Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-02
DAVID b. HILL TO THE FRONT.

front IN New York politics and utters
truth no less important in New York
than in every State of the Union. He
says:
1--WE will carry the State this fall;
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IS NECES-
SARY TO NEW YORK'S WE'LL BE-
ING"
To an interviewer Ex-Governor Hill
briefly gave the following reasons for
Democratic victory:
.'First-There will be unity of purpose
among Democrats. Up to the convention
honest and proper rivalry, then united
effort for victory.
''Second-The ticket and platform VIII
represent the sentiment of the State, not
of one man nor of one city.
"Third-The Republican State admins
tration has made Democratic victory
necessary for the well-being of the State.
.Fourth-So far as the war has a bear
ing on the political issues it will be adj
vantageous to the Democrats, for men
of our party led the fight in Congress for
intervention in Cuba, and men of our
party in the ranks are fighting to make
that intervention conclusive.
This is the simple truth, and it
APPLIES net only to New York, but to
every State that has an election this
fall. The Ex-Governor anticipates
Democratic success in the Empire
State not only because it is time for
a change, but because, to use his own
words, eve may now reasonably an
ticipate success, because, under Dem
ocratic rule, the affairs of the State
were better administered than under
the past two Republican State admin
! istrations."
This is certainly good enough rea-
son to satisfy anybody. But the >ex-
Governor adds that since the Repub-
| licans have been in power:
1--WE can no longer boast that our State
| has no public debt, but we find ourselves
| burdened with bonded debt of over nine
| million dollars contracted under Repub-
| lican rule. The State tax rate has stead
| lily increased, notwithstanding that new
sources of revenue have been added, and
| the State expenditures have been aug
| mented until now they are nearly double
| those of any year of Democratic rule
| from 1882 to 1895. Special legislation has
| been fostered until our session la rvs are
niled mountain high and the State is over
whemed with multitude of unnecessary,
| crude and unreasonable laws"
This is the usual complaint made
against the Republican party in every
State in the Union where it has
hao power and would seem to show
that that party everywhere is tarred
with the same stick. In New York, as
lsewhere-notably West Virginia.
where they have had complete sway,
| the Republicans have flooded the stat
ute books with unwise laws and ques-
! tionable and laundering statutes, and
the people are ripe for change back
to honest and level-headed Democratic
rule, in which the peoples and not the
bosses interests We're looked after
first.
| Ex-Governor Hills words are highly
Empire State, and incidentally to the
Democracy of the country at large
Sagasta declares positively, according
to a correspondent, that Mckinley prac-
| tically consented to negotiate peace on
, the basis proposed by Spain, the start
| ing point being the agreement that the
main, if not the sole, object of the war
was the independence of Cuba. What
ever Mr.. Mckinley may consider the
main cause of the war in his peace
negotiations, if he does not include
some sort of reparation for the Maine
infamy, which the people know was
the REAL cause of the war, his admin
istration must reckon with a more i'm
portant party than Spain, namely, the
American people, who still Remember
the Maine
At the head of these columns will