Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-01
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1892.
stevensoa's Letter of Acceptance.

Steyensoa's Letter of Acceptance
We print this morning General STEVEN
sos's letter accepting the nomination OF
the Democratic National Convention tor
Vice. President of the United States.
Everybody will read it. It is PLAIN, prac-
teal, comprehensive. and good.
II makes no pretensions to be new pre-
sentation of the arguments Of the cam
paien. but candidly says that Mr.. CLgvE-
LAMPS long and Gble letter OF acceptance
basrendered it needless for General STEVEN.
soy 10 discuss at length the issues before
the people.
Let us say here that General STEVENSON
GRAND speeches in the South and the NORTH
have done more good than ten-coumr
letter of acceptance from him could posi-
bly, do.
General STEVENSON stopped one leak
which il was charged the Chicago conven'
ton had caused. We refer to the currency
plank of the Democratic national platform.
In General SrEyrssoN's own State, but
still more generally IN Ohio, the Republi'
cans have charged the Democrats with
having in their national platform come out
for "wild-cst currency" General Ste
yySsoN. after full conferences with Mr..
CLEVELAND and other Democratic leaders,
speaks out in the following strong Ian
guage:
..Ths convention also declared Its position on
the currency question In no unmeaning words
when IL said In it's platform, We hold 10 the use
81 both gold and silver as the standard money OF
the country and to the coinage OF both gold and
silver without discriminating against either
metal or charge for miutage, but the dollar unit
OF coinage Of both metals must be OF equal In
trinsi and exchangeablo value, or be adjusted
Il rough international agreement, or by such
safeguards OF legislation as shall insure the
parity OF the two metals and the equal power OF
every dollar at all times 10 the markets and In
the payment of debts and We demand that all
paper currency shall be kept at par with and re-
deemable in such COIN
..To this plain and unequivocnl declaration In
favor Of sound honest money subscribe with
ont reservation or qualification. safe ctrcu-
lating medium is absolutely essential TO the pro-
lection Of the business interests Of our country,
while TO the wage-earner, the farmer. II Is all
important that every dollar, whatever its form,
that finds its way into his pocket shall be OF
equal, unquestioned and universally-exchange-
able value and Of equal purchasing power"
Mr.. CLEVELAND could not have made
that last paragraph stronger. General
STEVENSON thus stands pledged TO the
policy of having every dollar. 'rhdterer
is form, that finds its way into the pocket
of the wage-earper of equal, unQuestioned,
and universally Interchangeable value and of
equal purchasing power" Note that he
saws "every dollar, tchatecer lis form -
that is, whether paper, or gold, or silver.
We like this declaration so much that we
call attention to it before noticing what
he SAYS on other subjects.
General STEVENSON devotes paragraph or
two to the tariff. 1t is a subject which he
has thoroughly mastered, and his treat
ment of it is good though brief.
He saws il is time for war-tariffs to be
erased from the national statute book.
This subject has been exhaustibly discussed
by General STEVENSON wherever he has
spoken.
The force bill General STEVENSON pro-
nounces another issue of greet moment
and he devotes more space to 1T than TO
any other topic. He pronounces its spirit to
be "un-American and revolutionary" and
quotes Senator TELLER's declaration as to
Its character-that is, that it was =" the
most infamous bill that ever crossed the
threshold of the Senate" Here is telling
sentence:
"The era Of good feeling and renewed CON-
mercial relations, commencing with the election
OF Mr.. Cleveland In 1884, should not be inter-
tupted by the inauguration of a policy
which tends to destroy popular repre-
tsntation and the purity Of local self
government, which furnishes IN instrument TO
iis,redited Federal power to perpetuate itself,
which seeks TO keep alive sectional jealousles
and strife, which threatens important and ma
terial interests, and which offers no excuse or
palliation for Its existence except the perpetu-
ttion in power Of political party which has lost
public confidence"
Good. Very good.
General STEVENSON closes by accepting