Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-22
THE TWO LETTERS OF ACCEPT
ANCE.

ANCE.
President Cleveland issued his
Letter OF Acceptance last week, and
Gen. llarrison's followed it immed-
lately. People should read them
both carefully, and the State and
National Committees of both par
ties could do no better than to cir
culate them side by side all over the
land.
Gen. Harrison appeals to Repub.
lican principles and stands squarely
OH the National issue of Protection
as against Free Trade.
President Cleveland appeals to
the votes OF the people in the Oft
repeated eve" propose to do this
and tive propose to do that,-lots
of nice things in theory, but nothing
in fact. "Tariff reform y is the one
great plea from beginning to end,
but not word about his former
message, or the Mills Bill, or Civil
Service, or popular education, or
any of the grave questions before
Congress-.
"Trusts absorb great deal of
his attention, but he does not say
that Congress has taken no action
against them; or that Senator
Payne, son.in.law of Secretary of the
Navy Whitney, is at the head Of the
worst trust" in the Countrywide
Standard Oil Co.; or that Hon. w.
Il. Scott, member of the Democratic
National Committee, is at the head
of the worst "Coal Trust" in the
country; or that Mr.. Havermeyer,
ex.Democratic Mayor of New York,
was given a hearing by the Demo.
cratic Ways and Means Committee,
and a tariff placed on sugar, now
controlled by the Havermeyer Sugar
Trust. Neither did he say that the
Southern representation in Congress
is based upon one OF the most out
rageous political mistrusts this
country ever saw.
"The guaranty to our colored citi-
zens ofall their rights of citizenship"
No wise Southern democratic edi.
tor would affront the intelligence of
his readers by audaciouS genrallties
about 'Sthe guarantee to our colored
citizens of all their rights of citizen.
ship, and their just recognition and
encouragement in all things partain.
ing to that relation, "while it is motor
ious that the negro vote, in ninetenths
of the Southern Congressional dis
tricts, Is not permitted to interfere
with the election of Democratic can.
didates and is kept in csnstant re-
straint by constant terrorism. .
GA generous regard and care for
our surviving soldiers and sailors
and for the widows and orphans of
such as have died."
His own substitute died miserably
in the poor-house, and there is no
end to the pension bills of widows
and orphans that he vetoed, even af,
ter having been passed by Demo
cratic Pension officers. Pension
Commissioner Black did more for
the widows and orphans of soldiers
than any other man in his party.
Where he once denounced star
lift laws, the vicious, illogical and
inequitable source of unnecessary
taxatlon," he now declares he has
no intention "to discredit the sys.
tenn"
He says ave have entered upon
no crusade of free trade" but doesn't
the country know that the Mills Bill
stands as a part of the Democratic
platform, with its free wool, free
lumber, free coal, free raw material.
Does he say he favors the repeal of
that A.? No he says he stands by the
Democratic platform and approves
of what the party has so far done
and further proposes to do.
The London Chronicle, comment.
ing on the letter, says: cit is I'M
material to discuss what President
Cleveland's crusade should be call.
ed. He may give it any name he
likes as long as we know it is in fact
a crusade of free trade"