The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-06-21
HILL TALKS OF CLEVELAND.
Words indicative Of Democratic Harmony
in New York.

Governor Hill, of New York, in his
speech at the big, Tammany ratification
meeting on Tuesday, said of Cleveland,
referring to ingalls, attack on him:
1t is true that our candidate comes
from the plain people, and we do not
attempt to palliate it. A poor boy, the
son of humble clergyman, he fought
the battle of life alone, courageously,
pluckily, and successfully, retarded by
poverty, hardships, and adversely; and
it is to the honor of the Democratic
party that it delights to elevate such
candidates, and that with open arms it
welcomes to its places of leaderships
those who have risen from the ranks Of
the people by their own exertions and
their own abilities.
The time WAS when the Republican
party also sought its candidates from
other ranks than those of the million
aires. Monopolists were at least kept in
the rear, and were contented with the
pecuniary benefit that high taxation
have them. Now they seek both the
benefits and the honors, and these men
are the controlling force in the Republi-
can party to-day.
Then such men as Lincoln and
Greely ard Sumner and Phillips and
Seward and Wilson were there represen-
tatives. Then Lincoln [Applause], the
man of obscure origin and of unknown
antecedents could aspire to the Presi-
dency, even as Cleveland has aspired to
it and attained it once and will achieve
it again; and all the Vaccinations and
efforts of the monopolists who control
the Republican party, ana the venom
and denunciation Of their apologists
and defenders, will not avail against
him.
The most bitter partisan cannot deny
that the President is an honest and
sincere man. For over three years the
country has had the benefit of a wise,
economical and successful administra-
ton of public affairs, and the Democra-
cy may confidently appeal to the people
for the continuance of our party in
power I concede that neither the
President nor his administration has
escaped criticism. But Jefferson was
criticised, Monroe was assailed, and
Jackson was abused. History repeats
itself. Thomas H. Benton, in one of
his famous speeches in the United
States Senate, thus describes the attack
upon President Jackson, and the pre-
dictions made by his opponents con-
cerning his administration of public
affairs. Benton said:
Never had man entered upon the
chief magistracy of country under
such appalling predictions of ruin and
woe; never had anyone been so pursued
with direful representations; never
had anyone been so beset by powerful
combination Of political and moneyed
confederates. History has been ran
sacked to find examples of tyrants
sufficiently odious to serve to ;uustrate
him by comparison. Lang. lge has
been tortured to find epithets suffi-
GENTLY strong to paint him in descrip-
ton. Imagination has been exhausted
in her effort to deck him with inhuman
and revolving Acknowledgment, des-
pot, usurper; rash, ignorant, imbecile;
destroying domestic prosperity; ruin
ing Il industry, all commerce, all
manufactures; delivering up the streets
Of populous cities to grass and weeds,
and the wharves Of commercial towns to
the encumbrance Of decaying vessels:
depriving labor of all reward; depriving
industry Of all employment; destroying
the currency; plunging an innocent
and happy people from the height of
felicity to the depths of misery, want,
and despair.
TLen, comparing the predictions
with the facts, and inquiring whether
these calamitous prognostications had
been verified by events under Jackson S
Democratic rule, he said:
Domestic industry is not paralyzed ;
confidence is not destroyed; factories
are not stopped; workmen are not men
dicants for bread and employment;
credit is not destroyed; prices are not
sunk; grass is not growing in the streets
of ofpopulous cities; the wharves are not
numbered with decaying vessels; col
umns of curses, rising from the bosoms
of ruined and agonized people, are not
ascending against the destroyer of a
nations felicity and prosperity. On the
contrary, the reverse of all this is true,
and true to degree that astonishes and
bewilders the senses.
The predictions concerning Demo-
cratic administration in 1882, and sub
stantially re-echoed i'll 1884, are an
swered and refuted in 1883 as success
fully as they were in 1886.
The promises our party made in 1854
have been fulfilled so far as it has been
in our power to perform them. The
public credit has been maintained; the
public debt is lessening; our navy has
been strengthened; we are at peace at
home and abroad; and there is an
earnest effort to reduce taxation.
We favor freer trade but not free
trade. The Democratic platform, while
not in every respect as some ofus might
desire it, sufficiently expresses the prin-