The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-24
HILL IN OHIO.
The Eyes of the Country are Upon Nc
hiniey's District - A Magnificent
Speech.

AMiey'S DIstfiCt =. A Magnificent
Speech.
CANTON, 0 Oct. % Gov. David Ben
nett Hill, OF New York, spoke here yes
terday to large crowd. There is Dem
ocratic majority of about 1000 in this
district, and as Maj. Mckinley resides
here, desperate efforts will b9 made to
make it a Republican district. $3.50, 900
was sent out at one time into the dis
trict and wholesale bribery will be re-
sorted to to elect the author Of the Nc
Kinley bill
Gov. Hill denounced Reeds tyranny,
and said that this was a contest as to
whether the nature of our Federal gov
ernment is to be Radically modified and
the integrity Of our institutions success
fully threatened. He spoke ably on the
tariff.
Then, il conclusion, referring to the
contest in this, the sixteenth district,
urging every democrat to vote for John
q. Warwick, the democratic candidate,
he said
For Mr.. Mckinley personal, have
the highest respect. He is a gentleman
of integrity, capacity and many other
excellent qualities; as citizen and
| neighbor, have no doubt you all think
we'll of him. He will not deny that he
is most bitter partisan, and was never
known to support a democrat for public
position. His friends are nog asking
complimentary votes IN his behalf.
want you to refuse them, because he re-
present principles in which you don t
believe He has no jpst claims upon
your suffra ges as democrats. There has
never been partisan outrage attempted
against your party which Mr.. Mckinley
has not supported He voted to deprive
niue honestly elected democratic 1epre-
sentatiyes Of their seats in Congress. he
sustained every arbitrary ruling Of the
despotic speaker. He voted fer the in
famous force bill, by which he seeks K
deprive your party of every fair oppor
tunity to regain control Of this govern
ment He has been Instrumental il
foisting upon the country an unjust tar
if measure which can only be properly
designated as the sum Of all villainies
He gives you no assurance that he vii
pnrsue any different course from tina
which he has pursued in the past H
is not entitled to the vote of single tru
and uprig ht democrat who resides in thi
district. His friends complain that hi
district has been gerrymandered, bu
McKinley's voice is silent, when his par
ty friends, in other states, have gerry
mandered other district against th
democratic party.
Fellow Democrats, the eyes Of th
: whole country are upon this disr CT
watching the great contest in which yo
are engaged with breathless interest
Republican corruption money, obtaine
from those who have received govern
! ment favor. will be poured into this dis
> trict to debauch its electors. The integ
. rity Of the citizens of this district is 3
stake. Mckinley cannot shut his eye
). to the fact that funds for his campaig
y are being raised in every locality who's
interests his bill has favored at the s.
3 pense Of the consumers OF the countr,
Il ask you to measure cut to him tt
Ii same consideration which he extende
: to those DemOcra ic representatives WI
u were ousted from their seats by his vot
: No good reason can be urged why tn
. Democratic district should send McKil
' ley to Congress to represent your inte
y ests. Let him get his votes from b
:, party friends whom he has served al
II not from those whose interests al
II rights he has betrayed, insulted and on
u ragged The issue is in your hands, az
IL :, [ have confidence that IL will be grave
and honestly met"