Best single reference: Cleveland's Letter of Acceptance, Sept. 8 (in the daily press.)

I. The financial policy which Harison represents is unsound-(a) The tax on whiskey and tobacco should be retained; (b) the tariff on necessaries should be reduced, especially upon raw materials; (c) the Republican tariff bill is sectional, discriminating against the South, is in the interest of capitalists and monopolists, and fosters trusts.- Minority report on Senate tariff bill, Congressional Record, Oct. 4, 1888., pp. 10139-10142.

II. The protective system is safe in the hands of the Democrats.- Schurz's letter in Boston Post, Oct. 8, 1888.

III. Cleveland's policy upon the fishery question has been consistent and statesmanlike. The Republican opposition has been factious.- Cleveland's Retaliatory Message (in the daily press, Aug. 25, 1888).

IV. Cleveland's course as to pensions has been eminently patriotic.- Speech of McKinney in House, Congressional Record, Aug. 2, 1888.

V. Harrison's vacillation on the Chinese question betrays his pliancy topiary ends.

VI. The cause of civil service reform will fare better under Cleveland than under Harrison.- Civil Service Record, May, 1887, pp. 92-94.