The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-25

The Lincoln county Democratic conven-
ton on Saturday last passed the following
resolutions
Resolved. That We favor the nomination Of tho
great tariff reform leader, Grover Cleveland, for
president, and recognise in him q man who,
when his conscience and convictions combined
tell him he Is right. counts not his friends,
neither does he number his opposing foes, and
we believe he has within him the rugged hon.
esty which will not yield to the requirements
Of those late days, A. shown By his statement
that IL the representatives OF the people pass
free coinage bill he. IL elected president tall
though personally not in favor of the msasure),
will sign such bill.
The above Is an absurd and ignorant
utterance. The last word from Cleveland
concerning tho currency question was his
published letter to Ellery Anderson, OF
New York city. This letter was written
February, 1891: it was an uncompro-
missing denunciation of free silver coinage.
and reiterated his former declaration in
favor of the total suspension Of silver coin
age or the Issue of currency based on silver
until the great commercial countries Of
Europe fixed an International ratio of
value between gold and silver Mr.. Cleve-
land has never said that he would, if
elected president. sign free silver bill.
Friends Of free silver have made irrespon-
sible statements to that effect, but no de-
claration of this sort has ever been made
by anybody authorized to speak for Mr..
Cleveland.
Surmises and specuations as to what
Mr.. Cleveland might do have been printed
frequently. but all his published letters
ana all statements Of his views authorized
by him for publication have been utterly
hostile not only to free silver coinage, but
to any silver coinage whatever. Since his
letter of February. 1891, Mr.. Cleveland has
authorized nobody to speak for him on the
subject of the currency. Mr.. Cleve-
land knows that no man can
carry New York, Wisconsin, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, or even New
Jersey who is not opposed to free silver
coinage, and he is not fool or knave enough
to accept nomination as an opponent of
free silver coinage with the mental reser-
walton that if free silver bill was enacted
he would swallow his convictions and
sign it. That would be too intolarably
gross fraud and act of bad faith upon
the voters of New York, who in both
parties are opposed to free silver coinage,
to be entertained for a moment by Mr.
Cleveland.
The New York Times frankly admits
that the anti-silver Mugwumps would be
with the Republicans if Mr.. Cleveland
should even coquette with the Democrats
on the silver question. Mr.. Cleveland has
always maintained that the double stand
ard cannot be maintained except by the
demonstration of silver In his famous
Warner letter he declared himself a
mono-metallist, and if he should
eat his own words on this sub
ject he would be instantly drummed
ont of camp by the Eastern Mugwumps.
The sole strength of Cleveland in New
York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, is his opposition to free sil-
yer coinage, and he has never authorized
the publication of single line in repudia-
ton of his published letter to Ellery An
derson. of February, 1901.
The Democrats of Lincoln county are
unusually ignorant this year. or deliber-
ately disngenuous