Review of reviews and world's work . rtain highly-educat-ed and scholarly but verymuch misinformed crit-ics of Governor Hill willrequire a revision of theirjudgment respecting hishostility to electoral re-form. But these are onlyintroductory s u g g e s -tions. The entire storyis an overwhelming ref-utation of the Hill has been afirm and consistent advo-cate of tariff refoi-m. With the first news of the defeat of the Democratic party in the last presidentialelection, a weak man would have been tempted towaver and doubt. Governor Hill was more firm andemphatic than ever. In a sp
Review of reviews and world's work . rtain highly-educat-ed and scholarly but verymuch misinformed crit-ics of Governor Hill willrequire a revision of theirjudgment respecting hishostility to electoral re-form. But these are onlyintroductory s u g g e s -tions. The entire storyis an overwhelming ref-utation of the Hill has been afirm and consistent advo-cate of tariff refoi-m. With the first news of the defeat of the Democratic party in the last presidentialelection, a weak man would have been tempted towaver and doubt. Governor Hill was more firm andemphatic than ever. In a speech to the citizens ofAlbany but a few days after the presidential elec-tion of 1888 he said ? The principle of tariff reform has only met tem-porary defeat. Sooner or later it will ultimatelytriumph in this country. President Cleveland andthe Democratic party were right, and deserved tosucceed. The argument was with us, and two weekslonger discussion would have given us the me to suggest that there must be no back. MAYOR GRANT, OF NEW YORK CITY, A LEADING TAJIMANV DEMOCRAT.(From a ])liotogi-apli by Auderson, 785 Broadway, New track taken upon this question. The so cour-ageously presented by President Cleveland, in theinterest of the whole people, must not be flag has been nailed to the , and thereit must be allowed to remain. Tlie charge that in his late Elmira speech GovernorHill rek^gated tariff reform to a secondary place isa misrepresentation by which no fair and intelligentreader of that speech can be deceived. AN ADMINISTRATION WITHOUT SCANDALS. Under Governor Hills administration there liiusnot been a financial or other scandal in any depart-ment of the State Government, witli the single ex- 26 THE RBI^IEIV OF REI^/EIVS. •ception of the Assembly ceiling scandal. That was•due to the bill passed by a Republican Legislature,which Governoi- Hill approved, filing at the sametime a memorandum in wjiich he said : The plac-in
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