Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-25
A RINGING LETTER FROM HILL.
Cleveland Sends the Hosts Telegram of
Encouragement
Senator Faulkner Addresses a Mass-Meet-
ins-Letters Read From Reagan
and Governor GRAY of In
diana-Officers Elected.


Der of letters OF regret were read.
Ex-President Cleveland by telegraph said :
NEW YORK. sept u, 1891
Henry Drum, President.
Please present my congratulations and
| best wishes 10 workers in the Democratic
| cause who meet to-day in your state. !
hope this faith in the intelligence Of their
| countrymen Will induce them TO rest their
hopes OF success upon the adj
vocacy of wholesome principles and
| measures which are truly Democratic as
well Us upon thorough party organization
which this association of Democratic clubs
is so well calculated 10 subserve. The vim
dications of our principles can be safely left
to the plain people Of the land when they
are aroused 20 thoughtfunesS and patriotic
action, GROVER CLEVELAND.
The following was read from
HON. DAVID Il. HILL.
STATE OF NEW YORK.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER
ALBANY. Sept. IS, 1891. J
| To Hon. Henry Drum. President: George Haz-
zard. Secretary, of the Democratic Society of
Washington:
DEAR SHINY engagements here prevent
my acceptance OF your kind invitation to
! attend the second annual meeting of the
| Democratic society at Washington in Spo-
kane on September % and "a, but can at
least offer pour society by letter the assur-
anie OF MY Interest Ill us dltttnDu 10
| organize the Democracy of Washington
| upon solid and success bringing basis
The great Northwest is particularly in
terested i'll the success of the Democratic
party. It possesses wonderful resources.
now rapidly developing, and a progressive,
liberal and patriotic people. including an
unusually large proportion of intelligent
and active young men. Such conditions re-
quire, for the best development. the broad
est liberty consistent with public welfare.
and the least interference of government
with the natural laws OF trade and indus
try. The aims and principle of the
Democratic party supply these re-
quirements. Whatever principles the Re
publican party may once have had, it seems
to be sadly at sea now. drifting about with
out a rudder and without a pilot Its
great mission has degenerated into a
struggle to retain political power. To ac-
complish this purpose it is willing
to sell itself to the enrichment of
comparatively small band of Eastern
manufacturers who blindiy think that
their interests lie in the maintenance of
war tariffs. 1t stands ready to pervert the
character Of our government in its relations
to tn. sovereign states by the enactment of
force bill which would enable the party
in power to ignore and set aside the eX-
pressed will of Il majority of the people.
1t lends its aid to the imposition OF ex
gal expenditures of its own billion con-
greSs may be concealed. 1t is too hardened
III political iniquity to blush at the scandals
which have tainted the atmosphere of its
Federal administration, or to rebuke the
participatorS BY RELOCATING them to private
life. 1t tightens lis hands upon the govern
ment and restricts the rights OF the states
and the liberties of the citizens
by its movements towards centrali-
zaton. And frightened by the en-
phatic protest Of the people last Novem
Der against high tariffs and subsidies and
force bills and extravagant appropriations.
and desiring new issue in 1892. 1t is vainly
seeking to divide the Eastern Democracy
from tine Western by false and hypocritical
professions in behalf of an honest cur
rency, blindly trusting that it can deceive
by its professions while by its acts it con-
tinues to permit the debasement of a large
part of our currency and refuses to take the
manly stand in favor of the only honest
currencv-the currency Of our fathers and
of the constitution.
The rule OF such a party is not of the
kind which offers the best opportunities
and inSureS the greatest prosperity and
fullest liberty TO the masses of the people
particularly to the people whose energies
are so wakeful and whose mbitions are so
high as are those of the citizens of the
Northwest. For such a people, and for
the great majority of people in every sec
ton of our land, the principles Of JEFF
fersOn and Jackson and TilGen are best.
The establishment of those principles in
the Federal government and in our state
governments means no taxation, except for
public purposes, no legislative benefactions
to individuals or class interests. no debase
mcnt or contraction of our money, no I'M
reasonable sumptuary laws. but an honest.
pure. simple and economical admins
tration. jealous regard for the wei
fare of the whole people, and the strictest
observance of the liberties of the individual
citizens. Such conditions are conditions of
freedom in its broadcast sense. and those are
the conditions which bring the greatest
general prosperity and happiness. To
realize them is the hope and purpose of the
Democratic party. | remain your fellow
citizen, DAVID B. HILL.
The following letter was read from
SENATOR JOHN H. REAGAN. OF TEXss.
PALESTINE. Sept g. 1891.
To Hon. Henry Drum. President: George Haz-
zard Secretary: of the Democratic society OF
Washington. ka
is before me, in which you honor me with
an invitation to meet the Democratic society
of Washington, on the 23rd and oath of this
month at Spokane.
Important duties here, which require all
my time, and the great distance TO your
place of meeting. will deny. me the pleasure
oil NingllIg WIFI lite democracy OI WASH
ington, and of a personal exchange of views
with them on that interesting occasion.
But will avail myself of your alternative
suggestion that l write. so far as to con-
graduate the Democracy of Washington on
having compact organization based Oh
the doctrines of the constitution of the
United States, and on the principles of Mr..
jefferson. Upon which the Federal govern
ment was administered. with out little ex-
ceDtion from 1901 to 1871
A failure TO return to these principles,
and the logical carrying out of the doe
trines of the Republican party, will. in my
Judgment. result in the consolidation of
all political power in the Federal govern
ment That would be the Inauguration of
despotism of majorities, which would
surely bring in its train either monarchy
or anarchy,
To guard against such a contingency the
Democracy should:
l. Insist on the preservation of the
relative constitutional rights, powers and
duties of the state and Federal governments;
seeing that neither shall enroach on or usurp
the powers and duties of the other.
2 To this end the Democracy should
insist on the repeal of existing class legisla-
ton. and guard against such legislation in
Inhe future.
3. The Democracy should demand the re-