St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-14
OFF FOR The SOUTH.
Senator Hill Starts on His
Trip to the Land Of the
Magnolias.
erief Stops to Be Made at
Points in a Dozen
States.
a New York Preacher Gives
Tammany a Left-Handed
Blessing.
Or. Miller Fails to Tell Just
What Mr.. Cleveland
Said.

WASuINToN, March Ex-senator Hill
left here on his Southern tour at IL
o'clock tonight over the Burlington q
Ohio and the Norfolk & Western rail
roads, and will be absent from Wash
ington about a week. Accompanying
III" distinguished New York senator
were: Hon. James w. Ridgway. dis
trict attorney of Kings county, New
York; Col j. S. McEWan, assistant adj
jutant general of the state of New
York; United States Senator Daniel, of
Virginia; Congressman Hooker, of Mis-
SissipDi, and half a dozen repre-
sentatiyes of the press. Sena-
tor Hill announces that he will
proceed direct to Jackson, Miss, with
out any intermediate stops, and the
route will be over the Baltimore q
Ohio, and to Shenandoah Junction, w.
Va. thence over the Norfolk 81 West
ern through the manufacturing and
picturesque regions of Virginia to BriS
tol, Tenn; from there to Chattanooga
over the East Tennessee, Virginia 81
Georgia. and thence to Jackson, Miss,
over the Queen & Crescent via Birming-
ham, Ala At Roanoke, Va, where
the party stops for breakfast tomorrow
morning, arrangements are being made
to give the senator Il hearty welcome,
and, although the programme of his
journey
COntemplates No Speeches
until Jackson. Miss, is reached, he Will
be infeXible indeed if he does not yield
to their pressing invitation for d five
minutes talk after rising from the break
fast table. In the same way the people
of Bristol. Knoxville, Chattanooga and
Birmingham are preparing to give their
Northern visitor all ovation as his train
passes through, and if his rule to make
no tive-minute speeches be not more
hOnored in its breach than In it's OBJ
servance, his tour will be a notable eX-
ception to those of most public men.
The party will reach Jackson, the cap
ital city of Mississippi, Tuesday,
the 18th, when Senator Hill,
in response to an invitation of
some weeks ago, will address
the legislature of the state of MiSsis-
sippi in joint session. From there the
party will proceed over the Richmond
~ DHiNI IlG IuIIIOdO W CdNdlllIdlls I'd,
with possibly very brief stops at Birm-
ingham and one or two other interme-
diate points. as Meridian, Selma. Rome,
Atlanta, Athens, Montgomery, and. in
deed, nearly every other prominent city
en- route have extended pressing invita-
ti0ns for MIN to make stop of few
minutes and address their people. Sen
atOr Hill has, however, declined all
these invitations, as he must be i'll
Savannah on The 18th
inst, to attend the annual banquet of
the IIibernian society on st. Patrick'S
day, so that any stop en- route would
be ali exception from the programme
and will be necessarily brief. \ Sa-
Vannah Hill club, 600 strong has been
formed. and Will NEE; Mr.. Hill at the
depot with brass bands and escort him
to the hotel. The banquet will take
place in the theater, and seats will be
provided at the table for 200 guests, be
sides nearly 1000 seats for spectators.
Gov. NOrthen and a number of the most
prominent men of the state will be pres
ent and respond to toastS. Mr.. Hill will
reply to the toast: The United
States of America" Tie Hill club will
give Mr.. Hill reception at the depot
the next morning. From Savannah the
party will return directly to Washing
ton over the Atlantic Coast line. InYi-
tations have been received to stop over
at Norfolk and other intermediate
points, but lack of time has compelled
the senator TO decline them all. Senator
Hill does not make his Southern trip in
private car. as he prefers to travel, as
he expresses it, like any other ordi-
nary Demscrat." and the tenders of
private cars by the railroad companies
have all been courteouSly declined.