St. Paul daily globe., 1886-10-30
A RINGING ADDRESS
Made by Gov. Hill. of New York, to
a Mas agnificent Audience at Phiia-

delphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29-At the Demo
cratic demonstration at the Academy of
Music this evening the special feature was
an address by Gov. Hill, of New York. In
welcoming the distinguished visitor the
large audience rose and cheered wildly for
several minutes, and the entire speech was
interspersed with and puRctuated by en-
thusiastic demonstrations of appreciation.
After thanking the meeting for the cordial
ity of the reception given him, which he
construed not to himself personally, but to
the gallant Democracy of the Empire state,
Gov. Hill said that Pennsylvania and New
York had stood shoulder to shoulder in our
early colonial history, in the war OF the
Revolution, and had alike contributed men
and money during the late Rebellion to
save the Union. Four years ago both
states alike were the scenes of
PEACEFUL POLITICAL REVOLUTION,
which resulted in the ascendency of the
Democratic party. Subsequently Gov.
Grover Cleveland had been elected presl-
dent. and the speaker had been elected to
the governorship of New York. He con-
tinued:
II come here tonight to ask you to folio W
the example of New York and elect you
lieutenant governor to the governorship of
your great state. That will be true civil
service reform. There are many reasons why
he should be elected. but there is one which
is suficient for me-he is a true Democrat.
You ask me upon this occasion to speak to
you of the issues of the campaign. What is
left to be said when you have heard Daniel
Dougherty and Samuel ]. Randall? I have
but few suggestions to make. You have
been told of the predictions of our opponents,
made two years ago. l venture the state
ment that these predictions have come to
paught. They told that the Democratic party
could not be trusted to conduct the govern
ment Of this country. year and a half Of
successful administration has answered and
refuted that statement. They told US that
the Democratic party, if it should obtain
power, would assume the rebel debt. That
was
THE OLD SCARE
OF two years ago. Not single dollar Of Con-
federate Indebtedness has been assumed or
proposed to be assumed by anybody. They
told the people, to frighten them, that the
national debt would be repudiated. Not
dollar has been repudiated. Every dollar Of
national Indebtedness that has become due
has been promptly paid. They told us that
the interests of the soldiers in the matter Of
pensions woula be unsafe. The interests of
the pensioners have never been so well taken
care Of as they have been by the present ad
Iuoy lOiQ us lHaU CHo luQuS-
tries Of our country would be ruined, but we
see the evidences on every side of increasing
prosperity. 1t is fact to-day that the times
are slowly but surely getting better-a
tribute to the wisdom of Democratic ad-
ministratiou. Some allusion has been made
to the fact of a visit to your state of the dis
tinguished gentleman who halls from the
state of Maine. Having succeeded in saving
his own state after q most terrible effort, he
comes to help the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vana save this close state. There is not in
my mind better evidence that the state is not
close, but that it is surely going for the Dem
ocrauic party. This distinguished gentle
man, whose words are entitled upon all occa-
sions to careful consideration, stated before
an audience in Philadelphia that the country
was in danger by reason of the Democratic
policy. He spoke of the magnificent times
which we had under Republican rule. You
would imagine from his statement that few
years ago all the workingmen were obtaining
better wages than now. You would imagine
that there were no hard times q few years
ago under a Republican administration. Why
HE FoRGETS, BUT WE RECOLLECT,
that the last great panic in this country oc-
CURED under the Republican administration
in 1873 when there was Republican presi-
dent, Republican senate aud q Republican
house of representatives, and that James g.
Blaine was speaker of the house of represen-
tatlves. Neither be nor his party we're able
to give the country good and prosperous
times, although they shaped all the legisla-
ton of the country at that period. / say
that year and half Of uccessful admin
istration has demonstrated the wisdom of the
people of this country in changing the ad-
ministratiou of public affairs and putting
the Democracy in power. We have
not been able to accomplish all that
we anticipated but you must bear in mind
this facts We have osen thwarted by Re-
Publican senate of the United States. You
must bear in mind that there was little use
for the Democratic party in the house of
representatives to frame measures which
were only TO be pigeon-hoed by Republican
senate. The people OF his country have no
right to hold us entirely responsible for what
has been done or omitted. If they will, in
the few states in which elections are now to
take place, so vote as to give US the control
of ali the departme nts Of the government,
then we can properly be held to responsible
ity, and we will
ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY
The same gentleman who spoke in the city
Of Philadelphia (and he makes the same
speeches everywhere on the stump warned
the country of great and impending danger.
There always seems to be great danger to the
country when Mr.. Blaine takes the stump.
There is no crisis to be anticipated such as
Mr.. Blaine imagines and predicts. / under
stood him to say that he opposed any inter-
ference with reference to the tariff / under
stood him to say that he did not wish the
subject touched in any manner, and the
great Issue that he presented to the people Of
Pennsylvania was that there must be
no legislation on this subject. / am
not going to discuss tonight this tariff
question. 1t is a subject about which in Its
details there may be differences, but in the
main there can be none. I say that when he
makes that statement to the people of Penn
syl"ania he does not stand even upon the
platform of his party.