Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-30
THE MAN BEHIND The LETTER.

The simple directness of Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter of acceptance has given
great satisfaction to his fellow Demo-
Gratis as we'll as to all dispassionate and
fair-minded citizens. There has rarely
been more happily worded public
document, impacted with ideas that
bear the impress of true statesmanship.
OF course, the regular hackneyed Re-
publican organ is bound to find fault
with it, both in matter and manner.
Thus, the San Francisco Chronicle, that
had 80 much to say in praise of Mr..
Harrison's five column letter of accept.
ance, objects to Mr.. Cleveland's two
column miseive on the ground that it is
too long, amongst other criticisms. 1t
is just such production as might have
been expected from Mr.. Cleveland.
Always the possessor OF an incisive and
trenchant style, which is often epigram-
matte, the Democratic nominee is
steadily improving in the accuracy with
which he crystalizes the issues of the
day. He has left diffusiveness to bis
opponent, who foundered through five
columns of small print in an effort to
make a mediocre stump, in which Uncle
Billy Williams, of Los Angeles, can i'm
measurably transcend him, and in which
line very many of the declamatory
hacks of his party, here and elsewhere,
are his superiors. Back OF Mr.. Cleve-
lands utterances are his character and
his mat"hless record as a public official
both in Washington and New York.
The quid nuncs bad given it out that he
would, in his letter of acceptance,
qualify the platform of his party as
promulgated at Chicago. He has given
the lie to these assertions, and stands
in harmony with that summary
of the party faith, which has been
attacked with great vindictiveness
mainly because it contains such ad-'
mirable arraignment of the short COM
ings of the Republican party. The
only point on which there has been any
difference of opinion amongst Demo
Gratis has been as to the exact language in
which the tariff plank of that platform
ehould have been couched. but that is
mere verbal difference, and has wrought
no discussion in the Democratic ranks
The party is as solid as rock on tariff
reform and "all the world and the rest
of mankind" to borrow the phrase of
the first President Harrison, knows that
Mr.. Cleveland is the embodiment of that
idea. A confident belief that, under his
guidance, no rash or precipitate de-
partures will be made, pervades the
whole mass of the people. The calm
good sense which breathes through the
letter will be guarantee, if any further
were needed, to the business men OF,
the country, that the leader of the DEM
ocratic hosts will permit no empirical
schemes of political doctrinaires to in.
terfere with the carrying out of the
sweeping reforms in the tariff demanded
by the business needs of the country
and by the exigent claims of consumers.
The attempts OF Republican editors and
orators, prominent amongst both OF
whom is Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, the Re-
publican candidate for vice-president, to
arouse the fears of the conservative
classes will fall still-born before the
moderation and reformatory energy of
the Democratic standard-bearer. The
four years OF uninterrupted prosperity
and advance in all lines of progress dur
ing Mr.. Cleveland's administration ap-
peal trumpet-toDgued to the people of
the United states, and his letter of ac-
ceptance puts the cap sheaf on this
fabric of universal trust