The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-05-04
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
CAMPAIGN OF 1855.
The Reason Why Indiana Should
Not Have the Selection of
Man For Second Place
on the Ticket.
WASHINGTON, DC, April ~, 1882.

Correspondent Democrat-Star.
The time and place of holding the
National Democratic Convention
have been determined; the Demo
cratic reform bill has been SUBMIT.
ed TO the Ways and Means Commit
tee; and the uppermost questions
in the minds OF politicians here, c
idcnt and sojourning, are the prob
able issues of the campaign of 1888
and the personnel of the Presidents
al and the vice. Presidential caudi-
dates of the Democratic party.
The feeling is general, that the
Presidents sturdiness of purpose
with Ingalls, ribald speech in the
Senate, WeneSday the 7th ultimO,
destines the next campaign to be
fraught with greater interest than
any the present generation has
known.
Your correspondent during the
last few weeks has interviewed many
of the leaders of the great political
parties, as well as representative
men from every section of the coun-
try, and Notwithstanding IL great
variety of notions as to the policy,
the sentiment is almost universal
tariff reform, or a reduction of war
taxes, will be the great controlling
issue OF 1888.
The 500, 600, 900 a year which the
government is collecting, over and
above its proper needs must be re.
linquished TO the people. -
There are cheering signs of a
Presidential campaign in which the
discussion of great principles and
policies will take the place of old
partisan and personal abuse. There
is a storm of earnest and Using
controversy which is sweeping away
the lumber that encountered the pc.
litical deck, and leaving the one
great issue of such dignity and i'm
pOrtance, as to promise that the
campaign OF 1888 will be fought up
on a higher place than any quadren
NAL contest since the golden days
of the republic, when the people
were prosperous and happy, and no
obsolete or sectional controversies
permitted to disturb their pursuits.
In this respect the Democratic par
ty has nothing 10 fear. If true to
itself, and to the principles which it
has inherited with its great name it
has it in its power to score its great
est victory in the November cleo
tons of this year. It's record is
stainless. Its policy is statesman
like, patriotic and thoroughly Ameri.
can and the conviction is daily grow
ing, that the country is safestin the
hands of the party that embOdies
the principles laid down at the foun
datiOn of the government by Thorn
as Jefferson, by jackson, Tilden and
Cleveland. 1t is the same cOrvic
ton which has held the Democrats
together for filty-twO years of our
century of National life.
Your correspondent finds the sen
timent almost unanimous, that
President Cleveland best represents
the issues of the coming CAMPAIGN,
aud that he will be unanimously
chosen as the Presidential candi-
date. His administration has done
much to establish the Democratic
party in the confidence of the Amer
lean people, and correct the legacy
of bad laws and vicious methods of
enthusiastically which the Repub-
lican party has left the country.
He has taught anew the absolute
necessary of public economy, the
safety of sound currency, honesty
in public place, the responsibility of
public servants to the people, a
proper limitation of corporate priv
and of the Federal power un-
der the Constitution, aud a reform
of our civil Service and revenue
system.
Among Democrats, the chief con
Germ is that the candidate for vice
President, should be an exception
strong mana national man.
He should be especially strong in
the West and Northwest, wherein
lie the greatest possibilities for the
Democratic party. He should be a
man of clean public and private re-
cord, entirely free from factional
alliances aud an answering Demo
GRAFT who has been under fire and
repulsed the assaults of the enemy.
There has recently arisen "a cloud
no bigger than a mans hand" to OBJ
scure the judgement of the Demo
cratic party in the selection of a
suitable man for the place. 1t is the
same argument and the same AFRO
CANT demand which have controlled
n the Democratic National Con
ventions since the. Greedy campaign
riz: the ''Indiana idea" presented
January last in Indianapolis by
mass convention of the adherents
If Governor Gray, %purpOrting to be
he Democratic party of Indiana.
an interview with an eminent In.
Llama statesman, ex U. S. Senator
los. E. Mcdonald, be said that the
eaders and the great body of Dem
of that State are not harmo-
Nous in support of Governor Gray,
mt on the contrary repudiate the
indianapolis juntO(f) and with it all
laims based thereon. The demand
hat Indiana must have the nOmi. |
lation or the State viii go Repub- |
lean, is addressed not TO Wisdom,
tut to the fears Of National Oem0c. {