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Show HILL IN THE SOUTH. The ConsiIllUS&ata Trickster Boasts of II in Crooked Work in IIih Knipire .still' lie is Sot Over Confident. Roanoke, Va., March 14. When the train hearing Senator Hill and party enroute for the south reached the city of Roanoke this morning several thousand people assembled at the depot and the band played airs of welcome. Senator Hill made a ten minute speech devoted largely to the presentation of democratic principles and review of the good work of the democratic party in the state of Xew York and he was warmly cheered at frequent intervals. Speaking of New York he said' "Today we have not a republican i Mi dal from one end of the state to the other elected by the poo. pie at large applause. We have a democratic demo-cratic legislature in both brunches for the first time in many years. Applause J; Our republican friends kept control of the state tunny years as far as the legislative niuneh was concerned, because they refused to enumerate its Inhabitants, i but I can safely assure our democratic friends of this section of Virginia thai it is the last you have seen, iu my Judgment, of a republican legislature in the Empire state. (Cheers). He warned them that the coming national contest was not. an easy one. The r 'publicans, 'publi-cans, entrenched in power with the present occupant of the While House as a probable candidate, would not be easy to dislodge, lie counseled thorough organization. Makion, Va., March 14. At Radford, Pulaski Pu-laski and Wytheville large crowds greeted Hill. He spoke briefly. |