Show CLEVELAND TALKS On the Political Situation and the McKinley Bill ORIGINAL PACKAGE DECISION By United States Judge Caldwell P Liquor Enjoys no Privileges that the Domestic Article Does Not ALBANY Oct 31The Argus will print I tomorrow a lengthy interview with ex President Cleveland on the political situation situa-tion In it Cleveland says in part I am sure there never was a public question discussed more thoroughly and more intelligently than the subject of tariff reform by the Democratic advocates This may perhaps suggest that if the Democratic Demo-cratic position on this issue is a correct one there should be immediate and ready acquiescence on the part of the people but the judgment of our countrymen has been so trampled and their positions so clouded by prejudice aud appeals to self interest that their apprehension of the true province prov-ince of our government has been distorted and they have for years been led to believe that the conduct of public affairs might properly minister to their profit not by securing general prosperity founded on principle but by giving direct advantage advan-tage to certain classes It certainly is true that in such selfish operations the interests of some of the people must be neglected Protest on the part of these ba been stifled by the most arrant deception and Cajolery ca-jolery At last however these neglected ones are aroused and in spite of the clouds ofmisrepresentation and delusion which surround them they begin to see the light Our agriculturists and others whose interests have beed disregarded while ad ventages have been accorded to the favored few are not to be much longer deceived I am confident we shall secure a majority ma-jority in the next House of Representatives Representa-tives I cannot forget how laboriously a a reform moves which must break through selfish interests strongly intrenched and unscrupulously asserted and overcome abuses long suffered and arrogantly maintained main-tained I believe all our gains must be the result of a hard struggle against these odds I is not however possible that a complete triumph of the peoples cause can be much longer delayed The effective ef-fective inculcation of wholesome doctrine which characterizes the Democratic emocrtc press through the discussion going on in every part of the country the undisguised schemes of the Republican patty to secure its perpetuation in power through reckless enactments which stifle the results of the peoples suffrage its brutal methods of legislation and above all the positive distress dis-tress daily threatened our people under the operation of a new and iniquitous tariff lawa law which not only enhances the cost of the necessaries of life but fosters the extortioas of trusts and combinations These taxes make certain the coming of a freer and bettter time and the ascendency of true democracy Whatever the near result may be I am not at all afraid that the zeal of the party will flag or that discouragement will in the least dampen it ardor or lesson its aggressiveness ag-gressiveness The Democratic party is thoroughly united and has planted itself on Democratic principles I will not abandon aban-don its cause but will continue the warfare war-fare until it acioves complete success The party that know no discouragement in 1SSS will not waver nor falter in 1890 |