Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-29
Opinions Of The Press on Mr.. Cleveland.
Position.



Ar. Cleseiand's pauderoas sentence ON
the banking :, stem will hardly satisfy the
people as a sufficient Offset to the attack
npon the present national banking system
contained in the Chicago platform.
Portland Press
II is eass 10 see that the controlling iiea
Of Mr. Cleveland and his advisers was to
avoid taking definite stand on any point
On which there Is sharp difference of
opinion among the people. Things which
every body believes in he states with posi-
iiveness. Bat when he approaches moot
ed question he Danifests the greatest eau
tion. The thing that was uppermost in his
mind and in the minds of his councillors
was votes aud he never for moment al
lowed it to be forgotten. Hence We have n
letter devoted almost entirely to long drawn
out statements of principles which every
body agrees TO. 1, gives no information of
value to any body.
Boston Traveller.
It contains little or nothing that nj ght
not have been as well and pcrtinently said
-ix weeks ago az now. II has been so long
delayed that expectation has somewhat
wearietI AMI it will hardly excite the inter
est which it would have created had it only
appeared earlier. We can hardly call it a
characteristic document. 1t bears marks
of revision at other hands 1t lacks the
frank directncss of the tariff message of
1887.
Lewiston Journal.
While, altogether. President CleveIand's
letter may be characterized rs rather
skillful attempt to mollify the damaging
planks of the Democratic national platform,
yet when it is subjected to the searching
analysis of a political campaign, it will in
no manner aid in restoring the Democratic
purity to power.
Philadelphia Press.
Although Mr.. Cleveland took all summer
and part of the fall to prepare his letter of
acceptance. the result is a document whose
Jingle merit is its comparative brevity. As
u composition it is more ponderous and dull
than is usual even from this source. Mr..
Cleveland accepts the Democratic platform
IN accepting the nomination. and. in spite
of his tmid and obscure qualification of its
salient principles, the issue is not clouded
in the least. The Democratic party assails
protection at its foundation by declaring
and safe Republican financial policy of the
last thirty years by declaring that the re-
straiut on state bank issues of currency
shall he removed, The Republicans join
issue on these vital questions of policy and
the country is called to declare next No
vember which shall prevail.
Bangor Wing
Mr. Clevelands letter of acceptance shows
his humiliating surrender to the demands of
Tammany which crops cut all through this
long delayed letter. In this letter lie starts
out with an unqualified Endorsement of the
free trade plank in the Chicago platform,
prOnOunces protection unconstitutional and
reiterates the old parrot cry that the tariff
is tax. But Cleveland is after votes, and
realizing the unpopularity of the Chicago
platform, drops the spirit of candor in which
he has discussed the question up to this
time and proceeds to shield hisHsclf behind
= lot of phrases calculated or ut least iu-
tended. TO distract the public mind from the
direct issue involved in the campaign.
New York Recorder.
1t is cold. cautious and, in many re-
spects, an eyasive document. This is not
surprising. 1t was hard to write paper
which should satisfy so many conflicting
interests in the party of which Mr.. Cleve-
land is the standard-bcarer, and at the
same time convince the great business in
terests and the workingmen of the country
that il would be safe to put him again at
the head of the executive department of the
government. II is the third letter of the
kind which Mr.. Cleveland has written, and
through every sentence of it there runs an
,snjcr-current of timi'lity and self-distrust
The letter is plea. almost an apology. In
it can be found no ringing call to battle like
some of the sentences in his letter of 1883.
Mr. Cleveland evidently felt that he was
walking on broken political glass, the sharp
points of which pierced him at every step.
New York Press.
Mr.. Clcvelands letter is a characteristic
document. From first To last it is an ex-
preston of demagogy and cant. nder
the mask of high moral pretensions the
chronic candidate assails the American
system of protection with bitterness that
could hardly be exceeded by the greediest
foreign manufacturer that seeks to dispace
American goods with those made by his
own pauper labor. According to Mr. Cleye
land the declaration in regard to the cur
rencv is a cowardly and not very ingenious
straddle. Mr.. Cleveland did not dare
even to mention the demand in the Dem
ocratic platform for a return to the wildcat
bank system. He attempts to evade the
whole question by u,terug few common
place generslities.
tariff and the currency. In treating of
civil service reform and pensions. Mr..
Cleveland employs the most beautiful Ian
guage and the noblest sentiments. But Mr.
Cleveland has a record upon these subjects