Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-29
HILL AT 6. Q. P. RALLY
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nall last evening by the republicans of Waterbury assisted by Congress- man E. J. Hill of South Norwalk and
 Major John Q. Tilson of New Haven
 was the worst ever.
 Anyone that has the nerve to call
 that gathering 8 rousing republican rally must have tremendous amount
 of humor or was looking at the au- dience through republican glasses" {" Before the rally came to close there
 were just thirty-three people in the
 west gallery. There might have been
 fifty in the east side while on the
 floor there was row after row of empty seats. The voters were so far apart in the hall that at one time 1t looked as though they would be asked
 to get together so as to make a<half
 way decent showing. Imagine a crowd of about 400 scattered through City hall, some in the gallery, some on the stage and others on the floor. If 1t were not for the fact that many had previously heard Congressman E. J. Hill and knew him to be an excel-
 lent speaker, there might not have
 been corporal's guard present. A short time after the rally started the tramp, tramp. tramp, of the bored ones began and 1t was continued un- til MT Hill finished his address. The American band was on hand to keep the crowd from dozing, but neverthe-
 less some could not keep their eyes open.
 Compared to the homecoming of the native son which was frost in many ways, the rally last evening was blizzard. In the first place the Taft marching club because of the wealth CT did not put In an appearance. all though they have fshermen's uni forms for just such an occasion. Af- ter waiting in vain for the marchers and for some one to fill the big four horse carryall, the latter was sent to the barn and the band started for the City hall. A few carriages followed in line. The band went directly to the hall where 1t played for short time to attract the attention of the people around sthe center who had not heard of the rally. The hacks stopped a moment at The Elton.l Con- gressman Hill must have been keenly disappointed when he entered the hall and saw, the handful of people in front of him. Only about half the vice-presidents were in attendance and there were many empty chairs on the stage.
 Although the address of Congress- man Hill on the currency question was interesting it was not his views on this subject that went home most forcibly to the audience. He paid a glowing tribute to William Howard Taft, his intimate friend-but the thinkers In the audience forgot that on the way home. He endeavored to convince the audience that William Jennings Bryan had never done any thing to make him presidential pos sibility, but the voters as they filed out in the rain forgot about the two Bills.
 It was glowing tribute he paid to James Schoolcraft Sherman that set his listeners thinking. Listen to what Mir Hill had to say>about the vice. presidential candidate:
 And let me tell you that James Schoolcraft Sherman is fine man. He is a cool, level headed man with a fine personality. He has mighty brain, is deliberate in his action and has made the best presiding officer since the days of Thomas B. Reid"
 Now go back few months and en- deavor to remember what this same MT Sherman said about George L. Lil- ley in the house of congress after the submarine investigation. He handled MT Lilley without gloves and was for a time thinking of offering resolu- tion to have the Waterbury man fired from the halls of congress. This same Sherman is the very man cool, level headed, deliberate, who called \ Lilley "liar" because Lilley denied that he had made certain statements to Sherman.
 This was the most important part of the congressman's speech to the voters present. The millionaires CD in the audience may have been inter- ested in his talk on currency; the ma jority was tickled while he was laud ing Taft to the skies, but everybody in the hall sat up and listened atten- lively while he commented upon Sherman. Indirectly 1t was an awful roast on our native son and why un- der the sun Congressman Hill could not have passed on without saying so much about Sherman in view of what Sherman had said concerning Lilley Is a puzsler for , the republicans. Judge Robertson should endeavor to have MT Hill continue the remarks the state. To the thought | full man 1t is an awful slap at the re- publican candidate for governor. Con- gressman Hill opened his speech with a few remarks touching upon the sub marine investigation:
 I am going to say just word. have been unintentionally misquoted | in the New Haven Journal-C Courier | There Is no man I respect more than | the editor of that paper. I admire him for his intellectual attainments | and for his intellectual ability, but most of all l admire him for the cour- age of his convictions. He would not wrong me nor would he wrong Mir Lilley if he were fully informed as to the conditions. The editor of the inferred that I charged that congress was rotten when I said that there was a skunk there.' I did not have congress in mind and no one has any right to