The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-20

indestructability of the party which has so many times shown its right to live and it's power for good, and am sure the reserve of patriotic Democratic wis dom will at some time declare Itself in the rescue of our country and our party.
 At the point in his speech where Cleve- land announced his absolute retirement from politics. the crowd yelled, NO, No, No''
 Senator David B. HILL who spoke next, was received almost as enthusiastically as Mir Cleveland. MT. Bowling In in- troducing him said:
 MT. Hill is today the recognized leader of his party in New York State and un- der hls leadership and guidance we are confident of a victory
 Mir. Hill among other things said:
 The signs of the times point unmistak- ably to an awakened interest in the pro- motion of the success of Democratic prin- ctples of government
 There Is especially a deep conviction among thoughtful people that there Is something radically wrong in the for eign policy of the present administra- tion." sA
 Mir. Hill here referred to the recent speech of Mir. Hoar. in the Senate upon the Philippine question. He contrasted 1t with the address of President Roosevelt, on decoration day, in which he declar- ed the President "purposely, or inadvert- ently confused the well recognized dis functions which exist between the ad- ministration and the government-be- tween the army and the government and between all those officials of the gov- ernment and the government itself anu 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 uniforms which they wear"
 President Roosevelt" he continued, "seems to have lost his head when he forgets that 1t Is not crime In Amer lea to crltlclse the army, the President or any other servant or servants of the people, and he needs to be remind ed that loyalty to the government does not consist in loyalty to individuals or , to the policies of those who happen to hold official positions.
 Real Meaning of Loyalty.
 Loyalty to this government consists in attachment to our free institutions, but 1t does not consist in ostentatious profession of intense Americanism,' nor indifference to s.le preservation or spread of republican forms of govern ment everywhere, nor In suppressing free speech, nor In conquering the free peo- pie of other and distant lands who de- sire to govern themselves; nor in law fully sending accredited representatives Of this government abroad, without the consent of the Senate to witness the coronation of a king whose monarchial government to its shame, be 1t said, has just succeeded in crushing the two strug- gling republics of South Africa, without one word of protest or one effort to save them or one kind word of sym pathy for them in their unequal strug- gle, expressed on the part of this-the greatest republic of the world"
 MT. Hill then referred to President CieVeland's message to Congress re- garding the Venezuelan controversy In 1895, which he regarded as a direct contrast to the action of the Roosevelt administration In the case of South Africa. ys
 Misconduct of Wood.
 The ex-senator then took the subject of Cuba, dealing first with the administration of General Wood. whom he bitterly ar- ralgned The use Of money flor partisan and lobbying purposes in aid of admin istrative measures pending before con- gress," he declared, served to empha- size the irresponsible and dangerous character of arbitrary military rule any, where. -.-
 "The history of the country does not furnish more fragrant breach of official duty, as we'll as of propriety, than thai presented by the misconduct of Wood. Yet he has neither been arrested nor rebuked, nor censured. nor called to ao- count by the administration"
 Discussing the Cuban tariff question MT. Hill said the present controversy in congress over the subject served to it. lustrate the hypocrisy as well as the unsoundness of the whole Republican po- sition on the subject of tariffs"
 Proceeding on the topic of the protect i've tarfG. he said:
 There is no justification of the ex- ercise of the power of legislation to make millionaires of one class of people and paupers of another"
 "The country Ia Just now aroused to the injustice and enormlty of tho Dlnp- ley tariff (which, it should not be for gotten, was paced by a Republican Congress and approved by a Republl- cen Presidert), especially In It's appIl. cation to the slster republic Of Cuba. The subject To being Jugoled with In tho United States Senate and an un. satisfactory compromise with Injustice Ia proposed whereby fourflfths of tho official robbery shall be permitted to remain eolely In the interest of the preservation of Republican harmony
 Tt is not believed that 1t is the prov ince of the Democrats in congress to as- sist fin the consummauon of any such in- adequate and questionable scheme.
 Reciprocity q Misnomer.
 "A reciprocity measure is a misnomer which does not contemplate at least 50 per cent reduction of the existing tariff burdens.
 We were the friends of Cuba when she was suffering from Spanish oppres- sion and when a Republican administra- ton was relucte nt to interfere in its be- half.
 We are the true friends of Cuba to- day, and we are prepared to mete out to her the full measure of justice to which she is entitled, and which the present national administration refuses to con- cede to her"
 MT. Hill asserted that the logic of events had demonstrated the soundness of many Democratic contentious of re- cent years. He recalled that portion of the Kansas City platform which con- demncd the Dingley law as a trust-breed- ing measure, and said that this measure had not only succeeded In creating more trusts than ever before in the history of the country. but 1t had also succeeded in stitiins competition to q greater extent than ever known. He declared further that 1t has succeeded in unnecessarily raising the rate of living and has caused more strikes on the part of the working men thar at any period of our history. He then spoke of the suits brought by the authority of the administration to test ( ttA rIo41