The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-10-29

with dignity and polse, not surpassed
by his great rival and predecessor.
1t would be hard to deny to Gov
ernor Hill good sense, tact. skill and
a strong, active mentality. As
speaker and writer he has commanded
the respect of the people. He has pre-
served a wonderful hold upon the
people. He possesses decided and
positive merits.
Governor Hill is popular and SYM
pathetic. He has proven a powerful
campaigner in New York and Ohio.
He has large following in spite of
the fact that he has no girl baby in
his house.
The New York Herald in half
column editorial among other things
says:
Mr.. Henry w. Grady never uttered
a sentence which better deserves
place on his monument than the fol-
lowing: "This hour little needs the
loyalty that is loyal to one section and
holds the other in enduring suspicion
and enlargement. Give US broad
and perfect loyalty that loves and
trusts Georgia alike with Massachusetts,
that knows no South, no North, NO
East, no West, but endears with equal
and patriotic love every foot of our
soil, every State in our union"
These words were a part of the
Boston speech which at once gave Mr..
Grady deserved prominence.
That they represent the sentiments
of new South and a new North
standing shoulder to shoulder is plain
from the fact that they were greeted
with deafening applause when uttered
and are now chosen for a place on the
monument which was yesterday un-
yelled. We are told in sneering tones
by partisans in this section who have
not yet adopted the spirit of these
words that the Confederate flag was
faunted in the parade. 1t is argued
thereupon that the whole South is still
on horseback and marching toward
Washington. Every traveller who has
wandered over the plantations beyond
the Potomac and studied the people
who live there knows that the South
couldn't be dragged or driven back to
the old regime of slavery. These are
better days than those from every point
of view, socially, politically and COM
mercially. These are pleasant dream,
those were nightmare for we had
conflicting interests then, and now we
have common country and a CON-
mon purpose.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says:
Gov Hills speech, which we print
elsewhere, will raise him in the esti-
nation of the people of Georgia and
the South. 1t was a very excellent
speech in every respect-in diction, in
thought and in sentiment. He did
not reach the heights of eloquence
which we're easily accessible to the
genius whose eulogist he was, but
showed himself fully equal to an ap-
probation of the great life work he
had prepared and full of sympathy
with it. Without these qualifications
the orator on such an occasion as that
of yesterday, no matter how great his
ability, would have failed with them,
Governor Hill made a complete sue
cess. He said what ought to have
been said-simply, earnestly and SYM
pathetically.
The occasion was not a political
one, and there was nothing Of politics
in the speech; yet Governor Hills
coming and the character of his speech
will serve something of a political pur-
pose. We do not mean that they will
directly increase his influence in the
Democratic party of the South in the
furtherance of any personal ambition,
but something greater and more i'm
portant. They serve TO show that the
sections of our country, long estranged
from each other, are growing together
in sympathy; that fame won in Geor
gia may be national fame, and not
provincial merely that Southern men
men may at last enter upon as broad
a field of usefulness as those Of other
sections, without being hampered by a
senseless prejudice. The politician of
the highest type, the statesman, can
do nothing nobler or more useful than
to make these things wholly true, and
in that sense Governor Hills presence
and words serve politica: purpose.
The New York Tribune says this
The tribute of the South to the la
mented Henry w. Grady, one of its
most brilliant, progressive and patri-
otic sons, was paid at Atlanta yester
day, his statue in bronze being unveil
ed in the presence OF great throng Of
friends and admirers. Grady embodied
the best spirit of the new South-a
phrase to which he gave large currency
and its virtues are worthy to be eel
ebrated. The orator of the occasion
was Governor Hill, who showed good
sense in keeping politics in the back
ground, and spoke fitting words to
Gradys character and worth
The Norman ex-member of Con-
n ,,.o1