Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
HILL ON FREE SILVER.
An Old Letter of His Resurrected to
Prove TO Westerners
HE WOULDN'T VETO SUCH A BILL
Els Stand in Opposition to President
Harrison is Flat-Footed.
n0CUMENT THAT Will, RE pRESCPyCn
he WOULDN'T VETO SUCH A BILL,
A DOCUMENT THAT WILL BE PRESERVED

TOPEKA, KAN, June 18-The following
letter from D. B. Hill was received by Mr..
Charles K. Holiday, of this CITY, pro-
prietor OF the Kansas Democrat and Worlds
Fair Commissioner for Kansas, in Decem-
Der last. 1t contained some matters of q
quasi personal nature, and hence Mr.. Holli-
day did not feel at liberty to publish it
then. 1t makes it clear that Senator Hill,
ST elected President, would not veto an
adequate free coinage bill if passed by q
Democratic Congress. The letter reads as
follows:
STATE OF NEW YORK,
EysCuTIvk CHAMBER,
ALBANY, n. Z. December 2s 1891.
Charles X. Holiday, Jr.. Topeka. Kan:
DEAR SIR-For reply to your letter OF the
Gath enclose reprint of my speech at e.
mira, on the 5th, which 1 intend to confirm
and reiterate in a short farewell address as
Governor on next Thursday, New Years
Eve. My faith is unshakable in the sound
trymeH, They well know that the
ecieHs ne1 for tax ns reform essn and
monetary reform. They will not + commit
their interests to the Republican party,
which has just made both reforms our
supreme necessity. The Democratic party
mts hit as well commit suicide shirk either
duty, nor will it betray the peoples trust by
Rllotting the executive power to any man
whose views are similar to the views Of
President Harrison, and who is pledged,
like him, to block every approach to tree bl-
metallic coinage.
1t is a scandalous misuse of the executive
power to employ the veto in preventing the
remedial LEGISLATION from being carefully
planned and passed when great a ma
tority OF the peoples representatives have
been elected by the people expressly for the
very work, to repeal the Sherman silver law
and to promote the return to free bimetallic
coinage. Governor Tilden implied sounder
view of the function of the Federal
Executive when he said: off summoned
by the suffrages OF my countrymen to
with Gods help to he the efficient instru-
ment of their will. / am indignant at the
Tapacity of the gold monometallsts, so reck-
less both OF silence and of public opinion.
Free bi-metalic coinage is the demand of a
vast majority of the American people: no
dollar and the gold dollar. Free metallic
coinage is the last word OF monetary science.
To restore it safely, wisely, finally, is the
mission OF the Democratic party"
MIR. Harrison compels us to submit to inac-
tion during the present executive term.
tion. His friends believe that he is no hypo-
critic. He will not recast or suppress his
conscientious scruples TO get second term.
He and Mr.. Blaine will fuss up an interna-
tional con ference for delay. (See page 80 to
g of specify
That is stale State artifice. One conse-
Quence of our enforced inaction will be that
tue financial portents and threatened disas-
tiers last approaching will be seen by all to
be caused by past and present Republican
wrongs. not by future Democratic reme-
DIES Yours truly, DAVID B. HILL.