Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-11-05
FOR CLEVELAND.
WAYNE MACvEAGH, GARFIELDs ATToR-
HEY GENERAL WILL VOTE FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET-HE SAYS TIE
TRUE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY
WOULD BE PROMOTED By CLEVE-
LANDS ELECTION


LANDS ELECTION.
Following close upon the announce
ment that Judge Gresham, four years ago
a prominent candidate for the Presden
tial ON nation in the Republican Ma
tional Convention, had determined to
vote for Cleveland aud Stevenson, an
other bombshei has been thrown into the
Republican camp. The following letter
IRON Wayne MacVeaga, Attorney Gen
eral under Garfield, announcing that ne
will vote for Grover Cleveland, has been
given out for publication:
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4. 1872.
John W. Cater, Esq, Secretary Of the
Massachusetts Reform Club:
Your cordiat invitation to address the
cit:zens OF Boston on the issues Of the
canvass happens to reach me just wAea
professional engagements prevent nv
naming a time when can do so, but you
are quite right III concluding that | IN
tend to vote for Mr.. Cleveland.
Entertaining the convictions do,
no other course is open to me, and
cheerfully accord to the supporters OF
President Harrison the same sense OF
public duty by which claim to be act
uated. AS both parties have presented
unexceptionabe candidates, there is no
reason Why tle differences which exist
upon questions Of public policy should
be discussed otherwise than in good
bumor, and with entire respect for each
others opinions.
In the present campaign "nat may
fairly be called tue false alarms Of the
canvass will prove Of little value, because
Of TIE general confidence in the safe and
conservative character OF botn candi
dates. The average voter knows tina.
free trade il impossible in this country,
Tor the conclusive reason that the vast
revenues now required to meet the ex
penses of the Governm.nt will necesstr-
lily afford fuv hiyaer degree Of protec-
ton to our established and prosperous
manufacturer. than either Alexander
Hamilton or Henry Clay thought desir
able in the infancy Of our weak and
struggling industries. The average voter
also knows that the irredecnable paper
currency in u-e before the war can never
reappear. On the other hand, he kno vs.
as we'll tnat no system Of duties on im-
ports, however inequitablc, can prevent
ourcontinued growth in wealth, in IN "a
u;actures, and in population, a growth
due to the Incompatible gifts of Provi-
dence, the intelligence and energy OF the
people and the blessings Of free institu-
tons.
While | am more than ever resolved
to hold duty to country far above any
ties Of party, find myself at present in
General accord with the Democratic
Party, aud willing to trust its course in
the future. The insight, the courage
aud the patriotism the masses of the
party exhibited in compelling the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Cleveland when he was
without single Office holder to support
his candidacy seem to me to demand
that | should meet them in the same
spirit and act with them as long as they
maintain that high standard of police
and OF administration. 1t is the more
easy to do so because the Republican
Parry, securing its return to power four
Years ago by promising to preserve mat
.crs as they were, at once embarked upon
what regard as a reckless and revo-
lutionary policy, even overturning all
the safeguards OF lie gislation in the House
ot Representatives in their haste to pass
the Force bill and the Mckinley bill,
both, to my MUD, unnecessary and un-
wise measures.
The opposition to the Force biiI, rs
not oriy sure to create far greater evils
than it could cure. but a. also subversive
OF the rights of the States. has become
50 earnest and widespread that it is said
to have been abandoned but it is mus
not be forgotten that only two years agt
such measure was warmly advocated bN
/, the Republican Party, AM very narrowl!
/ escaped becoming a law.
| There is no pretcnse, however. thai
| the Nick lnlcy bill is Abandoned Ga tn,
contrary, our express approval of It Is
! demanded. No doubt that bill, which
cannot but think was an uncalled toI
| disturbance of the then existing tariff
greatly benefited few interests. but Ger
| tanly 1t greatly oppressed many Others
OF the protected industries themselves
many were then. as Low, in far NOR
urgent need of free raw materials than q
higher protection, but with raw mater
ias on the free list the bill could no
have passed. for those having such mater
1 ials for sale controlled enough votes t,
defeat it, and they were very likely to d
so if their bount!es were discontinued
The manufacturers needing free rag
materials were therefore. obliged to joi
in the Objectionable processes ef efincreas
ing prices by restricting production, thu
adding to the number OF trusts by whic
the price of the necessaries Of life
placed at the mercy OF unlawful com
birations of capital.
1t is not surprising that labor, believ
ing itselfto be oppressed, soon rose j
revolt, and civil war has actually rage
this summer in four different sections {
the country. Aud, OF course, the taru
ers. paying more for VIVA. they buy an
getting less for what they sell, gro
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