Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-05-18
How They Stand.

viii you kindly tell us which fsvrrs
silver the mosl, Harrisua or Clevtlands
Alss please give us brief outline OF
Clevelano'S status on the silver Ques-
ton
President Harrison has always, since
be WAS nominalcd, expressed an earn
est desire To see silver and gold both in
full use as money, but he has shrunk
from free coinage, 50 II seems Ia tie
that while he wants bath meals he
wants them Ia be in the market of The
sans value, and seems ~ forget that
ens hasa fictitious value because al the
worlds business rests upon ii, while
the other ha. beeu dshonered and dis
grased and its apparent real valas
taken from II by foolish or wicked
legislation. Further, through the
efforts of the President aud his Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, u silver confer
ence has been called, which will meet
in Washington early IN July, the
avowed purpose hring to rehabililate
81 vcr on some ratio err another, and
make il debt-paying metal exactly
the same as gold.
On the other hand, after the election
in November, 1884, before he electors
had met Nv elect Mr.. Cleveland Plesi-
dent, he wrote to Representative Car
Isle an urgent letter, depicting The
woes which would follow through the
continued purchase Of 81, 000, 900 W orlh
OF silver per month, and urged that
the Bland law be repealed in the IN
terest Of sound tiaance. During all
hisler as President he used bis intlu.
ence 10 prevent the rassaRe of any law
to relieve the country by giving silver
recognition, and through his influence
the Democratic National Convention
Of 1888, which rensmuated him for
President, did not dare 10 pu, one
plank containing kind expression
even for silver in the National plat.
form. In the same spirit he wrste .
letter 10 General Warner, President Of
the National Silver Cemmitise, reiter.
a,ing the arguments he used when be
wrote Mr.. Carlisle, renewing The fore.
bodings ia that letter, and altogether
made such communication rs John
Sherman might haye written for him
had he been Mr.. Cleveland's attornry.
We think President Harrison 10
cowed by the bankers of the East and
entertains unreasonable fears of the
effect Of free coinage upon the com.
merce and trade Of the country. hut is
most anxious that there shall be such
an adjustment as will give full use to
all the silver that can be produced in
all the mines. We think Mr.. Clevc-
land obtained his ideas from The Ma
tional bankers point of view, AS stat ed
to him by his first Secretary of the
Treasury, the late Dan Manning, and
that he is just auch bourbon that
when once his brain becomes fixed, he
never permits an idea TO change until
the chariot Of progress has passed him
and gone out Of sight. There was
some talk last Winter that he had
modified his views on silver, but he
FASTENED when The measure was pend
ing 10 Congress to place himself afrssh
ON The Wall Street side. Knowing his
nature as well as the people do, they
no more expect him to change ON this.
subject than on the subject Of the tariff
And, by the way, it is 5 ,iI that to that
subject he never devoted an hours
study until year after he vas elected
President of the United States and
then took his data from Messrs. Car
Isle, Bayari. and Justice Chen Sen
ator) Lamar. President Harrison will
rot do very well on the silver question !;
ex-Presdent Cleveland will not de at
all