Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-03-16
Senator Hill N Mississippi.

Senator Hill n Mississippi.
Senator Hill, otNow York, Was yesterday
accompanied to Jackson By committee,
which YEA. from that city to Meridian t.
meet him. On hia arrival in jackson he vas
mat By Gcv. John II. Stone, who welcome so
him to the Ststa amid the cheers OF f7e
Thousand Mississippians
senRtor Hill became the guest OF Govern.
or ct me during bis stay In jackson, snd a
reception was held at the executive man
sioo at IL O'Clock, where the Senator shock
hands With the stream of visitors for over
an hour.
At q O'Clock the Legislature met In jalnt
session. Tae galleries and lOboies we're
crowded 10 the utmost end loud cheers
greeted the appearance OF SENATOR Hill as be
| entered the hall in company with Governor
St3ae. 10 Introducing Senator Hill GOV.
| Stope said:
"Ao irbofn democrat, he has ever been
true 10 bis party aud faitnfal to every ttust
reposed ID him. AS Governor Of New York
he has fcravsr endeared himself TO the pso
pla of Mississippi and OF The United states,
aud to The lovers Of truth end justice every
where, by mis- determined and ontepcken on.
position 10 the attempted and Inwarren.ed
usurpatior OF The liberties Of American fset-
men, ths Infamous force bill. a man who
bes proved himself 8 safe and successful Par
ty leader, ena democrats who remain In
touch wi h him can never be political wan
derers with the great conservative dsmoore'
cy. Ii ia my privilege and pleasure, ladies'
snd gentlemen, to Introduce to sou lien.
David B. Hill Of New York"
Senator HIPS speech was daVo cd princi-'
| ism nd 90 raj
| ed by the legislators. he reiterated the po-
siion Of the democratic party On the tariff
question and denounced the 51st Congress
for Its extravaganza IL public expenditures.
| His Reference to the attempted passage CT
ths force bill! aud his declarations that the
! garons States should be sovereign In the
control OF their own domestic afairs pre-
voksd great enthusiasm.
There is good reason at ell times" said
| Senator Hill, ''ior the Interchange ct
thought between the people OF foCsy.fcur
States banded togataer for fife to insure OBS
eaothet's liberty in the pursuit Of Happiness.
Ba5 there IL excellent: reason at the PRESENT
time for suchlntsscnsnge between menwhose
| political philosophy ED practical politics
alike sre summed up In preserving Tor cur
own benefit and the benefit oftimes to oome
the greet democratic faith and tradition. 1t
was never In such pefil. Scarce ever, till
November two years ago and November
next, did popular elections put in issue such
extreme danger OF 30 large ds!iVarsnce.
The ground nDop which democrats Of the
State OF Nav York have taken their STAND
is the whole democratic faith and tradition
not some corner Of 1t merely, not Soma
splinter Off merely, but the whole. This
ia the ground upon which would see the
democrats OF the State of Mississippi With
all the democrats North, South. East and
West, both OF regular organization and the
farmers alliance, unite and take their stand
In the approaching CONTEXT. For, like the
victory ofJsfsrsoD, this union, this victory
to faal disirtegrasion degraded party
and will fix the direction OF our political
progress fer scme decades In the century to
COME"
The republican party, he said, passed. the
Two Mckinley laws superaddiog t, tho pre-.
teotei taxes of the tariff Of 1882, the reoip.
rooity humbug, the new subsidy and bounty
sWinde aud still higher prCtsc I'D taxes
Against uuitsd democratic votes tho repu5,
lcsa parry ell passed the Sherman silver
law, iEto which every republican monstarS
here's, Is crowded, that has kept our iaacces
in ~ rpetual disorder for thirty yesre, tor
tlred our merchants wi b unoeltsirty and
fear and turned our foreign commerce, onf
asle of wheat end your Gales of cotton, iDtl
@ daily gamble. These laws were passed,
under permission cf the conshta!i IN TO
make lave, 80 promote the general We
fare" This was promoting the general
welfare" by promoting their own welfare
" tn protected uonopoies.
In concluding bis address Mr.. Hill said
no help can be looked for from republican
partisans, but be called upon ell coed pee
PIE Of he country to make alliance 10 No
vember next with one another aud with the
democrst:c party In order to correct OK st
log eviIs. Unlty, he said, will enable the
democratic parry t, call a halt In the growth
and spread OF grinding monopolies. The
farmers for thor own deiVerancs should
reioforce the democrats and enable thar
party to dethrons tie iniorser CT every act
of the biilion.doiiar Congress. Alone. be
said. the farmers could do nothing but DE-
Tea, their own hopes and re.slect the party
wboss policy of protected taxes plundered
she farmer frat and most OF all.
Yesterday evening Senator Hill left for
Birmingham, Ala, where be Will speak to-
day.