Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-07-21

i n NEAuu SpGeCn FROM thS CNCAt
President-I.Ower Taxes and
No Force Bill the Issues-MOre
Than Thirty Thousand People
Are Present.
NEW YORK, July 21.-Grover Cleve-
land and Adlai Z. Stevenson have been
officially notified that they are the
choice of the democracy Of this great
country to lead it either to victory or
defeat.
The notification ceremonies took
place last night in the presence of a
crowd of people that surpassed in ell
thusiasm and numbers even that vast
throng that on September 6, 1888, at
the same place, gave greeting to Allen
G. Thurman. The great amphitheatcr
OF Madison Square garden was crowded
as it never has been before and thous-
and and odd electric lights twinklcd in
wonder as they looked down from their
lofty pcrches upon the sea Of heads and
gesticulating speakers.
When the doors were opened the pco-
pie overrode the police, clubs and all.
They made one frantic rush Tor the seats,
and in the remarkably short space of ten
minutes all the room in the building that
remained vacant were the reserved seats
on the platform and boxes.
Mr.. Stevenson was.the first to appear,
but Mr.. Cleveland soon followed. After
waiting some time to be heard. and for
the uproar of the applause to subsidc.
Mr.. Cleveland arose and Mr.. Wilson
notified him in a speech Of ten minutes
duration that he had bcennominatcd for
the Presidency.
kMr. Cleveland responded:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN:- The
message you deliver from the national
democracy arouses within me emotions
which would be wcl-nigh overwhelming
if did not recognize here assembled the
representatives of the great party who
must share with me the responsibility
your mission invites find much relief
in the reflection that haye been selected
merely to stand for the principle and
purposes 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 re.
sponsbility is indeed great.
Turning our eyes to the plain people OF
the land. we see them burdened as con-
sumers with tariff system that unj justly
and reentlessly demands from them in
the purchase of the necessaries 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. We see the farmer listen
ing to delusive story that fills his mind
with visions of an advance, while his
pocket is robbed by the stealthy hand Of
high protection.
Our workingmen are still told the tale
oft repeated in spite of its demonstrated
falsity, that the existing protective tariff
is boon to them, and that under its
bcncficcnt operation wages must in.
crease, while as they listen scenes are en-
acted in the very abiding place OF high
protection that mock the hopes OF toll
and attest the tender mercy working.
men receive from those made selfish aud
sordid by uni ust governmental lavoritc.
ism.
We oppose earnestly and stubbornly
the theory upon which our opponents
seek to justify and uphold existing tariff
laws. We need not base our attack
upon questions of constitutional pcrmis'
| c,Nu Of Inuic1 1at. W.. ,lnnnupcf
this theory upon the highest possible
, grounds wher we contend that in tho
present conditions its operation is un
just, and that laws enacted in accord
ance with it are ineq litable and unfair
Ours is not a destructive party. We are
not at cnmity with the rights OF any o
our citizens.
We are not rccklcssly needless of any
American interests nor will we abandon
our regard for them, but invoking thu
/ love of fairness and justice, which be
longs to true Americanism, and upoi
which our constitution rests, we insis
that no plan of tariff legislation shall b.
tolerated, which has for its object ant
purpose a forced contribution from TIN
\ earnings and income of the mass of ou
citizens to swell direct the accumulation
for favored few; nor will we permit
pretended solicitude for American labor
or any other specious prctext CT the bt
nevolent care for others to blind tn
eyes OF the people to the selfish scheme
of those who seek, through til
aid of an unequalled tariff law, t.
gain unearned and unreasonable advar
tages at the expense of their fellows.
We have also assumed in our GOV,
nant with those whose support we il
:, vite, the duty Of opposing to the deatl
another avowed scheme of our advers;
- ries, which, under the guise of protectin
suffrage, covers but does not c. mccall Il
o design thereby to perpetuate the powt
of aparty afraid to trust its continuan,
to the untrammelled and intelliger
votes of the American people.
We are pledged toiresist legislation il
tended to complete this scheme, becau
VIC have not forgotten the saturnal
of the theft and the brutal control viii,
followed another federal regulation
state suffrage, because we know th
the managers of the party which did III
scruple to rob the people of
D esident would not hesitate to use
machinery created by such legisatiC
to revive corrupt instrumentalities f
le partisan purposes; because an attem
- to enforce such legislation would re-ki
die animosities where peace and hopefl
~. ness now prevail; because such an q
= tempt would replace prosperous activi
with encouragement and dread throg
outa large section Of our country, al
v. would menace, everywhere in the Ian
~ rights reserved to the states and to t
people, which underlie the safeguards
q. American liberty.
~ cannot. therefore, forbear remindi
you and all those attached to the dem
cratic party or supporting the princip
: which we profess, that defeat in t
- pending campaign, followed by the &C
summation of the legislative schem
our opponents contemplate, aud acco
panied by such other incidents of tn
success as might more firmly fix tn