The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-28
ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
CARLISLE'S LETTER sTTRS Up
SENATOR PUGH-

A Denial That the Free Coinage Men
Have Any Desire to Abandon the
Vital Issue of Tariff Reform-Exper-
fences of the Cleveland Campaign
Recalled.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Ex-senator Pugh
of Alabama has written a communication
20 the Washington Post in which he says
che latter of Senator John G.. Carlisle in
answer TO tie letter of Congressman john
d Warner on the subject of the qualifica-
lions of Hon. Roger Q. Mills for the speak
ership cannot be permitted to circulate as
truth without denial and correction. Sena-
tor Pugh says:
MY sols purpose is TO correct the following re-
Snarkable statement: why shall we, on the
eve of a great national contest. when victory IS
almost within our grasp, abandon or ignore ths
vital issues upon which we are uhlIeu anu
waste our strength in frutless controversy
emon0 ourselves over a question which can be
better adjusted after it has been determined
what part of their own earnings tne people
will be permitted 10 Keep. Inc hIS SI
duty of the Democratic party and all
who sympathize with it, is to change the laws
under which the earnings OF the people are 10
be taken away from them by UNJUST taxation
for private purposes, and whoever proposes TO
postpone the performance of this duty IN order
TO inaugurats war among ourselves upon the
silver question or any other question is not a
wise counselor, and would not make a SAFE
Header"
CLEvELASD's EXPERIENCE.
Iwell remember what was generally conceded
In 1888 the last year of President Ceveland's
administration, that he had so ably aud wisely
and honestly administered the government as
70 leave the Republican party without a for
nidable or merItorious issue in the presidential
election OF that year, when some wise counselors
and safe leaders lin their own estimation; do
not intimate that the senator was one OF them
Induced President Cleveland to throw away all
the Jewels Ia his administration and challenge
the Republican party to battle on the single,
paramount and all-absorbing issue Of
tariff reform on formula furnished in Presi-
dent Cleveland's message and the Mills bill.
This was done by WISE counsel and safe leader
ship ION the eve of great national contest,
when victory was almost within our grasp Is
1T unwise aud unsafe TO suggest among our
selves that something had better be learned
from experience: When a child gets burned he
will not go back into the same fire.
SENATOR PueH's DENIAL.
What wish to deny most emphaticslly is the
senator's statement that any democrat in the
United States who supports free coinage of
silver has expressed any desire, intention or
purpose to abandon or ignore the vital issue of
xar.ff reform.
; All that the friends of silver demand is what
the Democratic party in every national conven-
Iion has done without q single exception, keep
Jaxation and the currency together as co-ordi-
mate and coequal subjects of remedial legisla-
ton Neither tariff reform nor financial re-
form has ever been ignored nor abandoned, nor
one subordtnated to the other in any demo-
cratic platform during the life time
of the party The power OF monopoly
secured to the manufacturers by q protective
tariff like the Mckinley law to regulate prices is
not as great, certainly no greater, than the
power Of monopoly secured to the money
aender and purchaser of property. productions
and labor under the gold standard Of currency
contracted TO the amount OF one metal.
ATTITUDE OF THE SILVER MEN.
The friends Of silver have always acted on the
defensive, They never inaugurated any war.
The representation of gold struck down silver
in 1878, and when it was partially restored in
1878 by meager coinage merciless war was re-
the Mckinley bill and the free coin
age bill and infamous force bill went
hand in hand to the Senate in one Of the most
memorable parliamentary struggles recorded
in history, and the world knows that the gov
eminent and country and Democratic party
were rescued from the most perilouS conse-
Quences OF the passage OF the force bill by the
Invincible courage and fidelity of advocates and
supporters OF free silver coinage. II the friends
OF silver are to be classed as unwise counselors
and unsafe leaders because they insist that the
silver issue shall not be abandoned or ignored
in the contest Of 1892 but that 1t shall go hand
finland and receive the same treatment
with all the other issues made
in the democratic platform, especially when
they are so classed aud condemned at the in
stance and in the interest of those democrats
who throttled the free coinage bill in the last
House of Representatives, all the friends of
silver have TO say is that they are accustomed
to such classification, and hope to be able
TO persevere in vindicaton OF their convictions
and integrity. AS democrats and friends of
free coinage they protest against being retired
from the councils of the Democratic party be-
cause they are unwilling to allow corporal's
guard of gold representatives to
dictate to the friends of silver and silence
and postpone them in their just demands until
the veto power can be put in the hands of a
democrat for four years, to be exercised against
any adjustment of the silver question except
on a formula to be furnished by wise counsel
brs and safe leaders, - 10 be found only In the
neighborhood of Wall street.