Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-25
HrLL rs ALI RIGHT.


OF Senator HILL s character and motives
floating about in the minds Of great
many people. That he is a shrewd and
practical politician everyone knows
but that does not, by any means,
imply that he is not an honest man,
who is for his party and the
triumph Of its principles before he is for
himself and the qualification Of his per-
sOnal ambition
That Senator HILL will support Mr..
CLEVELAND Loyalty and do all in his
power to carry New York for the Dem
ocratic ticket this year we have
not the slightest doubt. In lSss Gov.
HILL was accused of 'knifng"
Mr.. CLEVELAND, and thereby de-
feating him in New York. But in a
speech at Albany on November S, 1855,
two days after the election, he said:
in common with every true Democrat
I greatly regret the defeat Of President
CLEVELAND in the State and nation. He
deserved better at the hands OF the
people OF this country. Honest, brave
and courageous, he CALAMITY led his
party in the great contest for tariff re-
form, and suffered defeat owing to
false elamor, unjust prejudices, unfair
representations, and the gigantic and
combined efforts Of all TIC mOlOpOltsts Of
the country.
"He did his duty as he understood il, "
continued Mr.. HILL regardless
Of personal or political consid-
ations, and he should have been
sustained by the taxpayers, consumers
and masses Of the people, whose true in
terests he desired to subserve, and
whose rights he unselishly endeayored
to maintain"
These are not the words Of a traitor,
or an enemy Of Mr.. CLEVELAND. Gov.
HILL continued:
ut is not necessary or profitable to in
ouire whether the issue he 80 boldly made
might not more wisely have been earlier
presented, or postponed to a later period.
tits sufficient 70 say that as the trusted
leader OF tina Democratic party, after a
full and careful consideration Of the whole
subject, he deemed that the best and truest
interests Of the country required that the
issue should be made az this crisis, and
with that patriotic and deliberate cOnclu-
sion, when once reached, there should nave
been prompt acquiesCenCe.
The principle Of tarif reform has only
met with temporary defeat. Sooner or
later il will ultimately triumph In this
country President Cleveland and the
Democratic party we're right and deserved
TO succeed The argument lCGS NTH us, and
tiCo lUesks' longer discussion tUOuldhdVe giUcn
ttS the rictoTy."
OF his own victory in that election
Gov. HILL did not Intimate that it was
due to anything but local issues which
he as the Democratic candidate repre-
sented. He said;
"Iu conclusion permit me to observe that
our Uict0ru upon state issues means that the
people Of this state are opposed 10 iUiberdi and
unjust utmptudrg legislation, and favor Just
aud equitable eTciSe lClC vigorously enforced.
They want uniform excise legislation, APP
piled alike TO all parts Of the State. They
demand that excise revenues, like all other
proper local revenues, should 90 into local
treasures rather than into the treasury Of
the State. The people are opposed TO
hypOcritical temperance legislation, So
called, not honestly designed TO subserve
tina cause of temperance, but intended for
political effect
HILL did not knife" CLEVELAND In
1855 and be will not oppose him now.
He is not that kind Of a Democrat.
Senator HILL is all right.