Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-17
THURSDAY. ...... MARCH IL. 1892.
Mr.. Hill's Greed.

In bis speech at Jackson, Miss, day be-
fore Yesterday, Mr.. HILL formulated q
creed which for terseness and expressive
ness and completeness it would be difficult
10 rival. Not that there was in II any,
thing novel OF startling. or intended to
switch the world" with noble words, but
because he so successfully condensed
the Democratic creed into few lines
of clear-cut English. His creed. rs
stated by him, is merely the constitu-
ton " of the Democratic creed. The Chi
cago convention will formulate creed In
consonance with this constitution"
which is not Mr.. HuL's work alone. but
has been "evolyed" In the course of the
last century.
After quoting with appreciation Chief
Justice CHAsK's decision (or obitr dlctun')
in a Texas case that ours was an "indis-
soluble union Of indestructible States"
Mr.. Hu.L SAID:
"Thero is no sound construction possible I'M
der II except strict construction. That old doc
trine OF true Democracy and that last word OF
high political philosophy are then Identical.
Live up 20 your Constitution, Nothing TO the
Federal Government except granted powers;
nothing which can be better Gone by State gov
ornments, and moro jealousy watched; nothing
20 the State governments which can be better
done by municipal, by county, by neighborhood
governments. and more jealousy watched, and
even 20 these neighborhood governments nothing
which can DO better reserved 60 the people, in
their voluntary associations under the rule Of
Justice, enforced by equal laws
Truly that is good and comprehen-
eive statement of the fundamental princi-
Piles of our government.
But Mr.. HILL did not forget the infamous
force bill of the last Congress. He said;
alt Is individual freedom, not Republican
forcc bills not congressional leading strings, that
viii enable you, the strong and highy-ciyilized
race, 20 guide forward your less gifted fellow
citizens from tho plane OF equality before the
law 10 the higher levels Of thrift, economy, good
husbandry, social order, self-impOsed and house,
hold virtue, and thus transform the present un-
Imaginable difficulties and unshared burdens OF
the South into the sold foundations OF still more
prosperous societies and still more prosperous
States
Let 1t not be forgotten that the speaker Of
these words has, by securing a Democratic
Legislature in New York and the redis-
tricting of that State for the election of
members of the State Legislature and
members of the national House of Repre-
bentatives. rendered 1t next to impossible
for the Republicans to pass force bill
hereafter. Democratic Legislature in
New York, Democratic congressional
delegation. including two Democratic
United States senators, are charged up to
his account by the Republican malignants
nnd credited 90 HIM by all good Demo-
Gratis.
= But so prejudiced against New York's
favorlte son are some of the Democrats of
Virginia that Mr.. Huns declarations will
be sighted or neglected as coming from
Uammany Hall, or as containing nothing
new. Well. as we have already said. these
.ptterances cannot be SAID to DO new. But
they may be said to be as good as if they
@ere new, aud all the better because they
fall in with the teachings of the trainers
bf the Federal Constitution and the
founders of the republic.