Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04

/ lnlrty-SeYe1 years. New YORK Is gredI
state. It's population runs into the millions,
its wealth is incalculable. The success
with which he administered its affairs is
evidence that as chief executive OF this
| government our republic will not suffer"
''But, captain, it is claimed that the
tariff Is against the interest OF the South
and West and in favor Of the East, and that
Hill is in all things in favor of the East,
even to the extent of sacrificing his honor
by playing ameof duplicity on the silver
question:"
Hill has been grossly misrepresented.
In his Elmira speech of December he said
that to win at the next election he thought
that the Democrats IN congress should at
tempt to repeal the Mckinley acts. Because
Of this position upon party policy he mas
been published as being in favor OF the
protective tariff of 1888. He declared that
this law was bad in the same breath. I
cannot better state his position than give
his own words: I admit with candor that
the repeal of the two Mckinley acts would
only land US where we were before our
great misadventure three years ago l ad-
nit that the tariff Of 1888 offers large
field for revenue reform. But that is now
white beside this latter black referring to
the Mckinley acts. l''
'tWhat better reformer could the South
and West wanta He is in favor of going as
far as it is safe to party interests to go. In
1880 the people said in their congressional
elections that they preferred the law of 'S3
to the Mckinley acts. Hill will give them
an opportunity to say it again. For conn-
selling the partyto tread only upon safe
ground he has been misrepreSented. He is
q Democrat first and tariff reforIner next,
and has no sympathy with those who would
place tariff above the party. He would go
SO far as prudence will permit. but he
would not endanger the party's welfare for
the simple sake of stirring up an immense
amount of fuss and feathers in an effort
to reduce the tariff, however iniquious he
should regard it. No, he would not hazard
the party'S success for all the tariffs. Be
sides knowing that tariff reform depends
entirely upon the success of the Democratic
party, he believes with all the intensity of
his nature, that the reform of the thou
sands Of pernicious practices insinuated
into the administration Of the government
by the Republican party, such as scandal
Gus extravaganza, unconstitutional subsl-
dies, class favoritism etc, is equally de-
pendent upon the Democratic partys as
cendancy. The source from whence comes
the charge that Hill is in favor of the inter-
est of the East seasons it with poor grace.
The men who charge it are advocates of
Cleveland, who among public men, John
Sherman not excepted, is the iercest enemy
of the South aud West. His influence and
labors have ever been directed for the
triumph of the demands of Eastern capital
on the money question. He favors gold as
the single money standard Bills in favor
of both gold and silver. The assertion of
his enemies that he is q Cleveland gold
bug in disguise would be unworthy of no.
tice but for the fact that few newspapers,
which, unfortunately, are the chief sources
of the information of the people Of Texas,
persist in giving garbled extracts
of his public utterances and in deliberate
misrepresentation. He is in favor of
n Ill 6ol
the senate during the last congress and
was killed in the house with the aid of Mr..
Cleveland, he said: The United States
senate on the 18th of January, '9l, passed
free bi-metalhc coinage. bill For that bib
every Democratic senator present voted, If
not paired in its favor, except one from
Delaware After fifteen years of debate,
our party's chosen men-studious, upright
men-votirg upon their honor, their con-
science, their intelligence, voted thus
That bill met every demand OF the repre-
sentatiyes of the South and West on that
question. He is also in favor Of making
this a question in the coming campaign.
Here are his bold, brave words: 1t is poll
tics for towards and straddlerS to advise and
contrive that the Democratic national con-
yention's trumpet shall blow some uncer-
tain sound. The gold and silver question
will vex the repose of nations, will modify
the budgets of statesmen, will disturb the
markets and exchanges of all nations. will
therefore surge up and reSurge in every
presidential election in the United States
so long as gold and silver iuctuate from
their old fixed rated equivolance.'
"These excerpts from his Elniira speech
establish in no uncertain way mis- position
on the tariff and money question, and at
thesame time brand as mendacious the
freely banded charge that he is simply
vascillating, sham bling politician"
= - t,a hot 20 fa1- md
man from the West than to go to New York
for u candidate2"
Eastern Democracy is q sight better
than Western Republicanism. You have
never yet heard of any Eastern Democracy
hunting up force bills with which to put
white heads under negro heels. As be-
tween Eastern Democracy and Western Re-
publicanism the South, to choose wisely,
will take the former. Again, it is rainbow
chasing for q Democrat to start out in a
presidential campaign with the iuea OF
capturing Western state. II we abandon
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut In
diana and Delaware, to what states in the
West may we lay rational claim for an
equivalent of their seventy electoral votes2
The South has 1856 electoral votes, 1t will
require 223 TO elect. What state in the
West can give US the needed sixty-seven
Yotes2 Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas
and California would, if we could gain
every one. Oh Jnen WITHOUT SlnSlo sup.
give us the necessary quota, they having
sixty-eight votes. These states would be
our only hope if we turn to the West
What man will risk judgment upon his
sanity by counseling great party to put
its dependence in the West going Demo-
cratic? What expression of sympathy have
any of them ever given for the principles. of
the Democratic party or the interests of
the people of the South2 All of this
talk of a Western man is pure
balderdash. There is no political
sense in it; it is simply sentimental folly.
Col. R. Q. Mills, am sorry to learn, favors
a Western man. I am inclined to think
that he allowed himself TO take this posi-
ton while feeling the double sting of being
abandoned by his Eastern friend, Cleve-
land in the speakership fight and INDUCING
the belief that Hill's Elmira speech con-
tributed to his defeat. Mills will change
his idea about this, however He cannot
afford to stand in the way Of Democratic
success in the presidential election in order
to crafty personal pique at Hill. He is too
brave man not to recede from a position
fraught with direfnl results to his party.
In Texas Hills friends are numbered
among Mills friends. think nearly every
member of the David B. Hill Democratic
club is friend of Mills and desires his
election to the senate"
"What have you to say to the charges
that Hill caused Cleveland's defeat in 'sss''
Hill is the worst abused, maligned and
slandered man in public life. Cleveland
defeated himself. He thought himself