The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-23
SENATOR HILLS SPEECH.

| 1Eeetcd with Hearty Cheers When TIT
| appeared Before the Audience
When the passage instructing for Hill
vas read the air was shaken by tremen
uous BURST OF applause, and after the reso
'utlons were unanimously adopted e com.
mlttee was appointed to wait upon Hill
and request him to address the convention
Gen. Siclsles presented him to the audianc,
IN these words: II present to Won. oentla
men OF the convention. the Young hickory
OF democracy. our next presidential Gard;
date, David B. HILL" Then came more
cheers, and when the noise finally subsided
sn1hclently Senator Hill spoke at consider.
able length. He thanked the gentlemen Of
the convention for the unanimous vote
Wnich made known their approval to the
= ausnOrl2ea representatives of the DEM
oefacy OF the country, and which will he
recorded IN the annals of the national con
ventlon, 1.-The reswakening Of democracy
all over the land'' he said, s.is the nost
ausplclous sign of the times All onr
troubles, all our dangers at this yery honr
a1ter 80 many years of republican rule. fiow
from the unconstitutional lepislation of
tbs very men who sit in shiverinp fits over
what democracy will do with power. The
democratic party is one whose creed ever
mas ps<n strict Interpretation of the CON
st'tutlon and confinement of government
to 9 few specific granted powers,''
Ha commended these contrasted facts to
11ho nls ipsloW countrymen for meditation.
The rspubllfnn party neither trusts the
people nor obeys them. II now requires
another upheaval at the ballot box like that
OF 1870 to be convinced that the wicked
work Of the billion dollar congress must be-
rl.srealed and the peoples will obeyed,
we arg advancing SAID he, ito the final
renewal of the nations verdict on the in
sansate reign of autocrats and plut orats
whereby their verdict, now scoffed at, shall
nave efficient execution in the election of
both branches of federal congress and a fed
eral executive obedient to the soyereipn
peoples will.
.,'Ihs Sherman silver law transforms the
an instrument for the gradual expulsion of
our gold, for the establishment of an exclu.
slYe nasls and permanent reduction of eyery
American dollar by thirty per cent. or
more, below, ths level OF its true value
during the whole period of our free bimet-
a!llo ;Ea coinage from 1892 to 1872
The senator said the cause of tariff reform
mas lately made great practical advance.
Secretary Manning. in his report of 1886,
ADVISED congress to begin practical tariff
reform by single act. the act for free
WOOL. One year later the secretary's renort
was writ large IN the message of the
- e''ASi.'. .NoVi ue5 years lAG6f, one OF
'ur most enlightened economists, David A,
Wells, writes the chairman of the wavs and
means committee that the path of progress
which Secretary Manning bazed at first |
md alone is the true path. A maxim of
ound policy, better fitted to win elections
han lose them, better dividing into chan. |
ers the lessons of a long campaign of edu-
atlon, ls. abolish, whenever you can, one
tax at time. This is true
'rogress The speech was loudly cheered.
nd at a:5o p. m. the convention adjourned |
inc die.
National delegates at large were chosen
$ follows: Roswell z. Flower Edward
lufphy, Gen. Daniel u. Sickels and Heu,y
V; Siocum; alternates. Manton Marble.
Ohm Blgelow, Sidney Webster and Alfred
!. Chaplin.