Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-05
WILL VOTE FOR GROVER.
Wayne McVeagh Formally
Bolts the G.. @. P.
Good Reasons Given for His
Change Of Heart.
The Mckinley and Force Bills Drove
Him to 1t.
He Regards the Present Policy of the
Republican Party as Reckless,
Riotous and Revolutionary.
Political Gossip.

| By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 4.-Ex.AttorDey
General Wayne McVeagh has written 9
letter to John Carter, secretary of the
Massachusetts Reform club, in which be
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 they
were, at once embarked upon what he
regards reckless and revolutionary
policy, even overturning all the safe
guards of legislation in the house of
representatives in their haste to paes
the force bill and the Mckinley bill,
both, to his mind, unnecessary and un-
wise measures.
The economic evils, however great, OF
the Mckinley bill, and the unreason-
able system of protection it represents,
are of far less Importance, to his mind
than the moral evils which follow in
their wake. In declaring for what pur-
pose the masses of the people may prop
erly be taxed, it must not be forgotten
that taxes have q wonderful capacity
for filtering through intervening OBJ.
stacles, till they reach the bowed back
OF toll, and rest there; and therefore
giving bounties under any form of taxa
tion is mainlySthe giving away of the
wages of laborF But even such ineuual-
ity and injustice are the least of it's
evils, for while such system enduree,
political corruption is absolutely sure to
increase, as such system not only in
vitess but requires the corrupt use of
money, both at the polls and in con-
gress.
The Republican party ought to be our
honest money party, and would be if it
could; but while it demanded increased
bounties for .favorite manufacturers it
could not refuse increased bountles to
the silver producer, as the votes they
control were probably necessary to the
passage of the Mckinley bill. The
poison of debased currency is making
itself more and more felt in every cham
mel of business and finance, and tits
inevitably driving gold out of the
country and leading us to the evils OF
fuctuation. and therefore dishonest cur
rency based upon silver alone.
The pension agents have joined hands
to increase their fees by indiscriminate
granting OF pensions The result is that
nearly generation after the close OF
the war there is steady increase of the
vast sums passing through pension
agents hands, until now the total
amount staggers belief, and has become
Of itself very serious burden upon the
treasury. Surely there is neither reason
nor justice in legislation which destroys
all distinction between the discharge of
duty and the sh'rking of it; between
loyal service and desertion of the colors
between wounds received in battle and
diseases contracted in the pursuits of
peace.
There is still another great and in
creasing evil chiefly traceable, in his
opinion, to the maintenance of an ex-
cessive tariff since the war and constant
meddling with it to make it higher, and
that is the bringing to our shores of
vast swarms of undesirable immigrants.
just as the duties upon imported mer-
chandise has been increased, so has the
grade of imported labor been lowered.
McVeagh is convinced that the causes
in which he is interested cannot hope
for success until the avowed policy OF
the Republican party on the tariff ia
ovarthrown