The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-17
WHlTELAW REID AT BUFFALO.
Cholera and tho Democratic Platform
Unable to Kill Republican Prosperity.

Cholera and tho Democratic Platform
Unable to Kill Republican Prosperity.
BUFFALO, Sept. 16.-At mass meeting
in Music hall tonight Hon. J. s. fiarkson
introduced Hon. Whitelaw Reid as the
next vice president of the United States.
The announcement was received VI 18th loud
cheers. Mr.. Reid spoke at some length
on the issues of the campaign. He said:
There is one vital question. Are the people SO
dissatisfied with our present prospcrogs course
that they are ready to invite dangerous shock
by suddenly reversing the engines which have
been running thirty years in the direction OF a
high protective tariff? How serious 8 disturb
ance even a modification of that course has
made You all remember the long suspense
and arrest of operations attending the
debates on the Mckinley bill. lis oppo-
nents, now that the bill is working well,
declare it unconstitutional and reci brocity a
sham, and demand a reversal They also de-
mand abandonment of our magnificent system
OF national banking currency Sucn is the
sudden shock our opponents inyite you to bring
upon yourselves. And it is proposits on to be
considered by the practical business pe2,ple in
practical. business like way. The presidential
year has always been considered a bad business
year because the future is so uncertais. Now,
Tor the first time. the presidential campaign is
lar from producing stagnation. 1t is
attended by general prosperity ard brisk
business. Not even the unusual and radical
threats of a change and the unexpected spac;er
OF cholera combined have this year bees able to
cast a ch!li over the general confidence or
siacken the activities of buoyant business
Why? Is IL not because the business werId haa
made up its mind there is to be no chenpa
with ap abiding faith in the common sense and
sober second thought Of the average American
citizen Does not every business ma:,. what
Car gf.v tt1eHa l.,
tudices, absolutely know, as Ii cold susiue-s
proposition. that a complete reversal. of the
existing order OF things demanded by
TIE Democratic party. in its present
platform to the tariff, reciproc4y and
national banking system, would necessarily
nnsettle business for the next eighteen nontbs
or Two years. In view OF our having adapted
ourselves 10 the Mckinley bill and our :raetic-
ally unoFoken conduct OF business s.lce ls62
under high protective tariff system. NEST men.
whether Tree traders or protectlonistx. know
that anything like a broad and thororgr. execu.
Hon oi the scheme laid down In the DaIeocrstic
plato would be a preci ipitati0u OF t:Isiness
chaos Il Is wise in prosperous times 10 Get well
enough alone. no; TO upset everything aud go
hunting Tor theoretical rsinbows.
The present activity of business in the; face ~
the cholera and Democratic csmpsiga Combined
IS the best proof of the peoples faith th.t both
Invaders VII be repcllei. For the frst tzgn., the
policy is boldly enuncis.ed and i-anEIv de-
Tended by the national Democratic parry that
TIE tariff should have no relation 70 yya7ss and
no protection OF American industrics 1hat it
sno0Ic BE- solely arranged for the rur.3ose of
raising revenue aud have all the char
ecieFlstics OF revenue tar.g which
presses only upon articles wg are
bound 70 import from abroad, ike :caffes
tea and sugar, and so that tariff shoul.: he as
direct tax aud as directly feit by every ,meri-
can citizen as If imposed upon a watch IA vour
pocket OF Hour in yoar paatry. In brief. Il ia
Democratic demand. at Las, honestly rnssie fo,
the Easi.sh tarif with. of course, Englists ages
10 follow it,
lion. J. NJ. Thurston, A. J. Lester; Con-
gresham Alien. of Michigan, and others
spoke briefly
Tonight there was grand parade with
h,''i men IN line. They were reviewed by
" AiIs.aw Reid, J. S. Ciaxkson, Cou.,ress-