Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10

Corelass Reading.

0tltltoS NsVANA-4h'
The Alexandra Gazette has complained
more Of Mr.. CLTyELASD's acts and policy as
President OF the United states than any
other Democratic paper in Virginia. II has
censurcd him again and again for not turn
Ing Republicans out OF Office. and ridicu'ed
his ciyil.seryicc.reform notions. IL censnreu
him for keeping FREDERICK DOUGLAS Ia
lucrative Office, and for putting an
other negro into the same once
when FREDERICK was removed. 1t has
blamed him for turning ont OF office, or re-
yokng the appointment Of southern man
who whilst a minor bad made foolish re-
mark. In fact, the President must look upon
the Gazette as a chronic grumbler, and have
wondered whether he could do anything that
would please that excellent journal. The
reader will smile when he learns that the io-
lowing paragraph Is from that same Gazette;
"The Richmond Dispatch says mot
public man in Virginia has come our against
protecting Virginia industries why, WIN
the exception Of about seven or eight, every
public Democrat in the state has come out
for Cleveland, and Cleveland has come out
I'm the most emphatic aud explicit terms
against the so-called protection OF NlrglhAs
industries. To endorse the President, while
al the same time opposing the only recon-
mendatiOn he has made 10 the present Con-
cress, is producing Inconsistency to lts ex-
tremcst point"
The President made no special recon-
mendation as 10 Virginia industries-that
IS. so far as the tarlff IS concerned. We in
tended in pennIng the sentence the Gazette
quotes to say nothing more than that no pub
lie man in Virginia bad come out against
protecting iron ore, coal, peanuts, sumac'
manufactured tobacco, &C., &c. Can the
Gazette name a candidate for Governor, for
example, who T. In favor Of abOlishing the
duty on the articles we have namedt The duty
Oh manufactured tobacco is all that keeps our
tohacco-faltolics at work. II could be done
away with at once Il the internal tax on to-
hacco were abolished, but the Gazette I'M
dcr,tands The President as being opposed to
the abolition Of the tobacco tax. OF course,
then, Virginia congressman must vote TO
continue the protective tariff on manufac'
tured tobacco. since II il were continued
and the custom, duty taken OF, not pound
OF tobacco could be manufactured in this
state But an this will not prevent them
from voting for Mr.. CLErELAND.
The Gazette has read too carelessly the
platform Of the true-bue, o.d.tme Demo-
crats" of Venaugo county, Pa. We quote
their tariff plank:
1--WE approye the doctrines contained in
the list annual message Of the President as
leingln accord with The traditions and de-
clarations II ,he Democratic pgrty through
out its whole history and founded on the
principles set forth in the National Consti-
tuition and we demand that tue dangerous
and corruptng surplus accumuating In the
National Treasury shall be discontinued bv
reducing tanii taxation upon raw materials
and toe necessities Of life, TO the end that our
people may compete with other nations IN
The home and foreign markets, and that the
cost Of living may be reduced and the ave
nue., OF industry be more broadly extended
TO our toiling masses"
The Gazette says truly that Pennsylvania Is
a manufacturing state" but 1t Is the vic
tim Of a great oversight when 1t cites tue
above resolution as proving that the Demo
Gratis OF that State are opposed TO protecting
Pennsylvania industries. That resolution
distinctly declares that the Venango'eounty
Democrats demand the removal OF the taxes
on "raw materials" Whyp Because
PENNSYLVANIA is a manufacturing State, and
wants cheap "raw materials" But Virginia
has these "raw materials" for sale,
and wants her raw materials protected.
Why do Pennsylvania Democrats demand
free straw mqterials"? we ask again.
They answer for themselves in the above
quoted resolution. They say they want free
raw materials so that "our people may COM
pete with other nations in the home and
foreign markets" for manufactured articles.
In other words, the resolution Is just the
same sort Of declaration on the tariff question
that Pennsylvania Democrats are celebrated
for making.
Finally, IL the Gazette can support Mr..
CLEVELAND after having done more than any
other paper TO destroy his popularity in Vir.
GINA, surely the rest OF the Virginia Demo-
Gratis can support him although he would
have the tariff reduced . little more than
they would.