The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
WAYNE N'VEAGH,
Tho Famous Republican Leader, VIII Now
Support Cleveland. 4 3. q

support Cleveland. {
G PhiladelTyeIr K;ra.st l,stdiscla 81 s;pe-
cial THE Hon. Wayne MacVeigh, who
was United States attorney general under
President Garfield's administration, and
who has always been one Of the most
prominent republican leaders Of Pennsyl-
vania, has publicly announced his inten-
ton of voting for Mr.. Cleveland.
In q letter addressed to the secretary
of the Reform Club Of Massachusetts he
enters at considerable length into the rea-
sons that have actuated him in adopting
this course. While there is nothing ap-
preaching to partisan asperity in his COM
munication, it is throughout q pungent
and incisive Indictment Of the republican
party and n sweeping and exhaustive eX-
position of the decadence of its principles.
After bearing testimony to the safe and
conservative character of both preSiden-
tial candidates, Mr.. MacVeigh goes on to
say that the average voter knows that
free trade is impossible in this country
for the reason that the vast revenues re-
quired TO meet the expenses Of the gov
ernmcnt will necessarily afford d far
higher degree of protection to our estab-
IiShcd and prosperous manufacture than
either Alexander Hamilton or Henry Clay
thought desirable in the infancy of our
weak and struggling industries.
1.-The force bill,' he says, sis not
only sure to create Tar greater
evils than it could cure but, as
also subversive of the rights of the states,
has become so earnest and wide, Gprcad
that 1t is said to have been abandoned;
but it must not be forgotten that only
two years ago such Il measure was warm
ly advocated by President Harrison, earn
estly supported by the republican party
and very narrowly escaped becoming q
law.
There is no pretcnse," he goes on to
say, that the Mckinley bill is abandon
ed. On the contrary, our express ap-
proval Of it is demanded. No doubt the
bill-which l cannot but think was an
uncalled for disturbance of the then ex-
listing tarif'-greatly benefited a few in
terests; but certainly it greatly Cypress
ed many others and it is not surprising
that labor, believing itself to be Cypress
ed, soon rose in revolt and civil war has
actually ragged this summer in four differ
ent sections of this country. And, of
course, the farmers, paying more for what
they buy and getting less for what they
sell, grew poorer day by day, and excel
lent farms In some Of the most fertile
sections Of this most highly protected
state will hardly bring the cost of the
buildings upon them
After charging in detail on some of
the more glaring economic and moral evils
Of the Mckinley bill, Mr.. MacVcagh next
applies himself to Il discussion of the in
discriminate granting of pensions which
marks no distinction between the dis
charge of duty and the shrinking of it,
between loyal service and desertion of
the cOlOrS, between wounds received in
battle and diseases contracted in the pur-
suits of peace.
Gas ! believe, for the reasons I have
given, that the true welfare of the coun-
try would be promoted by Mr.. Cleve-
lands election, it is my duty to vote for
him; and as l recall the capacity, the
fidelity and the courage with which he
has heretofore discharged every public
trust committed to him, that duty be-
comes a pleasure"