Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-20
THE A RGJS.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1892
HILL IN THE FIGHT.
The New York Senator Speaks
at Brooklyn.
A KEYNOTE ON THE TARIFF ISSUE

Definition of the Chicago Platform That
Repudiates Free Trade and Discrimi-
mates Between Tariff for Protection and
for Revenue with Incidental Protection
His View of the True Inwardness of the
Figures in Peck's Report-''The Country
Prosperous In Spite of the Mckinley
Bill"
BROOKLYN Sept 20.-There great
outpouring of Democrats in this city last
night. The Academy of Music could not
accommodate the crowd that rushed to Sc
cure good positions from which to take in
every action of Senator David b. Hill in the
delivery of an address that has been awaited
anxiously by all Democrats. At o'clock
the doors of the big theater were opened,
and while the senator was enjoying the hos
pitality of the Kings county campaign COM
mittee at the Clarendon hotel two blocks
away, 5000 people were crushing their way
into the Academy. The. house was filled in
side of three minutes, and at the end of five
minutes every available foot of standing
room was occupied; and there was one long
hour to wait.
Appearance of the Speakers.
The time was passed pleasantly enough,
however listening to the excellent music
of Contero's band and looking at the sea
of faces, which in itself was entertainment
enough for an hour. On the stage sat
every prominent Democrat of Brooklyn
and many of the leading lights of New
York. 1t was about o'clock when the
speakers and the entertaining committee
made their appearance. They were greeted
with cheers which lasted while they walked
down to the stage and took their seats.
The dying cheers were strengthened wE<n
;f,bt Of
Hugh Mclaughlin, the leader of Brook
lyn's Democratic forces, as he entered pri-
vate box. The chairman of the evening
was VIM. J. Combs, who said that the first
speaker of the evening needed no more intro
duction than the praise. HE is Democrat
The Senator Takes the Floor.
Cries of ''Hill, Hill" here greeted him, and
he sat down while New York's senator
arose and stood with smiling features as
the audience showered applause upon him.
The senator's voice was low and calm as he
began, but he gradually warmed up and
before a minute had passed he had uttered
a phrase that carried wild applause with it.
This was when he said that before the Dem
Ocratic national convention at Chicago he
was a Democrat and he was a Democrat
still He said that he spoke as a Democrat
to Democrats He then went on to say that
the Chicago convention had passed into
history; that real fancied grievances
should be dismissed, personal ambitions
should be sacrificed and individual disap-
pointments should be forgotten in this great
emergency which demands from us all the
exhibition of widespread and lofty party
patriotism
Difference Between the PARTIES
Senator Hill continued: IF / were asked
to define the one fundamental difference
between the two parties 1 should state that
one believes in a strict construction of the
federal constitution and the other a loose
one" And with this difference when it came
to federal taxation division on the tariff
was inevitable. "Concisely stated, what is
the position of the two parties upon this
question? desire to state it fairly. The
Republican party advocates the doctrine
that the government has a constitutional
as well as a moral right to impose tariff
duties for the purpose of encouraging the
building up of private industries, by the
imposition of duties sufficiently large to
prevent foreign competition, irrespective
of the question of the needs of the treasury;
while the Democratic party believes that
the government has only constitutional
and moral right to impose such duties as
may be necessary to raise sufficient revenue
to support the government economically
administered"