Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-21

n. II. ElOlUCu, OulO
Henry Blackman, Oregon.
Henry Cochran, Pennsylvania.
T. z. Bartlett, Rhode Island.
T. ID. Jarvey, Jr., South Carolina
w. A. Collier, Tennessee.
j. II. McLeary, Texas.
A. Fulkerson, Virginia.
o. G. Miller, Vermont.
j. Collins. Washington.
B. +. Martin, West Virginia.
James Borden, Wisconsin.
r. H. Homer, Wyoming.
j. Sheakley, Alaska.
+. Il. Ellinwood, Arizona.
Henry E. Davis, District Of Columbia.
E. V. Lang, New Mexico.
II. p. Henderson, Utah.
At the close of the formal letter, Mr..
Cleveland faced Chairman Wilson and
said:
MIR. CLEvELAND's RESPONSE.
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen:
The message you deliver from the Ma
tional Democracy arouses within me
emotions which would be well nigh over
whelming, if did not recognize here as
sembled the representatives OF great
party who must share with me the re-
spOnsibility your mission invites.
find much relief in the reflection that
have been selected merely TO stand for the
principles and purposes 10 which my
party is pledged, and for the enforcement
and supremacy of which all, who have any
right to claim Democratic fellowship,
must constantly and persistently labor.
Our party responsibility is indeed great.
We assume momentous obligation to our
cOuntrymen, when, in return for their trust
and confidence we promise them rectitca-
tion Of their wrongs and a better realiza-
tiOn of the advantages which are due TO
them under our free and benefcent insoitu-
tions.
But il our responsibility is great,
OUR PARTY IS STRONG.
1t is strong in its sympathy with the needs
OF the people, in its insistence upon the eX-
ercise of governmental power, strictly
within the constitutional permission the
people have granted, and in its willingness
TO risk its life and hope upon the peopld' S
intelligence and patriotism. Never has a
great party intent udon promotion of right
and justice had better incentive for effort
than is now presented to us.
Turning our eyes to the plain people of
the land, we see them burdened as consum-
ers with tariff system that unjustiy and
relentlessly demands from them in the pur-
chase of the necessaries and comforts OF
life, an amount scarcely met by the wages
of hard and steady toll, while the eXactions
thus wrung from them build up and in
crease the fortunes Of those for whose ben
etit this injustice is perpetuated. We see
the farmer listening TO a delusive story
thrt fills his mind with visions Of advan-
tage, while his pocket is robbed by the
stealthy hand Of high protection.
Ours is not a destructive party. We
are not at enmity with the rights of any
of our citizens. All are our countrymen.
We are not reckleSsly needless of any
American interests, nor will we abandon
our regard for them; but invoking the
love of fairness and justice which belongs
TO true Americanism and upon which our
constitution is founded we insist that no
plan Of
TARIFF LEGISLATION
shall be tolerated, which has for its object
and purpose a forced contribution from
the earnings and income Of the mass OF our
citizens TO swell directly the accumulations
of a favored few; nor will we permit q
pretended solicitude for American labor,
or any other specious protest OF benevo-
lent care for others, TO blind the eyes OF
the people TO the selfish schemes of those
who seek through the aid Of equal tariff
laws to gain uuearned and unreasonable
dIh duLdENo e-O AhC Ga liNAAoC VI NhOiA ASAAO ~
OUR woRKINGNrEN ARE STILL
told the tale oft repeated in spite Of its
demonstrated falsity that the existing pro-
tective tariff is a boon 10 them, and that
under It's benefcent operation their wages
must increase-while as they listen scenes
are enacted in the very abiding place of
nigh protection that mock the hopes Of il,
aud at the tender mercy the workingmen
receives from those made selfish and sor-
did by the unjust governmental favortiSm.
We oppose earnestly ana stubbornly the
theory upon which our opponents seek 10
Justify and uphold existing tariff laws, We
need not base our attackuupon questions of
constitutional permission or legislative
power. We denounce this theory upon the
highest possible grounds when we contend
that in present conditions, It's operation is
unjust and that laws enacted in accornance
with il are ineQuable and unfair.
We have also assumed in our covenant
with those whose support we invite the
duty Of opposing TO the death another
avowed scheme Of our adversaries, which
under the guise Of protection the suffrage
covers but does not conceal design there
by t. perpetuate the power Of a party
afraid to trust its continuance 10 the dn-
trammeled aud intelligent votes of the
AUGILtdu pcpULG. w Z dAG pAt0sCO " AG-
sist the legislation intended TO complete
this scheme because we have not forgotten
the saturnalian Of theft and brutal control
which followed another federal regulation
of State suffrage; because we know that the
managers of party which did not scruple
to rob the people OF q president, would not
hesitate 10 use the machinery, created by
such legislation, to revive corrupt instru-
mentahties.
FOR PARTISAN PURPOSES;
because an attempt to enforce such legisla-
ton would rekindle snimosity where peace
and animosity now prevails; because such
al attempt would replace prosperous activ-
ity with discouragement and dread
throughout a large section of our country,
and would menace, everywhere in the land
the rights reserved to the States and to the
people which underhe the safeguards Of
American liberty.
shall not attempt to specify at this
time other objects aud aims Of Democratic
endeavor which add inspiration TO our
mission. True to its history and its creed,
our party will respond 70 the wants Of the
people within safe lines and guided by en-
lightened craftsmanship. To the troubled
and impatient within our membership we
commend continued, unSwerving allegi-
ance TO the party whose principles in all
times past have been found sufficient for
them, and whose aggregate wisdom and
patriotism, their experience teaches, can
always be trusted.
INA TONE OF PARTIsANsHTP
which BELTS the occasion, let me say to you
as equal partners in the campaign upon
which we have to-day entered that the per-
sonal fortunes Of those TO whom you have
entrusted your banners are only important
as they are related to the fate Of the prin-