Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — SENATOR HILL'S "KEY NOTE." [ARTICLE]

SENATOR HILL'S "KEY NOTE."

Senator Hill sounded the “key noto”oi his campaign at Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 11, in a carefully prepared speech. He urged Democrats to bury animosities and unite for self-preservation against the schemes of Platt, which, he claimed, under the new apportionment contemplated, will make the New York Legislature permanently Republican in spite of any majority that Democrats could ever hope to bring out. Even with 75,000 Democratic majority in the State. Senator Hill claimed, the Legislature would still be strongly Republican on a joint ballot, and would send Republican Senators to Congress for -all time. Mr. Hill defended Tammany, commended the new tariff law as a vast improvement over the McKinley law, deprecated further agitation of the tariff question, defended the doctrine of free raw materials, criticised the “antl-ftnappers,” and vigorously denounced the A. P. A.