The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-31
STETENSGN'S ACCEPTANCE.
The Viee-PreSidentiaI Candidate Writes
His Letter.
lie Is FEARFUL OF THE FORCE BILL.
COhjuTeS Up Scenes Of BesOation and Disaster
Should Ii PaSs-The Tariff and
Currency.
lie Is FEARFUL OF THE FORCE BILL.
Special to THE MoRNrSs CALI.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. 50.-Adlai E.
Stevenson. Democratic candidate for Vice
President, gave to the press tonight his
letter Of acceptance. He says he has been
engaged continually since the big New
Yerk meeting. at which he and Cleveland
spoke, in the discussion before the people of
many States Of the Union Of the issues
emphasized by the Chicago convention and
represented by its candidate for President.
Grover Cleveland. The opportunity thus
has been denied him TO write 4 formal ae-
cepiance with the care he would desire.
lie says, however, that Mr.. Cleveland's
treatment in his letter Of the issues now be-
fore the country for discussion and settle
ment was so complete that he can do little
more than indorse Cleyeland's position and
give it the emphasis of his unqualified ap-
prOvaL
at is plain" says Mr.. Stevenson, "that
our present ineQuitable system Of tariff
taxation has promoted the growth of such
conditions 10 our land as result in drawing
tribute from the many for the benefit of the
few a part OF the people are oppressed in
order that the remainder may prosper m
duly, equality is lost sight of, injustice
hsrdens into precedent, which is used to ex-
distinctions which the benefeIaries come to
look upon in due time as vested rights
sacred to themselves. IL these heneheiarieS
are able 10 gain new tenure OF power the
development of these conditions must Gen.
tiDue until the power TO tax Will be lodged
in those willing and able ta pay for the per-
petuatiOn OF privileges originally conferred
by a confding people Tor the preservation
involRte Of their own government. There
is no longer pTetext for the maintenance
of the war tariff IN tines Of peace, and i am
in hearty accord with the demand of the
Democratic platform for reform of this
system.
"The convention also de Jared its position
on the currency question in no unmeanjng
words" SAYS Mr.. Stevenson. aud he then
quotes the currency plank Of the platform
and says: TO this plain and unequiVocal
declaration 10 favor of.sOund honest money
] subscribe without reservation or qualifica-
tiou. a safe circulating medium Is absO-
iutely essential to the protection of the bus
mess interests OF our country, while TO the
wage Garner or farmer it is ail-important
that every dollar whatever its form, that
finds its way into his;rOcket, shall be Of equal
nnquestioned and universally eXchsngeab
value and OF equal purchasing power.
Another issue Of great moment is the
force BILL the magnitude Of which cannot
be oyeTstateG. Ii may mean the control of
the election Of representatives in Congress
its acts IN the Fifty-frst Congress and by
its platform In the late national cOnven-
tiOD, stands pledged 10 the passage OF this
bill That IL will pass il y hen il has power
DO sane man can doubt Since my nOmina-
ton l have been IN eight Southern and
Southwestern States, and have found e
general and growing apprehension Of the
evils which il IS believed would result from
the passage of the Lodge bin or similar
legislation. | found industries established
T. fl, l.
administration IN iangUlShlng condition.
''Tbe enactmentOf the force bill into a
law, while it would threaten the liberties
of the entire people, would undoubtedly
Tetard the material growth OF the States at
which it was specially aimed. would incite
in many communities race troubles aud in
Yite retalat0Ty legislation which would dis
tnrb property values and discontinue and
destroy the security Of Northern invest
ments; and its reflex action upon the
Northern States would result IN the cOnse-
ouent loss OF commercial and trade relations
with q vast territory now becoming trIbu-
.tary to their wealth and prosperity. | say
nothing now of the Inherent vice Of the
un-AmeTican and revolutionary spirit in
vOved 10 the Lodge bill, which was pro-
nounced by Republican Senator tile most
Infamous that ever crossed the threshold Of
the Senate
81 appeal to the instincts Of self-interest
and the sense Of common Justice IN the
American people that the era Of good feel
ing and renewed commercial relations COM
mencing with the administration of Cleye-
land in 1884 should not be interrupted by
the Inauguration of policy tending to de-
str0Y popular representation and the purity
Of local self-gCyernmeat; which furnishes
an instrument to a discTedited Federal
power to perpetuate itself; which seeks to
keep alive sectional jealousies and strife;
which threatens important and material III
terests, and which offers no excuse or palli-
alton for its existence except the perpetual
tion in power OF political party which has
lost public coufidence."