The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-29
But FBW EXPRESSIONS
ON CLEVELAND LETTER
Some Democrats Seem to Think
It Was Aimed at
Them.
REPUBLICANS FIGHT
SHY OF THE ISSUE,
LOOKS UPON THE LETTER
VERY FAVORABLY.
Wilson Strongly Endorses the Doc
ument, Saying it is Strong in Ex-
preston and in the Sentiments
Set FortIh-The Principle of Tariff
Reform is in the Bill and the
Principle Has Been Recognized.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The few SEN
ators at the capitol today refused to
express any opinion for publication on
the letter of Mr.. Cleveland to Mr..
Catchings.
The Democratic senators said they
had nothing TO say, but they seemed
to feel that it was aimed at them.
The Republicans said there seems to
be no necessity at present for them to
get into the fight in the ranks of their
opponents, and they would not be
quoted regarding it.
Members of the House were not as
reticent as the senators were.
Representative Sperry OemocraD, of
Connecticut, who opposed the Wilson
bill, said:
II was in hopes the president would
spare his party the infiction of an
other letter. The tariff bill is distinctly
party measure, and according to the
presidents letter to Mr.. Wilson, it is 2,
measure permeated with perfidy ana
dishonor. If that is a correct descrip-
ton of the bill, I do not see on what
ground the Democratic party can ask
to be continued in power. 1t seems, by
the second letter, that the tariff fight
must be continued. This position must
be disquieting to all the business in
terests of the whole country. The Demo-
Gratis, this fall, are placed ON the de-
fens1ve by these two letters, first in de-
tending a policy of perfidy and dis
honor, and, second, by threatening all
the business interests of the country
with further attempts at tariff legisla-
ton. Every campaign speaker this fall
is compelled to defend his party against
9IIpPr3 t1i ad IN
letters, or else to defend the president
against the allegations in the
letters themselves. My own opin-
ion of the bill is that there
is no perfidy or dishonor in the bill it.
self, or in the motives of senators in
strumental in its passage. 1t is a more
mature and equitable measure than the
which the Wilson bill professedly
would not, and that is what tariff
bill is for. 1t is to be hoped that the
I president will not write any more
campaign documents for the Republi-
can party pending the coming election. -
Representative Johnson Democrat,
of Ohio, said: 1.-THE effect of his failure
| to sign the bill and writing a letter
will be to intensity and continue the
fight against protection-not protection
as he puts it, but Democratic protec-
ton"
Representative Warner Oemocra), of
New York: 1.-THE presidents letter will
meet with unqualified approval from
all true friends of revenue reform and
especially on the party policy there out
lined and the programme of aggressive
action, first against trusts and then in
favor of free raw materials and in
favor of every other Democratic prin-
ciple to reach the fulfillment of which
tariff combination must first be broken. -
Representative Mcguire OemocraD,
of California: 81 consider the letter a
very valuable contribution to the Demo-
cratic literature of the campaign, be-
cause it will remove from the mind of
the people generally the impression
derived from the presidents letter to
Mr.. Wilson that the tariff bill, as
amended by the Senate, was regarded
by him as vicious and it's enactment
perfidfous and dishonorable. His pres
ent letter specifically points out his OBJ
jections to the measure, while fully
conceding its merits as a great step in
the direction of true tariff reform, and
as affording a new and excellent point
of vantage in the fight for Democratic
principles"