Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1888-11-17
GOV. HILL ON THE RESULT.
He Expresses HIS Regret for
CIevOIand's Defeat.

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citation. with the Pilsener Club Of Troy
as their guests, tonight serenaded
Governor Hill. An immense throng
followed the procession to the mansion
and rap:uronsly applaudcd the Execu
tive, v no vas introduced by District
Attorney Reilly. The Governor made
a very brief and most interesting ad
dress. Among other things he said;
II d. not affect to conceal my graft
fication over the result OF the guber.
material contest in this State. Our op.
pone Its unwisely entered upon n cam
paigu of personal detraction, aud they
now discover their mistake.
"In common with every true Demo
crat, greatly regret the defeat of
President Cleveland in the State and
the nation. He deserved better ct the
hands of the people Of this country.
Honest, brave and courageous, be gal
lantily led his party in the great con
test for tariff reform, and suffers de.
feat owing to false clamor, unjust pre-
iudices, unfair representations, and
the gigantic and combined efforts Of
all the monopOlists of the country.
HE did his duty as he understood
it, regardless of personal or political
considerations, and he should have
been sustained by the taxpayers. con-
sumers and masses of the people.
whose true interests he desired to sub
serve, and whose rights he unselHshIy
endeavored to maintain.
cit is not nov necessary or profitable
to inquire whether the issue which he
so boldly made might not more wisely
have been earlier presented or post
goned to later period. 1t is sufficient
to soy, that as a trusted leader of the
Democratic party, after full consIdsra.
ton of the whole subject, he deemed
that the best and truest interests of the
country required that the ISSUE should
be made at this crisis and with that
patriotic and deliberate conclusion,
when once reached, tht re should have
been prompt acqniescence.
1.-THE principle of tariff reform has
only met with temporary defeat.
Sooner or later it viii. ultimately tri.
umph in this county. President
Cleveland and the Democratic party
we're right, and deserved to succeed.
The argument was with us, and Two
weeks longer discussion would have
given us the victory.
'In conclusion. permit me 10 OBJ.
serve that our victory upon State is
sues means that the people OF this
State are opposed to illiberAl and un-
just sumptuary legislation, and favor
a just and equitable excise Law, rigor-
Ously enforced. They want uniform
excise legislation, applicable alike in
all parts Of the State.
They demand that excise revenues,
like all proper local revenues. should
go into local treasures rather than
into the treasury Of the State. The
people are opposed to hypOcritical
temperance legislation, not honestly
designed to subserve the cause Of true
temperance. but intended only for
political effect.
1.-THE people have repudiated bOgus
and sham electoral reform and have
declared, in no uncertain voice, in
favor OF home rule for cities and equal
taxation. Upon these questions our
opponents were unable to deceive or
mislead the people, and We may well
rejoice in our victory upon the State
issues involved in the campaign. IN
Y, Star.
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