Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-03
Skirmishing Before the
National Campaign.
Rhode Island Is the Present
battle-ground.
Prominent Generals Of Both Parties
Engaged in the Fray.
Cleveland and Campbell on the Stump
for the Democrats, and Reed
and Mckinley for the
Republicans.
Associated Press Dispatches.

A"N'iDNCE, ns Lee APiii % Liz
political temperature of Rhode islands
at fever heat tonight. Both parties pro
fess great confidence. The Democratic
campaign reached it's climax today ia
ex-President Cleveland's speech and
reception. Mr.. Cleveland was greeted
on his arrival with such demonstration
as has seldom been given any public
man. He was accompanied by ex-Secre-
tary of the Navy Whitney, ex-Governoi
Campbell of Ohio, Congressman Oscar
Lipham, John Mccall of New York and
George Evans of Philadelphia; friends
of Ex-Governor Campell were also in tha
party. The crowd closed around the
carriages and shouted and cheered
Cleveland. The party was driven to
the opera house through mass of peo-
pie who blocked the streets and followed
them. The opera house was blocked
shortly after 2 O'Clock, and all the state
candidates and almost all the leading
journalists of the state were on the
platform.
Several short speeches were made be-
fore ex President Cleveland arrived.
Congressman McAdoo of New Jersey
was speaking when Mr.. Cleveland came
in, and his entrance was the signal for a
burst of enthusiastic cheering. After
silence had been secured Chairman
Franklin P. Owen of the Democratic
state central committee, introduced
Hon. w. G. Ardell of Bristol, candidate
for governor, as president. He presented
Mr.. Cleveland as the next president,
q NH mild nd of \
kerchiefs by the ladies in boxes. The
ex-president spoke as follows:
He said he had come to look in the
faces of the men who have been given
the places Of honor in the advance OF
the vast army which moves toward the
decisive battle field of November.
Large and bright upon your banners" F"
said he, "are blazoned the words,
Tariff Reform, the shibboleth of true
Democracy and the test of loyalty to
the peoples cause. The fight for justics
and right is clean and comforting one,
because the American people love
justice and right. Ours must
be q winning fight. We not only
stand upon sure and safe ground when
we appeal to honesty and morality in
our championship of the interest of the
masses, as related to tariff taxation,
but our mission is invested with the
highest patriotism when we attempt to
preserve from perversion, distortion and
decay, the justice, equality and moral
integrity which are the constituent ele-
ments of our scheme of popular govern
ment. Our sincerity cannot be doubted.
In beginning the struggle we were
not only bitterly opposed by
great party OF avowed enemies, but
embarrassed by those in our ranks who
had become affected with the unwhole-
some atmosphere our enemies had Gre
ated. We hesitated not moment bold
ly to encounter both. We united our
party, not by any surrender, but by an
honest appeal to Democratic sentiment
and conscience. We have never lowered
our standard. The Democratic party
still champions the cause which defeat
could not induce it to surrender; which
no success short of complete accomplish
ment can tempt it to neglect. We in
vite the strictest scrutiny of our conduct
in dealing with its subjects, and we in
sist that our course has been open, fair
and consistent"
Mr.. Cleveland went on to speak of the
efforts of the opponents of his policy in
the campaign of 1888, and the means by
which they succeeded. Coming down
to the Mckinley bill, he said 1.-The
consumer has found life harder since
this reform than before, and if there is
q workingman anywhere who has had
his wages increased by virtue of it's
operation, he has not yet made himself
known. Plenty of mills and factories
have been closed; thousands of men
have lost employment, and we daily
hear of reduced wages, but the benefits
promised from this reform are not ap-
parent"
"The reciprocity theory of the Nc
Kinley BILL" said Mr.. Cleveland, "lame.
ly limps in the direction of freer COM
mercial exchanges. If hypocrisy is the
homage vice pays to virtue, reciprocity
may be called the homage prohibitory
protection pays to genuine tariff re-
form."
The demand in the Rhode Island plat
form for free raw material ought, it
seemed to him, to be warmly seconded.
"lf the Democratic party" said he,
"does not give to the state of Rhode
Island during the present session of
congress the free raw materials she
neeQe, IL WILL Do because q Republican
senate or executive thwarts its designs.
At any rate, nothing shall divert us
from our purpose to reform the
tariff in this regard, as well as
many others, be the time of it's accom-
plishment near or remote. Doubtless
it would please our adversaries if we
could be allured from our watch and
guard over the cause of tariff reform to
certain other objects, thus forfeiting
the peoples trust and confidence. The
national Democracy will hardly crafty
this wish and turn its back upon the
peoples cause to wander after false and
unsteady lights in the wilderness oi
doubt and danger. Our opponents must
in the coming national canvass, settle
accounts with us on the issue of tariff
reform"
1Mr. Cleveland spoke half an hour in
loud and clear tone and was listened tc
with close attention, each paragraph
being greeted with round of applause.
His first reference to tariff reform wat
the signal for burst Of cheers and
thereafter his speech was interrupted
again and again with applause and
cheering. Tho audience was evidently