The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-04-26
AN ENEMY OF SILVER,
THE VETO MESSAGE SHOWS G.
CLEvElANO'S HOSTILITY.
1t Also Made Very Plain that No Lcgis-
lation Favorable to silver Can Become
Law While He Is Presisient-lseneral re-
form Notes.
Growers Veto.

Growers Veto.
Cleveland sent in his veto of the
| seigniorage bill with y long-winde.l
message. He says he would sign the
bill under certain conditions. chief
/: of which is permission from Congress
to issue bonds al libitum ito replenish
! the gold reserve" He doesn't want
any more silver dollars coined unless
he has gold to redeem" them. He is
not willing to coin the bullion in the
treasury. which has already been
bought and paid for. and thus get $685.
coo, 900 to meet ordinary expenses of
the Government. That would he de
structive of the public credit" He is
! eager, though, to borrow money on
bonds, and thus go in debt for funds to
meet current obligations and pay in
terest in gold on the same. That's
"feenance" of an approved kind. All
Of which is equivalent to saying that
Cleveland is an enemy of silver and
will lose no opportunity to knock it
entirely ont of our currency. We al
ready have too much silver, according
to this bright light of Wall Street. and
be ruinous.
1t will he remembered that when the
bill repeating the purchasing clause of
the Sherman law was under discussion
many Democrats in Congress excused
themselves and the administration by
saving that when that law was re-
pealed the party would proceed ut once
to enact silver legislation in line with
the Chicago platform and campaign
: promises. Senator Voorhees,. who had
charge of the repeal bill, made this
statement in his speech Introducing
the measure: Repeal this bill, said
he in substance, land 1 myself will in
| troduce n free coinage bill" During
the campaign in this state in 1892,
Voorhees, stated in every speech he
made and in his stercotyped letters to
Democrats, that the Chicago platform
meant free silver. He begged Demo
Gratis not to leave the party on that is
! sue, and assured them that Cleveland
| was oil right on the question and would
sign any bill Il Democratic Congress
would pass. There promises were re-
peated by Democratic orators from
every stump in the South and West,
! and were undoubtedly chiefly in
strumental in securing Cleveland's
| election. OF course all Populisst
knew it was fraud and said
so at the time. The Democratic cam
| vassers of the Voorhees, stripe also
knew it was Il lie, as Cleveland had
never concealed his hostility to silver.
but this false pretense served to bam-
| boozle hundreds of thousands of voters.
! Those who advocated the repeal bill
at the extra session knew full well that
its success meant the end of silver dur
ing this Administration and the estab-
lishmeat of the single gold standard.
They knew as we'll then as they do now
! that Cleveland would sign no bill en-
larging the use of silver, yet they
deliberately played into the hands of
the money sharks and gold consplra-
tors. The passage of the seigniorage
| bill, with u full knowledge that it
would be vetoed, SO far from cOnaon-
| ing their treacherv was simply adding
| insult 10 injury. 1t was tritiing wi h
the country. 1t was simply an effort,
but q futile one. to appease the Just
| wrath of constituents in silver dis
| tricts.
| BY his veto OF the seigniorage bill
Cleveland makes it very plain that no
| legislation favorable to silver can be-
come law while he is President. Every
body admits this now if any doubted it
before. Moreover, by coming out
sqnarely for the issue of more interest
bearing bonds, he shows that the pres
! ent Administration will adhere strictly
j to the gold-standard policy with all
that is meant by that ruinous doctrine.
:. Thus it has come TO pass, as so often
foretold by Popnlists, that the crime of
1873 committed by the Republicans has
been ratified and confirmed by the
Democrats. The votes of the present
Republican Congressman and the ut
terances of their newspapers. every one
of which cordially sustained the veto,
show that as far as the financial ques-
ton is concerned nothing would have
been done by Harrison with a Repub-
lican Congress that has not been done
by Cleveland with q Democratic Con-
gress. Both the old parties are abso-
Iutely deaf to the cries of a plundered
and starving people. All of which
proves, if it needed any more proving,
that no voter who desires free coinage
or all increase in the currency of any
kind can expect either from the Re.
publicans or Democrats. de can only
obtain this by sending to Washington
Representatives who owe no allegiance
to either old party. 1t is clear as day
that q vote for either of the corrup,
and moribund OIL machines is a vote
to demonetize silver and fas:en on the
country q single gold standard with
the policy of contraction.-Indianap
oils Nonconformist.
Governor Waite indicated.
Governor Waite, in the discharge o.
his lawful duties as the chief executive
of Colorado. undertook to dismiss two
local officials in the city of Denver and
to that end appointed their successors
The deposed officials refused to vscate
and barred the doors against the new
appointees, and called to their aid the