Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-18
SENATOR HILL TALKS
HE OPENS THE DEMOCRATIC OAsf-
PAIGN IN NEW YORK.
An Audience of Three Thousand
People Greets Him at Syrocuse-A
Review of the issues, Both State
and National, of the Campaign.

Syracuse, N. Y, Oct. Ex-senator
Hill began his campaign here last
night and was vociferously received by
an audience of over 5000 people.
: Mr.. Hillsbegan, by speaking. Of SYRIA
cuse as the former home of Seymour
and Clevland, and when the pres
ident's name was mentioned there was
great cheering. Mr.. Hin said that he
proposed to conduct creditable cam
paign in behalf of his party and that
facts and arguments are the weapons
which he shall invokes rather than
villifcation and vituperation. In great
political contests measures and not
men should be essentially the con-
trolling factors. He said that he had
nothing but the kindliest feelings and
the most proposed personal respect for
1.-The distinguished and venerable gen.
tleman whom the Republican party
has selected. as my opponent in this
campaign, or more accurately speak
ing. the gentleman whom Mr.. Platt
selected and whose selection the con-
vention subsequently ratified
Mr.. Hill then alluded to the fact that
Mr.. Morton had lived in New Hamp-
shire, where, until as late as 1867,
religious liberty was not observed, and
said that ut Is not impossible that
the early narrow associations and
proscriptive sentiments of New Hamp-
shire which surrounded Mr.. Morton
may have inuenced his conviction
upon certain public questions and led
to his selection int his peculiar crisis
no ho
been Mr.. Platt's candidate was was his
candidate to-day.
Municipal Misrule.
Mr.. Hill said the Democratic party
of the state will not sanction Republic
an or Democratic blackmail, whether
discovered in Democratic or Republic
an municipalities and it is an insult
to the intelligence of the people to as
sumo otherwise. He said that the
Lxon committee was partisan affair,
and no attempt had been made to
unearth frauds in Republican cities.
He said that "the question whether
the Democrats properly or improperly,
regularly or irregularly, secured con-
troll of the state senate in 1891, is
powder already burned which cannot
be utilized again to the advantage of
our adversaries. The manner in which
single senatorial district was for two
short years obtained is overshadowed
by the greater living question whether
our opponents, by unjust constitu-
tional opportionment. shall obtain the
control of the whole legislature for all
time to come" He claimed that the
Democrats fairly carried the state
ticket in 1891 by 1900 majority and
no legal bubble should have been per-
mitted to deprise them of the control
of the legislative. He said that the
constitutional convention was a par
tisan Republican body, and "the IN
fairness. the partisanship, the absolute
injustice Of the proposed apportion-
ment admits of no argument"
Senator Hill then quoted from the
apportionment plan adopted by the
constitutional convention. and con-
tinued:
"Fellow Democrats. let me tell you
in all seriousness that the success of
this scheme at the polls means the
absolute control, of the legislature to
the Republicans for all time to come.
1t means the loss of New York for
ever hereafter to the Democratic party.
1t means political annuhilation to all
OF us. The partisans who continued
this scheme Of injustice delight to
pratt about the Stealing of single
senatorial district by the Democrats,
and yet here they unblushingly pro-
pose to steal whole state. One con-
elusive argument establishing the
iniquity of these amendments is to be
found in the fact that Democratic
majority in the state at large of from
fifty to seventy thousand would. under
this apportionment still leave the legis-
lature i'll the hands of the Republic
ans"
He then denounced the A. P. A. in
severe terms.
National Issues.
Senator Hill then discussed national
affairs. He denied the truthfulness of
the statement that the Democratic
party is responsible for the hard times
through which the county has Just
passed. The financial panic of last
year and the succeeding hard times
were the results Of Republican legisla-
ton enacted during Mr. Harrison's
administration-the Sherman law and
the Mckinley bill. The Mckinley bill
was a complete failure and virtually
broke down during the last wear Of tho