Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-08-11
CLEVELAND AND SILVER.
The Democratic Candidate Is an UncOm-
promising Enemy of the Peoples Dollar.

The Democratic Candidate Is al UncOm-
promising Enemy of the Peoples Dollar.
For the last time before the vote the
want to secure a fair show for their
ideas respecting the coinage of silver
should glance at the silver platform on
which Grover Cleveland will stand if
nominated tomorrow.
He will stand upon this declaration.
1885, after he had been elected as presi-
dent and at time when he had no i'm
mediate need of Democratic votes:
hope that you concur with me and with the
great majority of our fellow citizens in DEEM
ing it most desirable at the present juncture
to maintain and continue to use the mass OF
our gold coin as well as the mass of SILVER al
ready coined. This is possible by a present
suspension of the purchase and coinage of sill
yer. am not aware that by any other meth
cd it is possible. 1t is of momentous impor-
lance to prevent the two metals from parting
company; to prevent the increasing dispace-
ment of gold by the increasing coinage of sill
yer; to prevent the disuse of gold in the GUS
tom houses of the United States in the daily
business of the people; to prevent the ultimate
expulsion of gold by silver. Such a financial
crisis as these events would certainly precip-
itate, were it now to follow upon so long a Pc
riod of commercial depression, would involve
the people of every city and every state in the
Union in prolonged and disastrous trouble.
The revival of business enterprise and pros
perty, so ardently desired and apparently SO
near, would be hopelessly postponed. Gold
would be withdrawn to its boarding places
and an unprecedented contraction in the ac-
tual volume of our currency would speedily
take place. Saddest of all, in every workshop,
mill, factory, store and on every railroad and
farm, the wages of labor, already depressed,
would suffer still further depression by a seal
ing down of the purchasing power of every so
called dollar paid into the hand Of toll. From
these impending calamities it is surely most
patriotic and grateful duty of the representa-
tives of the people to deliver them.
He will stand upon this further dec
laration, contained in his letter of Feb.
10, 1891, to the Mugwump chairman of
a meeting held in the Cooper union in
this town to denounce the free coinage
of silver:
E. Ellery Anderson, Chairman:
DEAR SIR-I have this afternoon received
your note inviting me to attend tomorrow
evening the meeting called for the purpose of
city as to 1.-THE free coinage of silver in the
United States"
shall not be able to attend and address the
meeting as you request, but am glad that the
business interests of New York are at last to
be heard on this subject. 1t surely cannot be
necessary for me to make formal expression
of my agreement with those who believe that
the greatest peril would be invited by the
adoption of the scheme embraced in the meas
nra N fQr he N m m ell
coinage of silver at our minis.
If we have developed an unexpected capacity
for the assimilation Of q largely increased vol
ume of this currency, and even If we have
demonstrated the usefulness of such an in
crease, other conditions fall far short Of insur-
ing us again disaster if in the present situation
we enter upon the dangerous, the reckless ex-
pertinent of free, unlimited and independent
silver coinage Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
This is Grover Cleveland's platform
on the silver question. 1t is on this
platform that he asks the votes of the
silver Democrats of the south and west
1t will make no difference to him what
plank these Democrats succeed in in
sorting in the platform of the conven-
ton in case he should be nominated. He
will stand and he will act on his own
platform, not on the platform of the
convention of the Democratic party. In
his crusade against the silver interests
he will repudiate the conventions plat
form as to silver, just as he repudiated
the platform of the convention of 1884.
when he began his crusade for free
trade.
For Grover Cleveland feels and I'M
derstands that he is greater, wiser and
better than the Democratic party.-New
York Sun, June 20.