Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-13
GOVERNOR HILL IN INDIANA.
He Inaugurates His Canvass Under
Unfavorable Conditions.
A SMALL CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
The Greater Portion of His Speech
Devoted to An Argument in
Favor OF Tariff
Reduction.
Hill on the Tariff.

| b. Hill, of New York, inaugurated his can
vass of Indiana here to-day. Twenty thou.
sand people were expected, but the unpropi-
tious weather kept the number down to j, 900.
The governors party left Cincinnati at Q
this morning, and at all the Indiana points
on the road people assembled to see him. AT
Seymour he was met by Governor Gray.
Arriving OF Mitchell. he was taken at once
to the speakers platform. When he arose to
speak he was loudly and repeatedly cheered.
Governor Hill began his speech by referring
to the issues discussed in this campaign.
For twenty years questions growing out of
sectional animosttles were discussed,
put today all over the land
the people are engaged in
a discussion of economic and industrial ques-
tons. This, he said, was the outgrowth of
the wise and s~tatesman-like administration
OF Grover Cleveland. He then went on to
say:
1.-The democratic party proposes a revision
OF the tariff. 1t does not propose the de-
struction OF the tariff, but it proposes simply
a modification Of 1t. Tariff revision is no
tariff destruction. We believe that the time
has come when the excessive revenues of
the government should be diminished, We
believe that the best and truest interests of
our country will be best subserved by the
destruction of the present high rate of taxa
ton. We have suffered long enough
under a war taxation, and we think
that the time has come, the time Of
peace, when war taxation should cease. Need
| argue before an intelligent audience like
this that it is best for this country that there
should not be on overtiowiug treasury You
Know what a surplus, an immense surplus, in
the federal treasury means. 1t means an
opportunity for jobs of every character. II
means useless and unnecessary expenditures
of pubic moneys. And it is best for our
country that there should not be an overflow
ing treasury.
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given the country the issue in this campaign.
1t is an issue which has attracted World wide
attention. We are in favor of a revision of
the tariff principally upon two points. First,
we think that raw material, wherever
admitted free of duty, We believe in the
second place that taxes upon the necessaries
of life should be made as light as possible.
Upon these two points we may confidently
appeal to the people in this campaign. l
don't propose to argue to YOU at any length
IN favor OF the propriety OF what is known as
the Mills bill. You, by this time in the cam
paign are familiar with details of that
measure. l am not here to say that it is per-
feet in all its details, but in the main it is a
measure reasonably free from objection. II
il a measure intended 20 subserve the best
interests OF the country. II is a measure in the
interest of the taxpayers, consumers, farmers,
mechanics and laboring men of the country.
My friends, when this question was first pre-
sented to congress last DeCember-and you
will ~recollect it was presented to congress in
a message by the president Of the United
States, Grover Cleveland-you will recollect
what he told the country in reference TO the
necessity of some relief of the people. Have
you forgotten how that message was re-
ceived by our opponents in and out of
congressi In the first place, they said that
there was no surplus. In the second place
not matter. They said: 1T is better
that we should have a surplus than q de-
fciencN.' They said 1T is unwise to disturb
the business interests of the country by tink-
opportunity to discourage the presentation Of
this question to the people of the United
States. Nevertheless, that message, which
startled the country somewhat because ofits
holiness, its honesty, and its %cantor, was
acted upon by our democratic representatives
in the lower house of congress. They framed
the bill known as the Mills bill; designed to
relieve the country from unnetcssarytAxa-
ton. We believe that that is the democratic
creed, that unnecessary taxation ought no
longer to exist
He then traced the progress of the Mills
bill through the house until it reached the
senate, where, he said, the, republicans at the
eleventh hour, after having declared it un-
safe to tinker with the tariff, now propose a
substitute for the Mills bill.
They now propose to tinker with the
tariff themselves; now. propose to disturb
what they say are the business interests of
this country by taking up this question them
selves. Laughter and applause:r But il is
too late. The cry for tariff reform which
has been spreading over this country has re-
ceived such an impetus that it will again
place Mr.. Cleveland in the presidential chair.
prolonged cheers. The same arguments, he
said, which were urged by the republicans in
years gone py against a reduction of tariff
taxation are urged now, and the same argu-
ments which are urged now could be
urged in FIVE ten or fifteen years from
He characterized them as being unsound
then and unsound now. He said he was
happy to inform Indiana that the
democratic votes of the Empire state
T TSnld be given Snvom to Cleveland "aa and
would be no mistake this time in the size Of
the majority. The people there were aroused
to the question of the hour. The national
congress had legislated in the interest Of
classes and in the interest of monopolies long
enough. II is proposed to do something for
the interest of the people. He paid his COM
pllments to Mr.. Blaine in the following Ian
guage:
II notice that the distinguished statesman
from Maine, who is now in this state, is tell
ing the people that all your prosperity is due
to a high protective tariff. You would have
no crops except for the tariff, l suppose.
Laughter Your population would not
have increased but for the tariff. Your
lands would not have been cleared, your
farms would not have been cultivated except
for the tariff. My friends, this is simply
nothing more nor less than clap-trap, and it
will not deceive the intelligent people of this
state" Several voices, "Never."l
He closed his speech with an eloquent
tribute to the late Thomas A. Hendricks.
Senator Raines was then introduced and
made a speech on the tariff question. He
was followed by Governor Gray, who re-
ceived an ovation. At 3 o'clock the party
left Mitchell for Indianapolis. The first stop
was at Seymour, where 1000 people greeted
the party in a drilling rain. Governor Hill
made a short address.
At 3 o'clock the party re-embarked for In
dianapolis. Columbus was reached at $50.
Between 1000 amp 5000 people were assem-
bled at the depot and called loudly for Gov.
ernor Hill, who appeared and made a short
address. Governor Gray also said a few
words.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. n.-Goyernor Hill and
his party arrived in indianapolis at 8 Is p. m.
to-day. A drilling rain was falling. A
crowd Of 1000 or more, including the Flam-
beau club and representatives from several
local clubs, met the party at the union depot.
The Hon. Charles Jewett, chairman of the
state democratic committee, and others were
present to welcome the guest and his
friends. The party took carriages awaiting
and were escorted direct to Tomlinson
hall, where a mass meeting was in progress.
The house was well filled with an audience
0f 4 ONO On the alta a sat MANY of tho noot