Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-30

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rate of taxation it has had since 1856
thirty-seyen years. New York is a great
state. It's population runs into the millions,
its wealth is incalculable The success
with which he administered its affairs is
evidence that as chief executive of this
government our republic viii not suffer-"
But, captain, it Is claimed that the
tariff is against the interest of the South
and West and in favor of the East, and that
Hill is in all things in favor of the East
even TO the extent of sacrificing his honor
by playing a game Of duplicity on the silver
question:"
"Hill has been grossly misrepresented.
In his Elmira speech of December he said
that to win at the next election he thought
that the Democrats N congress should at
tempt to repeal the Mckinley acts. Because
of this position upon party policy he has
been published as being in favor OF the
protective tariff of 1883. He declared that
this law was bad in the same breath.
cannot better state his position than give
his own words: I admit with candor that
the repeal of the two Mckinley acts would
only land US where we were before cur
great misadventure three years ago. l ad-
nit that the tariff of 1888 offers a large
field for revenue reform. But that is now
white beside this latter black referring to
the Mckinley acts. -
What better reformer could the South
far as it Is safe to party interests to go. In
1890 the people said in their congressional
elections that they preferred the law of 'S3
to the Mckinley acts. Hill will give them
an opportunity to say it again. For coun-
selling the party to tread only upon safe
ground he has been misrepresented. He is
q Democrat first and tariff reformer next,
and has no sympathy with those who would
place tariff above the party He would 60
so far as prudence will permit. but he
would not endanger the party's welfare for
the simple sake of stirring up an immense
amount OF fuss and feathers in m effort
to reduce the tariff, however iniquious he
should regard it. No, he would not hazard
the party's success for all the tariffs. Be
sides knowing that tariff reform depends
entirely upon the success of the Democratic
party, he believes with all the intensity of
his nature, that the reform of the thou
sands Of pernicious practices insinuated
into the administration of the government
by the Republican party, such as scandal
GUS extravaganza, unconstitutional subSi-
dies, class favoritism. etc., is equally de-
pendent upon the Democratic party's as
cendancy. The source from whence comes
the charge that Hill is in favor of the inter-
est of the East seasons it with poor grace.
The men who charge it are advocates of
Cleveland, who among public men, John
Sherman not eXcepted,is the fiercest enemy
labors have ever been directed for the
triumph of the demands of Eastern capital
on the money question. He favorS gold as
the single money standard bill is in favor
of both gold and silver. The assertion of
his enemies that he is a Cleveland gold
bug in disguise would be unworthy of no.
tice but for the fact that few newspapers,
which, unfortunately, are the chief sources
of the information of the people of Texas,
persist in giving garbled extracts
of his public utterances and in deliberate
Misrepresentation. He is in favor of
bi-metallc coinage. OF the bill that passed
the senate during the last congress and
Cleveland, he said: The United States
senate on the 14th Of January, '91, passed a
free bi-metallic coinage,bil. For that bill
every Democratic senator present voted, if
not paired in its favor, except one from
Delaware. After fifteen years of debate,
our party's chosen men-studious, upright
men-Yoting upon their honor, their con-
science, their intelligence, voted thus
That bill met every demand of the repre-
sentatives of the South and West on that
question. He is also in favor of making
this question in the coming campaign.
Here are his bold, brave words: 1T is poll /.
tics for towards and straddlers to advise and
contriVe that the Democratic national con-
yeution's trumpet shall blow some uncer-
will vex the repose of nations, will modify
the budgets of statesmen, will disturb the
markets and exchanges of all nations, will
therefore surge up and reSurge in every
presidential election in the United States
so long as gold and silver 1uctuate from
their old fixed rated equivalence
These excerpts from his Elnira speech
establish in no uncertain way his position
on the tariff and money question, and at
the same time brand as mendaciouS the
freely banded charge that he is simply
vascillating, shambling politician"
''Would it not be better to take good
man from the West than to go to New York
4or a candidatel"
Eastern Democracy is a sight better
than Western Republicanism. You have
never yet heard of any Eastern Democracy
hunting up force bills with which to put |
white heads under negro heels. As be-
tween Eastern Democracy and Western Re |
publicanism the South, to choose wisely, |
will take the former. Again, it is rainbow |
chasing for a Democrat TO start out in a |
presidential campaign with the idea of |
Western state. If we abandon |
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, In |
diana and Delaware to what states in the |
West may we lay rational claim for an |
equivalent of their seventy electoral votesl |
The South has 156 electoral votes, 1t will |
require 223 to elect What state in the |
w eSG GAL give Us bllS liGtUCQ SlALy-SGNGu
votes2 Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas
and California would, if we could gain |
every one of them without a single Slip |
give US the necessary quota, they having |
votes. These states would be |
our only hope if we turn to the West.
What man will risk judgment upon his !
sanity by counseliug 4 great party to put
its dependence in the " est going Demo
cratic2 What expression of sympathy have
any of them ever given for the principles of
the Democratic party or the interests of
the people of the South2 All of this
talk of Western man is pure
balderdash. There is no political
sense in it; it is simply sentimental folly.
Col. r. Q. Mills, l am sorry to learn, favors
q Western nan. / am inclined to think |
that he allowed himself to take this posi-
lion while feeling the double sting of being
abandoned by his Eastern friend Cleve-
land, in the speakership fight and indulging
the belief that Hills Elmira speech con-
tributed to his defeat Mills will change
his idea about this, however. He cannot
afford to stand in the way of Democratic
success in the presidential election in order
to crafty personal pique at Hill He is too
brave a man not to recede from position
fraught with direfnl results to his party.
In Texas Hills friends are numbered
among Mills friends. l think nearly every
member of the David B. Hill Democratic
Hub is friend of Mills and desires his
election to the senate"
''What nave you to say to the charges
hat Hill caused Cleveland's defeat in 'SS?''
teT1ili ;s the worst abused ruaIi0nad and |