The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
Senator Hill is a Democrat.

Whatever doubt has existed as to
the attitude of Senator Hill in this
canvass is completely swept away by
his ringing speech in Brooklyn.
Reminding his hearers Of bis ia
nous utterance, IL am q democrat"
made in that city in 1885, he declar-
ed, 81 was democrat before the
Chicago convention and am dem
oerat still" Not content to let the
question rest with this simple but
emphatic declaration he proceeded
to lay down the principle Of party
discipline, which must ever govern
its loyal members. The Chicago
Convention, he declared, was a court
of last resort established by party
usage as the final arbiter to deter
mine all questions submitted to it,
and sits decision will be accepted
with loyal acquieseence by every
true and patriotic democrat who
recognizes the'necessity of party or
ganization and respects the obliga-
tions which he assumes in its mem
bership." From this time forth, he
added, imperative duties are impos-
ed upon all democrats. "Let us
close up our ranks and buckle on our
armor for the fight with the deter
mination to do all in our power for
the triumph of our party and the
election of Cleveland & Stevenson
These utterances make it as plain
as language can that Senator Hill is
loyal to the ticket Of his party and
will work for its success in the com
ing election. They can leave no
room for doubt in the mind of any
democrat or any republican that the
democracy in the pivotal state
Of the Union will go united and solid
to the polls in November.
Nor is this spirit made manifest
alone by Senator Hills declarations
to that effect. His entire speech is
attuned to the keynote sounded by
Mr.. Cleveland and the other speak
ers in the great Madison Square
Garden notification meeting. The
issues of the campaign there fore
cast were tariff and the Force bill,
the tariff being first and foremost.
This is Senator Hills stand. He
puts the tariff to the front, devotes
most of his speech to it and refers to
no other national issue except the
Force bill.
His tariff views are in entire ac-
cord with those of Mr.. Cleveland.
He maintains with much force that
protection for purposes other than
public, for the enrichment of indi-
viduals or corporations, is unconsti-
tutional, and the republicans have
Systematically violated and evaded
the letter as well as the spirit of the
constitution, but admits that the
constitutional question is not prac-
tical issue. Incidental protection,
he holds, is not only unobjectionahle
but desirable. The true policy is
revenue with incidental protection"
not protection with incidental rev.
enue. The cardinal principles on
which all tariff legislation should be
based are "a tariff fer revenue only,
limited to the necessities of the gov
eminent economically administered,
and so adjusted in it's application as
far as practical as to prevent unequal
burdens, encourage productive in
dustries at home and afford Just com
pensation to labor, but not to create
or foster monopolies.'' That the
party may not be put in a false po-
sition by its opponents this principle
is elaborated and elucidated in these
words
1t does not follow that because we
are opposed to an unreasonable tariff
that we favor free trade and the abo-
litlon of all custom houses. We are
opposed to prohibitory tariff We
are opposed to placing a virtual
Chinese wall around the country to
hamper and restrict the natural laws
of trade. We favor a larger com
merce and wider markets than at
present exist. We are opposed to
any governmental partnership with
ley bill establishes. We favor legis-
lation for the masses and not for the
classes. We favor the protection of
labor and not the creation of monop-
olies. We would encourage and fos-
ter labor by relieving it of all I'M
necessary burdens.
| What Mr.. Hill says of Peck's fig
ures-though he does not mention
Peck-is complete refntation of the
Islander that their publication was
iustigated by the Senator to hurt the
democratic ticket He shows Just as
the Herald has already shown, that
the results on which both republi-
cans and democrats have laid so
much stress signify nothing. They
show an increase in the amount
OF industrial wages paid and
the value of products turned out
That is simply an evidence of the
progress which went on steadily long
before the Mckinley law was passed,
and has since continued in spite of
that law.
This latest speech strikes US as
the most mastery one ever delivered
by Senator Hill. 1t is a forcible on
slaught on protection, well calcuIa-
ted to give as much anxiety to the
republicans as it must encourage
ment to the democrats N. Y.Herald.
HOw's This!