The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-21
IHRLING PATRIOTISM.
Grover C1eye1and's Great
Speech Accepting the
Democratic Presi-
Dental Nom
ination.

80 AL
CleyeIand's great speech at Maids on
Square Garden last evening"
"MR. CHAIRMAN AMI GE NTLEMEN: The
message you deliver from the National
Democracy arouses Within me emotions
which would be well nigh overwhelming
IL / did not recognize here assembled the
representatives II ii great party who must
share with me the responsibility your
mission invites. / fud mucn relief in the
reflection that l have been selected mere
ly to stand for the principles and pur-
poses to 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 a momentous ooli-
CATION to our countrymen when. in re-
turn for their trust aud confidence, we
promise them a rectification of their
wrongs and a better realization of the
ADVANTAGES which are due to them under
our free and beniticent institutions.
STRONG o BATTLE.
"But. If our responsibility Is great, our
party is strong. 1t is strong In its SYM
pathy with the needs OF the people, in its
insistence upon the exercise OF govern
mental powers strictly within the consti
tutional permission the people have
granted, and In its willingness to risk iis
life and hope upon the peoples intelli-
gence and patriotism.
"Never has a great party, intent upon
the promotion OF right and Justice, had
better incentive for effort than is nov pre-
sented to US.
Turning our eyes to the plain people
of the land, we see them burdened as con-
suners with q tariff system that uujustly
and relentiessly demands from them IN
the purchase of tbs n~ecessaries and COM
forts 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
those for whose benefit this injustice is
perpetuated.
THE sTEALTHY HAND OF PROTECTION.
"We see the armer listening to q de-
lusive story that fills his mind with VS.
ions of advantages while his pocket is
robbed by the stealthy haad of high pro-
lection.
Our w~orkingmen are still toldthe tale,
oft repeated ia spite of it. demonstrated
falsity. thatsthe existing protective tariff
Is a boom TO them, ana that under its
beneficen5 operation their wages must in-
crease, while as they listen scenes are en-
acted in the very aDiding-place of high
protection that mock the hopes of toll and
attest the tender mercy the workingman
receives from those made selfish and sor-
did 6y unjust governmental favoritism.
I'VE oppose earnestly aud stuohornly
the theory upon which u opponents
seek to justify and uphold existing tariff
laws. We need not base our attack apo
questions of constitutional permission or
legislative power. We denuuuce this
theory upon the highest possible grounds
when we contend that in present condi-
tiens its operation is unjust III that
laws enacted in accordance with it are
ineQuitable and unfair.
NOT DESTRUCTIVE.
"Ours Is not a destructive party. We
are not at enmity with the rights of any
of our citizens. All are our countrymeu.
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 Americanlsn, n upon which
our Constitution rests, we insist that no
plan of tariff legislation shall be
tolerated which has for its object
aud purpose a forced contribution from
the earnings aud income of the mass of
our citizeus to swell directly the ac-
cumulations of a favored few; nor will
we permit a pretended solicitude for
American labor, or any other specions
pretext OF benevolent care fof Others, to
blind the eyes OF the people to the selfish
schemes of those who seek, through the
aid of unequal tariff laws, to gain IN
earned aud unreasonable advantages at
Tile 6Ap6uS0 OIL tLblF I6liOWS.
FORCE BILL DENOUNCED.
1--WE have alSo assn ned iu ouE covenant
with those whoss support we invite. the
duty of opposing 10 the death another
avowed scheme OF our adyarsaries, which
under the gui.e of protecting The
suffrage covers, but does not conceal, Il
design thereby 10 perpetuate the power
of a party afraid TO trust its continuance
to the untrammeled aud intelligent votes
of the American people. We are pledged
to resist tine legislation intended
to complete this scheme because We have
not forgotten tue saturnalia of theft and
brutal control which followed another
Federal regulation oi State suffrage; bs-
cause we know that the managers of a
party which did not scru lls to rob tn,
people of "a President would not hesitate
TO Use the machinery created by sucn
legislation to revive corrupt instrument
alitieS for partisan purposes; because au
attempt 60 enforce such legislation would
rekindle animosities where peacs and
hopefulness now pre- vail; because such an
attempt would replace prosperous activity
with Observation-Disclosures d cad through
out a large section of our country, and
would menace. everywhere III the land,
the rights reserved to lhe States and to
the pc Jpls which underlie the safeguards
of American liberty.
CONTEST o PRINCIPLES.
II shall not attempt TO specify at this
time other Objects and aims of Demo-
cratic endeavor which add inspiration 10
our mission. True TO its history aud its
creed, our party will respond TO the wants
Of The peopie within safe lines aud guided
by enlightened states mauship. To the
troubled and impatient within our mem
bership we commend continued. un-
swerving allegiance to the party whose
principles. in all times past. have been
found sufficient for them. and whose ag-
gregate wisdom and patriotism, their ex-
p~erience teaches, can alwas De trusted.
I'm q tone Of craftsmanship which BELTS
the occasion, let me say to you rs equal
partners In the campaign upon which we
today enter, that the personal fortunes of
those to whom you have entrusted your
banners are only important as they are
related to the fate of the principals they
represent aud to the party which they
lead.
II cannot, therefore, forSear reminding
you and all tho Q attached to the Demo-
cratic party or supporting the principles
which we profess. that defeat in the pend
ing campaign. followed by the consumma-
tion Of the Legislative scneme our OPP
ponents contemplate, aud accompanied by
such other incidents Of their succ .ss as
might more firmly fix their power, would
present y most di- couraging outlook for
future Democratic supremacy aad for the
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the objects we have at