The Russellville Democrat., 1892-07-28
NOTIFIED.
The Cleveland and Stevenson Notification
 Committee Discharges it's Duty.
A GRAND OLD MEETING.
Thousands of Enthusiastic Democrats Assemble in New York
 Growers Response.

1eu Ol bHtI uOlnlldtloh " tuO iC
 cent Chicago convention last night in Madison Square Gar den in the presence of thousands of enthusiastic Demo crats.
 The following is the response
 made by Cleveland:
 Mir. Chairmen and Gentlemen:
 The message you deliver from the
 national Democracy arouses within me
 emotions which would be well nigh over
 whelming if I did not recognize here as
 sembled the representatives of great party, who must share with me the re-
 sponsibility your mission invites. 1 find
 much relief in the reflection that 1 have l been selected merely to stand for the
 principles and purposes to which my party l is pledged and for the enforcement and
 supremacy of which all who have
 any right to claim Democratic fel- | lowship must constantly and per
 sistently labor. Our party responsibility l is indeed great. We assume a momentus | obligation to our countrymen in return for their trust and confdence; we promise them rectifcation of their wrongs and a better realization of the advantages which are due to them under our free and benef- cent institutions. But if our responsibility is great, it is strong in it's sympathy with
 the needs of the people, in it's insistence upon the exercise of governmental powers,
 strictly within the constitutional permis-
 sion the people have granted, and in it's
 willingness to risk its life and hope upon
 the peoples intelligence and patriotism.
 Never has great party, intent upon the promotion of right and justice had better incen- tive for effort than is now presented to us. Turning our eyes to the plain people of the
 land we see them burdened as consumers
 with the tariff system that unjustly and
 umelentlessly demands fiom them in the purchase of ;he necessaries and comforts of life, an amount scarcely met by the
 wages of hard and steady toll, while exac- tions thus wrung from them build up and increase the fortunes Of those for whose
 benefit this injustice is perpetuated. We see the farmer listening 10 delusive story that fills his mind with visions of
 advantage while his pocket is robbed by
 the stealthy hand of high protection. Our workingmen are still told the
 tale repeated in spite of its demonstrated 1 falsity, that the existing protective tariff is
 boon to them and that under its benei- cent operation their wages must increase, while as they listen scenes are enacted in the very beginning place of high protec- tion that mock those hopes of toil and at. test the tender mercy the workingman re-
 eeives from those made selfish and sordid | by unjust government favoritism.
 We oppose earnestly and stubbornly the theory upon which our opponents seek to justify and uphold the existing tariff laws. We need not base our attack on questions of constitutional legislative power. We denounee this theory. Ours is not a destructive party. We are not at en- mity with citizens. We are not recklessly needless of any American interests, nor will we abandon our regards for them, but
 invoking the love of fairness and justice which belong to true Americanism and on which our constitution rests, we insist that no plan of tariff legislation shall be toler- ated which has for its object and purpose a forced contribution from the earnings and income of the masses of our citizens, to swell directly the accumulations of fla vored few, nor will we permit pretended solicitude for American labor or any other spurious pretext 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 unequal tariff laws to gain unearned and unreasonable ad- vantages at the expense of their fellows. We have also assumed in our covenant with those whose support we invite the duty of opposing to the death another ayowed scheme of our adversaries, which, under the guise of protecting the sui frage, covers, but does not conceal, a design thereby to perpetuate the power of a party afraid to trust it's continuance to untrammelled and intelligent votes of the American people.
 We are pledged to resist the legislation intended to complete this scheme, because we have not forgotten the saturnalia of thefts and brutal control which followed another federal regulation of state suffrage; because we know the managers of party which did not scruple to rob the people of 8 president would not hesitate to use the machinery created by such legislation to revive corrupt instrumentalites for partisan purposes, because an attempt to enforce such legislation would rekindle animosi- ties where peace and hopefulness now prevails, because such an attempt would replace prosperous activity with dis couragement 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 underlie the safeguards of Ameri- can liberty. shall not attempt to specify at this time other objects and aims of Democratic endeayor which add inspira- tion to our mission. True to it's history aud.its creed, our party will respond to the wants of the people within safe lines, and guided by enlightened statesmanship. To the troubled and impatient within our membership we commend continued and unswerving allegiance to the party whose principles in all times past have been fO1nd sufficient for them, ard whose aggre- gate wisdom and patriotism their expert enee teaches can always be trusted
 In tone of partisanship which befits the occasion, let me say to you as equal partners in the campaign on which we to- day 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 principles they represent and to the party which they lead
 cannot, therefore, forbear reminding you and all those attached to the Demo cratic party, supporting the principles which we profess, that defeat in the pend ing campaign, followed by the consumma- tion of the Legislative schemes our opponent contemplAtes, and ac- companied by such other incidents of their success as might more firmly fix their power, would present the most dis couraging outlook for future Democratic supremacy and for the accomplishment of the objects we have at heart. Moreover, every sincere Democrat must believe that the interests of his country are deeply in volved in the victory of our party in the struggle that awaits us. Thus patriotic solicitude exalts the hopes of partisanship and should intensity our determination to win our success. And success can only be attained by systematic and intelli.