Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-19
MIR. REID'S ACCEPTANCE
Letter of the Republican Vice
 Presidential Candidate.
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES ANALYzED.

dent Harrison's Administration Praised,
 NEW YORK, Oct. 19-Hon. Whitelaw Reid's letter accepting the Republican nomination for e-President is made public. It is addressed to Hon. W. T. Durbin, Anderson, Ind, and is dated Ophir Farm, N. Y, Oct. IS, 1892. In it Mir. Reid says:
 "When the nomination with which the National Convention had honored me was formally announced by your committee, l accepted it at once. In doing so l ac- cepted also the principles set forth in the resolutions adopted by the Convention as the basis of the appeal to the popular suffrage.
 'There will be no misunderstanding as to the attitude of it's candidates. What it intends it has set forth in language that cannot be mistaken; and they will strive, by all the lawful means in their power. to enforce its plainly expressed will.
 "The party platforms, so called, are more important this year than usual. Both the leading candidates have once commanded the approval of the American people in it's highest form of expression. Attention is therefore concentrated less
 
 principles each is put forward to repre- sent, and would, in case of election, be required to carry out.
 Ut is obvious that the really vital is- sues which this year divide parties, and demand a popular decision, are those re- lating to the tariff and the currency. Fortunately, both sides have stated their positions on these subjects with distinct ness, simplicity and rrankness.
 THE TARIFF QUESTION.
 eve favor a protective tariff and when in full power made the present one. Our opponents favor tariff for revenue only, and promise the repeal of the present one
 I've maintain that the tariff should cover the difference in the cost of the home and foreign product, caused by the difference in the home and foreign wages for the labor employed upon it. Our op- ponents distinctly repudiated the propo- sition that American wages should be considered in the matter, and declared instead that a tariff for anything but revenue only was unconstitutional.
 "We maintain that the present tariff has worked we'll; that it has developed American manufactures, steadied and in creased American wages. and promoted the general prosperity. Our opponents deny that Ethere has been any increase of prosperity under the present tariff, de- clare that wages have been reduced, and denounce the Republican policy, which, as they say, fosters no other industry so much as that of the sheriff.
 I've favor the system by which, when we think the country ready for the re- duction or abolition of duties, we insist upon getting corresponding and recipro- cal advantages from foreign countries as the condition of their enjoying these ad- vantages in our own market. Our op ponents denounce this reciprocity as a sham, and, therefore, inferentiaIly pledge themselves to it's repeal.
 ''The sharp issues thus presented for the decision of the American people cover more comprehensively and more specific ally than ever before the whole range of considerations relating to a protective tariff, its constitutiorality, its expedi- ency, its relation to wages, it's practical workings and the question whether, as it is from time to time reduced, we should throw away the advantages thus extended to foreign nations or should get some thing Ill return for them"
 Mir Reid then goes on to say that the constitutionality of a protective tariff has heretofore been thought established, and notes that tariff bill avowedly for ''the encouragement and protection of manu- factures" was carried through the first Congress. He also quotes from message
  the constitutionality of the protective system is maintained and, coming down to the present time, adds the opinion of the Hon. George Ticknor Curtis on the same question.
 Speaking of the expediency of a pro- tective tariff, Mir. Reid says: "It has bs9n vindicated by the experience of the last thirty years, the most wonderful period of financial success over unheard of difficulties in the record of modern civ iliZation. Under it and by it's aid the Re- publican management of our finances has resulted in the largest payment of a national debt in the shortest time known to history, and in the simultaneous de- | velopment of the industries of the coun- | try and the prosperity of the people on 8 scale without parallel"
 Coming down to the question of re- l ciprocity, Mir. Reid goes on to show the | benefits derived from that policy, which, ! he says, the Democrats have design hated | as sham.
 FEDERAL CONTROL OF ELECTIONS.
 MT. Reid, speaking of the "Force bill, " 1 says it scarcely calls for notice. 'The very title of the bill referred to- '" | he says, proclaimed it's object to be to | prevent the use of force at elections; it failed anyway, and the Southern white men who were lately its chief, as they l were US most lpUer0SCeu, opponents, HOW begin to wish it revived to protect them from being themselves counted out of elections they have fairly won-as in Alabama the other day-by their own 1 white fellow-Democrats.
 l ''lt is well, however, to say that the denunciation in the Democratic platform of the principle that the Federal Govern ment may supervise the election of Fed eral officers is grotesque. That principle has been long recognized; it has been sustained by the courts; it now stands undisputed on the Statute Book, and it was enforced at recent elections by Grover Cleveland, then President of the United States, through his order of Oct. 5, 1886 to Mir. Garland, his Attorney General. But it is not to be disguised that the recent clamor against this principle, if iI means anything, means purpose % nuL lify the XIVth and XVth Articles of the Constitution of the United States.
 THE MATTER OF CURRENCY. | GGOo ba If tho cI1rrap ha ;a