Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-24
HILL IN HARD LUCK.
Disaster Attends His Hunt for
Southern Votes.
His Train Kills Coiored Woman. and a
Savannah Paper Vigorously Assails His

Southern Votes.
Savannah Paper Vigorously Assails His
chief Spokesman, General sickles.
SAVANNAH, GA, March t7.-Disaster APP
pears to have attended Senator David 3.
Hills southern trip from the outset. 1t
still keeps him company. Indeed, few |
northern Democrats have ever visited the |
south and been embarrassed by such a |
series Of plumbers as those which have |
marked the triumphal tour of the recently |
invincible governor of the Empire State.
In the first place, the senator starting
upon campaign OF conquest forgot his
ammunition in Washington. The ludi-
crous oversight that forced him, after
starting south, to send back to the Capital
for his satchel of speeches, has been
laughed at throughout the south. Now it
is looked upon with a little more of seri
business, since it seems to have been part
and parcel of serious Of mishaps. the
balance of which are more momentous
than would have been the mere loss of the
governors speeches.
Blunder or embarrassment No. was the
killing of all old colored woman by Sena-
tor Hills train as il dashed through Oliver
at 40 miles an hour to-day. This incident
of the tour cast such gloom over the
entire company that the senator himself
could not recover from it during the half
hours ride that interviewed before the halt
! in Savannah.
| BlundeI No. 3-thc really serious and
| insurmountable obstacle in the way OF a
complete conquest III Georgia-was Sena-
tor, Hills selection of chief lieutenant
and spokesman for Atlanta. General
Daniel E. Sckles for New York, whom
Governor Hill made sheriff Of the me
| tropolis to succeed Flnck, has q record in
the south. This record has been called up
| i'll Savannah to haunt both General Sicklcs
and Senator Hill.
The journal last evening vigorously called
attention to the fact that General Sickles
was one of the most radical of Republican
partisans until the year 1880, when he
bolted to the Democracy because Grant
had not been nominated for third term.
1t called attention to more and worse than
this in General Sickles' record, and printed
i'll italics some of the most bitter direct
quotations from the linvectives which
Sickles as q Republican had hurled at the
south. Here is one of the sentences which
the Jo't1m quotes Sickles as having aimed
at the entire south in speech which he
delivered before the Twenty.iirst District
Republican Association in New York, DC
tober 23d, 1876
"The $4,000 Democratic majority in
Georgia means so 900 shot guns" Here is
another OF the Sickles shafts, not aimed so
much at the south as at its then recent
nominee for president and at the present
chiettain OF Tammany Hall, New York
the organization which stands ready as
sponsor for the christening whereat il
hopes that Senator Hill may be given the
name of President
Zone Of his trilden's) nominees was n
rutiian named Croker"
With such texts MS these the JouiUai
heralded the coming of David and Daniel
to Atlanta thus:
1.-THE bringing of Dan Sicliles to Atlanta
Tor the purpose of whooping up Demo-
cratic enthusiasm for Hill will strike most
people as rather queer proceeding. There
was not in the entire Republican prrty, lin
to 1850 more venemois southern hater
than this same Sickles. When he declared.
N speech in New York during the Presi-
dental campaign Of 1876, that 'SOO01
Democratic majority in Georgia means
$1,000 shotguns, he uttered foul Islander
, of people who were struggling to recover
from the devastation of war
, He (Sickles) is now taking n very active
hand in the movement to make David b.
: I'M the nominee of the Democratic party
} lie is very anxious to see the shotgun
majority i'll Georgia cast for the man who
made him sheriff of New York, and he i
coming down to plead with our people To
nominate his friend.
Tine Democrats of Georgia are moi
: hankering for advice from the man who
) only few years ago was denouncinp
> them as assassins aud plotters Of treason
= | against their country"
II was under such unfavorable heraldinp
that Senator Hill and party rode into Sa.
vannah to-day, just after the senator had
/, halted long enough at Milen to tell tht
people that he hoped they were ali
Democrats and voted the Democratic
ticket
: Arriving in Savannah the senator and
9 has company were received blythe Hiber
b nian Society, whose guest Senator Nil
became, and was escorted TO the De Soto
. Hotel.
t While the senator was greeting the mos
n prominent citizens in his car at Macon. /
Large crowd was gathering in the road, anC
there were loud cries of "Hill! Hill p
o Stepping out on the car platform, Senator
e Hill said
e "ftHom citisenS: | am marching thronpl
! Georgia to-day Ilaughterl on nv wav Z,
:, the sea. ! think | could not spend 81
Patrick's day any better than by inter
viewing my fcll0w-citi2ens through hi,
great empire state Of the south. Az vot
h observe, | am bearing the st. Patrick ia,
coiors to-day [Applause.l am pleased
70 meet You at this imprOmptu gathering
aaa glad to speak word in behalf Of tbl
Il great party to which we belong, / simpl,
c. ask you, fcllow-Democrats to be true /,
:, the great party whose principles we admir-
4 be true 10 the cause which we desire 4
serve and I'll will be we'll in the future o
II our party