The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-06-24

York. were masterpieces of eioquenee
for harmony and united action In The
national Democratic party Senator
Hnrs arraignment Of the administra.
tion policy OF Roosevelt were the most
seating and caustic ever delivered in
the American metropolis. He com.
pared Roosevelt WITH Louis XIV, and
declared that President Roosevelt's
attitude in assuming to be the whole
state itself was not new in history.
That 1t was Louis XIV OF France, who
once made the same mistake when he
assumed to be France and uttered the
famous declaration that Il am the
state" a remark that might have lost
him his head in later times Of less
despotism
He declared that the whole policy
Of the government under the present
regime was utterly indefensible upon
any just and proper principles OF gov
ernment and that there could be no
justification Tor the exercise of the
power of legislation to make million.
aires Of one class of people and pau
pers of another class. He declared
that the attitude OF the Democratic
senators aud congressman in the mat
ter Of reciprocity and the reduction OF
tariff duties for Cuba was the right
one; It was not their fight; that pub
lie sentiment was demanding a sweep
ing reform in tariff duties, and that
this paltry reduction of 20 per cent
was thrown out in the interest OF Re
publican harmony and not for the ben
eft of the Cuban people or the people
of this country; that the country is
just now aroused to the Injustice and
enormity of the ningley tariff, which it
should not he forgotten was passed by
a Republican congress and approved
by a Republican president, especially
in IT'S application to the sister repuD-
lie of Cuba, but, instead of righting
the great wrong under which the peo-
pie have suffered, the subject is being
juggled with in the Unite1 States sen.
ate and tub is proposed to be thrown.
to the whale In the shape of an un-
satisfactory compromise with Unjust
ice, whereby four-hfths of the official
robbery shall be permitted to remain,
not in the. interest of the country, but
solely in the interest of the preserva-
tion of Republican harmony. 1T is
not said Senator Hill, believed that
III is the province OF the Democrats in
congress to assist in the consumma-
tion OF any such inadequate and ques-
tionable scheme. Let the injustice be
wholly or substantially righted, not
by piecemeai legislation but by com
prehensive measure, based upon
sound Democratic principles and right
lines
Senator Hill believed that every
sign indicated absolute success for the
national Democracy, and urged that
there was not the slightest reason
why Democrats should harbor III will
toward one another Tor past differ.
ences. He declared that already there
was substantial accord among the
Democrats OF the country, upon all
the timely issues which are now en-
crossing the public attention.
II was a great speech and every
Democrat in the country ought TO read
it.
Referring to the unavoidable alb,
sence of Col W. j. Bryan. Mr. Hill
said:
We should have been glad TO well
come that other distinguished Dem
ocrat who halls from the great West
our honored standard-bearer in the
last two presidential elections-that
able and eloquent Democratic orator,
Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, had he. been
able to be present on this occasion
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