The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-04-02
THE DEMOCRATIC CAUSE.
Hills Public Career and Private Life
UneOntaminated by Vice.

Senator John W. Daniel in the Richmond
tyn.) Dispatch.
AT the first opportunity | reply TO
your specific request that ! give my
opinion as To the extraordinary attacks
make on Senator David b. Hill. This
request has beer re-enforced by letters
of similar nature from Il number of my
constituents. My democratic brethren
are entitled to have my :iews tor what
they may be worth, and | give them
candidly.
| have no interest in the matter say g
that of citizen who believes demo
cratic success necessary 10 the conn
try's welfare and the Sonth's safety.
Nothing but the conviction that the
attacks on Senator Hill are grossly
unjust, that the people are being mis-
led by them, and that they imperil
our success could induce me TO take
part to repel them.
They originate from republican
sources. They are encouraged in New
York by boilers and others who would
rule or ruin. They are repeated by
4 those who are either infected by re-
publican publications or blinded by
momentary zeal for other candidates.
About u year ago Senator Evarts, oi
New York, was clamorng for the
force bill, Hill was in Albany beglrt by
foes, but working to help us, and we
\ in Washington were begirt by foes, but
! working for delivcrancc. The south
was trembling. The country was in
dread. To-day Evarts is gone; the force
\ bill is gone.
While the democrats were beleaguer'
ed in Washington, and Hill beleaguer.
ed in Albany fighting the force bill
where were the boilers? Led by TIL,
Honorable G. ). Fairchild, they were
in combination with the republicans tC
\ overturn New York democracy and de
Y stroy its citadel.
They had no time to organize ol
make proclamations against the forcs
4 bill. And yet they had full time tC
! organize against the democracy o
New York City and to organize IN fay
or of the gold rings of Wall street, an,
were so ill-timed and selfish us to de
| nounce the silver men, constituting
! nine-tenths of the democrats in con
| gress, at the crisis of their hattl,
against the force bill, when they wer,
rescuing the country from pandemon
ium Are such men fit To be our lead
| ersp
| 1t is due in all fairness that w
should recall respecting Senator Hill
first, that his long public career an,
| his private life have been uncontami
mated by any charge of vice or cor
1 ruption He is clean man and
stout fighter. Second, that all out
cries made against Senator Hill nov
were made against him before his owl
! people in New York last fall and re
pulsed and silenced by enormou
majorities. Third, Hill was twice gov
ernor of New York; before that lieu
tenant-governor, state senator, an,
twice president of the New York Ba
4 Association-a position open only 1
learning, intellect, and honor. Hewa
under fire for over decade freI
enemies who had every opportuniiy /
Il republican Legislature to investigat
hls every act, and his pluck, probits
and fidelity have been thoroughly Tih
dictated before his own state by SUE
/ cession of honors such as it never bt
fore conferred upon any OF its grea
leaders. Fourth, Hills administratin
as governor was wise, able, and snt
! cessful. sy
We should remember, also, fhs
Senator Hill has been opposed by
machine organization that had Wa
street for its purse, and the boundles
| lchicaneries of Davenport SUPERVISED