Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-12
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VI Mr. Hsrrissn's Letter.
~. Harrison follows Mr.. Cleveland
DoDly with his letter OF acceptance, and
1nnoaon win b attracted to the very
Coot 0i6srsnce in the style OF the two
'D1pus, even more than to the great dit.
gonee In matter.
IN HI purport Of what Mr.. Harrison had
no ~ was we'll understood, and little
1toHsst has been felt in it; but the man.
'mwl q which hs would say II was more un-
oE3ain, and moro curiosity was possible
nAout it. General Harrison has been
tslking = good deal during this canvass,
mi none Of his utterances have ELECTED
SUrsat interest. Even the Republican
'1uornals have not been publishing them
WY literally. They were simply ad-
1xunsss to visiting delegations, in which
- candidate was not bound to say much,
~ had the chance TO do 80 IL he would
of could. Mr.. Blaine has been the Re
pahlican oracle in the canvass, and he has
fboon striking the key.notes with much
consequent discord.
But now came the chance of the Re
publlcan candidate TO give his party its
ksy-notes, II he had any to give, and to
enthuse It II he had any Of the needful
nre. We do not zee that he has profita-
hiy embraced his opportunity. There is
~ keynote or fire about his letter of nc.
coptance, certainly. It is very common.
plnce and quiet paper indeed; framed in
~ style Of presidents message in min.
ature, dealing with q large variety Of
topics under appropriate heads, but re.
variable chiefly for the frequency and
fsrvor with which it expresses agree
ment with the Chicago platform.
Ie u like child going over its
catschism, thinking that 1t has
done its full duty when it has confessed
faith IN its declarations. There is nothing
- al original in Mr.. Harrison's views;
and he aims at nothing Of the kind, being
pogfectly content that he Is in accord
With his party platform and finding that
asowal to bea full acquittal of his duty rs
his party . candidate. Evidently General
Harrison win not be an unruly president
H elected. He will take the party bit
Kindly and shun the whip eagerly. He
viii have no suggestions Of his own for it..
He has none for 1t now.
His letter IL written easily and clearly /;
ond 70 far We can approve it. He is
xsadily understood. He states what he
Conccives to be the respective positions
q the two parties upon the tariff issue,
Concisely and plainly, IL not altogether
conoctly. He considers that the Demo.
eratic party policy on the tariff calls for
= tariff for revenue only, which he says is
me- trade In the English sense of the
phrase; doubtless meaning In England's g
sense. And, however the Democratic
party seeks to cover up this policy, by the
declarati0n that it is only for needful,
moderate and harmless tariff reduction,
4r. Harrison is firmly convipced that 1t
tnus simply takes o short instead of o
1qeg 1tHp t0Esrds itssultimate aim of free
txade, and is undertaking to get by de-
9rees what it knows 1t will not do to de.
mand all at once.
Tho Republican party, on the other
hand, in his opinion, honestly favors
abundant protection In the tariff; and
though it also favors needful tariff reduc-
tion, 1t will be very slow to find any re-
duction to be needful. In short, Mr..
Harrison thinks the Republican party
sincere and the Democratic party insin.
cere, In their common declarations in
favor Of needful protection 70 our home
Industries.
i That is not a very new suggestion OF
b Republican candidate. 1t has been
the common charge ana ,eems to be the
universal belief Of " Republican ora.
tors; and the issue Joined before the
people seems to be as to which party is
The honester In its declara tions the
Democratic, which favors needful pro.
tection and tax reduction, or the Republl.
can, which declares for the same. 1t
might reasonably have occurred to Mr..
Harrison that 1t was hardly safe for him to
raise this issue of sincerity between the
parties, 20 long as his own party refused
IN Congress to put in shape its views Of
tax reduction, that they might be con.
tTasted with the viewswhich its opponents
have formulated In the Mills bill. 1t will
b likely to occur to the people.