Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-22
Democratic Candidates Notified.
Mr. Cleveland Talks Dcmagogy on the
TariT and on the Republican Demand
for Honest Elections.

Tariff and on the Republican Demand
for Honest Elections.
The Democrats adopted this year a nov
81 way of notifying their candidates for
president and vice president Of their NOM
nation. To gain whatever advantage
there might be in a spectacular effect and
popular applause a monster meeting was
held i'm Madison Square Garden, New York
city, Wednesday evening, when Mr. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Stevenson were in attend
ance and the committees appointed for the
purpose gave the candidates their formal
notification. and each of the nominees re-
sponded with a speech of acceptance The
audience of 10000 people which was pres
ent was ready to bubble over into enthusi-
astic demonstrations at the slightest PROV
ocation, but as a matter of fact the great
majority of people could hear nothing Of
the speeches, and to them the proceedings
were practically a pantomime. In the
course Of his speech Of acceptance, which
had been carefully prepared for pubica-
ton beforehand, Mr. Cleveland took pains
to use the following language on two Of the
issues Of this campaign:
Turning our eyes to the plain people of
the land, we see them burdened as consum-
ers with a tariff system that uniustly and
relentessly demand from them in the pur-
chase of the necessaries and comforts of
life, an amount scarcely met by the wages
of hard and steady toll, while the eXactions
thus wrung from them build up and in
crease the fortunes of those for whose ben
eft this injustice is perpctuatcd. We see
the farmer listening to deuSivc 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. OFT repeated in spite
of it, demonstrated faleity, that the existing
protective tariff is a boon to them, and that
under its bencfcent operation their wages
must incrcase-whilc as they listen. scenes
are enacted in the very abiding place of
high protection. that mock the hopes OF
toll and attest the tender mercy the work
ngman receives from those made selfish
and sordid by unjust governmental favor
itism
I'VE oppose earnestly and >tubbornly
the theory upon which our opponents seek
to Justify and uphold existing tariff laws.
Wcucrd not base our attack upon questions
Of constitutional permission or legislative
power We denouucc this theory upon the
highest possible grounds, when We contend
that i'm present conditions its operation D.,
unjust, and that laws enacted in accordance
with it are inequitable and unfair. Ours
is not destructive party. We are not at
enmty with the rights of any of our cti-
Zens. All are our cOuntrymcn. 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 Ameri-
canism, and upon which our constitution
rests. We insist that no plan of tariff legi>-
latiOn shall be tolerated, which has for its
object and purpose a forced contribution
from the earnings and income of the mass
of our citizens. to swell directly the accum-
ulatiOns of "A favored few: nor will We per
init a pretended socitude for American
labor. or any other spcclous prctcNt Of
benevolent care for other, 10 blind the eyes
of the people 10 the selfish schemes of those
who seek through the aid Of unequal tariff
laws to gain uurarned and unreasonable
advantages at the expense of their fellows.
1--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 aGycr>aric- which.
under the -u>r OF protecting the suffrage,
covers but does not conceal, lc>igH there
by to perpctuatc the power Of a party afraid
to trust il, continuance To the n;ram-
mclcd and intelligent vote, OF the American
people We are pledged 10 resist the leg
saiion intended to complete this scheme,
because We have not forgotten the saturn
ALA of theft and brutal control which fol-
lowed another federal regulation of state
htts,r1.4 a. L. bt4 ma n
ayers OF party which did not scruple u
rob the people OF a president, would not
hesitate to use the machinery created by
such legislation TO revive corrupt instru-
mentalities for partisan purposes; because
an attempt 10 enforce such legislation
would rekindle animositics where peace
and hopcfulness now prevail be
cause such an attempt would replace pros
porous activity with encouragement and
dread throughout a large section of Oui
country, and would menace everywhere
in the land the rights reserved to the state,
and to the people, which underlir the safe
guards Of American liberty
While no Republican will have occasion
in this presidential canvass to dctract from
Mr.. Clevcland's personal character, OF
from the standing which he has acquired
before the country in the past eight years
the fact remains that the language aboy,
quoted is dcmagogy of the rankeSt kind
Mr.. Cleveland talks about the Republican
tariff as burdening the consumers and pro
duccrs of the land at the very time wher
a Senate committee of Republicans anc
Democrats has united in a statement q
facts which show that since the McKinlel
law went into effect the cost Of all tn,
necessarics Of life has decreased wage
have advanced in many trades, and tn,
farmers Of the country as whole are get
ting better prices for their products. A
this very time, too, figures just made W
for the fiscal year, ending June 30, show
phenomenal increase in our foreign trade
and balance in our favor in the magnii
cent sum of Sl79,OO0,OOO. With tn,
Homestead strike evidently in his mind hc
refers to ''the tender mercies the working
man receives from those made selfish and
sordid by unjust governmental favoritism,
when the figures obtained by a Democratic
investigating committee show that thu
skilled workmen at Homestead were re
ceying from 81 to so, and even S1j OF
more day, while the commonest aborel
would receive not less than sl.S4 under
the proposed schedule. Read the facts
clearly presented in articles printed else