The age-herald., 1898-10-21
HILL SPEAKS
 FOR VAN WICK Great Democratic Mass Meeting Held i0 Brooklyn. THE ADMINISTRATION SCORED McKinIey's VaciIIating Course zkReferred to by Ex-Governor.
  DEMOCRATIC EsT74 IS FOR CUBA
  The Presiden9 { funk from the Re. sponsib' . f Declaring War. IeG.~ S PERENN1.. CAMPAIGN ORATORS
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PERENN1.. CAMPAIGN ORATORS
From Dr. Depew Down, the Moss Cow cred Republican Speakers Are Stumping State Describing War
 Incidents That Didn't Occur.

New York, October 20-Ex-Senator DaVld B. Hill addressed great democratic mass
 meeting in the Academy of Music, Brook lyn, tonight. The hall was packed and the enthusiasm of the people was extraordi- nary. When the former governor stepped to the front of the stage the cheering was deafening, and the women in the boxes and over the house waved their handkerchiefs. The applause was continued several min- utes and it was renewed again and again. Mir. Hill's Address
 MT. Hill said "The persistent issue in the present campaign is that &f honest government. There are no war issues, so- called, to divide or embarass the people, Achievements and glories of the recent war with Spain belong not to any political party, but to the whole country. This fact should be everywhere conceded; but if there is a disposition to inject partisanship 1 in the consideration of the inception of re- l suits of that war, we need not shirk from a l comparison with our opponents. We may recall the plain facts of history. The peo- pie have not forgotten the great struggle in the halls of congress less than a year ago which preceded the declaration of war the fact that, with a few and honorable exceptions, all the earnest pleas for inter- vention in behalf of Cuban liberty were uttered by democratic leaders; the arbi- trary refusal for months of a republican speaker, backed by the dominant majority, to even consider the Cuban question at all; the steady, persistent and determined ef- forts of the democratic majority to force the Cuban question to the front, aided by the powerful democratic press of the coun- try and backed by the patriotic sentiment of the people, until at last their efforts were crowned with success and halting, reluctant administration was forced to in- augurate war in behalf of humanity and
 civilization to which it was at heart op- posed.
 McKinleys Message
 "You have not forgotten the cold and un-
 sympathetic message of President McKin-
 ley in December last opposing Cuban in-
 tervention of any kind exaggerating the difficulties in the way and unnecessarily reminding congress and the people of our neutral obligations You have not forgot ten the attitude of Senator Hanna the Warwick of the present administration, as well as the head of its financial syndicate fresh from his senatorial triumph at Co., 1umbus, purchased by bribery and corrup- tion, who sent to the president in answer to his congratulatory telegram the famous or rather infamous message:
 "God reigns and the republican pasty st' lives, and who with tears in his eyes, was pleading at Washington for peace at apS price and lamentng the threatened dZs- turbance of the business inerests of the country by so unnecessary war;
 Neither need I remind you of the dire aaH Jar oP publicans high in the councils of the re.z~S, who in those momentous days were seek ing to stem the tide of popular enthusiasm which was sweeping over the land, and protesting that their party was being dragged into an unholy foreign war by their interruptions opponents.
 Past War Patriots
 ''But now that this cruel war is over, and American valor has easily triumphed on both sea and land, and the American flag proudly floats over our newly acquired territory-never, as 1t is fondly hoped, to be lowered again-these postwar patriots, who never lifted their voices in behalf of Cuban liberty when that cause was in dire distress and needed friends come forward and with unbecoming haste, not simply to sfare, tut 10 mon,Ic,lze all the glocies of the war Their perennial and moss-covered orators, from Dr. Depew down to the vil- lase oracle, are perambulating the state, fighting over again with their tongues the few battles of the war; giving vivid de- scriptions of war scenes which they did not witness and detailing warlike events which never occurred, seeking vague and imagi- nary issues rather than confronting those actually existing.
 ''Even the distinguished republican can- didate for governor in one of his recent speeches went so far as to say that the war would be regarded as having been fought in vain If democratic victory skould now
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