Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-22
THE LION BEARDED.
Governor Hill OF New York
Speaks at McKinley's Home.
The Great Issue. the Record Of the Re-
publican Party in Its Brief
Control Of Congress.
Its Animatlng Notivs the Perpetuation OF
Its Own Tyrannical Political Oil
garehy-Abuse OF Power.

CANTON OHlO, OcC. A.-GOVeVnor
David B. Hill arrived here at $50
p. N. to-day. 4 large throng
greeted his appearance as he
aIighted from the train. An old
skating rink accomm odating 1000 peo-
pie, in which the mass meeting WAS held
Tonight aud at which the governor de-
livered his address, was filled to
overtiowing, and as many more
people were trying TO obtain
entrance to the hall when the governor
was introduced by Chairman Welty.
Governor Hill was vigorously APP
plauded as he stepped TO the front
of the stage at . p. m. and
made speech of which the following is
g lengthy abstract. The applause at
times during the governors remarks was
long and hearty:
CANTON, OHIO, Oct. Ex-Governor
HIPS speech ct Canton to-day was as
follows:
An important political campaign is
that upon which our country has en-
tered. No more important has been
held in generation. The contest is
not merely between men OF parties, and
is not only between governmental
voters Is not whether the next house OF
representatives Will be Republican or
Democratic, but whether the nature
of our Federal government Is to
be radically modified and the integrity
of our Institutions successfully threat
ened.
THE GREAT ISSUE
is the record of the Republican party in
its brief control OF congress. No party
has more recklsss!y detisd presidents,
more fiaerantly disregarded principles,
more boastfully overturned traditions,
more seriously invaded private
rights, more arbitrarily encroached
upon the prerogstives of states or more
tyrannically used the power of q partisan
majority. The animating motive of its
acts seems 10 have been only the per-
petuatIon of its own power 1t
has cared nothing for the constitution.
nothing for the treasury, nothing for
the people. Its chief desire has been to
get such firm grip or control of the
government, that for generations to
come its politicians may feed upon
THE sPOILS OF POWER.
To accomplish this the party has in
creased its majority in the house of rep
resentatives by arbitrarily ejecting
Democrats from their seats, he's stolen
the representation OF one state III
the senate, has admitted to the Union
states whose only claim 10 admission is
that they Will swell the Republican ma
joritiss, has denied representation to
Democratic territories much bet
ter qualified for statehood in
point of population and resources,
has ignored the tights of the minority by
the tyranical methods and rulings of the
speaker of the house, has squaudered
the treasury surplus by extravhgant ap-
preparations to conciliate particular in
terests, has enacted q tariff bill which
will
SUPPLY CORRUPTION FUNDS
for the election, has conducted q census
denounced everywhere as worthless and
manipulated for counting the re-
publican populations up and the
democratic populations down, and
has threatened the enactment of
force bill which will put an
end to state authority In the certifcation
of federal elections and make congress
not the representatives of the people
but the creatures of whatever
the federal officials may choose to
count in. This IS the record that
con fronts the people, and upon which
they are asked 10 lass judgment. This
is the record for an Endorsement OF which
the leaders of the Republican party are
now stumplng the country. Long prac-
tice ID hypocrisy has enabled them to
DISGUISE THEIR PARTNERSHIP
in patriotic language, but their appeal
after all is one to cupidIty and selfish
ness. Frightened by the disapprovai
which their headstroEg and revolutionary
course has aroused in their own party,
they are endeavoring TO bolster up
their shaky position by appeals to
sectionalism and party pride. No effort
will be spared to retain their political
control. If our institutions are to be
preserved pure and intact, every patri-
otto citizen must do his duty in rebuking
this grasping and tyrsnnical
POLITICAL oLIGARCHY.
When the present congress convened
in December last the Republicans had q
majority of three in the house of repre-
sentatlves, which was soon increased
to eight by the admission of
the representatives of the new states.
this majority it was Diff
fcult for the party IN control to retain
quorum present, and the leaders imme-
diately took arbitrary measures to carry
out policy previously agreed
upon, namely, to Dust enough
Democrats and seat enough Republicans
to give good working majority. Eigh-
teen contested election cases were sub
mitted TO the committee on elections, ali
but one brought by Republicans, and
that one by a man who afterwards
ACTED WITH THE REPUBLICANS
on condition of his being seated. In
order to facilitate the process Of count
ing the Democrats out and the Republic
cans In no rules were adopted for
space of three mouths, and
then only when long practices of the
country made 1t policy not to outrage
public sentiment longer. The house
proceedings were conducted on what the
speaker called general parliamentary
law but what in fact was his own ar
bitrary will. The sacredest parliament
tary rights guaranteed to the minority
during century of government were ig-
uored
WITH BRUTE FORCE
by the majority, and without any show
of reason nine Democratic congressman,
bearing official credentials from their
states that they were legally and pEaasd1