| Show AGIN THE 1 I ot CLEVELAND betrays his disposition to befuddle abo tariff iague attao campaign and in hia bleech of acceptance of tho nomi nation he manifests also hia determination mi to make the platform to suit himself and to offer not abo slightest regard to the pronounce dabat of hia mariy en issues of the day hd raid we oppose earnestly end stubbornly thy theory upon which seek to justify and uphold existing tariff lawa we need not base bouc attack upon questions of constitutional permission or legislative power when this is compared with the klauk of the democratic platform it sounds carping criticism of that document it is exactly on the old calborn Cal boun nullification secession doctrine of constitutional permission and legislative power that the democratic platform basis its attack here is what the platform says we declare it to be a fundament al principle of the democratic party that the federal government Go has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only this is explicit enough even if all the needa of the revenue are complied and not a dollar more collected than is absolutely essential to the economical administration of the government the democratic platform ses its seal of condemnation upon a tariff would yield incidental krotec tion to any hatiye industry why because its agin the CLEVELAND shows how a and how little of a dam he ia when he throws aside this time honored democratic objection to everything in tho way of enlightened progress that has ever been accomplished complis hed in the politics ot this coun try was going to have south carolina kulify the tariff law because that enactment was agin the the democratic party was boing to sit passive and allow the southern states to secede and set up free trade oligarchy be causa to fight treason was sin the mr CLEVELAND will final that that is the only available argument for basing an attack upon anything with which to hold the dem party together |
