| Show I f I TREE lETTERS i I j The litterof acceplance ef Gover Cleveland appeared on Wednesday t t nor I l day morning and that Governor 1 i Hendricks will be found In this i i t t r i I r lasueof THE HERALD They are f J r the excite I that will t l i both papers i j I commendation and admiration of theDemocratic party and of think I generally They are boh men t ing i i Hen tt short and to Use point that of 11 jl 1 shortest f drinks being perhaps the Ij i emanat j g ° t document of die kindever I i ing from a nominee to the high office i l i of-fice of President or Vice President r ° f The letters mark the statesman more than the demagogue there is t nothing of the latter in a list or i 1 t f word of either In this respect there j I I I is a marked contra between te and those I letters of the Republican II t of the Democratic nominees The i former were long and labored l Tae r j effort being to use words to confessor I I I confess-or hooiwink the unthougiiufid j t 1 F while in te lattertere is eioapl a 1 it i wiain iimmtatttkarilft declaradon I i plain U < < j Cleveland and iUendrlcks d 3lare i tI 1 f i their adherence to Democratic prta II t I eiple as lad down In the platform 1 k i 1 t of the party adopted at Chicago r II Ii I t and believing in those doetrims 1 i f they accept the party nominations f o 1 ii and promise to fight under tue grand t old flag To have said more would 1 1 i 1 r i wisdom of f i 1 have been to doubt the f the convention which declared thEm I the choice of the party for the I t I i highest two trees in the gift of the 1 + t nation The conventions which tl 1 iii 1 1 I P 1 fIt Y l i h contain the intelligence ami wisdom wis-dom of the parties or at least Vi lich should do so construct the plat rL 1 forms and express the principles which the nominees must upon try p I tl stand and to which they choose to a a + F ii i subscribe and the acceptance of the a I nomination is equivalent to the ° hi I I declaration that the candidate Le i lieves in and endorses the doctrines t ih 1 t j C of the party Cleveland and Hen i t 1 I drinks accept the nominations and make the platform part of their letters Pi let-ters of acceptance The former has elaborated somewhat though not 4 enough to become prosy or tiresome I tire-some nor to place himself Ink in-k E the position of a demagogue J I 1 I bidding for votes He has been accused i i I ac-cused by the Republican press oft of-t being the friend of monopolies and h the enemy to fthe laborer and in f t I his letter he Incidentally takesocca i I slon to define his position and to s it i mat 1 show that he stands on these r a ters just as he has all along done ° the best friend to workingman e 4 i bat not ranting fool in opposition l to the rights of capital He has 1 f r II 0 cleverly and clearly expressed himself i him-self and in such a way as to show the utter falsity of he Republican I l charges against him in these respects j 1 I re-spects His letter is a masterpiece rk 1 i i again demonstrating the fact that I 1 1 the gentleman is a broadminded i j + l r I liberal statesman who as President t t 11 i r 1 will do honor and credit to the convention t I 1 con-vention which nominated him and 1 1 j 1 rl the people win will elect him lone t M l J M I Democrats may well feel pride in I i i Uf j I their work at Chicago I II |
