Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-06

Confederate Constitution, would abolish
entirely, was steadfastly maintained
by the statesmen who framed the Con-
stitution of the United States, among
whom were George Washington, James
Madison, Thomas jefferson and James
Monroe; and it is historic fact that
the second act passed by the American
Congress after the adoption of the new
Constitution was an act for the protec-
tion of American industry which James
Madison reported to the House and
which George Washington signed as
President. Later in our history we find
that Andrew jackson, Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay were avowed champ
ions of protection. On the side of the
tariff are arrayed the most honored
names in the annals of this country:
the free trade cause is represented by
the first secessionist, John C. Calhoun,
by Jefferson Davis and by Grover
Cleveland and the Chicago Democratic
platform. twill not take the American
people long to choose between these rival
authorities.
Mr.. Cleveland has disregarded the
facts of the present as well as the his
tory of the past. His parotlike reiter-
alton of the senseless claim that the
tariff is tax upon the American con.
sumer-an assertion utterly disproved
by the fact, admitted by Senator Carl
isle, that since the enactment of the
Mckinley tariff manufactured PRODUCTS
have steadily grown cheaper-is piece
of pure demagogy. To assume that the
Democratic candidate did not know
made this claim would be to accuse him
OF phenomenal ignorance. The asser
ton that the Democratic party, while
holding protective tariff wicked and
unconstitutional, is not for free trade
will deceive nobody. In his letter of
acceptance Mr.. Cleveland writes him
self down the enemy of the vast army
of American workingmen, whose high
wages have been maintained and whose
independence and prosperity have been
secured by the system which the Demo
cratic party has pledged itself to over
throw.
In pretending to believe in the exist
ence of the so called Force bill issue,
Mr.. Cleveland is guilty of gross hypocri-
sy. The claim that there exists on the
part of any political organization
scheme to control the suffrage of the
States through federal agencies" is put
forth merely in the hope of infaming
still higher the passion ard prejudice
of the Bourbon Democracy in the South.
Mr.. Cleveland and his friends make
this appeal to sectional feeling in the
full knowledge that it is without any
foundation whatever. The declaration
in the letter in regard to the currency
is a cowardly and not very ingenious
straddle. Mr.. Cleveland did not dare
even to mention the demand in the
Democratic platform for return to the
wildcat bank system. He attempts to
evade the whole question by uttering a
few commonplace generalties.
The solemn platitudes which the
Claiment advances in behalf of civil
service reform only arouse contempt
when the record of his deliberate be-
trayal of this reform while President is
remembered. The gushing words of
praise and sympathy for the Union vet
Grams are best interpreted in the light
of the fact that Grover Cleveland, dur
ing his four wears as President, vetoed
524 pension bills-more than three times
as many as all the Presidents from the
foundation of the Republic found it
necessary to disapprove. Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter will not brighten the fad
ing prospects of Democratic success. 1t
will make the Democratic cause weaker
by revealing once more the incapacity,
the conceit and the dishonesty of the
Unsuitable office seeker who has received
for the third time the Democratic nomi-
nation for the Presidency.-N. Y. Press.
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