The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-25
ATTACKS ON SILVER.
Cleveland Writes q Letter to
Democratic Editors.
EckELs MAKES THEM AsPEEcn.
He Says the silver Agitation Il Due IN
the First Instance to the Silver
Producing Glass.

New York, May A.-The days stay OF
Democratic efifors came 70 an end to-
night, when a banquet was rendered 20
them al Detmon5cos. Col. William
Brown was POSTMASTER. He introduced
John A. Mason, VINO thanked the Demo
Gratis OF Gotham for their hospitality %
the visitors. Nr. Mason then read a let
Ter from President Cleveland. which
evoked tunultuous applause. After ex-
pressing regret at his inability 10 De pres
eBt. the president III his letter said:
When a campaign is actively on foot
10 force the free, unlimited and tndepend-
ent coinage Of silver, at a ratio which
VIII add 10 our circulation unrastrainesi
millions OF so-cafied dollars, frTrinsically
worth bur half the amount they purport
10 represent, with no provision or re-
source TO make good any deficiency in
value, and when IL is claimed that sl1cn
a proposition has any relation TO the
principles OF Democracy. II Is time for ali
VINO may IN the least degree influence
Democratic thought, 20 realize their re-
sponstOhfty.
"Our party Is the party Of the people.
not because IL is Gr1fted hithsr and thith-
er by every wave of popular excitement
and misconception. but because, while
IL tests every proposition by the doc
trines which underlie it's organization, ii
insists thar all interests should be de-
Tended in the administrati ton of the gov
eminent without especial favor or dis
elimination. Our party is the party OF
the people because in its care. for the
welfare OF all our countrymen, it resists
dangerous schem born of discomfort.
advocated by appeals 10 sectional or
class prejudices. and reinforced by their
insidiOus acts of private selfshness and
cupidity. Above all. our party is the
party OF the people when IL recognizes
the fact that sound and absolutely safe
money Is the likelihood of our country's
strength and prosperity. and when 1t
teaches that none of our fellow citizens.
rich or poor. can escape the consequences
OF a degeneration of our currency.
democratic conservatism dictates If
there exists inconvenience and hardship
resulting from the congestion or imperfect
distribution of circulating medium, rem
edy should be applied which will avoid
the disaster that must follow in the trail
OF silver mono-metallism.
Senator Hill was accorded a perfect ova-
ton as he arose to speak TO the toast
Democracy" In referring to the finan-
cial question he said:
II am not in the councils of the gold
rnono-nest aAlists. but il | would suggest
that they are prejudicial against the cause
of sound and safe currency at this moment
by nagging over false and immaterial
subjects, as whether before the coinage
law of 1873 the silver dollar was the unit
OF value.
IF New York can be carried by the DEM
ocrats this fail 1t can be carried in 1896,
and with II the country and the presiden-
cy. Another defeat here forebodes nation
al disaster
Comptroller OF the Currency Eckeis
spoke to the toast Sound money funda-
mental principle of true Democracy"
Referring to the attitude of President
Cleveland on the financial question, he
asserted that the signs OF returning pros
perity demonstrated the wisdom of the
governments recent acts, and the con-
fidence of the people in the administra-
ton. He said in part: II do not over
state when | say the present agitation OF
the free coinage of silver is due in the
first instance TO the silver producing
class, who, complaining that their min
ing interests are languishing. claim IL to
be the duty of the government to revive
them by affording a market for all the
silver bullion they can deposit at the
minis and TO make their mines profitable
by coming for them free of charge all
such bullion into dollars containing less
than 81 worth OF metal. endowed with full
legal tender properties