.~ The' Democratic party is the party of odd and ends. It is made up of people who are opposed tp, tis- for s cmethiiig which has happeiied It is a party negation.

“When Mr. Hill bloomed into a United States Senator, he hastened to give the first signal instance of his national leadership in a‘speech in which he invited the Democrats, in Congress assembled, to repeal the McKinley Tariff bill and silver Act of the year 1890. This was an excellent instance of true Democratic principle. Let us for Heaven’s sake, get back to yesterday if we can. We would like to reel back the tide of 1,800 years, but we are quite sure that we couldn’t do it; but let us, at least, establish something that will seem Democratic in trying to put back civilization for a couple of years at least. Surely there could not be any better experiment of what Democracy is and What it means. “Mr Hill says in his speech that the Whig party has passed away, other parties -have passed away, but the Democratic party is

forever and ever. That is so. That comes from the very nature of things. There never was in the , world a pancake so flat that it didn’t have an under side, or, to raise this metaphor to the dignity of the present occasion, there never was any army that didn’t have a rear guard. S “But, say some of you, this rear guard df yours seems to have been pretty well to the front at tlife v last election. Well, I admit it; but see what are jloing in Congress' assembled. You can change your skies, but nfever minds when you cross even the widest seas. That rear guard is to-day looking as far backward »s it ever did in days of yore. Nature will assert itself. They no more think of being pioneers into the future than they ever;, thought of initiating the civilization of the world. “Mr Hill says that the Democratic party should stand by the principles of the party, but he never utters one, except as a glittering generality, about as useful, as a rule of practice, as the delicate guidance of a will-o’-wisp in a quagmire.”