Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
FOR SOUTHERN EARS
Senator Hill AttuneS His
Speech to the MissiS-
sippi Legislators.
THE PROBLEM OF COLOR
Touched Up Lightly, While States
Rights Is Expatiated Upon.
EVERY DISASTER IN THE COUNTRY
Laid to the Doors of Republican Constitu-
tional Violations.
THE PROBLEM OF COLOR
EVERY DISASTER IN THE COUNTRY
DEMOCRATS MED NO MUGWUMP AID


JACKSON, MISS, March 15.-The train
bearing Senator Hill and party made its
first stop this morning at Meridian, Miss.
In response to the address of welcome the
Senator spoke, in part, as follows:
The Democratic party-what shall 1 say
of it? In victory defeat it has steadfastly
maintained the rights of the people. 1t is a
friend of the poor. 1t has welcomed them
from every cline and every country. Zap
plause.l 1t is the party that has maintained
the rights of the naturalized citizen. IRE.
newed applause.l 1t is the party that
believes in home rule, in the rights of the
States in popular sovereignty in civil
liberty, in the rights of habeas corpus the
freedom of the press and trial by jury.
(Applause.] Such party was not born to
die. Defeat after defeat it has met, but it
has risen from the disaster stronger than
ever.
We are on the eve of great contest this
fall. This gathering, the gatherings which
we witnessed yesterday from the time we
left Washington up to this hour, show the
interest the people are taking in political
subjects. [Applause1 1t shows that the
reign of the Republican party is rapidly
drawing to a close. [Cheers.l
Blow at the Billion Congress.
The last Congress-you know what it is
called, the "billion dollar Congress"-will
20 down to history as the Congress that
squandered the peoples money. tApplause.l
You know what the Democratic position is
1t can be stated in a word: The place for
surplus taxes is in the pockets of the people,
not in the Federal Treasury. [Cheers.l We
believe in an honest, economical admins
tration of public affairs. Our creed is so
plain that the humblest citizen and the
most unlettered can understand it. We be-
lieve that no more money should be raised
for the General Government than is abso-
lutely required for its administration. lap
pIause. 1t is the true Democratic doctrine.
This is common sense. This position is in
the interests of the people.
We don't believe that the Government
should build up private interests at the eN-
Dense of the many. [Applause.1 We do not
believe that the great masses of the people
should be taxed for the benefit of the few.
The signs are bright for victory. United
we can win: divided we shall be defeated. /
make plea for union and harmony here in
Meridian and all over this great State of
Mississippi. Let those who agree with us on
these elementary principles of Democracy
to which have referred, unite together,
make one strong pull, and we will drive the
intrenched enemy from power. tCheersl.
The Arrival at the State Capital.
At jackson, the first objective point of
Mr.. Hill's Journey, an immense crowd was
assembled, and Governor Stone met the
Senator and welcomed him to the State
amid the cheers of 5000 Mississippians
Senator Hill became the guest of Governor
Stone during his stav in the city.
At 2 o'clock the Legislature met in joint
session. The galleries and lobbies were
crowded to the utmost, and loud cheers
greeted the appearance of the guest of
Mississippi as Senator Hill entered the
hall in company with Governor Stone. To
the Governor of the State was assigned the
honor of introducing Senator Hill to the
Joint assemblage Mr. Hill responded SUBJ
stantially as follows:
am tempted TO remark that from this
vast crowd present to-day, Mr.. Reed, who
was once Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. but is not now [applause1 would
have no difficulty in counting quorum of
the Legislature. The Old World has had its
cordial embassies from sovereign state to
sovereign state. In this New World, where
the people rule, shall we not brighten every
tie that links oar democratic dominions,
Sovereignty of an imperishable Union? 1
will trust your white-haired veterans, famil-
lar with public cares. 1 will trust the
youngest man, who treads for the first time
these halls, burning to hurl his heart into
the service of the State.
The Whole Democratic Doctrine,
The ground upon which the Democrats of
the State of New York have taken their
stand is the whole Democratic faith and
tradition-not some corner of it merely, not
some splinter of it merely-but the whole.
This is the ground upon which would fain
see the Democrats of the State of Missis-
sippi, with all Democrats of the North,
South, East and West, both of the regular
organization and the Farmers Alliance,
unite in their stand in the approaching
election. TApplauSe.l
other duties for another day: for, like the
victory of Jefferson and Union, this victory
will close chapter of history, will doom to
final uisintegration a degraded party, and
will fix the direction of our political
progress for some decades in the century to
come. Now, then, political principles de-
pend for their triumph upon parties. 1t is
the Democratic principle which has created
the Democrltlc party. In its union is
found greater strength than all its enc
mics combined can ever finally subvert.
[Applause.] 1t survives every disaster. 1t
is the great and most efficient organ of the
peoples power.
The Democratic party is stronger than any |
man or set of men. No man is every indis- |
pensable to its success trenewed applausel |
for its strength is with the people. 1t is |
greater and more powerful than any class, |
however numerous. Therefore. it is large,
tolerant, liberal, progressive. 1t invites to |
its membership. to its control, all who will |
uphold the whole Democratic faith and |
tradition and apply them to the peoples |
needs. |
He Skins Over rhe Race Problem. |
The government and social adaptations of |
any group of men as civilized as we must |
vary with location on the earth's surface to |
secure that end and aim-progressive indi- |
vidual freedom in the pursuit of happiness. |
Government help too often entails Govern |
ment compulsion. and implies lower stage |
of growth or less felicity of circumstance |
than ours. tApplause.l Every intermixuure |
of men less civilized than we complicates |
the matter Any difference in environment, |
whether a difference in races OF men or |
regions of the earth, implies changes in the |
adaptation.
Fancy little Rhode Island lifted up car
ried half way round the globe and dropped /
down in Mongolia, with Russia 10 westward
and ali China to eastward. Would Roger
WiIliams' patent. King Charles charter,
Governor Dorns' constitution or her present /
Constitution do at all? l suppose that
neither James Madison nor Abraham Lin
coln would think the Constitution of the
Ifnited States a perfect fit for a new Repub-
lie of the island of Madagascar, comprising
inst the present white population of Yer |
mont and the present co!ored population of
Louisiana.
what disturbance did the immigra ton of |
n few thousand Chinese cause to our Pacific |
coast states? What treaties and la ws have |
We not Welded to their special solicitude, so
that our peace with that most ancient and |