The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-09-13
TWO TARIFF TALKS.
President Cleveland Formally
Accepts the Presidential
Nomination.
Tariff, Trusts and Civil Service
Form the Themes for
- His Pen.
Gen. Harrison's Acceptance Com
plete Resume Of Campaign
Subjects.

Subjects.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. President
Cleveland's letter of acceptance of the
Is in substance as follows:
WASHINGTON, Sept. =, 1888.
Hon. Patrick A. Collins, and others, COM
mittee, ETC.,
GENTLEMEN:-In addressing to you
my formal acceptance of the nomi-
nation to the presidency of the United
States, my thoughts Professionally dwell
| upon the impressive relation Of
| such action to the American peo-
pie, whose confidence is thus invited, and
to the political party 60 which belong,
just entering upon o contest for contin-
| ued supremacy.
The world does not afford a spectacle
more sublime than is furnished when
| millions of free and intelligent American
citizens select their own magistrate, and
bid one of their number to find the high
est earthly honor, and the dull measure
of public duty in ready submission to
their will.
1t follows that a candidate for this
high Office can never forget that when
the turmoil and the strife which attend
the selection of its incumbents shall be
heard no more, there must be in the
quiet calm which follows a complete and
solemn self-consecration by the peoples
chosen president of every faculty and en-
deavor to the service of q confiding and
generous nation of free men.
These thoughts are intensified by the
light of my experience in the presidential
office, which has soberly impressed me
with the severe responsibilities which it
imposes, while it has quickened my love
for American institutions and taught me
the priceless value of the trust of my
countrymen.
1t is of the highest Importance that
those who administer our government
should jealousy protect and maintain
the rights of American citizens at home
and abroad, and should strive to achieve
for our country her proper place among
the nations Of the earth; but there is no
people whose home interests are so great
and whose numerous objects of domestic
concern deserve SO much watchfulness
and care.
Among these are the regulation Of a
sound financial system suited to our
needs, thus securing an efficient agency
ity; the construction and equipment of
safety and maintain the honor beneath
which our national safety reposes; the
protection of our national domain, still
stretching beyond the needs of q CEN
tury's expansion, and it's preservation
| for the settler and the pioneer of our
| marvellous growth; O sensible and sincere
| recognition of the value of American
labor, leading to the scrupulous care and
| Just appreciation of the interests of Our
workingmen; the limitation and Chez.
| ing of such monopolistic tendencies al
schemes as interfere with the advantag7s
and benefits which the people may
rightly claim; a generous regard and care
| for our surviving soldiers and sailors and
| for the widows and orphans of such as
| have died, to the end that while the ap-
| probation of their services and sacrifices
is quickened the application of their pen
| sion fund to improper cases may be pre-
| vented; protection against a servlle I'M
migration which injuriously completes
| with our laboring men in the field of toll
| and adds to our population an element
| ignorant Of our institutions and laws,
| impossible of assimilation with our peo-
pie and dangerous to our peace and well
fare; a strict and steadfast adherence to
the principles Of civil service reform and
a thorough execution of the laws passed
for their enforcement, thus permitting to
our people the advantages of business
| methods in the operation of their govern
ment; the guaranty to our colored citi-
zens of all their rights of citizenship and
their just recognition and encouragement
| in all things pertaining to that relation;
| a firm, patient and humane Indian pol
| icy, SO that in peaceful relations with the
| government the civilization of the Indian
| may be promoted, with resulting quiet
and safety to the settlers on our from
| tiers; aud the curtailment of public ex-
pense by the introduction of economical
methods in every department Of the gov
eminent.
The pledges contained in the platform
| adopted by the late convention of the
national Democracy, lead to the advance
ment of these objects and insure good
| governmental aspiration of every true
American citizen and the motive for
every patriotic action and effort. In the
consciousness that much has been done
in the direction of good government by
the present administration, and submit
ting its record to the fair inspection of
my countrymen, indorse the platform
| thus presented, with the determination
that, if am again called to the chief
magistracy, there shall be a continuance
of devoted endeavor to advance the inter-
ests of the entire country.
Each of these subjects are then treated
in full and Mr.. Cleveland's position on
them plainly defined as outlined above.
Reduction of the surplus and an arraign-
ment of the Republican party for their
declaration that internal revenue should
be the first to be abolished are the two
subjects that occupy the larger part of
his attention. The letter plainly and un-
equivocally endorses the platform adopted
| at St. Louis.