National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-01-16
nreal,rast Table Letter to the President.

breakfast GaDle Letter TO tne BrcSfuent.
MIR. President: Your FIRST state dinner marks
an important and interesting social event. It's
every detail was oil that the best taste and re-
flnement would demand, and the dignity of the
on the following day your clear eye and com.
plexion gave proof of temperate use Of tho
good things provided for the occasion.
y From this time, on to the Lenten season.
fashion bids genius and wealth design and
execute her royal will. The historian would
write that the homes and the receptions of the
three grnces OF your Cabinet did much to make
friends and popularity for your adminlstra.
ton.
The mansions of many senators and rep
resentatives also abound in joyous hospitality
in their welcome to the soveregns, the people,
and the officials ofgoyernment.
Turning from this scene OF plenty and pleas.
ure, where the culture, the wealth, and the
beauty of the republic assemble under the hos.
pitable domes at the capital, the student and
the statesman have other subjects to engross
their best thought, in order to make wise laws.
The recommendations of your annual message
wero scarcely read in the hearing II Congress,
when the great discussion began relative to
the peoples money on the one side, and the
bankers money on the other.
Time was, in the hour of peril, when the M.
ton made drafts upon the people for blood and
for money. 1t gave bounty TO both. The
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policy is demanded. The peoples money
must take the place OF the bankers money
This can be accomplished by depositing the
product of labor in tho mines in government
vaults and issuing coin certificates as its repre-
sentative. Let the national banks be no longer
banks of issue when their bonds arc paid In
COIN There will then be but one kind Of
money-the peoples money. Theantagonsms
and the bounty to bankers will cease. Until
thisis done II is not probable that the people
viii permit their representatives EITHER to stop
the coinage or increase the weight of the silver
dollar
This grand benefcent result con be speedily
accomplished If your Cabinet ministers do not
use the influence of their positions upon mem.
bers of committees to control legislation. 1t is
reported and believed by many that during the
last presidential canvass the leading members
of your party made pledges TO secure aid
which you have felt It your duty to redeem,
If true, II must embarrass your action. II this
is not true, the historian may be justified In
writing of you as he wrote of President Polk,
which would make your present position
personally all that could be desired. OF
President Polk 1t IS written; HE had
no pledges to redeem-no promises to
| nlhll, and he was not candidate
for reelection. He was Indifferent. too, as to
which OF the leading men OF his party should
be his successor, II was his DESIRE therefore
to harmonize and conclliate, but, at tho same
time, TO surrender no principle, to maintain
his character for independence, and TO observe
the dignity of his official position. For thesS
reasons, his Cabinet was selected from the
most distinguished members of the Demo
cratic party, and in 1t each section Of the con
federaoy was represented"
Speaking of reelection, Mr.. President, O
prominent Republican of the state Of New
York recently called upon Gov. Hill at Albany
During q pleasant conversation, the goyeTno
blandly stated that he should be pleased Il
have President Cleveland obtain the delega
ton from New York to the national convention
in 1858. The Republican promptly replied
"He'n never get 1t ifyou're alive, governor"
The writer is informed that you did not OF
der Secretary Whitney to receive the Dolphil
without further litigation, but that he made
decision himself and had the manliness l.
make fair proposition, afler lnnictlng grea
wrong upon one Of the truest friends of Amerl
can labor and American shipbuilding.
In conclusion, your attention is cspecIall
invited to the unftrness of the Legislation
which favors the military graduates ut IVES
Point over the graduates of the naval Gcad
cmy at Annapolis, both equally the wards O
the nation, and from both OF whom she mus
expect heroic deeds in time of danger.
THE NAUoNAL REPUBLICAN.