Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — ADLAI HAS ACCEPTED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADLAI HAS ACCEPTED.

Declare* He Is In Hearty Accord with the 1 ' ex-Pre*ldc'nt. Adlal E, Stevenson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, has sent the following letter of acceptance to the President of the National Democratic Convention: . , charleston, W. Va. To the Hott, William L. Wilson, Chairman, etc. ,:ltj When, In the presence of 20,000 of mjr countrymen, I accepted the honor conferred npon me by the convention over which you presided, I promised to indicate by letter, in a more formal manner, my acceptance of the nomination tendered me by the assembled representatives of the Dempcratlc party of tho United States. SlnCKthht tlffleihave been engaged continually In the -dteonssion before the people of many States of the Union of the Issues emphasised by the convention and represented by our candidate for President, Grover Cleveland. Opportunity has thus been dented me to write with the care I would like the more formal answer promised to your committee. The full discussion of public questions commonly expecWdffrom s candidate for Vice President has been rendered jess imperative by the complete presentation of the Democratic creed by the gentleman with whom 1 have the honor to be associated as a candidate on the national ticket. His treatment of the issues now before the country for discussion and settlement was so complete that I can do little more than Indorse his pbsitlon and give it the emphasis of my unqualified approval. Pbwer of Taxation. The greatest power conferred upon human government is that of taxation. All the great struggles of the past for a broader political liberty have looked toward the this power by right to tax, a right which should always be limited by the necessities of government and to benefits which may be shared by all. Whenever this power Is used

to draw tribute from the many for the benefit of the few, or when part of the people are oppressed in order tbar the remainder may prosSer unduly, equality Is lost sight of, injustice ardens Into precedent, which Is used to excuse new exactions and there arises artificial distinctions whloh the beneficiaries come to look upojiin slue time as vested rights, sacred to themselves. - It is plain that our present inequitable system of tariff taxation has promoted the growth of such conditions In our land, favored though It has been by an Industrious and enterprising people, a friendly climate, a productive soil and the highest development of political liberty. , If the beneficiaries of this system shall be able to add a new tenure of power to those they have already enjoyed the development of these unfavorable conditions must continue until the power to tax will be lodged In those who are willing and able to pay for the perpetuation of privileges originally conferred by a confiding people for the preservation inviolate of their own government. There Is no longer pretext or excuse for the maintenance of war tariff In times of peace, and more than a quarter of a century after armed conflict has ceased. The platform of the National Democratic Convention demands the reform of this system and the adoption in its place of one which will insure equality to all our people. I am In full and hearty accord with these purposes. Concerning Currency. The convention also declared its position on the currency question in no unmeaning words when it said In Its platform, “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the oolnage of both gold and silver, without dlscriminitliiff against either metal or charge ror rplntage, l}ut the dollar unit of coinage of both metall mast be of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable valne or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the parity of the tw<s metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times In the markets and In the payment of debt, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such ooln.’ To this plain and unequivocal declaration In favor of sound, honest money I subscribe without reservation or qualification. A safe circulating medium is absolutely essential to the protection of the business Interests of our country, while to the wage-earner or the farmer it Is all-important that every dollar, whatever Its form, that finds Its way Into bis pocket Bhall be of equal, unquestioned and universally exchangeable value and of equal purchasing power. j The Lodge Bill Another Issue of great moment in the pending contest is the force bill, the magnitude of whloh cannot be overstated. It may mean the control of the election of representatives In congress by the bayonet. The republican party, by Its acts In the List congress and by Its platform In its late national convention, stands pledged to the passage of this bill. That It will pass It when It has the power no sane man can doubt. To all our people who desire the peace and prosperity of our common country this question is all-important. Since my nomination I have been in eight of the Southern and Southwestern States of the Union, and have talked with men of all classes and conditions there. I found a general and growing apprehension of evils which, It is believed, would result from the passage of the Lodge hill or similar threatened legislation. 1 found the industries established by Northern capital during Mr. Cleveland’s administration In a languishing condition, that the immigration of labor and the investment of capital Invited to those States by their then peaceful condition had in a large measure ceased. The enactment of the force bill into a law, while it would threaten the liberties of the entire people, would undoubtedly retard the material growth of the States at which it is specially aimed, would Incite in many communities race troubles and invite retaliatory legislation which would disturb property values and discontinue and destroy the security of Northern investments. And its reflex action upon the Northern States would result in a consequent loss of commercial and trade relations with the vast territory now becoming tributary to .their wealth and prosperity. I say nothing now of the inherent vice of the un-Amerkau and revolutionary spirit involved in the Lodge bill which was pronounced by a Republican Senator "the most infamous that ever crossed the threshold of the Senate." 1 appeal to the instinct of self-interest and to the sense of common justice in the American people. The era of good feeling and renewed commercial relations commencing with the administration of Mr. Cleveland In 1884 should not be interrupted by the Inauguration of a policy which tends to destroy popular representation and the purity of local self-govern-ment, which furnishes an instrument to discredited federal power to perpetuate Itself, which seeks to keep alive sectional jealousies and strife, which threatens important and material interests and which offers no excuse or palliation for its existence except the perpetuation In power of a political party wTiicn has lost public confidence. I accept the nomination tendered me, and, should the action of the convention meet the approval of my countrymen, will, to the best of my ability, discharge with fidelity the duties of the important trust confided to me. Very respectfully, Adlai E. Stevenson.

AI LAI E. STEVENSON.