New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-03-09
4 CHANCE FOR MR.. CLEVELAND.

IF Mr.. Cleveland is honest i'll his opposition
TO the schemes of the silver repudiationlsts, ne
will soon have an opportunity to show 1t.
great many of them are candidates for appoint
ments. and he will have power to show whether
he regards a repudiator as sound Democrat
or not. Thus a dispatch to another journal
SAYS:
For Commissioner Of Agriculture, exRepresentative
Np,droy Of Mississippi is mentioned ex-COngressman
Vance of North Carolina formerly Chairman or the
House Committee Patents, is an applicant LOT the
Patent Commssionership Representative Aiken Oh
south Carolina is heavily backed for Agricultural Cohi
missioner
Upon inspecting the official record of the vote
on the silver question, President Cleveland
will find that cx-Representative Muldrow
voted against the motion OF Mr. Randall
to intrust discretionary power to the President
TO suspend the coinage of silver for one year.
If he means what he says, Mr.. Cleveland will
probably omit Mr.. Muldrow when he makes
APPOINTMENTS. Again, he will find that Mr.
Vance of North Carolina voted on the same
SIDE against the same motion. III he means
what he saws, he will probably omit Mr.
Vance when he makes appointments. lie VIII
also find that Mr.. Aiken of South Carolina
voted against the same motion. IL he means
what he says, he will probably omit Mr..
Aiken when he makes appointments. Ihere
are a good many other gentlemen in the same
category. 1t appears, for instance, that ex-
Congressman Cassidy, of Nevada, has the
support of great many of his party
friends for Railroad Commissioner" but
his vote was cast against intrusting
to MIR. Cleveland the power desired by
him for the protection of the country. and if
MIR. Cleveland really believes that the continu-
ance of silver coinage is dangerous, he may ma
occasion to prefer somebody else to MI. Gas
sidy. And again, Mr.. Henley, OF California, Is
SAID to be a candidate for Land Commissioners.
If Mr.. Cleveland means what he says, he VIII
take notice that Mr. Henley voted with the al
yocatcs of unlimited silver. and against the
defence of the public credit.
1t will appear to him, also, that those Demo
cratic members of Congress who had oDportlin-
| ty to vote on the right side and took care not
| to do So but did not vote at all, deserve to be
remembered as well as those who voted on
the wrong side. In that relation he
| will probably take notice that Mr.. L. Is.
| Thompson of Kentucky, who Is a can
didate for Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue, was careful not to vote at all on the sill
yer question. He will observe that ex-Rep-
| resentative Paige, of Ohio, who wants to be In
dian Commissioner, was judiciously absent
| when the vote on the silver question was taken,
and that Representative Shaw, of Illinois, who
| wonld like TO be Land Commissioner, also care
| fully absented himself
1t will be well for Mr.. Cleveland to have be-
| fore him, when he examines the applications
| for office from the sxty-eight Democrats of the
present House who have not been reelected, q
copy of the Con gressional Record containing
their votes on the silver question. He will find
that good many of them do not agree with
his ideas, and do not think as he does that pro-
lection of the public credit is duty of the
| Democratic party.