The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-06
The War on the Silver Dollar.

1t is interesting to notice how en-
tirely President Cleveland and the
New York Tribune agree on the pol
icy OF dishonoring silver and advanc-
ing the price Of gold. The Tribune
seems to have forgotten that silver
is coin OF the realm. It severely
criticised the course OF the banks in
paying the treasury geld instead Of
silver in order that It may be able to
pay gold back. And now 1t finds
fault with the President because he
has appointed silver men to Office.
Hear it;
Had the President used his power
OF patronage from the beginning to
favor those who would support his
opinion in regard to silver coinage,
denying favor to those who refuse to
snnno,-' his policy in that respect, the
case would =" different. But from
the beginning the President saw 1T
to treat the advocates OF o. Ver CON
age with as much favor as any u..- ef
Democrats. A great many OF them
have received appointments to Of
flee, and among the men whose In
fluence in directing Presidential APP
pointments has been greatest, q de-
cided majority are persons fatty OPP
posed to him. on the silver question"
It is well-known that since FOlger's
death none OF the debt has been
paid. The money needed for bust
ness is piled up in the treasury and
banks. Everything that Wall street
and the Cabinet and the Tribune
could do has been done to bear silver
and property Of all kinds, and to
make gold the measure OF all values.
Hence, dear gold and cheap lands,
cheap goods, cheap grain and cheap
stock.
The Treasurer, OF course, could
have sold bonds for gold to pay to
these banks and be locked up, but he
did not dare do that or the party
would go to the bow-wows.
Meanwhile the hope Of the admin
istration IS that the next Congress
will stop the coinage oil silver; and it
was represented to the banks that
Cleveland could bring about that re-
peal. Hence the language OF the
Tribune quoted above. It thinks he
might have done so i! he had ap.
pointed none but gold men to Office.
When leading men Of both parties
thus combine to stop the wheels Of
industry and rob any man who owes
dollar and enrich every man who
owns note, it is high time that the
people should prepare u catechism
for the use Of candidates for Con.
gress.-[Iowa Homestead.
The foregoing extract from the
the N. Y, Tribune is the keynote to
the opposition Of portion OF the
Democratic press OF Iowa, to sup
port Mr.. Gillette for Lieut. Governor.
The press alluded to published the
full proceedings OF the convention
which put him in nomination: knew
of him all it now knows and gave him
and fusion unqualified endorsement
But when the hard money papers Of
the East, reached them, demanding
OF the President that he repudiate
the men as democrats who fuse with
the Greenbackers with their finan-
cial IDEAS, their conversion to anti.
fusion was as miraculous and sud
den as Saul's conversion to christian
ity, but we fear far more mercenary.
We are no prohibitionist after the
order Of the Republicans OF Iowa,
but believing democratic hostility to
Gillette is really based upon demo-
cratic subserviency to the demands
OF the money monopolists of the
East, we dare to expose the venality
of the demand and appeal to the
people to assert and maintain their
rights.