Cleveland's Letter Of Acceptance Is As

thick as its author. The Chicago Herald has a wild eyed flnancial editor who advocates wild cat currency. The old tariff reform ring appears to have been wonderfully muflled inCleveland's latest effusion. In speaking oL Gov. Abbett, of New Jersey, you should put the accent on the last sylable : Ab-bett'. "Gen." Adlai Stevenson lias been down south, traveling over the battle fields where his substituto fought and bied. The farmers may be "lazy devils," Mr. Judge Morse, but their votes couut just the same, as you will probably find out. Tlie democratie platform bas three dedaratíona that the people will draw conclusions from: It declares for free coinage, free trade and wild cat eurrency. It is reported that Grover Cleveland has sworii off driuking uutil after election. It is not stated however, whether it is ou his own account or to set a jjood example for Adlai. Hou. Jas. O.'Donnell, of Jaekson, is making a thorough canvas of this district; and has nearly every evening, from now until November 8th engaged. He is making friends wherever he goes. The republican doctrine inea.ns new sliips, new faetones, new markets. The democratie doctrine means "tariff for revenue," business disaster, wild cat currency for the people. Take your choice. It is stated that owing to the quarantine at the time Cleveland sent out liis dilatory letter of acceptance, that he boiled all of his words before using them. That's why they are so squshy and niusliy. Hear Judge Morse, my farmer friend: "On the hillside God planted an acre of maple trees. All the lazy farmer has to do is to stick a spile with a hole in it for the sap to run out, but the poor fellow must boil it to niake sugar, so he asked two cents a pound for his labor." The wild, scared tone of Cleveland's letter could only be born of desperation and is really quite pitiful to contémplate. One can fairly see the drops of prespiration on the original paper as they peruse the labored letter of acceptance. It is an astonishing damp cold document. The Ann Arbor Democrat pays its I compliments to Congressman Gorman j in this way : "Hon. James S. Gorman was renominated Tuesday at Monroe for congressman from this district. Could not a better man have been found ? It is generally conceded that he has not done his duty." Some of the democratie papers profess to find comfort out of the late elections in Vermont and Maine. That is just the sort of comfort that the republican party is willing to let theni have. If they can rejoice over republican victories all well and good, we will rejoice with them. Shake. Our esteemed Tennessee democrat contemporary, the Chattanoga Times, advises Mr. Cleveland to teil General Sickles to "go to the devil." Just for the way it would relieve the monotonj' of the democratie campaign we should lfke'to ieé Jlr. Cleveland follow that suggestion. - jST. Y. Press. The genius who writes the editorials for the Chicago Herald is out of place in the democratie party. He belongs with Sockless Simpson and Whiskers Pfefl'er. He is a rattled brained, "clattered" jawed, abnormal winded calamity whistler, who doesn't know the difference between a gold dollar and an Argentine Republic shinplaster. The workingmen of New York State look at the $7,000,000 increase in wages in that state last year, together vith $10,000,000 increase in the savings deposit for the same period, then they read over the free trade platform on which Mr. Cleveland stands, and resolve to vote for prosperity and the constitutionality of a protective tariff. The republican neighbors of Allen B. Morse, democratie candidate for governor, are challenging him to name even one republican old soldier for wliom he has voted since he left the republican party in 1872. Not being able to get any word out of Morse on the subject, they make this inquiry : "How can Morse consistently ask old soldiers to vote for him?" "It is a shame to keep up the animosities of the war by gatheriug these Yankees together every year," was the greeting given the G. A. R. procession in Washington, D. C, by a "young scion of a noble house," of that burgh. The Yankees in that possession are getting fewer every year, but they will gather together annually while they live, and their sons will do the same after they are gone. After reading the letter of that eminent democratie constitutional lawyer, George Ticknor Curtis, of New York, which declares thatthe tariff is constitutional, and that be shall support the republican party that supports a protective tariff, a western writer (not the Chicago Herald man) says that Mr. Curtis did not understand that the tariff plank in the democratie platform refers to the Confedérate instead of the Federal constitution. At the republican state convention in Grand Rapids last week, Judge Kinne's name was presented for the nomination of justice of the supreme court, receiving a support of which anyone may well feel proud. He entered the race long after the others had started ; yet after many of bis friendsin other parts of the state had beconie committed, he received nearly a hundred votes. The second district stood by him solidly, and the Washtenaw delegation had the satisfaction oL feeling that in A. J. Sawyer's speech he was presented before the convention the best of any one of the candidates. The New York Times of Monday had an an associated press dispatch to the effect that Judge Cooley, of tliis city, had declared for Cleveland, and that he was soon to write a letter advising his friends to vote for that gentleman. Judge Cooley promptly denied the tiuih of the story when awked about it Monday afternoon, and stated that he should write no letters for any candidato, or interfere with politics in any way. 80 mach for auother famouB convert that hasn't bcon converted. The address of retiring President l'atton, of the republican league, at Grand Rapids, was a very able one, and showed that much valnable work bas been done by that eflVclive organization. Sueh broad and upribt men as Jolin Patton, Jr., are needed in political life, and it is refreshing to find tliom vrhere there are too many self-seeking oüicehunting rJoJiticians whöm the spoils of office alone hold loyal. The league is fortúnate in securinir Senator Colgrové as its president to carry on the good work. The Darham, N. C, Globe, a democratie paper whieh praised Cleveland for his anti-pension vetoes, which we quoted recently, is still alive, and speaks of the union veterans in this way : "We wish to God thatthere had been enough demócrata iu congress to have slapped the Lousy Beggara Of the north iu their Dirty faces. This would have served tliem right. They recei ved pay for their red-handed and wicked work - they should now subside." The daily papers of Sept. 28, contain an account of a wonderful phenomenon. Those who saw it declare that a bright body, reseinbling a good-sized star, was seen inoving with astonishing rapidity toward the moon and carne in contact with that body with tremenduous force, and seemed to biirst like a bomb, darkening its light for an instant. The solution of the mystery must be that some clever artist has reflected the collisiou between Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill. As to which one has exploded and dimmed the light of the other the people will have to be the judge. This is the free trade plank in the Chicago platform which Hill says Clevland must not liedge on: "We denounce republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of a few. We declare it to be a fundamental principie of the democratie party that the federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limitwl to the necessities 'of the government lren honestly and economically administered." It reads just like a plank from the southern confedérate constitution. The democratie papers are re-publishing a very pathetic account of how Judge Morse lost his arm, together with a statement purporting to come from Capt. Belknap to the effect that he, Belknap, should vote for Morse who was at that time running for justice of the supreme court. If Belknap did vote for Morse he got handsomely paid for it a little later on, when he was runing for congress. Some one knowing that that the two were comrades during the war went to Morse and asked him if he could not assist his old companion in arms by his vote. The reply came quick : "Nosir! I would not vote for an old soldier on the republican ticket, even if he were my father!" A man who cares no more for his old comrades than that ought not to ask votes from them, had he? Tliere is no permanent place in the politics of American civilization for a party that bases its claims for confidence upon the failures and discouragements of the people. There is no honorable and permanent and successful place for any party in America that appeals to the prejudice and the passion and the ignorance of the people, and bases its claims upon the failures of the people themselves. That has been the history of the democratie leaders for thirty years. Their arsenal and their armament has been the prediction of failure of republican measures and republican politics. Every republican measure and every republican policy for thirty years was predicted as a failure by the leaders of the democratie party. The war was to be a failure ; the issue of greenbacks was to be a failure ; the resumption of specie payment was to be a failure, and now the tariff law of 1890 is to be a failure. Their platform is a declaration of retrogression. They look backward instead of forward. They look into the night instead of into the morning. - Governor McKinley.