The record-union., 1892-10-05
Special to the REcoRp-UNroN.

! Boston, Oct. 4.-Music Hall and Fan
euil Hall were both filled to oyerfowing
tonight when the Republicans ratified
| the State and National nominations with
| speeches by Whitelaw Reid, Governor
! Mckinley and others. Reid was given a
fiattering reception. He spoke in part as
follows:
Mr.. Reid eulogized the achievements of
the Republican party, and dWelt on the
| changes threatened by the declarations of
the Democratic platform. 1T has been
said" said he, 'that Democrats do not
mean what they say. Ii you take that
view, why encourage a party that does
not intend to do what it promises, and, if
its promises are admittedly worthless,
| what guarantee have you ii you give it
! power against going even further than it
has threatened. Is the tiger SO amusing
and playful a creature that it is worth
! while to turn him loose out of mere
! curiosity to see what he will do? That
| the Democratic party demanded these
| changes everybody knows. But some
! thing has happened. Since last Tuesday
! they have been demOraliZed. The letter
OF acceptance diScloses a figure which our
aboriginal friends of the far West would
describe as a Big Man Afraid Of II is
Platform and the party gazes in per-
! pleXlty and alarm on the candidate who
accepts his nomination, but has not yet
shown either the candor to accept or the
courage TO repudiate its principles
The three vital points in the platform
are State bank currency, reciprocity and
tariff. On two of them his letter is abso-
lutely silent, while he writes ali around
and about the third through half his let
ter, without once being able to say in
straightforward language whether pro-
4 tectlon IS unconstitutional, as his party
declares it, or right and eXpedient, as
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew jackson
declared 1t. But he does tell us that tariff
reform is still his purpose. That is to
say, the business Of the country must
have no peace. Everything must be once
more unsettled, and the whole tariff must
be turned over again to be tinkered in
Congress by that party which, at Chicago,
declared by nearly two-thirds majority
| for the English as against the American
system, pronounced protection unconsti-
! tutional. No qualifications or omissions.
| or vague generalitieS and assurances of
harmless intention, can blind the voters
| to the fact that, however much Mr..
Cleveland may regret it. as an honorable
man he is bound hand and foot to he platt-
form of his party at Chicago, just as all
the world knows he is to-day bound to
| the car of the triumphant Tammany of
| New York.
1--WE deny that there has been an in
! GISdSo Vi piOSptIilS SIIlCG IUG N1Ch1ulGY
bill went into operation says Cleve-
lands platform. New York's Commits
sioner of Labor Statistics, the Bank
| Commissioner and Board of EqualiZa-
ton say there has been, and reports from
officers in other States confirm it all.''
Speaking of the discussion of the cleo
tions bill Reid said the question involved
is: Shall every citizen of the United
States, lawfully entitled to vote, be per-
mitted to vote and have his vote fairly
counted? The Republicans say yes, the
Democratic platform practically says no.
Cleveland in this case has the courage
frankly to say ditto to his platform. If
this Democratic opposition means any
thing 1t means the notification of the
fourteenth and fifteenth articles of the
Constitution.
| Speaking of the restoration of the mer-
chant marine, Reid said 1.-The Republi-
can party has frankly adopted methods
other nations found necessary, and voted
subsidies to our ships carrying the mails.
Moreover, two of the fastest and largest
ships in the world have been secured for
a transpacitic line. -Four more are to be
constructed and even with these six we
shall have equal to the best that enters
English ports. That is the Republican
! position in this respect. What does the
Democratic platform say about it?
| Nothing. What does Cleveland say about
| it? Nothing. There is one party in this
campaign that does not find it needful 10
! slander the country; that does not seek
for calamities, and does not read its own
defeat in general prosperity. 1t has
nothing to conceal and says what it
means"
GENERAL M'vEAGH FOR CLEVELAND.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4.-Ex-Attorney-
General Wayne Mac Veagh has written a
letter 10 John w. Carter, Secretary Of the
Massachusetts Reform Club, in which he
! announces that he will vote for Grover
| Cleveland. The writer finds himself in
/ full accord with the Democratic party
and finds it more easy to act with them,
! because the Republican party, securing
! its return to power four years ago by
! promising to preserve matters as thev
were, at once embarked upon what he
| regards as a reckless and revolutionary
/ policy, even overturning all the safe
guards of legislation in the House of
! Representatives, in their haste to pass the
/ force bill and Mckinley bill, both, to his
mind, unnecessary and unwise measures
The economic evils, however great, of
| the Mckinley bill, and the unreasonable
! system of protection it represents, are of
far less Importance to his mind than the
moral evils which follow in their wake
''In deciding for what purpose the masses
| of the people may be properly taxed -
says the letter, lit must not be forgotten
! that taxes have wonderful capacity for
| filtering through intervening obstacles
! till they reach the bowed back of toll and
! resting there; and, therefore. giving
! bounties under any form of taxation is
mainly the giving away of the wages of
! labor. But even such inequality and in
| justice are the least of its evils, for while
such system endures, political corrup-
t ton is absolutely sure to increase, as such
| system not only invites but requires the
corrupt use of money, both at the polls
and in Congress. The Republican party
| ought to be an honest money party. and
would be if it could, but while it de-
manded increased bounties for favorite
manufacturers, it could not refuse in
| creased bounties to silver producers, as
| the votes they control We're probably
necessary to the passage of the Mckinley
/ bill.
/ 1.-THE poison of a debased currency is
/ making itself daily more and more felt
i in every channel of business and finance
and ii is inevitably driving gold out of
! the country and leading us to the evils of
! f1uctuation, and therefore a dishonest
currency based upon silver alone.
| '"Pension agents have joined hands to
| increase their fees by the indiscriminate
granting of pensions. This result is
I nearly generation after the close of the
/ war, and there is steady increase in the
sums passing through pension agents
/ hands, until now the total amount stag
| gers belief, and has become OF itself a
very serious burden upon the treasury,
| Surely there is neither reason nor Justice