Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-16
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At JACKSON.

and Governor Stone met the senator and
welcomed him to the state amid the cheers
Epf 5000 MIssissippians.
Hill became the guest of Governor Stone
during his stay in Jackson, and a reception
was he-d at the executive mansion at u
O'CLOCK, where the senator shook hands
with stream of visitors for over an hour.
AT 2o'clock the legislature met in Joint
session in the hall of the house of represent
atves. with Lieutenant-Go Governor Evans
and Speaker Street as joint presiding
officers.
The galleries and lobbies were crowded
to their utmost and loud cheers greeted the
appearance of the guest of Mississippi as
Senator Hill entered the hall in company
with Governor Stone, who introduced Hill
to the Joint assemblage.
Senator Hill faced his Mississippi audi
ence calm and cool and, after the applause
which greeted his Introduction had sub
sided, he spoke as follows:
ssSss F54ERNoR STONE AND GENTLEMES-Be-
Tore commencing my remarks
am tempted to say that
from this vast crowd present
to-day Mr. Reed who was once
speaker of the house of representatives
but is not now. [applausel would
nave no dllhc;ulty in counting a
and applause. The senator then
thanked the legislature for the invitation
and said the greatest statesman of the re-
public, the most venerable and most re-
nowned, would have made haste to
gather such a leaf to bind with
all his laurels. There is good reason
at all times, ne said. for an interchange of
thought between the people of forty-four
states banded together for life to insure
one another'S liberty in the pursuit
of happiness, but there is excellent reason
at the present time for such an interchange
between men whose political philos-
ophy and party politics alike are
summed up in preserving for our own bene- |
mt and for the benefit of the times to come |
the great Democratic faith and tradition. |
me ground upon which the Democrats Of |
the state of New York have taken their |
stand Is the whole Democratic faith and |
4'diltlon. not some corner of it
merely, but the whole. Upon this ground |
you'd fain see the Democrats of Missis-
sippi, with all the Democrats of the North,
South East and West, both of regular or
and Farmers Alliance, unite and
lake their stand in the approaching contest
Applause.
This victory viii close another chapter
If our history and will fix the direction of
w po1ltlcaI progress for century to come.
Now, as then, political principles depend
or their triumphs upon parties
md the organization of parties.
They create parties. 1t is the Demo-
ratio principle which has created the Dem
'cratic party. In its union lies a greater
trength than all its enemies
ombined can ever finally exert. TAD
'lause.l 1t survives every disaster. It is
great and most efficient organ of the peo-
les power. The Democratic party is
tronger than any man or set of men
20 man Is ever indispensable to its success
renewed applausel, for its strength is
With the people, 1t is greater and more
owerful than any class however numerous,
therefore, 1t is large, tolerant, liberal, pro-
ressive; it invites to its membership, to
- control, all men who will up
old the whole Democratic faith and
tradition and apply them to the
copies needs. Shall we apply our
tactical politics to upholdiug the triumph
| al Den ocratic faith and tradition!
hall we commit the long future of our
reat republic to that supreme guidance2
The speaker then referred to the copsti-
ltlon of the United States. which he said
as the grandeSt work ever framed. He a
ehev5d that 1.-The objects of our
institution the spirit of it L
Id the letter of 1t, explain that enorn-
Gus miracle OF Its equal adjustment to our [
ast, our present and our future, The
)wers, which it grants are few and
,ecihed. 1t concentrates and centraIiZes
lose few 1t needs most, It gives nothing
the Federal government except granted !
were; nothing (Which can be better
me by the state governments and more
alously watched; nothing to the state GOV
nmeuts which can better be done hy the
unicipal, by county, by neirhbor5ood
vernments, and more iealously watched u
d even TO these neighboohood govern o
ents nothing which can betteS be re- s
rived to the people in their voluntary asso-
atoms under the rule Of justice enforced
equal laws CT
It is individual freedom, not Republican
rec bills nor congressional leading strings, u
at will enable you to guide forward your a
IS gifted fellow-citizens from the plain of d
uality before law to the higher levels of d'
rift economy, good husbandry, social or
r, self-imposed and household virtue. aud
is transform the present IN
aginable difficulties and unshared
rdens of the south into
id foundations of still more prosperous
,ieties andetin more powerful states. IN
to the war he said the price r.
v not perhaps have been too "
n for transmitting an insoluble in
itical problem into soluble ~
iGl problem. Sectional interference has ",
t its only fllcrum. The late Republican In
gress tried TO put the mauacIes on II
lthern limbs, and the Democrats party +
wered ''shaH Northern limbs then IT.
ar them ,, too, or are we sll P,
g mon now2'
lever beneath this canopy of our surviv