Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-29
Il AM A DEMOCRAT"
Senator Hill Opens the Campaign
in New York
Ringing Words as to the Duty of Demo-
crats-They Should Organize and
Loyalty Support tho
Ticket.

Ticket.
New YORK, Sept 2O.-There was O
great outpouring of democrats in Brook
Ign last night. The Academy of Music
could not accommodate the crowd that
tried to get into it
When Senator Hill and the other
speakers entered the theater they were
greeted most enthusiastically, the APP
plause lasting until the patty had
mounted the stage and taken aneir
seats. ~
troduced as the chairman of the even
ing.
Mr.. Coombs, after few remarks, pre-
sented Senator David B. Hill
Mr.. Hill said: 81 am reminded of the
fact that it was in this edifice, upon
memorable occasion in 1885, that had
the honor of expressing to the intrepid
democracy of Kings county the senti-
ment, 4 am a democrat and under the
existing political situa ton know of no
more appropriate place or presence
than here to declare that was demo-
crat before the Chicago convention and
l am a democrat still.
1.-THE national democratic convention
of 1892 has passed into history, with its
record, its triumphs and its disappoint-
meuts. The wisdom of its action is not
now to be questioned. 1t was the court
of last resort established by party usage
as the final arbitrator to determine the
conflicting interests and claims of can
didates, states and sections, and its de-
cision will be accepted with loyal &C
quiescence by every true and patriotic
of party organization and discipline
and respects the obligations which he
assumes in its membership From this
posed upon me.
fractional appeals should now cease,
the spirit of resentment should be sub
ordinated to the public good; real or
fancied grievances should be dismissed,
personal ambitions and individual dis
appointments should be forgotten in
this great emergency which demands
from us all the exhibition of wide
spread and lofty party patriotism.
Permit me to repeat what l had the
honor of expressing to the Tammany
society on the Fourth of July last, be-
fore the echoes of our national conven-
ton had scarcely died away, as follows:
In the approaching struggle the democ-
racy of New York should present a
solid front to the common enemy.
Loyalty to cardinal democratic
principles and to regularly
nominated candidates is the su.
preme duty of the hour 1 reiterate
these sentiments now. We are enter
ing upon the twenty-seventh presiden-
tial election since the organization of
our government. The good citizen, de-
sirous of discharging his full duty in
this crisis, according to his conscience
and his Judgment, unintiuenced by
selfish considerations, will discover
two great parties arrayed against each
other, struggling for the control of the
government and appealing to the peo-
pie for their Suffrages."
After reviewing the history of the
two parties he branched onto protec-
ton and free trade. On this he said:
president Harrison and all the other
great and small advocates of this vicious
system diligently seek to create an inn
preston that the democratic party has
assumed d holder attitude than former
ly and become an advocate of absolute
free trade. l said in the campaign of
1888, in my opening speech at the Acad-
envy of Music in New York city, that if
1 believed the democratic party favored
absolute free trade, 1 should not advo-
cate its cause, and l repeat the state
ment here tonight. 1 insist that neither
the democratic party nor l have
changed our position upon this ques-
ton, but that we stand where we have
ever stood. Tariff reform does not
mean free trade. Our opponents mis-
represent our position now as they
have ever done since the famous tariff
message of 1888. In that historic mes
sage, our candidate expressly repudi-
ated the suggestion that he was enter
ing upon any crusade of free trade He
did not demand that our tariff laws
should be wiped out of existence"
He then quoted from ex-President
Cleveland's message, and then took up
the Mckinley bill
Following out thu regular line of
argument, he went on to the force
bill, which he severely denounced, and
after talking on state affairs closed as
follows:
81 believe that large majority of the
people of this country are convinced of
the rightfulness of democratic princi-
pies and want them to prevail. But the
election will not win itself and there
must be complete organization. 1 re-
peat the injunction uttered before the
democratic state convention in Albany
in February last: 1T is our duty to or
ganize, organize, organize With this
motto inscribed upon our banner, pub
lie office is a public trust supplement-
ed by the other sentiments which I
have endeavored to present to you to-
night, no public taxation for private
purposes and no force bill Let us
close up our ranks and buckle on our
armor for the fight with the deter nina
ton to do all in our power for the tri-
uInph of our party and the election of
our honored standard bearers, CT eveland
and Stevenson
Killed BY a Panther.
ST PAUL. Mimi, Sept 2O.-Kitty
Yancy, aged II, and Herbert Yancy,
aged 10, came to a fearful death at
Warsaw, MIMI, Saturday morning. It
is presumed that ehey were killed by
panther which escaped from Barnum's
circus about week ago. They were