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cratic Convention for Vice-President of the United States. [Cheers.]

Having passed the usual votes of thanks to the officers, Mayor Harrison and the citizens of Chicago, the Democratic National Convention of 1884, at 7.25 P. M., adjourned sine die.

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GOVERNOR CLEVELAND'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

HE STANDS ON A PLATFORM, THAT NEEDS NO SUPPLEMENT, OR EXPLANATION-HOW TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT A GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE-THE SUPPORTERS NOW, AS ALWAYS, OF THOSE WHOSE INCOME, LIKE HIS OWN, IS THE WAGE OF LABOR-IN A FREE COUNTRY THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE PRESERVED PUBLIC SERVANTS SHOULD GIVE FAIR WORK FOR FAIR PAY-VOTERS SEEKING AN HONEST ADMINISTRATION.

THE following letter of acceptance was written by Gov. Cleveland to the Committee, which had notified him of his nomination for President by the National Democratic Committee.

ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1884. GENTLEMEN: I have received your communication, dated July 28, 1884, informing me of my nomination to the office of President of the United States by the National Democratic Convention lately assembled at Chicago.

I accept the nomination with a grateful appreciation of the supreme honor conferred, and a solemn sense of the responsibility which, in its acceptance, I assume.

I have carefully considered the platform adopted by the Convention and cordially approve the same. So plain a statement of Democratic faith and the

principles upon which that party appeals to the suffrages of the people, needs no supplement or explanation.

It should be remembered that the office of President is essentially executive in its nature. The laws enacted by the legislative branch of the Government the Chief Executive is bound faithfully to enforce. And when the wisdom of the political party which selects one of its members as a nominee for that office has outlined its policy and declared its principles, it seems to me that nothing in the character of the office or the necessities of the case requires more from the candidate accepting such nomination than the suggestion of certain well-known truths, so absolutely vital to the safety and welfare of the nation that they cannot be too often recalled or too seriously enforced.

GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE.

We proudly call ours a government by the people. It is not such when a class is tolerated which arrogates to itself the management of public affairs, seeking to control the people instead of representing them.

Parties are the necessary outgrowth of our institutions, but a government is not by the people when one party fastens its control upon the country and perpetuates its power by cajoling and betraying the people instead of serving them.

A government is not by the people when a re

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