New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-10-26
MR.. BLAINE SPEAKS OUT.
Cleveland's Letter Of Acceptance Criticised
Sharply.
Reciprocity and other Leading Questions
Fully Considered.

on the presidential election OF 1897 ap-
pears in the November number of the
North American Review, which will be
published tomorrow. It occupies thir-
teen pages of the Review.
Mr.. Blaine notes the lack of excite
ment attending the present elections,
contrasting it with the turmoil Of inter.
est that characterized the campaign of
the elder Harrison. This change in the
public interest in such contests, he sug-
gests, may be accounted for by the
growthin population and the consequent
absorption in vast commercial and fnan-
cial operations, and it may possibly in
dicate subsidence in the future of ex-
treme partisanship.
Mr.. Blaine gives special attention to
the letters of the presidential candidates.
OF President Harrison's letter he says,
among other things that ssperhaps none
of his predecessors has made SO exhaus-
tive and none more clear presentation
of the questions involved 2 Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter is subjected to searching
criticism; Mr.. Blaine finds that in great
er measure than Mr.. Harrison's it de-
parts from the platform Of his party; in
fact, that Mr.. Cleveland has made the
platform upon which he is now before
L. tIo+l H,.E- low n1oy, n l3c
departure from the position Of his party
platform on the question of free trade
confirms the impression, which has been
general, that a large proportion of the
Democratic party believed in protection
tic comment upon Mr.. Cleveland's utter
=ance on the currency and the state banks.
He upholds the Republican policy Of
granting liberal pensions to the veterans
of the war. On this point he says: The
amount we contribute for pensions is
larger than the amount paid by anyspf
the European nations for standing
army. Surely the binding up of the
wounds of past war is a more merciful
and honorable work than preparing the
country for a new one.'
Mr.. Blaine is full and explicit in his
treatment Of the subject of reciprocity,
claiming that a material increase has
been caused in the United States trade
by the reciprocal treaties with the islands
and countries Of America, and particu-
larly by the treaties made with European
countries. Mr.. Blaine quotes interesting
figures in relation to the increase of trade
with the Leeward and Windward islands
and Cuba, and he predicts in relation to
Cuba, that "we shall conquer by COM
merce far better than by force of armed
forces and cordially establish such mu-
tual interests between Cuba and the
country that commercially the two coun-
tries will be one." Mr.. Blaine, dwelling
on the claim of the Democratic party to
be the Jeffersonian party, says:
EsIt would surprise Jefferson, if he
could once more appear in the flesh, to
learn that he is held as indorser of all
the principles and measures advocated
by the Democratic party to-day. It is
perhaps not worth while to enter into
any elaborate argument on the subject,
but the Democracy owes no little of its
success to the persistence with which its
adherents have made their disciples be-
lieve this pretension through all the mu-
tations of their party. It was equally
true, it must be said, when Mr.. Buchan-
an, confirmed Federalist, was the presi-
dent-elect of the Democracy, though it
is well known that the object of Mr.Jef-
ferson's most intense dislike was the Fed
eral party. In vain it is pointed out
that the position Of Jefferson on any
subject was directly the reverse of the
Democratic position; he is duly quoted
at the next convention, and a new oath
of allegiance is taken to his principles.
In 1901, after severe contest, Jefferson
came to the presidency as the founder
and head of the Republican party. The
prefix Democratic was sometimes though
seldom used. The tenacity with which
Jefferson held to the prot ective principles
was only proportional to the necessities
of the country. His action in 1907 when
he declined to recommend the repeal or
alteration of the revenue law, after .
surplus of fourteen millions had been ac-
cumulated, puts him in the sharpest con-
trast to Mr.. Cleveland, who in his term
of Office, treated the surplus accumulated
as the sum Of all yillainies. 2
In conclusion Mr.. Blaine calls atten-
ton to the essential agreement Of the