The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-20
CLEVELAND ALSO SPEAKS
Awakened Interest IN Success of Demo.
cratic Principles.
nRFD OF REPUBLICAN, HYPOCRISY
Loyalty 10 Government Defined. Roosevelt
Arlington Speech He'd up to Condemna-
ton. Place His Administration
Will Occupy in History,
(By the Associated Press.


New York, June 19.-The feature of the
evening at the opening of the Tilden Club
here was the speech of David Bennett
Hill.
Mr.. Hill among other things said:
The signs of the times point unmis-
takably to an awakened interest in the
promotion Of the success Of Democratic
principles of government. These fani-
festations, however are not confined with
in strict party lines, but renewed activity
in political affairs is displayed as we'll
among those of independent. proclivities
and among the people generally who are
not satisfied with existing political condi-
tions and desire change of public poll
cies now prevailing.
There is especially a deep conviction
among thoughtful people that there is
something radically wrong in the foreign
policy of the present administration.
Mr.. Hill here referred to the recent
speech Of Mr.. Hoar in the Senate upon
the Philippine question and said that it
had made profound and lasting impress
sion upon the heart and conscience of the
country
This great and patriotic speech" con-
tinued the speaker, was not met or an
swerel by the partisan address of Presi-
dent Roosevelt delivered on Declaration
Day in violation of the proprieties of the
occasion, wherein he purposely or mad
vertently confused the we'll recognized
distinctions which exist between the ad-
ministration and the government-be-
tween the army and the government and
between all the other officials of the gov
ernment and the government itself; and
assumed to question the loyalty of those
who have ventured> to criticise the cruel
acts of few officers of the army who,
if semi official reports are correct, have
Undoubtedly disgraced the uniform which
they wear.
Loyalty to this government does not
consist in ostentatious professions of in
tense Americanism' nor in Indifference to
the preservation or spread of republican
forms of government everywhere, nor in
suppressng free speech, nor in conquer
ing the free people Of other and distant
lands who desire to govern themselves;
nor in unlawfully sending accredited rep
resentatives of this government abroad,
without the consent of the Senate, to wit
ness the coronation Of a King whose mon
archial government to its shame be it
said, had just succeeded in crushing the
two struggling republics of South Africa.
and right here / may be permitted to
suggest that the administration of Pres
ident Roosevelt will particularly stand
in history as the one during the existence
Of which the republics of those brave
and gallant people were destroyed-de-
stroyed without one word of protest or
one effort to save them or one kind word
of sympathy for them in their unequal
struggle expressed on the part of this
the greatest republic of the world, whose
influence should always be eXerted on the
side of free institutions.
"In contrast with that supine attitude
of the Roosevelt administration we should
not forget the vigorous and patriotic
action of that Democratic President
who honors this club with his presence
here tonight-who, when that same
mighty empire of Great Britain in 1895,
attempted to crush the republic of
Venezuela. prominently sent that famous
message to Congress, which electrified
the country, wherein he insisted that
Great Britain might not be permitted
under the pretense of a boundary dis
pute. to seize Venezuela without first
submitting the alleged differences to in
ternational arbitration, or else this Gov
ernment would interpose it's strong arm
for the protection of that epublic and
Great Britain finally concluded to arbi-
trate the dispute and Venezuela was
saved from destruction"
HILL ARRAIGNS WOOD.
The ex-senator then took up the sub
ject of Cuba dealing first with the ad
ministration of General Wood, whom he
bitterly arraigned. The use of money
"for partisan and lobbying purposes in
aid of administrative measures, pending
before Congress" he declared, served
to emphasize the irresponsible and
dangerous character of arbitrary mill
tary rule anywhee, whether temporary or
permanent"
The subject" he went on demands
the investigation of Congress and the
prominent punishment of the offending
official if he can be reached through
criminal or military law.
The history of the country does not
furnish a more fagrant breach of official
duty, as well as official propriety, than
that presented by the misconduct of
Wood. Yet he has neither been arrest
ed, nor rebuked nor censured, nor called
to account by the administration.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Discussing the Cuban tariff question,