The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-05
REID SPEAKS AT BOSTON.
A CLAIM THAT CLEVELAND IS
AFRAID OF BIS PLATFORM.

AFhAlD OF BIS PLATINUM
Re lie Also Charged With DodainR the
State Bank and Reciprocity Cues
tions Entirely and Fighting Shy OF
the Tariff Plank-An Attack on
Tsriff Reform.
Boston, MASS, Oct. 4.-Music hall and
Faneuil hall were both filed to OVERLOOKING
tonight when the republicans ratified their
state and national nominations with ring
ing speeches by Whitelsw Reid, William
Mckinley, Lieut. Gov. Halle and Roger
Walcott, the two latter being the nominees
for governor and lieutenant governor re-
spectively. As soon as the doors Of Music
hall were opened there was q rush for
seats and many who came later were thank
full even to find standing room. W. E. Bar
| rett presided and was f1anked by large
| number OF leading men Of the party seated
/ on the platform. After a short Introductory
speech Whitelaw Reid was presented as the
first speaker of the evening. As he stepped
| forward he was given a most tiatterlng re-
ception by the large audience, which was
quick 10 note the sharp points Of his adj
dress and bestowed frequent applause
Reds SPEECH.
Mr.. Reid said in part;
mean to speak OF Mr. Cleveland with that
| respect which all right thinking American PEG
pie wish to show for one who has passed our
| supreme ordeal and been once declared by
| majority OF American votes worthy 70 be cher
magistrate of this nation. But 1t cannot De
| disrespectful, and it is obviously truthful 20
| say that Mr.. Cleveland now acts toward the
platform of his party as II he were AFRAID
that il he should venture to step on 1t,
it would break through. Three distinctly
| vital points in the platform are the state bank
nRHH Of
| them his letter is absolutely silent; while ne
| writes all around and about the third, through
/ one half his whole letter. without once being
| able to say 10 straightforward language whether
| protection is unconstitutional, as his party de-
| cares #, or right and expedient, as Thomas
| jefferson and Andrew Jackson declared it.
TARIFF Reform.
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, aud the whole tariff
must be turned over again to be tinkered by the
congress OF that party which at Chicago de-
clAred by nearly two-thirds majority for
the English as against the American system
and pronounced protection unconstitutional.
He might as well have stepped boldly
upon the platform. 1t would have looked
better, and could not have resulted worse; for
what he does say brings him, whether he likes
1t or not, straight TO the platforms conclusion:
We declare it to be a fundamental principle OF
the Democratic party that the federal govern
ment has no constitutional power to impose
tariff duties except for the purposes Of revenue
only. We denounce the Mckinley tariff as the
eliminating strooity of class legislation, and
we promise Its repeal.
AN APPEAL TO PREJUDICE.
Are even the democratic business men Of
Boston eager Just now, this year or even next
year for sn entertainment like that? In vain,
after this does the candidate plead Rpologeti-
cally that his party wages no DISCRIMINATING
war against any American interest. As we'll
might he plead that his party demand for re-
IL % ~ -Yue, Erna-a
tion makes no threat against the national
currency. He says he wants TO change things
by reforming the tariff. The party gives its
pSes'' 70 Ses as to tns
Mr.. Cleveland, but its congress would make; q
tariff for revenue only, any other being unoon-
stitutional. He tries to quiet alarm by saying
that free trade is impossible. Certainly.
England says the Same thing; and maintains
most rigidly Just the sort Of tariff Mr. Cleve
lands platform demands-a tariff for
sight OF any bird. No qualifications or
omissions, or vague generalities or assurance
of harmless intentions can blind the eyes OF
voters to the fact that however much Mr..
Cleveland may regret 1t, as an honorable man
he Is bound hand and foot to the platform of
his party at Chicago, just as all the world
knows that he is to-day bound TO the car Of
0riumphant) Tammany in New York.
A CHARGE OF INCAPAcITY.
Never since 1864 have our opponents disclosed
80 plainly the real spirit that controls their ma
jorlTY. and their actual inCapacity to compre-
bend the country or the times. In 1864 their
resolutions declared that the war for the union
was a failure; and within fortnight the world
had heard the answer as Shenandoah possess
sion Of Atlanta and Sheridans troopers swept
through the valley Of the Shenandoah. Now
the resolutions pronounce any protective tariff
unconstitutional. denounce the Mckinley tariff,
promise its repeal, deny that there
since it went into operation. and declare,
on the contrary, that the republican policy
fosters no industry SO much as that Of the
sheriff. Before the campaign is fairly started
comes an answer from Mr.. Cleveland's own
commissioner of labor statistics that during
last year in the state of New York wages have
advanced and production has increased.
Next comes his own superintendent of
the bank department who reports.
| first, that the deposits Of work.
ingmen in savings banks have increased. and
second that the deposits of workingmen in
building aud loan associations have increased.
Then comes his own board of equalization re-
| porting that in one year, 1891. when the McKin.
ley bill had just got fairly to work with it cul-
perty Of the state have increased over $3.50 900 :
| 900, or $40 per cent
| Well may Mr. Cleveland repeat to his Officials
the despairing exclamation Of Balak King of
Moab. TO BALKAN. the prophet, II took thee to
curse Israel, and behold thou hast blessed him
altogether"
| TEB FoRCE BILL.
But we are sometimes told that all these cues
| JlOub hOoub reversing established currents of
| our tariff and trade and currency, which merely
affect the business and well-being of every citi-
| 1en are comparatively unimportant, and that
| the only vital issue in this campaign is whether
| the federal government shall be permitted TO
regulate the election CT federal officers
| II It is, then according to the democratic
| platform, republican government in the United
| States is doomed 1t is difficult to believe that
! our opponents expect to be taken serious v in
such proposition. The real question involved
is, shall every citizen OF the United States law
| fully entitled to vote, be permitted to vote and
| to have his vote fairly counted! The repub.
| licans say yes. The democratic platform prac.
| tically says no. Mr.. Cleveland, in this
case has the courage frankly to saw
ditto to his platform, Now, il
| this democratic opposition means anything il
| means notification OF the fourteenth and III.
tenth articles of the constitution of the United
States Is Massachusetts, ready for thatY
There was a time when notification came
naturally from the Democratic party, but the
sons of Massachusetts,, the men who favored it
have been ever since walking backward like the
sons of Noah to cover the nakedness Of their
disgraced fathers.
REPUBLICAN BOASTS.
There is one party in this campaign Mr.. Chair
man, that does not find it needful TO Islander
the country; that does not seek for calamities
and does not read its own defeat in tine general
prosperity. There is one party that has moth
ing to conceal and that says what it means 1t
has nominees who are not afraid of its prnci-
pies. 1t is not trying to succeed by getting one
part OF the country TO vots for its platform and