Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GOVERNOR HILL SPEAKS : z -z ' -------z-- To His. Fellow Citizens Of
 Eimira. THE RETURNS NEARLY ALL IN A Murderer Sleeps With His
 Victim.
THE RETURNS NEARLY ALL IN
THE WAR CLOUD SPREADING.
New Commissioners For
 The Civil Service.
GOVERNOR HILL sKRENADED.

GOVERNOR HILL SBRENADED.
 He Makes a speech to His Fellssv
 Citizens of Elmira in Which He
 Csngrafulates Them and Himself
 On His Election.
 ELM1RA, Nov. 5.--A hundred guns are fir ing in honor of Hills election A large pro- cession is parading the principal streets. The Governor addressed the crowd from the balcony of the Democratic headquarters as follows:
 Friends and Fellow Citizens-Words are inadequate to expgess my full appreciation. of the compliment of this reception. A com plimentary vote by ones own neighbors and friends IS a matter for congratulation, but owing to the peculiar circumstances under which the recent campaign was conducted by our opponents the confidence exhibited by the people of this county and of my nativ. county of Schuyler in the popular manifesto tion of yesterday in my behalf makes the To- they were the best judges of the justice of the attacks made upon me during the campaign. Those attacks have been answered by the people who have known me from my boyhood and who resented them in such an emphatic manner. Knowing as I did that these charges had their origin in the bitter disappoint- ment of the lobby which surrounded and controlled the last legislature, a lobby which was able to control for it's favorite measures the columns of the newspapers which were the most violent in their attacks upon my character, I deemed them unworthy of mo- tlce during the recent contest. I deem them unworthy of notice now. You have answer ed them and for that answer I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Although fully recognize and appreciate the fact that this vast assembly. is composed of my friends and nelghbors of all parts, yet those who diff fer from me in their views of national poli- tics will pardon me for speaking briefly of congratulation to the Democratic party of the State and nation for the decisive victory which it has won. That victory means that the great empire State of New York is Democratic State under any and all circumstances. It means that the independent voters of our State are not controlled by self-leaders or hypocritical newspapers. It means that these indepen- dent voters have abandoned the party of hypocrisy and sham and have effected per- manent alliance with the Democratic party in the interest of reform and good govern ment. It means that the people propose to sustain the hands of 8 Democratic President, but not by putting his opponents in power. It means that the people are weary of sec- tional strife and have no sympathy with party that seeks to obtain power by keeping alive the dying embers of civil war. It means that capital and labor shall receive equal protection under the law and that the efforts of the workingmen to better their condition shall be aided by the necessary legislation. It is not necessary for me at this time to make pledges for the future. In my letter of acceptance I set forth the principles by which I should be guided in the event of my election. The future will show whether those professions were sincere. In closing I desire once again to thank the people of Elmira, without party distinction, who so frequently honored me in the past, for this renewed evidence of their confidence and esteem shall return to AL bany to the discharge of the duties of my high office with renewed zeal in the en- deavor to satisfactorily and creditably serve the people of the State without regard to party.