Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-07
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. :, 1888.
Mr.. Voorhees,s Platform.

Mr.. Voorhees's Platform.
Mr.. VOORHEES, has a reputation as
Democratic statesman second to
that of few men in the coun-
try. He has been prominent in the
political world for many years. In the
Democratic party he has the confidence
Of men Of all shades Of opinion. He
was never known TO desert his
friends nor to abandon his pnnci-
pies. He represents n State which
has almost invariably voted the
Democratic ticket lie represents
Democrats who are Democrats from con
viction. He and they hold that rigid
construction of the Federal Constitution
will always prove TO be the safest policy,
but that such q construction of il IS in
dispensable whenever question arises
as to the rights Of the separate States,
rather than as TO their rights as united
States. He and they hold that the tcde-
raj Union is an indissolublc union but
also that the States which compose that
Onion are understandable States. he and
they hold that the southern States have
rights which the Federal Government
is il duty bound to respect. Ike and /.
they hold that the war which the Rcpub- I.
hcan party keeps up against tie south T.
ern people and the domestic concerns Of F.
the southern States Is totally unjustiha-
bic and an outrage both upon tho people .
and upon the States of this section. lie .
and they hold that the country needs .
peace, harmony, kindly feelings, and the
abolition of sectional issues.
For these reasons, the people OF In
diana were called upon in 1876 and again
in 1880 to furnish the Democratic candi-
date for Vice President OF the United
States. For these reasons, the people Of
Indiana may be called upon in 1883
again to furnish the Democratic candl-
date for that oiiice-not that Mr.. NoOR-
HE'S does not deserve the highest Office
in the land. nor because his people are
not entitled TO ASK II for him, but because
another man is already in that Office
whose popularity Is such that nobody
seems even to think of superseding him.
MI. VOORHEES, is a representative Demo
crat, possessing as he does exactly those I
qualities and holding precisely those
principles which render it eminently +
proper for his namo to I've placed with
GROVER CLEvELAYD's on the ticket to be
made up few months hence by the ma s
tional Democmtic party. {
We therefore take up again Mr. VooR- q
HESS speech of Tuesday last, and quote c
from it the following declarations which ]
he said he had made five years ago and D
which expressed just what his present "
opinions were on the same subject We
quote: II
81 am one of those who believe there .
is no necessary antagonism between the u
agricultural and manufacturing indus &
tries of this country. | believe there is VI
4 safe, sound middle ground between the
high Protectionist per se on the one
band and the mild Free. Trader and Di- o,
rect Taxationist on the other that the
of this country lies where its u
growth and its development, both of p
ands and manufactures, will be best pro-
noted and protected, and [ hope before L
his session closes to embrace an oppor- IA
unity TO point ont that true medium s.
yround-that ground where | think all N
he industries of TINS country can be en- u
and harmOnized. and at the Ct
anne time a sufficient revenue obtained. III
81 speak not in support of a tariff for
evenue only, nor OF tariff for protec- IN
ion only, but in support of tariff which "
objects the necessary revenue, and at the
anne time to the extent of that revenue
xtends protection with discriminating ne
ustice 10 American manufactures nd
Now, why cannot Congress frame a III
ill based upon these liberal principles ?
Why cannot the RANDALL Democrats sh
nd the CARLISLE Democrats agree upon th
measure like that outlined Olninten- on
ionally) by Mr.. VOORHEES, The Re 49,
are waving the bloody shirt
nd carrying ON a wicked war upon the W.
outhern States and people, shamefuly
listreating and slandcring and hbelling ma
ir. LAMAR, and yet there are found e.,
'uthern papers who denounce as traitors ~,
nd as Republicans in disguise northern o.,
statesmen who have again Do,
nd again interposed their voices and
leir votes and their popularity at 7
ONE between the South and her enc. -,
hes. Is that course wise 4 is it even ~
? Can We afford 10 allow the 49,
Inference between the present tariff 80,
nd the lowest rates that could possibly 80
Q expected from a Republican Senate
separate us from true and trusty
tends upon whose fidelity We know we
ay with confidence rely?