The Dickinson press., 1888-09-15
TWO TARIFF TALKS.
President Cleveland Formally
Accepts the Presidential
Nomination.
Tariff, Trusts and Civil Service
Form the Themes for
His Pen.
Gen. Ilarrison'> Acceptance a Com.
pletc Resume Of Campaign
Subjects.

Democratic nomination of a second term
is in substance as follows:
WASHINGTON, Sept. =, 1883.
Hon. Patrick y. Collins, and others. rom
mittee, etc,
GENrlEMEN:-ln addressing to you
my formal acceptance of the nomi-
nation to the presidency of the United
States, my thoughts persistently dwell
upon the impressive relation of
such action to the American poo
pie. whose confidence is thus invited, and
to the political party to which l belong,
ued supremacy.
The world does not afford Il spectacle
more sublime than is furnished when
millions of free and intelligent American
citizens select their own magistrate, and
est earthly honor, and the dull measure
of public duty in ready submission to
their will.
1t follows that Il candidate for this
high Office can never forget that when
the turmoil and the strife which attend
the selection of its incumbents shall be
heard no more, there must be in the
quiet calm which follows a complete and
solemn self-consecration by the peoples
chosen president of every faculty and en-
deavor to the service of a contiding and
generous nation of free men.
These thoughts are intensified by the
light of my experience in the presidential
office, which has soberly impressed me
with the severe responsibilities which it
imposes, while it has quickened my love
for American institutions and taught me
the priceless value of the trust of nv
c%ountrymen.
1t is OF the highest Importance that
those who administer our government
should jealousy protect and maintain
the rights of American citizens at home
and abroad, and should strive to achieve
for our country her proper place among
the nations of the earth; but there is no
people whose home interests are so great
and whose numerous objects of domestic
concern deserve SO much watchfulness
and care.
Among these are the regulation of a
sound financial system suited to our
needs, thus securing an efficient agency
of national wealth and general prosper
ity; the construction and equipment of
means OF defense to insure our national
safety and maintain the honor beneath
which our national safety reposes; the
protection of our national domain, still
stretching beyond the needs of a cen
tury's expansion, and its preservation
for the settler and the pioneer of our
marvellous growth; a sensible and sincere
recognition of the value of American
labor, leading to the scrupulous care and
just appreciation of the interests of our
workingmen; the limitation and check
ing of such monopolistic tendencies aud
schemes as interfere with the advantages
and benefits which the people may
rightly claim; a generous regard and care
for our surviving soldiers and sailors and
for the widows and orphans of such as
have died, to the end that while the ap-
probation of their services and sacrifices
is quickened the application of their pen
sion fund to improper cases may be pre-
vented: protection against q servlle i'm
migration which injuriously completes
with our laboring men in the field of toll
and adds to IL population an element
ignorant of our institutions and laws,
impossible of assimilation with our peo-
pie and dangerous to our peace and well
fare: a strict and steadfast adherence to
the principles of civil service reform and
a thorough execution of the laws passed
for their enforcement, thus permitting to
our people the advantages of business
methods in the operation of their govern
ment; the guaranty to colored citi-
zens of all their rights of citizenship and
their just recognition and encouragement
in all things pertaining to that relation;
a firm, patient and humane Indian pol
icy, SO that in peaceful relations with the
government the civilization of the Indian
may be promoted, with resulting quiet
and safety to the settlers on our from
tiers; aud the curtailment of public ex-
pense by the introduction of economical
methods in every department of the gov
eminent.
The pledges contained in the platform
adopted by the late convention of the
national Democracy, lead to the advance
ment of these objects and insure good
government the aspiration of every true
American citizen and the motive for
every patriotic action and effort. In the
consciousness that much has been done
in the direction of good government by
the present administration, and submit
ting its record to the fair inspection Of
my countrynen, l indorse the platform
thus presented, with the determination
that, if | am again called to the chief
magistracy, there shall be a continuance
of devoted endeavor to advance the inter-
ests of the entire country.
Each of these subjects are then treated
in full and Mr., Cleveland's position on
them plainly defined as outlined above.
Reduction of the surplus and an arraign-
ment OF the Republican party for their
declaration that internal revenue should
be the first to be abolished are the two
subjects that occupy the larger part of
his attention. The letter plainly and un-
equivocally endorses the platform adopted
at st. Louis.