Evening journal., 1892-10-05
THAT MACVEAGH LETTER
1t is a Bombshell in the Repub-
lican Camp.
THOUGHTFUL, ooEsoIENTIoUsM MIND

Senator Gray Says That Mr.. Macveagh Is
Order of citizenshlp-He Was In Gar
fields Cabinet but Cannot Go Harrison.
The following are portions Of the let
ter from Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, attor-
ney- general Of the United States in the
cabinet Of President Garfield in 1881,
announcing that he will vote for Grover
Cleveland, which was given out for pub
lication today
"PH lLADELPHIA, Oct 4-John w.
Carter. Esq, Secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Reform club: Your cordial in
vitation to address the citizens Of Bos-
ton on the issues of the canvass happens
to reach me Just when professional en-.
gagements prevent my naming a time
] can do so, but you are quite right in
concluding that / intend TO vote fot Mr.
Cleveland
Entertaining the convictions that do,
no other course is open 10 me, and
cheerfully accord to the supporters Of
President Harrison the same sense Of
public duty by which / claim TO be
actuated As both parties have pre-.
sented unexceptionable candidates, there
i7.laOf. .fcuron Wiil. litu UNIV cllc fsilicn
exist upon questions OF public policy
should be discussed otherwise than IN
good humor and with entire respect for
each others opinions.
"While / am more than ever resolved
TO hold duty TO country far above any
ties Of party, find myself Mt present in
general accord with the Democratic
party and willing to trust its course in
Ia.
and the patriotism the masses Of the
party exhibited in compelling the nomi
nation of Mr. Cleveland when he was
= without a single ofIice-holder to support
a his candidacy seem to me to demand that
e should meet them in the same spirit ant
% act with them as long as they maintain
e that high standard of policy and Of ad
ministratiOn. II is the more easy to do
o so because the Republican party, secur
di ing its return to power foul
d years ago by promising to preserve mat
e ters as they were, at once EN-
? barked upon what l regard reckless
= and revolutionary policy, even overturn
Il ing all the safeguards of legislation il
the House of Representatives In thei
L haste to pass the Force bill and th
h Mckinley bill, both to my mind unnec
d essary and unwise measures.
D. The opposition to the Force bill, as no
only sure TO create far greater evils tha
le it could cure, but as also subversive O
the rights of the states, has become S
) earnest and widespread that it is said {
10 have been abandoned, but Il must nc
80 be forgotten that only two years ag
r such measure was warmly advocate
h by President Harrison, earnestly SUI
st ported by the Republican party an
10 very narrowly escaped becoming law
se
a. "The abuses Of the pension system fur
s. nish another apt illustration of the ev
sure to follow such system of legisli
y tion. If congress was to levy take
)f upon tho people to confer bounties upo
certain classes of manufacturers, IL wa
very natural that the pension agent
should also Join hands to increase the
~ fees by an indiscriminate gran
ing of pensions. The result is thi
nearly a generation after the close Of u
war there is a steady increase of the va
81 sums passing through the pensic
us agents hands until now the total amour
ed staggers belief, and has become of itse
j. a very serious burden upon the treasur.
no From the day of Lees surrender unit
he now no single voice has eve
n been raised against the mo
ed generous provision for every person wi
ms had any Just claim upon the gratitude
the country but surely there is neith
ID. reason nor justice in legislation whit
re destroys all distinction between the di
ins charge Of duty and the shirking Of it, b
las tween loyal service and desertion of &
nd colors. between wounds received in ba
i'd ties and diseases contracted in the pu
IN suits Of peace.
There is still another great and i
creasing evil chiefly traceable, in L
opinion, to the maintenance of an q
cessive tariff since the war and the CO
re slant meddling with it TO make it high'
ON and that is the bringing to our shores
ap- those vast swarms of undesirable inn
in grants who degrade American labor
ate their competition and threaten t
stability Of institutions based upon
intelligent love of country. just as I
duties upon imported merchandise ha
been increased so has the grade Of j
on, ported labor been lowered until no
on under the Mckinley bill, thu
ing are coming here every MOI
bed many thousands Of more ignorant a
ual therefore less desirable laborers th
eel ever before. Il is not easy to exsgger
tho moral evils they are likely 10 infl