The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-20
P ."RIO &c WORDS.
WHY WAYNE MACvEAGH WILL VOTE
FOR CLEVELAND.

The Policy of tho Republican Party Rock
less and Rey yOlutionary-The McKipley
Tariff and the Force Bill Both Unw,se
Measures.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.-The fol.
lowing letter from the Hon. Wayne
Mac Veagh, Attorney General of the
United States in the Cabinet of Presi.
dent Garfield in 1881, announcing that
he will vote for Grover Cleveland, was
glyed out for publication recently:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.-John w,
| Carter, Secretary of the Massachusetts
Reform Club: Your cordial invitation
to address the citizens of Boston on the
issues OF the canyass happens to reach
me just when pro cessional engagements
prevent my naming time when can
90 80, but you are quite right in conclud.
| ing that Intend to vote for MIR, Cleye.
| land.
Entertaining the convictions l do no
other CO lrse is open to me, and cheer.
| FULLY accord TO the supporter, of Presi.
dent Harrison the same sense of punljc
duty by which claim to oe actuated. AS
| both parties have presented unexccp.
| tlonable candidates there is no reason
why the differences which exist upon
question OF public policy should be dis.
cusscd otherwise than in good humor
and with entire respect for others opin-
ions.
In the present campaign what NAV
fairly be called the false alarms of the
canvass will prove of little value bee fuse
OF the general confidence in the safe and
conservative character Of both caudi.
dates. The average voter knows that
tree trade Is impossible in this country.
tor the conclusive reason that vast re.
venues now required to meet the ex.
! penses OF the Government will neces.
sarilY afford a far higher degree of prtec.
ton to orr established and prosperous
manufactures than either Alexander
Hamilton or Henry Clay thought de-
slrable in the infancy of our weak and
struggling Industries. The average yo.
ter also knows that the irredeemable
paper currency in use before the war
IAN never reappear. On the ether hand.
he knows as well that no system of du-
Ties on Imports, however inequitable,
can prevent our continued growth in
wealth, IN manufactures and in popula-
tlon-a growth due to the incompatible
glfGs OF Providence, the intelligence and
energy OF the people and the blessings
Of fee institutions.
Wnlle am more than ever resolved
10 hold duty to country far above anv
ties OF party, find myself 1t present in
general accord with the De nocratic par
ty and willing to trust its course in the
iuture. The insight, the courage and
the patriotism the masses of the party
exhibited in compelling the nomination
or Mr.. Cleveland when he was without
a single ofiiceholder to support his can
dldacy seem to me to demPnd tkat I
should meet them in the same spirit and
| act with them as long as they maintain
that high standald OF policy ard of adj
mInistration. 1t is the more easy to do
80 because the Republican party, secur.
ing It's return to power four years ago
by promising TO preseve matters as thew
were, at once ubarked upon what re-
gard as rec--less and revolutionary
policy, even overturning all the safe"
guards oflegis' 'atiOn In the House of Re-
| Dresensatlves in their haste to pass the
force bill and the Mckinley bill, both,
to my miAd, unnecessary and unwlse
| measures.
The opposition to the force bill. Is
not only sure to create far greater evils
than it could cure, butas also subyer-
slve OF the rights of the States, has be-
come so earnest and widespread that
| 1t Is said to have been abandoned, but II
must not be forgotten that only two
years ago such measure was warmly
advocated by President Harrison, earn.
estly supported by the Republican par
/
| q law.
There is no pretence, however. tbat
| the Mckinley bill is abandoned. On
the contrary, our express approval of It
ls demanded. No doubt that bill, which
l cannot think was an uncalled for dis.
turbance of The then existing tariff,
greatly benefited few interests, but
certainly 1t greatly oppressed many
others. or the protected industries
themselves many were then, as now,
IN tar more urgent need of free
raw material than of higher protec.
ton, but with raw materials on
the free list the bill could not have
passed, of those having such materi.
ais for safe controlled enough votes
to defeat 1t, and they were very likely
to 40 so if their bounties were discon.
tlnued. The Manufacturers needing free
raw materials were, therefore, Obliged
to join in the Objectionable process of
increasing pric"1 by restricting produc.
ton, thus adding to the number of trusts,
by which the price of the necessaries of
LIE Is placed at the mercy of unlawful
combinatlons of capital. 1t is not sur.
prls'1g ttaL labor, believing itself to be
oppr SEED, soon rose in revolt, and civil
war has ,tually rcged this summer in
four different sections of the country.
And, of course, the farmers, paying more
tor what they buy and gettirg less for
what they sell, grow poorer day by Jay,
and ex ,e'!ent farms in some cf the most
iertlle sections OF this most highly pro.
tected State will hardly bring the cost OF
the buildings upon the I.
But the economic evils, however
great, OF the Mckinley bill and the l,n-
reasonable system of protection It rep.
resents are OF far less Importance to nv
mind t,an the moral evils which follow
IN their wake. In d Gliding for what
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