The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-26
Mr.. Hill Cuts Loose and Starts a
New Presidential Boom.
THE CROWD APPRECIATED HIS
ATTACK ON CLEVELAND.
So Apparently Did Many of the Democratic
Senators-The Maryland Member,
However, Reproved the New Yorker
by His sAbsence-Senator Hill Emphatic
in His Declaration for Free Coinage
Today's Speeches in the House.
Especial to the Press.l


Especial to the Press.l
Washington, August Ex-senator Hill
OF New York has thrown down the gage
and does not care who knows he is as
much an enemy of Cleveland now as he
ever has been. The New York Senator
today made his speech on the silver ques-
tion which was so heralded, and in the
course of his remarks took occasion to
refer to President Cleveland in very con-
temptuous language and to show that no
matter how much other men may be
brought over by the use of patronage,
Senator Hill could not be influenced by
any such confederation. The remark
able thing about the speech was that
these uncomplimentary illusions to the
President were received with the great
est apparent favor by Democratic SEN
ators and by the audience in the gallery,
who loudly applauded his remarks and
who showed how they agreed with the
Senator, Nearly every Democratic Sem
ator in the city was present in the Sem
ate chamber to listen to the New Yorker
man of Maryland German was in his
seat during the transaction OF routine
business, but as soon as Hill got up to
speak, CO. man arose and left the cham
Der and did not return until after Hill
had finished. This was such a pointed
and public snub to Mr.. Hill that it Gre
ated comment and gossip. Of course it
was done purposely by Mr.. German who
resented the way in which he was at
tackled by Senator Hill in the early part
of the week and desired to let his as
sociates in the chamber and the public
at large know that the alliance which
formerly existed between Hill and him
had terminated.
Senator Hill' S speech is generally re-
garded as an able effort and perhaps the
best speech on any solid subject which
he has made since his entry into public
life. 1t was plea for bimetallism and
as such it was grear deal more thor
ough and scientific than the curious ag-
glomeration and hodge podge which Sem
ator Voorhees, fathered on Tuesday. 1t
was also direct appeal to the silver men
and Populists for their support for the
presidential nomination in 1896. In fact,
cussed tonight in Washington than any
thing else. 1t has been made plain that
Senator Hill expects no further support
from his own state and henceforth will
look to the West and South for presiden-
tial honors.
The great silver debate will end to-
morrow and wind up in blaze of ora
torical red fire. Mr.. Reed will make a
great speech, advocating repeal and pre-
senting the Republican side of the argu-
ment. Bourke Cochrane, the Tammany
leader and New York congressman, will
also speak in favor of repeal. A final
word on the side of the silver men will
be said by Mr.. Bland of Missouri, the pu-
tative father of the Bland silver dollar,
and the man who, for SO many years, has
fought the fight for silver only at last to
see himself more ingloriously defeated
than ever fell to the lot of man who
championed so-called public cause.