The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-06-23
HILL THE BLUCHER.
Mr.. Dewitt Says That New Yoi
Will be the Waterloo.

Mr.. Dewitt Says That New York
Will be the Waterloo.
CHICAGO, June 23.-In placing Mr..
Hill in nomination Mr.. William G.
Dewitt spoke in substance as follows:
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 in this council of the Democ-
racy Of the nation.
Our majestic commonwealth needs no
eulogy here. Gateway of commerce, both
from the ocean and the lakes, vast arena
of thought, through whose press the intel
ligence of the world is gathered and scat
tered through the land, joined to the agri-
cultural regions by the fertile valleys of
the Hudson, the Mohawk and the Genesee
and opening up through the triple city
seated upon its bay the greater, higher, af-
fluent relations with the other peoples of
the globe, the fullest development of which
will be the source of our best prosperity
the state of New York is none the less par
amount in our political than our national
affairs. Her great city is the life giving
heart OF the Democratic party. Her cleo
toral vote is the keynote of the federal arch
upon which alone we can rest the citadel Of
our hopes.
sition occupied by our state in the impend-
ing contest take great PRIDE while speak
ing for its regular organization of tho
party, in pointing to our past triumphs.
in 1885 we carried New York by II 14 ma
dnrity, III 1886 by 7,T3z, in 1887 by II, on in
1883 by l9,lTl, in 1889 by 20,527, and in 1891
by 1887. So that the present orgnniza-
zion speaks not only for the state inds-
ponsable to your success in the presitlen-
tial campaign, bat speaks for that state
organized and arrayei upon the lines of
victory. These arc stubborn facts which
hypocrisy cannot conceal nor detraction
oblitcratp.
Patriotic craftsmanship and oratory no
longer enjoy the honors of the republic,
and the apostles of truth justice and lib
erty are supplanted by the plant instru-
mcnts of vast pecnniary and political COM
hinations. In such a crisis the democracy
of New York want revival of the funda-
mental principles of the party A leader
VINO holds that corporations created by
state or nation are not amenable to the
control of their creator or who fails to
sgInpathize with at least an international
effort to enlarge the currency of the world
i'll the interest of productive industry, or
who makes his friends and counsellors
among the plutocrats of the land, lacks
the qualities Indispensable TO triumphant
standard bearer OF our unterrified constit-
uency. Our people want leader with tho
instincts, aspirations, shrewdness, slgacity,
hopes, fears, joys and sorrows which
crowd their struggle for life and hnppi-
ness. We therefore present for your suf-
frages the name of him who, having en-
joyed all the honors of our state, still finds
his highest boast in the sentiment, 81 ANA
Democrat
When, with all the power and patron
age of federal government at his command,
the distinguished ex-presdent lost the state
of New York BY a majority of 1900 Gov
enor Hill carried it by n majority of $4,000
votes, and at every election during 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 it must outweigh all theory, proph-
esy, promises and dreams.
Beginning public life as an associate of
Samuel j. 1'ilden in the legislature, Mr.
Hill has been mayor of the city of his
home, he was elected lieutenant governor
by the largest vote ever given to the can
didate of any party in the state of New
York, he has been twice elected its COVER
nor, and now represents it in the senate of
the United States.
FROM the beginning OF ms public career
he has remained the faithful. efficient, un-
tiring friend and servant of the laboring
classes and they have reciprocated his de.
yotion by loyalty and support which has
rendered him inviReble.
We present David B. Hill as the candi-
date of an unterrified and aggressive Do
mocracy. His experience teaches us that
such is the way to succeed. We love him
not merely for the enemies he has made,
but for the enemies he has conquered
Hill beat Harrison in New York in 1888,
under conditions less encouraging than
those which confront us today, and we cur
repeat the triumph with redoubled effect.
This is the conclusive point Contemplate
the ensuing controversy from whatever
standpoint you choose, you cannot escape
the fact that our state is the battle ground
of the campaign.
Ours is the coign Of vantage, the point OF
strategy, the very spot of victory or defeat
We appreciate the responsibility of our po-
sition and would speak to you like men
whose blood flows in their words. The
common enemy is strongly entrenched in
the capital. You are the generals of the
army. of invasion in grand council assem-
bled. We bail from Waterloo and we fear.
lessly proclaim that Hill is the Blucher
who can drive the Republican chieftain to
St Helena in November.