Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-10-05
REID AND MCKINLEY.
Speech Of Reid. Candidate for Vice
President.

"
BOSTON, Oct. 5.--A grand ratifi
cation meeting was held In Music
and Faneul Hal, last night. White
law Reid, Governor Mckinley and
others were present. Reid was given
. fiattering reception. He eeulogized
the achievements of the Republican
party, and dwelt on the change
threatened by the declarations Of
the Democratic platform. 1t has
been said, said he, that Democrats
do not intend to do what they say.
If you take that view, why encour-
age the party that doesn't intend to
do what 1t promises, and IL its
promises are admitted to be worth
less, what guarantee have you, II
you give it power, against its going
even further than it has threatened.
Is a tiger as amusing and playful a
creature that 1t is worth while to turn
him loose out of mere curiosity to
zee what he will do? That the
Democratic party demanded these
changes everybody knows, but
something has happened. Since last
Tuesday they have been demoralized.
CIeveland's letter of acceptance dis.
closed figure which our aboriginal
friends Of the far West would de-
scribe as "big man afraid of his
platform, and that a party gazes In
perplexity and alarm on candidate
who accepts his nomination, but who
has not shown either candor
TO accept or courage to
repudiate its principles. Three
vital points in the platform
are state bank currency, reciprocity,
and the tariff. On two of them his
letter is absolutely silent. While he
writes all around and about u third
through his letters without being
able to say In straight forward Ian
guage whether protection is uncon-
stitrtional as his party declares it,
or right and expedient as Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson de-
clared It; but he does tell us that
tariff reform is still his purpose, that
IL to say the business of the country
must have no peace, everything
must be once more unsettled, and
the whole tariff must he turned over
again to be tinkered by congress
that party which, at Chicago, de-
clared by q nearly two-thirds ma
jority for the English as against the
American system and pronounced
unconstitutional. No
qualifications for omissions, or vague
and assurances Of harm
less intention, can blind voters to
the fact that, however much MIR.
Cleveland may regret 1t, as an hon
orable man, he Ia bound hand and
foot to the platform Of his party at
Chicago, aud all the world knows
he Is today bound o,the car of tri--
Tammany of New York.
1--WE deny that there has been an
Increase Of prosperity since the Nc
Kinley bill. went into operation"
says Cleveland's platform. New
York's commissioner of labor sta
tistics. bank commissioners, and
board of equalization, say there has
been. and reports from officers In
pther states confirm 1t ALL"
Speaking In discussion Of the cleo
tjons bill, Mr.. Reid said the ques-
lion involved is, shall every izsn
~ the United States lawfully enti-
He'd to vote be permitted to vote and
have his vote fairly counted? Re-
publicans say yes. Democratic |
platform politically says no. Mr..
In this case has the cour-
Age frankly to say ditto to. his plat
'orm. II this Democratic opposition
neans anything, 1t means nullifica-
ION Of the fourteenth and fifteenth |
articles of the conatitutIon.