Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-22
NIX. HARRISON TO the rUBErc
His letter Of acceptance Policies CLOSELY
Upon That Of CiereiaRd.

letter accepting the republican presiden
tial nomination:
To the Hon. Nj. M. Estee and others
committee-G Gentlemen: When YOU
committee visited me ON the 4th of July
last, and presented the official announce
ment of my nomination for the presl
dency of the United States by the re
publican national convention, l prom,
ised as soon as practicable to commune
cate to you more sormal acceptance Of
the nomination. Since, that time the
work of receiving and addressing, al
most daily, large delegations of my fell
low citizens, has fully occupied all 0!
my time, but has in some measure rem
dered it unnecessary to use this letter
as medium of communicating to the
public my views upon the questions in
volved in the campaign. | appreciate
very highly the confidence and respect
manifested by the convention, and ac-
cept the nomination with feeling OF
gratitude and full sense of the respon-
sibilities which accompany it.
1t is matter of congratulatlon that
the declarations of the Chicago conyen-
ton upon the questions that now attract
the interest of our people are so clear
and emphatic There is further cause
of congratulation in the fact that the
convention utterauces of the democratic
party, ii in any degree uncertain or con
Trajectory, can NOW he Judged and in
sages, and by definite propositions in
legislation. This is especially true of
what is popularity known as the tariff
question. The issue cannot now he OBJ
scured. 1t is not IL contest between
schedules. but between wide apart prin-
ciples. The foreign competitors of our
market have, with quick instinct, seen
how one Issue of this contest may bring
them advantage, and our own people
are not so dull as to miss or neglect the
grave interests that ARE involved for
them. The assault upon our protective
system is open and defiant. Protection
is assaulted as unconstitutional in tile law
or as vicious in principle, and those who
hold such views sincerely, cannot stop
short of an absolute elimination from
our tariff laws of the principle OF pro-
lection. The Mills bill is only step,
but is toward an object that the leaders OF
democratic thought and legislation have
clearly in mind. The important ques-
ton is not so much the length of the
step as the direction Of il. Judged By
the executive message of December last,
by the Mills bill, 10y the debates in con
gress and by the st. Ionis platform, the
democratic party will, ii supported by
the country, place the tariff laws upon
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tective tariff is constitutional, whole
some and necessary. We do not offer n
fixed schedule but principle. We will
revise the schedule, modify rates. but al
ways with an intelligent provision as TO
the effect upon domestic production and