The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-05-04
CLEVELAND'S WARNING.
The Presidents Pertinent Letter
to Mississippi's Governor.
TIE EVILS OF FREE COINAGE.

The Chief Magistrate Predicts That Free
Silver Platform Would Result In the De
feat, 10 Not the Disintegration, of the
Democratic Party.
JACKSON, Miss, May 4.-Governor Stone
gives to the Associated Press n letter ad-
dressed to him by President Cleveland
undor date Of April 90. The following is
the full text of the letter:
"MY DEAR SIR:-Your letter of tho 21st
Inst. is at hand. / do not feel Inclined to
find fault with your critisism, but think the
matters you refer to should be judged in
the light Of the circumstances existing at
thc time the things were done. / never
had an idea of building up or fostering
personal following, but so far as politics
should properly influence me In making
appointments | have tried to be Demo
cratic, and not proscriptivc.
81 am glad you are frank enough to ad-
NIT your participation in bringing about
a condition in office holding which may
not be all that could now be desired.
whether these appointed toplaces shall in
speech and action behave dcccntly to-
wards the administration under which
they hold office must remain, to large
extent, u matter of taste and good breed.
ing. There are, however, some officials
who devote themselves so industriously to
vilifcation and abuse of those under
whom they hold office as to indicate that
their fidelity cannot be trusted for the per-
formance of their duties in a manner
oredittble to the administration, and who
apparently assume that they may spend
the time they owe the public service in
doing political mischief. In the interest
nf
must not be surprised If they are sum
mnrily dealt with
when l received your letter had Just
finished reading letter Of yours in which
you explain to the citizens Of Mississippi
your views on the currency question. 1t
seems to me you have in that letter con-
tributed in the best possible style and in a
most valuable way to the fund of argu-
ment in favor of sound money. l have
never ceased to wonder why the people Of
the south, furnishing so largely as they do
products which are exported for gold,
should be willing to submit to the disad-
vantnges and loss of silver monomctallism
and to content themselves with IA depreci-
ated and huctuating currency, while per
mitting others to reap profit from the
transmution of prices of their production
from silver to gold. l hope this letter OF
yours will be given the widest possible
circulation, especially among our southern
follow citizens and that they will be per
mitted to see the pitfall which is directly
before them who madly rush towards the
phantom light of free unlimited and in.
dersndent silver coinage.
"If we who profess fealty to the Demo.
cratic party are sincere in our devotion to
its principles, and If we are right In be-
81 hut Nf at
ciplcs is II guarantee of personal liberty,
universal care for the rights of all, non.
sectional, American brotherhood and
manly trust in American citizenship In
every part of our land we should study
the effects upon our party, and conse-
quently upon our country, of a committal
Of the national Democracy TO the silver
arbitration.
"lf there are Democrats who suppose,that
our party can stand on a platform embody-
ing such doctrine, either through its
Affirmative strength or through the per
plexity of our opponents on the same
proposition, or il there are Democrats who
are willing to turn their backs upon their
party associations in the hope that free and
unlimited and independent coinage OF
silver can win victory without the aid OF
either party organization, they should
deceive themselves no longer, nor longer
refuse to look in the face the results that
will follow the defeat If not the disin-
tceration of the Democratic party, upon
the issue which tempts them from their
allegiance.
"If we should be forced away from our
traditional doctrine Of sound and safe
money our old antagonist Will take the
field on the platform which we abandon,
and nett her the votes of TerkIpss Demo
Gratis nor reckless Republicans will avail
to stuy their easy march to power This
is as plain as anything can possibly be- 1t,
therefore, becomes the duty of every Dem
ocrat whoever he may be, to consider
what such victory would mean, and in
the light of a proper conception of its re.
suit he should deliberately shape his
course. Yours very truly,
.iGBpyEp rIEypt Avn