St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-23
DAVID BENNETT HILL
And His Achievements Presented
in Glowing Words.

And His Achievements Presented
in Glowing Words.
When New York was reached in the
call. William c. Dewitt took the plat
form to nominate David b. Hill. and
said:
Mr.. President and Fellow Delegates:
By the favor of my colleagues have
now the high honor to speak the voice
Of the state Of New York i'll this council
ii the nation. Our majestic common
wealth needs no eulOgy here. Gateway
of commerce both from the ocean and
the lakes; vast arsenal of thought
through whose press the intelligence OF
the world is gathered and scattered
throughout the land: joined to the agrl-
cultural regions bY the fertile valleys OF
the Hudson. the Mohawk and the Gen
eSSee and opening up through the triple
city seated upon its bay those higher re-
lationS with other people OF the globe
which will be the source of Onr best
possible trade, more paramount III our
political than our national affairs,
her great city is the life-giving heart
of the Democratic party. Her electoral
vote is the keystone of the federal arch,
upon which alone we eau rest the cita-
present relations with the Democratic
party of the nation what was said OF the
Roman amphitheater: Nv lille stands
the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; when
falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall; and
when Rome falls, the world"
Reviewing Their Victories
In view of this critical and important
position occupied 10y our state in the
tmn1 OdiOu pOutaSt I take great nri0n
while speaking for its regular OrganiZa-
ton of the party IN pointing to our past
Tlumphs. In 1885 we carried New
York by II, l34 majority; in 1856 by
1871: in 1887, by 17,077; in 1855,
by 1911; in 1882 by 20,527; and in
1891 by 1887. So that the present
organization speaks. not only for the
state indispensable to your success in
the presidential campaign, but for that
state organized and arrayed upon the
lines OF victory.
These are stubborn facts which ny
pOerisy cannot conceal nor Obliterate.
So. at the outset, this convention should
fully understand the true nature of the
Democracy of the people of New York.
1t is fundamental and vital IN character.
We believe in the brotherhood of man
and in all the honest doctrines of equal
ity and fraternity which arise from that
faith.
The supreme evil of our age is the
use of the law-making power of state
and nation for the enrichment of the
few at the expense of the many. In
OlGen times the bandit armed his fol-
lowers and descended with fire and
sword upon the industrial classes. In
modern times the same
Spirit Of RapLne
comes to a mandatory or organization,
and through a clause in a tariff act.
donation of the public domain. or the
acquisition of chartered privileges
effects the same result. OF the 1900
miliiOnaires in the country 100 are said
TO have amassed their fortunes through
the tariff. Out of the causes ali the
features of an aristocracy have arisen
in cur social life. Caste and class dis
tinction, prOfiigacy and splendOr,
social dudes and political aScetics, have
taken the place of the plain, earnest
people of former generations.
The money power dominates the land
and subordiHates the sovereignty of the
people. Patriotic craftsmanship and
Oratory no longer enjoy the honors of
the republic. and the apostles Of truth,
Justice and liberty are suppIanted by
the plant instruments of vast pecuniary
and political combinations. In such a
crisis the Democracy of New York
wants a revival of the fundamental
principles of the party. a leader who
holds that corporations created by state
or nation are not amenable to the con-
troll of their creator or who fails to SYM
p2thiZe with at least an International
effort to enlarge the currency of the
world in the interest of productive in
dustry, or who makes his friends and
cOunSelOrS among the
PlutOcrats of the Land.
lacks the qualities indispensable to
a triumphant StandarG-bearer of our
constituency. Humanity is better than
dogma, and the love of man is the life
Of the republic. Our people want a
leader filed with the INSTINCTS, aspira-
lions, shrewdness, sagacity, hopes.
fears, joys and sorrows which crowd
their struggles for life and happiness.
We therefore present for your Suffrages
the name of him who, having enjoyed
all the hOnorS of our state, still finds his
highest boast in the sentiment: 81 am
Democrat" However eminent may be
his post of duty, he does not descend to
US from above, but in the roll call of the
Democracy he steps proudly from the
ranks.
10 you ask his credentials?
We point you to the unbroken series
of victories by which he has rendered
New York a yeritable Gibraltar to the
Democracy of the Union. When with
all the power and patronage of the fed
eral government at his command the
distinguished ex-presjdent lost the state
of New York by a minority Of 14,OC0
Gov Hill carried it by majority of over
1900 votes, and at every election dur
ing the past ten years he and his friends
have met with constantly increasing
success. No sane man can reject the
force Of these statistics, and in pointing
The Finger OF Destiny
1t must outweigh all theory, prophecy.
promises and dreams. The experiences
of the past must. under like circum-
stances, forecast the events OF the fut-
ure. and in this instance the conditions
remain unchanged. Mr.. Hill never had
any alliance with malcOntents nor any
favor in the Republican party. The
class of men from our state who so VIC
lently oppose his nomination today have
unseasOnably opposed him in the East.
He has always been nominated under a
show of their vituperatIon and abuse,
and he has always emerged from the