Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
What is Thought Of the President's g
Letter of Acceptance.
Our Foreign Trade as Affected by the
Reciprocity Law.
From our Regular Correspondent

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The Presidents letter of acceptance
of denomination is perhaps the best
written of all his public papers. 1t is
difficult to see how he will find any
thing more to say in his next message
to Congress on the topics embraced in
the present document, which is as COM
prehensive in its scope as it is exhaust
i've in its treatment from his stand
point of the leading political questions
of the day. The letter is, for the pur-
pose for which it was indicted, strong
in all those matters wherein his party
has manifest advantage, such as the
State Bank issue, and in those addition
al questions on which it is believed u
division exists in the Democratic par
ty, like the tariff, and, to a smaller ex-
tent, assisted trade with Southern Re-
publics. The President seems desirous
of holding up the party principles,
while showing what he considers q bet
ter way for dissident Democrats, both
South and North. He is keen to see
his advantage in the argument ad-
dressed to the workingmen, of the
abandonment by the Democrats of the
principle of incidental protection to
the value of the difference between the
cost of labor in the product of the for
eign and the home manufacture, and
he uses it to the full extent of the op-
portunity afforded. On the subject of
elections the President bases his views
on the suggestions of his last message
to Congress, with some reflections caus-
ed by recent developments in Southern
politics. Altogether, the views of the
Republican candidate are clearly, for
chilly, candidly presented.
Mr.. Blaine's views are always inter
esting. He has the knack of saying
what he has to say pithily, which the
average intelligent American appreci-
ates perhaps more than the same class
of any other country, France alone ex-
cepted. In his letter addressed to the
Chairman of his psrty in Maine, Mr..
Blaine selects three topics of discourse,
and confines himself strictly to them.
Very often an argument gains by COM
preston. Mr.. Blaine is master of the
art of selection and condensation. The
salient points of difference between
historical Democracy and living De-
mocracy are brought out in bold relief
by few strokes of the pen. The pre-
else declaration of Jeffevson which
suited the present occasion, was made
to do service to the necessary exclusion
of other declarations on the subject
from that many sided statesman. The
portion of the letter most condensed,
as well as most remarkable for its grasp
of the situation, is the second head,
which treats Of reciprocity. He shows
that the neglect of the United States
in the past to see what could be obtain
ed in exchange for articles put on the
free list, has cost the Government ad-
vantages in trade that would have
amounted to tensof millions of dollars.
All of the ammunition has not been
exhausted in the first stage of the Beh-
ring Sea engagement, which closed
Wednesday, and following well estab-
lished legal practice, it may safely be
assumed that the representatives of the
United States have reserved sufficient
material to enable them to make q
strong counter case. This will be the
next or third phase Of the arbitration.
The original cases exchanged Wednes-
day will be closely studied by the
agents and counsel, and before Decem-
Der counter case may be exchanged.
General Morgan, the only one of the
two United States arbitrators now in
this country, has been supplied with