The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-03-01
HICKORY OF DEMOCRACY.
The New York Leader Declares Himself
on the Days Great Issues.

on the Days Great Issues.
The din that followed the reading OF the
resolutions only died away by exhaustion
as Mr.. Hill, upon the arm OF
Colonel Fellows marched down the aisle.
Coming finally upon the stage, MIR. Hill
shook hands with Chairman S!ckles, r.
moved his overcost, took from one Of hi:
porkets his speech in printed copy kn6
waited for the applause to subside.I
When silence hal come on the throng
General Sickles, leaning upon his crutch,
waved his right hand toward Mr.. Hill,
saying: Il present to you. gentlemen OF
the convention, the young Hickory OF the
Democracy our next presidential candi-
date. David B. Hill"
Then came more cheers and added din
and Mr.. Hill stood waiting, his face very
pale and one hand tightly gripped in nerv-
Gus tension. At length the noise subsided
and he spoke:
Fellow Democrats: Your committee
summoning me to this presence, have ap-
prised me of that unanimous vote which
makes known your approva! OF me to the
authorized representatives Of the Dem
ocracy of the Quilted States, and will be
recorded in the annals of our national
convention. With what terms shall L ac-
knowledge this official act, my fellow
| Democrats. which instead of pointing TO
some new, untried career, might amply
reward and crown the labors of the longest
( life, From that great cardinal whose
".cai. kindly lIght' has touched the hearts
OF al ChristendOm, let my gratitude
Lumbly borrow this worthier response
I than ] myself could ever frame to the
great Democracy whom you represent.
My respect for them obliges me TO submit
myself to their praise as to grave and
emphatic judgment upon me, which II
would be rude to question, unthankful not
, to be proud OF, and impossible ever 10 for
get :,
over our land is the most suspicious sign
Of the times. When the people of France
rose against oppression l0J years ago 1t
meant revolution, change of rulers and a
social earthquake. When the Democracy
OF America rise il means On upaeaval at
the ballot box, a change of their servants
and political reform. This is true Democ-
racy This is government Of, by and for
the people When you see the farmers
arousing and all allied; when you see the
federation Of labor stirring; when you See
in every state the great Democratic party
up and afoot, it means that the reign Of
plutocrats is nearly o-or and the brig ht
day .: Democracy and approaching dawn
near The use of political parties is TO
promote the expression of the peoples
mandates. The function of statesmen is
to frame and execute the same by just and
equal laws.
The Republican party neither trusts the
people nor obeys them. II now requires
another upheaval at the ballot box of 1892
to be convinced that the wicked work of
the billion dollar congress must be re-
pealed and the peoples will obeyed.
Fellow Democrats, rejoice to know By
those infallible signs, by the ground swell,
by the awakening of the Democratic hosts,
by the arousal Of high and noble young
ambitions through our land, that we are
advancing to a cordial union and an over
whelming triumph.
Continuing Mr.. Hill said:
The Sherman silver law now Transforms
. the federal coinage power Of silver and
gold into an instrument for the gradual
expulsion Of our gold, for the establish
ment of an exclusive basis and for the
permanent reduction of every American
dollar by 30 per cent or more below the
level Of its .true value during the whole
period of our free bi-metallic coinage from
1775 to IS13. Shall such a law stand
There has been no such legislation for
freemen since Cromwell called the law OF
England "tortuous and. ungodly jum-
ble." E0
The demand for repeal of these edicts
of the billion congress has extorted from
Republican leaders their published pur-
pose to refuse repeal. Repeal is not pro-
posal to stop at the tariff Of 1883 as a
fnality. Their language expressly barred
out that idea. Moreover, when the tariff
OF 1888 was the law Of the land in the houl
of our defeat three years ago. said here
in Albany, The Democratic party nails
to the mast the flag of tariff reform"
Tariff reform will remain and re
quire progressive solution with the
wise and polite method OF abolish
ing whenever practicable. one after
another, one indefensible tax at a
time where the two Mckinley laws to-day
replaced by the tariff of 1853 But / do
not finch backward from the advance line
OF ectrenchment which the Democrats OF
New York have won, kept and will guard.
do not shirk deadly grapple with the
Republican revolutionists whose banners
no longer fly the tariff of 1888, but now fly
the mad Mckinley laws and the wild Sher-
man law and mock US from the citadeis OF
power.
The speech was intently listened to and
while not broken often by applause it was
cheered loudly. AT its close the band
played Three Cheers for the Red, White
ana Blue" The motion to adjourn came
quickly then and the convention at 30 p
M. adjourned sine die
THE ANTS.
They Meet and Issue an Add ess for
Another Convention.
In the recess interim of the state con.