Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-24

issues" because prohibitory we have only
| one currency in this land and no longer re.
| quire counterfeit detector.
No More Greenback worshipers.
Country bankers of the Simon Cameron
class cannot upon $40, 900 cash capital issue
| S400 600 in notes and send them among the
| lumbermen at the head of the Susquehanns
or among the Winnebago Indians, whence
hardly 10 per cent ever returned, but in the
| end were lost, straved or stolen, and not re-
| deemed The intention of this plank in the
Jones platform was probably to slur the
| national banks, but this plank condemns the
greenback as well, of which until of late q
| portion of both parties has demanded a
much larger issuance.
The Civil Service clause is another of
Mr.. Cleveland's decided positions which
| is barely referred to, no step forward being
asked for that policy, but four times as
| much space is taken to refer to Harri-
sons employees and benefciaries being
ct the late convention. The gentleman
| who read this plank was an unconscious
1 picture of advice emanating from man
who took in the stack. of the other end.
He who gave all the postofices away under
| Cleveland, and perhaps expects to do it
| again, vet denounced the usurpation of
| conventions
If the former Cabinet expected to leave
the tariff out of the discussion this year their
enemies were ready for them, and have put
the fight on scientific, unqualified free
trade. There is no constitutional power to
impose and collect duties except for reve-
nue. only.
The Important Omitted Plank.
The plank omitted is the criticism from
the candidate of the plank he must stand
upon. In the Cleveland-Vilas plank Justice
to the manufacturer, his investment and his
laborers was demanded. In the plank which
is inlaid within this platform such invest
ments labor, etc, are put outside OF the
constitution. Both sides were juggling
with the manufacturing system and its
laborers. The compromise side accused
Morrison and Watterson of having strad-
died in the same wav when Cleveland was
first brought out in 1884.
Unable to defeat Mr.. Cleveland, the
malice OF his opponents was wreaked upon
the platform. Persons who saw Tammauy
Hall rising to its feet and cheering for ultra
free trade had not forgotten that Govern
Hill, their leader. only short time ago de-
clared that he was opposed to free trade;
they also remembered that Tammany Hall
has been a protectionist institution. Its con-
stituency is engaged in the infinite manu-
factures which are covered by the tariff
and cloakmakers, shoemakers and cabinet
men are too valuable to Tammany Hall to
abandon their interests except under the
provocation of sheer malignity.
Was it the intention of the pro-tariff men
who voted for this razing free trade plank
to weaken Cleveland for election, or only to
make him mad, that he might not run
upon this platforn? Thus, while the can
didate is obnoxious to the South, the plat
form is almost reiteration of the Confed-
crate Constitution on the subject of tariff
1t was said to me by an eminent Southern
statesmen, the late Justice Campbell, that
although Andrew jackson appeared to de-
stroy John Calhoun, that subsequently the
young of he South grew up Calhoun and
not jackson Democrats in principle. Above
this convention was portrait of Calhoun.
In his earlier days he was protectionist,
and his speeches were often quoted against
his consistency.
This platform denounces the constitu-
tional power of protection, even incident
ally, but other parts of the platform call tor
expenditures which make the phrase "limi-
ted to the necessities of the Government"
absurd. GATH.