Arizona silver belt., 1891-02-28
CLEVELAND AND stLvER.

I the following letter on the silver ques- ton, which has been commented upon during the week by leading men and newspapers throughout the country We take it from the Graham County Bulletin, together with Senator Vests opinion:
 "N. ELhERY ANDERSON, Esq. Dear Sir; I have this afternoon received your note inviting mo to attend to- morrow evening, n meeting called for the purpose of voicing the opposition of the business men of our city to the free coinage of silver in the United | States. l shall not be able to attend and address the meeting as you request, | but l am glad that the business men of New York are at least to be heard on the subject. 1t surely cannot be nec- l essary for me to make formal ex- precision of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest perils would bo invited by the adoption of the scheme embraced in the measure now pending in Congress for an unlimited coinage of silver at our hints. If we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of largely in creased volume of the currency. and even If we have demonstrated the use- fitness of such an increase, these con ditions fall far short of insuring US against disaster If, in the present situa- ton, We enter upon the dangerous and reckless experiment of free, unlimited and independent silver coinage.
 Yours very truly,
 GROVER CLEVELAND,
 Senator Vest, of Missouri, the ablest and truest representative of the West ern Southern people in Congress, was interviewed by the St. Louis Republic, and said;
 ''I have no words of reproach or complaint for Mir Cleveland More than year ago 1 was lead to believe, from information given by gentleman, who was, like myself, Mir, Cleveland's friend, that he had modified his views on the silver question to the extent at least of admitting that the advocacy of free coinage of silver did not imply moral obhquity nor throw suspicion upon Democratic fealty. l never pre- tended to speak for Mir Cleveland on the subject, nor intimated that l was so authorized; but hoped that he would finally conclude to content himself with an expression of his personal views without assailing progressively the mo- tives of Democrats who differed with him and without defying the over whelmlng sentiment of his party in the West and South. MT Cleveland is doubtless honest in his views, and So are We. He has the unquestionahle right to take his position with the gold interests of New York, but he has no right 10 expect that those of Us who differ with him will approve his unnec- essary and wanton attack upon what We believe to be right
 q have no doubt but that the next President of the United States will be Democrat and had hoped that Mir Cleveland would be our nominee, but if member of the next national con yention I,would insist upon plank in our platform for the free coinage of silver, and that no man should be nom mated who dd not accept that declara- tion in good faith as the policy of our party. Mir. Cleveland made good President, and have been his friend, but no man is greater than the Demo- cratic party. Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson were greater men than Mir Cleveland, but the party survived them, and will survive him. When a man represents the opinions, on public question, of the Democratic party, it never deserts him, but when he does not represent our opinions he ceases to be leader We have no idols and, therefore, never break them. We sim ply set aside the man who does not correctly represent our views on ques- tions of vital importance and select another.
 Free coinage of silver will come. It is just, right and the only logical re- suit. Silver is q money metal, or il is not If its value is to be measured ill gold then Mir Cleveland is right and We are wrong. If we are to have two money metals, as the constitution pro- yides, then there should be free coin age of both. So long as we degrade silver and follow the money-lenders of this country or Europe we deserve to be branded as was done in the New York meeting by Mr. Cleveland's Sec retary of the Treasury, MT. Fairchild, as the muderers of Manning, and Win dom as Q reckless adventurer.