The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-23
NUMBER "a

That our cause.-The peoples ca use
will triumph we have no doubt; and
judging the future by the past the ad-
ministration which you will give to the
people on the United States will be
directed by wisdom, craftsmanship, in
tegrity and patriotism and will cause
your fellow democrats to regard with the
same pride and pleasure your future
career as the president of this great re-
public, that they now enjoy in the re
membrance of your former ADMINISTRATION.
The names Of the entire committee
are appended
| At the close of the formal letter
| Cleveland faced Chairman Wilson and
| said:
| EX-President CIeveland's Speech.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen The
message you deliver from the national
democracy arouses within me emotions
which would be well nigh overwhelming
if did not recognize here assembled
the representatives of the great majority
who must share with me the RESPONSE
bilty your mission invites find much
relief in the fact that ] have been
selected merely to stand for the principles
and purposes to which my party is
pledged and for the enforcement and
supremacy Of which all Sho have right
| to claim democratic fellowship must
constantly and persistently labor.
| Our party responsibility is indeed
great. We assume momentous obliga.
tion to our countrymen when in return
for their trust and confidence we prom
Use them rectification of their wrongs
and better realization Of the advan-
tages which are due to them under our
free and beniticent institutions. But if
our responsibility is great our party is
strong. 1t is strong in its sympathy
with the needs of tie people, in its in
sistence upon the exercise # govern
mental powers strictly within the consti
tutional permission the people nave
granted and in its willingness to risk its
life and hope upon the peoples intelli-
gence and patriotism. Never has great
party intent upon the promotion Of right
and justice had a better incentive for an
effort than is now presented to US. Turn
ing our eyes to the plain people of the
world we see them burdened as con
sumers With tariff system that unjustly
and relentlessly demands from them, in
the purchase 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 increase the fortunes
of the perpetrators of this injustice.
: We we see the former listening to a de-
lusive story that fills his mind with Wis
ions of advantage while his pocket is
, robbed by the steady band of high pro
lection. Our workingmen are still told
the tale often repeated in spite of its
demonstrated falsity that the existing
tariff is a boon to them and that under
is operation their wages must Increase
= N, Esta tal
1 in the very abiding place of high protec-
: ton that mock the hopes of toll and at
,. test the mercy the workipgman receives
: from those made selfish and sordid by
unjust governmental favoritism. We op
e pose earnestly and stubbornly the theory
e upon which our opponents seek to JUS
} tify and uphold existing tariff laws. We
\ need not base our attack upon questions
- of constitutional permission or legisla-
tive power. We denounce this theory
I upon the best possible grounds when we
contend that in the present conditions
|, its operation is unjust and that laws en-
/ acted in accordance with it are unfair
. Ours is not destructive party. We
:, are not at enmity with the rights of any
: of our citizens. All are our countrymen.
i We will not abandon our regard for
/ them; but. invoking that love of fairness
b and justice which belongs to true Amer
v icanism and upon which our constitu-
!, ton rests, We insist that no plan Of
h tariff legislation shall be tolerated which
S has for its object and purpose forced
= contribution from the earnings and in
>. come of the mass Of our citizens to swell
O directly the accumulation of the favored;
: nor will we permit pretended solicitude
q for American labor or any other
specious preteXt Of benevolent care for
J. others to blind the eyes Of the people &c
l. the selfish schemes Of those who seek
10 through the aid Of unequal tariff laws tC
gain unearned and unreasonable advan
tages at the expense Of their fellows.
We have also assumed in our covenant
Is with those whose support we invite the
'e duty of opposing to the death another
IL avowed scheme Of our adveTsaries which.
o under the guise of protecting suffrage, It
covers but does not conceal. the design
u thereby TO pcrpctuate the power of the
Z party afraid to trust its continuance
/ to the untrammelrd and intclli-
J. gent votes of the American people
t We are pledged 10 resist legislation in
II tended to complete this scheme because
u we have not forgotten the saturnalia IF
{: theft and brutal control which followed
'i another federal regulation of state suf-
II frage: because We Know that the man
y ayers Of the party which did not scruplC
4 to rob the people of a president would
II not hesitate TO use the machinery ere
s. ated by such legislation 20 revive corrupt
y nstrumentalities for partisan purposes
because the attempt to enforce such
e legislation would rekindle animOsites
u ! where hopefuncss and peace now pre-
II walls; because such an attempt
u would replace prosperous activity
u, with Encouragement and dread through
" out Il large section Of cur country and
IT would menace everywhere in the land
J. the rights. reserved to the states and
&c the people which underIie the safe
l. guards Of American liberty. ! shall not
II attempt to specify at this time other oh,
u jects and aims of democratic endeavor
r which add inspiration to our mission
e True to lis history and It's creed our
e party will respond to the wants of the