The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-21
DEMOCRATS
Mass
Meeting.
Mr.. HILL SPEAKS.
The Administration is Wig
orously Scored.

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New AoIk' oct @V.--Ahe oeinocra ls Oh
Brooklyn held grand mass meeting.
at the Academy of Music tonight. The
bie +beatra ur,e orov,dad +o ito ,,+r,os+
cdpdclty. FfoInILehL local oehlocfats
sat upon the stage and Gen. George W.
Wingate presided Tn his remarks in
oneni,e tba ,aa+;,,a, ca, 7xri,,e,o+a
o N0i'' ~ az
sald IN part:
1T can not but be a source of con-
graduation To every democrat that for
A. &C. g..
.iie =. % 'liiis ~ years tlle present elec-
ton mas the democratic party unit.
Compact and confident the gold demo-
Gratis and the followers of the Chicago
platform stand side by side in enthusi-
astic support of a candidate for gov
ernor whom we all respect and admire,
and in opposition to a party which has
disgraced our state and done all in it's
power to despoil it's treasury"
At the close of his speech, Cen. Win
gate introduced ex-senator David B.
Hill, who was given an ovation, the APP
plause continuing for several minutes.
Mr.. Hill spoke for an hour and "a half
and was enthusiastically applauded at
the close.
Mr. Hill, among other things, said:
Fhe paramount issue in the present
campaign is that of honest governs
ment- Permit me at the outset to sus-
gest that there are no war issues, So
called, to divide CIR embarrass the
people. The achievements and giories
OF the recent war with Spain belong
not to any political party, but to the
whole country. This fact should be
everywhere conceded; but il there is a
disposition to inject partisanship into
the consideration of the inception or
results of that war, we need not shrink
from a comparison with our opponents.
The people have not forgotten the
great struggle in the halls of congress,
less than d year ago, which preceded
the declaration of war-the fact that,
with a few and honorable exceptions,
all the earnest pleas for intervention
in behalf of Cuban liberty were uttered
by democratic leaders; the arbitrary
refusal for months Of a republican
speaker to even consider the Cuban
question at all; the steady. persistent
and determined efforts of the democrat.
ic minority to force the Cuban oues-
ton to the front, aided by the pow
erfui democratic press of the country
and backed by the patriotic sentiment
of the people, until at last their efforts
were crowned with success and a halt
ing and reluctant administration was
a
of humanity and civilization. TO which
it was at heart opposed. You have not
forgotten the cold and unsympathetic
message of President Mckinley in De-
oember last opposing Cuban inter esn-
ton of any kind. exaggeratiYlg the diff
culties in the way. and unneoessarily
reminding congress and the people of
our neutral obligations. You have nor
forgotten the attitude of Senator
A.
ministration, as well as the head of it's
financial syndicate, fresh from his SEN
atorial triumph at Columbus. purchased
by bribery. and corruption. who sent 10
the president. in answer 70 his ron.
gratulatory telegram. the famous or
rather infamous message Cod reiena
and the republican party still lives
"The distinguished republican candi-
date for governor. in one of his re.
cent speeches. went so far as IN saw
that the war would he regarded q : baJt.
ing been fought in vain If a demo.
cratic victory shopld now occur This
is the first sl1eoestio,, which ta1ya
heard from SO high q source tbat tbe
late war was a republican war a.. that
If was waeed in the interaet ~ f,,. +hs
henefit Of anv nol,tica1 1sa NV af7ici,1 ~,
individual
"Never in fba history If +ha n.+,on
was a nresident more ioval1r, e,ny1ort-
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lWo explanations are olfered Tor the
OFFENSIVE discussion involved IN the re-