Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-21
JANUARY q. 1893
Mr.. CleYeland's Policy.

We suppose IL may he assured TO be
fact that what the Democrats OF New YORK
have declared to be their opinion of the
SHEnMas silver,law is just what Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS opinion Of that law IS. Not that Dir.
CLEVELAND controls or is authorized to
speak for them nor that they control or are
authorized to speak for him but because no
man can help being influenced by his en-
vironment. We conclude, therefore, that
what the New York Democrats laid down
IN their platform of 1891 on the subject OF
the grand SHERaAs scheme TO increase the
use Of silver as money is just what Mr..
If so, he will undoubtedly lend his infu-
once TO the movement in the present Con-
gress in favor of the repeal of the law in
question.
What said the New York Democratic
State Convention Of 1891 1t first de-
clared that the Democrats of that State
were against tho coinage Of q silver dollar
which was not Of the intrinsic value OF
every other dollar of the United States.
and then denounced the SHERMAN law as
one under which one tenth OF our gold
stock had been exported and all our silver
output damned up at home, Also. as
. false pretence and an artificial hindrance
of q return to free bimetallic coinage, and
las tending only to produce change from
gold:monometallIsm TO silver monometal-
ism. We now give the scorching Ian
guage in which not only the silver legisls-
ton of the Republican party but its legs-
lation on other subjects was denounced by
the New York Democratic State Conven-
tion of 1891. 1t is as follows:
1--WE therefore unite with the friends Of honest
money everywhere In stigmatizing the Sherman
progressive silver-bass law as no solution OF the
gold and silver question and as a 1T appendix to
the subsidy and bounty swindle, the Mckinley
worse-than-war tariff, the Blaine reciprocity
humbug, the squsndered surplus, the advancing
deficit, the defective census, the falsined repre-
eentation, and the revolutionary procedures OF
the billion-dollar Congress-"
Here we have Mr.. CLEvELASD's policy
outlined. He will stand on the silver ques-
ton where he stood from 1885 to 1889. He
will have no mercy on pension swindles,
nor bounty swindles. nor subsidy swindles.
He will seek to do away with the McKIN-
tEf tdrlu, winch Is WOfS6 tudu u war
taria. He will expose the bumbug reel
procity schemes Of the Republicans who
have had the unblushing impudence to
steal portion of the Democratic creed
on the subject of unrestricted trade with
foreign nations and TO brand that portion
as reciprocity" If reciprocity so called
has any merits, they belong TO the Demo-
Gratis. He will remind the people of the
squandered surplus of hundred mil
hons of dollars which be left in the
Treasury when he went out of Of
fee in 1889. He will demand the
revision of the roll of i'll desert" the
pension-list, which annually calls for more
money than 1t would cost to keep up
huge standing army like those in Europe.
He would point to threatened deficit.
He would tell Of the defects of the Re
publican census. And, finally, he would
recount the revolutionary procedures of
the billion-dollar Republican Congress.
Surely, here is cut out for the President
elect work enough to keep him well en-
ployed during his whole administration.