The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-09-30
MIR. CLEYELAND'S LETTER OF
ACCEPTANCE.

The letter Of Grover Cleveland, ac-
cepting the Democratic nom nation
for the Presidency was sent out ON
Monday. 1t is only about one-half as
long as President Harrison's letter,
md is a calm, dispassionate statement
of Democratic policy and purposes, in
which there is no evasion and no
lodging of issues. The ex-President
declares the fundamental mission of
our free government to be the protec-
ton of the people in their property
and earnings, and that failure to pro-
tect them in such use and enjoyment
or an unjustifiabled iminution of their
means by the government itself is a
betrayal of the peoples trust. He as
serts that the government has no
right to exact from the people more
than is needed for an economical ad-
ministration of our public affairs.
This is the essence of the doctrine "a
tariff for revenue only" to which the
Democratic party is committed in this
campaign.
Mr.. Cleveland opposes the Republi-
can theory of protection" which is
for the express purpose and intent of
promoting especial interests and en-
terprises, and asserts that the work
ingman is suffering from the importa-
ton of pauper labor and the farmer
from the sale of his surplus products
in foreign markets, where the prices
are fixed and competition invited by
the system he is asked to support.
The national Democracy, he says,
will seek to equalize to our people the
blessings due them from the govern
ment they are called upon to support.
He believes a readjustment of the
tariff can be made without disaster
or demolition and declares boldly for
free raw materials for manufacturers.
While Mr.. Cleyeland's views on the
tariff are explicitly stated, he is also
clear and emphatic in his opposition
to the Force Bill, which he declares
"developes a design, which no explana-
ton can mitigate, to reverse the fun
damental and safe relations between
the people and the government.
"To resist such q scheme is the I'M
pulse of Democracy"
He declares that every dollar put
into the hands of the people, whether
it be of gold, silver or paper, should
be of the same intrinsic value or pur-
chasing power.
He has not receded from the stand
before taken by him in favor of civil
service reform and says that the pen
sion roll should be roll of honor,
uncontaminated by ill desert and I'M
Initiated by demagogic use.
He opposes such paternalisn in
government as leads to the enactment
of laws which unnecessarily interfere
with such habits and customs of our
people as are not offensive to just
moral sense and not inconsistent with
good citizenship and the public well
fare.
Mr. Cleveland favors proper immi-
grafton laws which will keep out imini-
grants whose presence among us is a
menace to peace and good order.
The letter is the plain, straightfor-
ward utterances of a manly and wise
statesman, who does not fear to state
his views because they may be mis-
understood or misquoted by political
opponents. If elected he says he will
assume the Presidential Office "know-
ing full we'll its labors and perple1iiies,
and with humble reliance upon the
Divine Being, infinite in power to aid,
and constant in Il watchful care over
our favored nation"
We will publish Mr.. Clevoland's let
ter in full next week.