The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-01

Hill Talks to Friends and Outlines q Plan
for Democrats In Congress.

Hill Talks to Friends and Outlines a Plan
for Democrats In Congress.
ALBANY. n. Y, Dec. 3I.--David b. Hills
term as Governor of the State expired to-
night, and the event was marked by din
ner. at which Mr.. Hill spoke about five
thousand words of farewell to $50 persons,
including the State officials and Governor
elect Flower and many prominent State
Democrats. Governor Hill opened his ad-
dress thus:
Mr.. Chairman, State Officers and Friends
These are the times that try mems souls. The
hour Of parting from the comrades of a long and
arduous labor has come. Never again quite the
same gronp. New commands suminoning one or
another of us to distant field, to a new service.
Never again the same shoulder to shoulder and
touch all around. A link broken; the group
sitheg CHANGED nbys,ca mot Moral es Or o;iiaa stIe
that test mems fortitude. Most men take to con-
tentiOn like babies 10 their mothers milk. I'm
dauntless aud unwearied. knee-decp III a jungle
OF the shafts Of political ealumny. and the
broken arrows OF bOwmen. who had missed their
mark. suppose We should have the sensation
OF discomfort and complain of cold feet. No,
cannot believe it is times OF peril or of strife
that try mems souls. 1t Is parting from the tried
and true comrades of long day that wrenches
the heart strings.
Mr.. Hill then stated that during the
seven years he had been in Albany the
State debt had been practically wiped out
-29, ,48l. s54 in amount There had been
constant succession of victories to the
Democracy, until now the entire State
government was Democratic. Referring to
his election to the Senate, Governor Hill
said:
My first emotion was that of every other Dem
ocrat. l suppose. who las been to Washington
since 1865. Where and how cGn he most eifi-
sen pena e
States, usurped from the people; the
hideous, huge progeny OF lcentious
Gratis of privilege Nothing 10 the federal
government except its specified, granted
powers; nothing which can better he done by
State governments; which can better he done by
municipal by county. by neighborhood govern
ments and moro jealOusly watched; and even to
can better be reserved TO the people. to their
voluntary associations under the rule of justice,
enforced by equal laws; nothing which can bet
ter be reserved to the large liberty OF individual
freemen.
DEMocRAcY's HELPLESS STATE.
Speaking next upon the wisest course for
the Democracy to pursue in the present
Congress- Governor Hill continued:
Concerning the tax power and the coinage
power which. suppose we must concede to be
specifically granted to the federal government.
and concerning recent abuses and misuses of
those powers by the biiiiondollar Congress,
have had something TO say. Our politics, trust,
will turn upon those abuses s. @ for ,,,t the
Congress-nothing else and nothing less. The
overturn OF the billion Congress by an immense
popular uprising by the election of 237 Demo
cratic Representatives out OF 332, will not
able one new lire 10 he written by the present
Congress in the federal laws But the acts of the
billion Congress are now part OF the federal
statutes There they stand, fragrant. ntoler-
able. The Senate, or the House, or
the executive can prevent change. Two
OF the three being Republican, actual
law-making 70 redress Republican wrong doing
Is doubly barred No repeal. no change except
what perfectly suits the Republican wrong-doer.
The House can compel frugality In current APP
preparations Speaker Crisp, Judge Holman and
all our good Democrats In both houses viii see to
that. But Mills bills. Morrison bills, single bills,
general bills repeal bills. all alike. TO be
halted at the Senate threshold and slaughtered
IN committee.
whyi Because Republicans, though quite as
powerless as We are 10 pass new laws, can sit
still. do nothing. yet keep at least till the 4th of
March. 1898. all they got by the acts OF the bill
ion Congress the chapce of saving there
after their main booty; saving their tariff for pro-
tecttons sake in place OF tariff for revenue only
with protection Incidental: saving their bounty
and subsidy principle, saving their reciprocity
hambug. whica lis hut scheme 10 expand state
socialism and substitute the restrictive bargains
OF diplomates for the worldwide commerce of
freemen. It's bad outlook. Time runs on
aud they counted on time 70 root their policy In