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Show .DAVID HELL SPEAKS TO ; NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. ' m ess aasBwBB - ALBANY. April 13. One hundred representative men of the Democratic press of New York sat down at the banquet ban-quet of the State Democratic Educa- - Clonal association In celebration of the llrthday of Thomas Jefferson. Former United States Senator David B. Hill w as one of the speakers. "The Empire State Democracy" came In for his attention. He attacked the prominent policies of the present Re- publican administration in this State, especially assailing the various measures mea-sures adopted to secure the adoption of direct taxation for State purposes. This he characterized as measures designed de-signed to cover up a deficit in the State treasury. ' The excise law Mr. Hill denounced as purely partisan legislation, designed to punish the large Democratic cities, especially New York, for holding to the Democratic party. He ridiculed the policies of President Roosevelt as vacillating vacil-lating and unduly tender of the great monopolies.; and said the whole Republican Repub-lican administration was clamoring for delay in dealing with the trust question. ques-tion. His final.plea was for Democratic harmony, which he declared would assure as-sure victory for the party. |