Connecticut western news., 1892-09-22
SENATOR HILL TALKS
HE OPENS THE CLEVELAND CAM
 PAlGN IN BROOKLYN.


 PAlGN IN BROOKLYN. His Opening Declaration That He Was a
 Democrat Stin Loudly Applauded, but the Dramatic Climax to His Address
 Seemed to Set His Audience Wild.
 BROOKLYN, Sept. 20.-There was great Dutpouring of Democrats in this city last night The Academy of Music could not accommodate the crowd that rushed to se- ture 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. There were 10000 in and around the building, and on the stage sat 400 people, among whom was every prominent Democrat of Brooklyn in town and many of the leading lights in the political arena of the large sister city. 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. When the applause ceased the meeting was declared opened by Chairman Thomas E Pearsall, of the campaign committee. The most striking sentence delivered by him in his short address was as follows:
 Democrats everywhere in the state of New York are at peace among themselves and never more thoroughly united than at this hour. Let | all Democrats join in making the majority for | Cleveland and Stevenson the largest ever given In the county of Kings Mr. Pearsall introduced as chairman of the, evening William J. Coombs, whose dis tinction lays in the fact that he ran for con- gress in Republican district having 1000 majority and got elected. Mir. Coombs said that the first speaker of the evening needed no more introduction than the phrase, "He Is Democrat" Cries of Hill, Hillr' here greeted him, and he sat down while New York's senator arose and stood with smil- ing features as the audience showered ap. | plause upon him.
 The senator's voice was low and calm as | he began, but gradually he warmed up, | and before a minute had passed he had ut tered phrase that carried wild applause | with it. This was when he said that be- | fore the Democratic national convention at | Chicago he was a Democrat and was a Democrat still. Senator Hill spoke in part | as follows:
 Senator HiII's Speech. .. am reminded of the fact that it in this | edifce upon a memorable occasion in 1885 that | had the honor of expressing to the intrepid Democracy of Kings county the sentiment, "l am Democrat" " and under the existing political | situation Iknow of no more appropriate place | or presence than here to declare that 8 Democrat before the Chicago convention, and | am a Democrat still | Your cordial invitation to unite with you in | the opening of this campaign could not well be | declined, and was accepted with pleasure, com | Ing as it did from Democratic organization | embracing those who during all my political life have been among my stanchest and truest | friends.
 The national Democratic convention of 1892 has passed into history with its record, its tri | umphs and its disappointments. The wisdom | of its action Is not now to be questioned. It was the court of last resort established by party | usage the final arbiter to determine the con | hicting interests and claims of candidates | states and sections and its decision will be ac | cepted with loyal acquiescence by every true I and patriotic Democrat who recognizes the | necessity of party organization and discipline | and respects the obligations which he assumes | In its membership.
 | :. From this time forward imperative duties are imposed upon us. Fractional appeals should | now cease, the spirit of resentment should be | abandoned, state pride should be subordinate | to the general good, real or fancied grievances | should be dismissed, personal ambitions should be sacrificed and individual disappointments | should be forgotten in this great emergency which demands from all the exhibition of widespread and lofty party patriotism. l Permit me to repeat what had the honor o | expressing to the Tammany society on July 1 | last, before the echoes of our national conven l ton had scarcely died away, as follows: Our course at the present time is plain In the ap | preaching struggle the Democracy of New | York should present solid front to the com mon enemy. Loyalty to cardinal Democratic principles and to regularly nominated candi dates is the supreme duty of the hour" I re iterate those sentiments now.
 | Political parties necessity under oul system of free government, but parties canno | exist and accomplish successful results without unity of action, prompt acquiescence in tn, conclusions of the majority and vigorous co | operation under competent leadership to secur, the common object. To this end individua preferences and personal opinions must giv, | way to the judgment of the party councils l The party platform, in all its essential particu | lars must be deemed to be the infallible party l guide and the party's candidates are our can didates and are entitled to our fealty
 There is no place in honorable American poll tics for the political guerrillas who do not at tach themselves to either of the great politica
 armies, but who, while swearing allegiance t, | neither criticise them both and fight first upoi one side and then upon the other. am not as l suming to offer suggestions of duty to this clas
 of people, but am speaking tonight as Dem
 ocrat to Democrats who are anxious to sub
 serve the interests of their country, and believ
 that such interests can best be subserved b.
 the success of the Democratic cause.
 | The Tariff.
 Senator Hill then compared the two grea
 political parties, stating that the funda
 mental difference between them was tha
 the Democratic party believed in stric
 and the Republican party in loose con
 struction of the federal constitution. H
 then went into long argument on tn
 tariff question, quoting Judge Miller, of tn
 United States supreme court, and Judg
 Cooley's work on constitutional law t
 prove that the Democratic platform wa
 right in asserting that the federal govern
 ment has no constitutional power to impos
 and collect tariff duties except for the pun
 poses of revenue only, and went on to say:
 The Mills bill of 1888 and the separate tarii
 bills passed by the present Democratic house c
 representatives indicate in a general way tn
 Democratic position. They show:
 First-That the necessaries of life should b | substantially free.
 | Second-That luxuries should bear the heaN
 fest burdens.
 Third-That there should be free raw ms
 terials for the benefit of our manufacturers.
 Fourth-That the tariff upon manufacture
 articles should as general rule be large
 where similar articles are manufactured in tn
 country than where they are not.
 Fifth-That the tariff imposed upon all maI
 ufactured articles (other than those which fo good reasons are placed on the free lisD shoul , equal the difference between the rate of wage
 paid in this and foreign countries so far as labc enters into the cost of their production.
 President Harrison in his ingenious letter ( acceptance endeavors to place our party in false attitude by calling attention to the fat , that while our platform in 1884, readopted l
 1888, contained an express plank upon tn | pf