The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-01
He Addresses a New Years Eve
Feast at Albany.
WHAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO.
'Billion-Dollar Congress" Must Be
Constantly Held Up to People.
Various Bills, Such as Repeal OF the
Mckinley Law and Sherman silver
Law, Should Be Passed and Sent Up
to the Senate to Be Killed.

ALBANY. Y. Y, Dec 31-David B. Hills
term as governor expired today, and the
event was marked by dinner at which
HUI spoke his farewell TO l50 Fer
sons, including state officials, Cover
nor-elect Flower and many prominent
state Democrats. He said, among other
things. that during the seven years he had
been in Albany there had been constant
succession of victories for the Democracy,
until now the entire state government was
Democratic. Referring to his election to
the Senate, Governor Hill said:
Ny first emotion was that of every other Dem
Ocrat, l suppose: Where and how can he most
efficiently rend away power from that enormous
aggregation of two centralized powers usurped
from the states, usurped from the people, the
hdeous, huge progeny of the war debt and IL
centious government partnership with pluto
Gratis OF privilege granted power. -
Speaking upon the wisest course for the
Democracy to pursue in the present con-
gress, Hill said:
The overturning of the billion dollar congress
by popular uprising will not enable one new
line to be written by the present congress in the
federal laws The Republicans, though
quite Is p0werlcss We are now to
pass new laws. can sit still and DO nothing, yet
keep at least till the 4th of March, 1898, all they
got by the acts OF the billiondollar congress and
the chance of saving their tariff for ptotec-
uons sake in place of tariff for
revenue only, with protection Incl
dental, saving their bounty and subsidy
principle and saving their reciprocity
humbug, which is but scheme to extend state
socialism and substitute the restrictive bargains
OF diplomats for the worldwide commerce of
freenen. Since any Democratic Legislation pro-
posed By the House is sure of defeat in the
senate, there is to the House no wiser
course open than that the Democrats
shall first send up for defeat what will
cost the Republican party its final overthrow in
the next congressional and presidential cleo
tons. Now, let Us hold fast to the great facts
and pivot our policy on those. Here is one fact:
Democratic legislation by this Fifty-secon
congress is quite impossible.
Another fact, and the largest fact
with which our great leaders in con-
gress have TO take account, is that
the peoples verdict last year upon the
billion-dollar congress and all its work will be-
come an utter nullity and empty wind unless
the people of the United States, unfooled, stick
t. their work, and again next November thunder
forth their just verdict.
Shall the peoples verdict on the billion-dollar
congress have execution or not? Shall the Demo-
cratic party by keeping before the people the
billion-iolar congress issues OF 1890, nothing
power TO add to their verdict of 1890 its execu-
ton in 1892? How can that best be done?
First-Pass no free coinage bill pass only
needfuI appropriation bills and enforce
economy.
second-Grapple to undo the worst work of
the biilion-doiiar congress; demand the repeal
OF the sherman silver law and the two MeKinley
laws.
The characteristic feature of the present
political juncture is that by holding fast to
the issues made BY the biIlion-dollar
congress during the canvass already pre-
parlng with great energy through
out the Union, the condolences of
time, OF public interest, of senatorial elections,
OF the election OF representatives and OF the ex-
eeutiye, are such that the peoples will, as de-
cared year ago, can in one year more imme-
diateIy aud throughout prevail.
In concluding Hill said
New York Will not follow the lead OF Nevada.
The New York Democrats care nothing for The
silver senators and their protected commodity
The New YORK Democrats viii never support
any federal money gislation that does not pro-
mote the nations return to the best money
ever known To rnankind-namely, gold and sill
yer, the only legal tender, as Tilden's platform
said, and these united at q fixed ratio in free
bi-metallic coinage with paper currency,
which is a certificate of deposit OF either coin
But the New York Democrats TO a man, and
many an honest republican besides, win
follow Bland, chairman of the House
committee on coinage. with resoect, admiration
aud support, if he will now lift the banner of
the repeal of the Sherman law, renewing for the
present the Bland law until the Democratic
party next November shall be commits sioned 10
undertake some better and dnal disposition of
tie Whole subject.
Governor HIPS banquet has been the subject