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Show NOTHINO 11UT SOPHISTRY. Governor Hill's prominence in the ponding campaign is a painful experience experi-ence to his corpulency, Grover Cleveland, Cleve-land, and as nobody in particular asked him to speak during the cauvaBs he caused himself to be interviewed at considerable length through the Albany Argus yesterday. The burden of Mr. Cleveland's wail is of course the tariff. He is not discouraged in the least, it seems, believing as he does in the adage, "all things come to him who waits." Ho Is waiting. The ex-president marshals a ponjpoiis array of words signifying nothing. Says he for instance: "The effective iuculcation of the wholesome doctrines which characterize ; the democratic press, the thorough discussion going on in every part of the country, the undisguised undis-guised schemes of. the republican party to Becure its perpetuation in power through reckless enactments, which stllle the results of the people's suffrage, its unscrupulous methods of legislation and, above all, ' the positive distress daily threatened our people under the operation of the now and unequal tariff law a law which not only enhances the cost of the necessaries of life, but fosters the extortions of trusts and combinations all these make certain the coming of a freer, better time and tho ascendeucy of truo democracy." This sentence would stagger the ordinary mortal until analyzed ana-lyzed and then it is found to contain nothing except the usual ingredients ftud sophistries of a howling stump speech. The republican party seeks its perpetuation in power the same as Mr. Cleveland sought his. A party that is justly imbued with the faith that through its agency the rights and liberties liber-ties of the people can best be maintained main-tained would be derelict in its duty and patriotism if it failed to exert every honest effort to perpetuate itself. Since he was defeatod for re-election Mr. Cloveland can see nothing but disaster, "positive distress" ahead of us. And behold, it is all due to protection. ' If he will compose himself and give the McKinley bill a chance to vindicate itself, it-self, he may be disappointed. The ex-president ex-president should have gone down to Arkansas to aid Breckenridge. His argument is just calculated to be effective ef-fective there. |