Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-18
COINAGE OF SILVER.
MAJOR TYLER THINKS THE ACTION
OF CLEVELAND IS FooLHARDy.
The Country People Want Moro Money
and DO Not Endorse the Ex-Presi-
dents Idoas--views of others

Leutenant-Gove J. Hoge Tyler was
IN the city yesterday attending the meet
ing OF the Executive Committee of the
Virginia State Agricultural and Mechani-
cal Society. He returned home on the
4:S0 train in the afternoon, but before
that time one of the Dispatch reporters had
chance to talk with him about Cieve-
lands recent letter and free coinage Of sil-
yer.
For long time,n said Major Tylsr, l
regarded Mr.. Cleveland as the biggest
Drained man in the country. but @ wnen
be wrote that tariff letter several years
ago. and now follows il up with the recent
one on silver coinage / think he ought TO
be handed over TO the fool-killer.n
II may be that Mr.. Cleveland Is a great
deal more far-sighted than the rest or Us,
but his action, it seems 20 me, Is certainly
foolhardy.
WE WANT MONEY.
"You people in the city have no idea
how scarce money is in the country. AS
soon as YOU get mile away from the limits
OF q CITY you hardly see II. In addition TO
my farm also run q store. During the last
twelve months l have done business OF
about 60, 900 or S5, 600. and do not believe
that $50 cash has passed over my counter
in that time.
THE other day my clerk made of the
accounts. and without exception every
person-some of them the best IN our part
OF the country-were unable to pay. Ihey
told my collector that they did not have
the money, and il he wanted 1t he would
have TO sell them out
Il believe that if oil the silver in the
country was coined into dollars 1t would
not be half enough. They have taken the
good old dollar Of our daddies away and
given US in its stead what they call a
standard, and the country people
don't even get them. The cry. Is that
the free coinage of silver will drive gold
out of circulation. Why, bless yocr soul,
] haven't seen gold dollar in our county
for ten years or more.
HE CAN'T DO II.
Mr.. Cleveland is O smart man, an hon
est man, and full of brains. But with the
perpetual demand for money always heard
In the country this does not go far.
81 tell you the tide of sentiment Is tow-
ing towards free coinage and more money,
and any one who tries TO stop it will be re-
garded as an obstructionist. 1t is the old
story of the bull buttIng the railroad train
of the track. The demand for money is
so great that am afraid am getting TO
be almost greenbacker."
Hon. John l. Hurt.
Hon. John L. Hurt, of Pittsylvania, presi-
dent pro ten. of the State Senate and vice
president OF the Agricultural Society,
was present while Major Tyler was
speaking and in the main agreed
with him. He said that ne was thankful
that money was rather more plentiful in
his section. Tobacco. magnetic ore. and
barytes were bringing it IN in quantities,
and the people we're better of financially
than they had been for some time:
Mr.. Hurt did not concur with the Lieu
tenant-Governor in his estimate OF Cleve-
land.
When Captain G. E. .Yawter, Of Abe
marie. came up and said, II admire an
honest man wherever see him." MIR. Hurt
said that was his sentiment, and he did not
think that O question of policy ought TO
stand in the way of q courageous man.
Messrs. Hurt and Vawter were both POSI-
tive that Mr.. Cleveland would be the next
nominee for the presidency.
In support of this statement the former
gentleman said that when Cleveland wrote
his tariff letter it was on the eve OF an
election. But this time he had gotten a
running start and would probably get over
all right.