The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
ANOTHER FROM STEWART.
THE NEVADA SENATOR WRITES
HIS THIRD EPISTLE TO
THE PRESIDENT.

Washington, May 8.-For a third time
within very brief period United States
Senator William NJ. Stewart, of Nevada,
has felt called upon to write an open
letter to President Cleveland. It bears
the date of yesterday and has for it's in
SEPARATION the recent letter of the presi-
dent to Gov. Stone, of Missouri, which
the senator in the very first words of his
last epistles characterizes as "admira-
bic" and as wholly generating the
president from "all suspicion Of shirk-
ing" from his plain constitutional duty
OF personal participation, as the senator
writes, Gin the political controversies
which agitate the people,"
"Your treatment of contumacious Of
fceholders," he continues, illustrates
the benefits of civil service reform, when
you tell them that, in the interest of
good government, officeholders must not
be surprised If they are summarily dealt
WITH
The senator quotes from the letter Of
the president and comments literally
thereon on each sentence or paragraph
quoted. The reference in the letter to
Gov. Stone on the willingness Of the
Southern people to submit to the disad-
vantage of silver monometallism leads
the senator to remark: 1.-THE original
ity OF your decision that the South ia
vors silver recommendation, when they
only contend for the coinage of silver
upon the terms and conditions appli-
cable to the coinage of gold, can never
be questioned" and he suppOses the
president will explain in his next let
ter" why free coinage Of gold and the
refusal to coin silver is bimetallism, and
the unrestricted coinage of both gold
and silver is silver recommendation.
The senator also quotes from the Chi
cago letter of the president, in which
occurs the sentence: LET us remind him
that he must buy as we'll as sell; that his
dreams of plenty are shaded by the
certainty that if the price of things he
has to sell is nominally advanced, the
cost Of those things he must buy will not
remain stationary" The comment up
on this Is in every line consistent with
the sarcastic spirit that has animated
the previous open letters" of the SEN
ator, and referring to it is the sugges-
ton, THE discovery you have made
that the sales and purchases of the
farmers and planters, in cheap gold
market, exactly balance each other, and
that what is lost by the low price of sales
is gained by the low price Of purchases,
solves the question and shows your full
comprehension of all the principles of
economic science"
The sentence furnishes theme for a
rather extended commentary upon the
presidents views on the money ques-
ton, and branching off into reference
to the field of gold recommendation re-
Gently discovered by the senator from
Ohio (Mr. Sherman)," continues with
the remark: "The honor and advantages
Of gold monometallism exclusively be-
lcnged to the Republican party under
the leadership Of Wall and Lombard
streets, until you led the scattered forces
OF Democracy out of the wilderness Of
financial absurdition taught by Jeffer-
son and his deluded associates He
tells the president substantially that the
Republican leaders, mentioning the
"Shermans, Harrisons and Reeds" had
one faith that their zeal in securing
legislation and action for their gold mo-
nopoly was shared by the people at
large; that they shrink from public dec
laration in favor of '"the sacred gold
standard, which absorbed their private
DEVOTION" and he concludes by writing:
Fear not. The Harrisons, the Sher-
mans, the Reeds and the McKinleys will
never be able to rally the goldites of the
Republican side to meet the gold forces
commanded by you in the contest you
have inaugurated for the honor of sound
money, safe currency and civil service
reform. Their indirect methods served
fiict now raging. while the mighty gold
road to success, but will fail in the con-
well in the past while secrecy was the
forces give battle in view of all men,
where the timid time-servers never ap-
pear"