The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-05

hundreds 81 millions OF dollars more than
is necessary to pay the expenses of the
government and locks the same in the
vaults of the treasury, thereby contra citing
the circulating medium Of the country that
is needed by the people in the transaction
of their business, creating a stringeney
in the financial centers Of cur country and
compelling merchants and manufacturers
to pay exorbitant rates OF interest"
I'm matters domestic the Democratic
party will repudiate the stand pat pol
icy and will advocate both economy in
expenditures and tariff reform and re-
visian as Industrial conditions and the
interests OF the country demand In
that view II will stand for a reasonable
relation between governmental revenues
and governmental requirements; for clean
administration and Official conduct free
from every suspicion of graft; fer amend
ment of existing tariff schedules in the
interest OF the country.
The Democratic party could ask for
no worthier mission than to be instru-
mental in restoring TO the national life
the sane and normal conditions upon
which its health and stability depends.
Mr.. Chairman, the man Of all men
most thoroughly representative Of the
national policy ] have indicated. the most
capable and sure OF making them ef-
fective-the opportunity being gtven-the
man of the courage in his convictions,
who never yet turned his back upon the
approach Of public duty and is too old
to learn how, that man unfortunately
absent at this time. but New Yorker
by adoption il not by birth, and one
whom New York has always delighted
to honor that man is Grover Cleveland,
whose record in the past is an allsuf-
fcient guarantee Of hi. action in the
future
David B. Hill was greeted with loud
applause when in his Introductory re-
marks he euiogized the Leadership of
Charles F. Murphy and predicted that
Mayor Mcclellan would succeed him as
governor of the state and precede him
in the White House.
Mr. Hill characterized the course Of
President Roosevelt in the Panama affair
as a series Of contemplate machina-
tons unworthy of the head OF q great
nations" prompted by personal ambition
and a desire to startle and dazzle the
people: part and parcel of a political
scheme to prematurely force his own
nomination for the presidency and to
preclude the consideration Of the name
of any other candidate within his own
party and sc a cheap and transparent
play 70 the galleries"
Congress. he said, alone has power to
declare war and yet the spectacle is pre-
scented at this hour OF the naval forces
of the United States being used to pre-
vent a sister republis from exercising
the lawful function OF suppressing a re-
hellion against its legitimate bounds
within its own borders.
Mr.. Hill declared il the duty OF the
Democracy TO resist the contamination
Of this outrage" and urged the retec-
ton Of the treaty in the senate.
MI Hill next took up conditions in
the army. saying the studied insult 70
Lieutenant General Miles in the order
announcing his retirement from the
army and "the constant and persistent
endeavor to confer upon personal favor
ties OF the president the highest honors
OF the army regardless OF length Of ser
vice. gallant conduct or individual Atm
ess"
The plain truth is" he said. that
during TIE present administration pro-
motions in the army have been hswket
around and bestowed here and there a.
though they were personal or party graf
uities 20 be granted or withheld at the
pleasure Of the appointing executive re-
cardless Of other consideration. This
hiss created much discomfort and brought
the army 20 the verge Of decentralization.
He criticised the detailing of naval
vessels in the vicinity OF the presieerta
home at Oyster Bay and said:
In view Of these circumstances Il 10
no wonder that president saw no serious
misconduct on the part o, General Wood
in Cuba when he used personal influence
10 influence congress