Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-04
ADVICE TO OEMOCRATS
Endorsement Of Free Silver Means a
Republican March to Power.
Doctrine Of Sound Money the
|. Only Safe Course.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WARRINGTON. April 20


Hon. j. M. Stone, Governor
MY DEAR SIR-Your letter Of the 2lst inst. n
Ut hand. i do not feel inclined to find fault
with your criticism, but think the matters
you refer to should be Judged in the light OF
the circumstances existing at the time the
building up or fostering personal feeling, but
30 far as politics should properly influence me
In makisg appointments, i have tried TO be
democratic and not proscriptive.
am glad You are frank enough to admit
your participation In bringing about o condi-
tion In Office e-holding which may not be all
that could now DO desired. Whether those
appointed TO places shall In speech and action
behave decently toward the administration
under which they hold office must remain, to
large extent, a matter Of taste and good
breeding.
There are, however. some officials who de-
vote 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 performance OF their duties
In a manner creditable to the administration.
and who apparently assume they may spend
the time they owe to the public service in do
ing political mischief In the interest of good
government such officeholders must not DO
surprised il they are
summarily Dealt With.
When 1 received your letter l 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 contributed in the
best possible style and In a most valuable way
to the fund Of argument III favor Of sound
money. 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 dis
advantages and loss of silver monometalism
and to content themselves with a depreciated
and fuctuating currency while permitting
others to reap profit from the transmution
Of the prices Of their productions from silver
to gold.
/ hope this letter Of yours will be given the
widest possible circulation, especially among |
our southern fellow-ctizens, and that they |
will be permitted to see the pitfall which is
directly before them who madly rush toward
the phantom light Of free, unlimited and In. |
dependent silver coinage.
II we, who profess fealty to the Democratic |
party, are sincere in our devotion to its prin- |
ctples, and IL we right in believing that the
ascendency Of those principles is guarantee |
Of personal liberty, universal for the |
rights of all, non-sectional, American brother |
hood and manly trust in American citizenship |
in any part OF our land, we should study the |
effect upon our party, and consequently upon |
our country. OF q committal Of the national
Democracy to
The Silver Alteration.
III tnefe are DemOCf8tS VINO suppose tn6t our
party cannot stand ON q platform embodying
such doctrines, either through it's Affirmative
strength or through the perplexity Of our op-
ponents on the same proposition, or II 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 a victory without the aid Of |
either party organization, they should deceive |
themselves no longer, nor longer refuse to face |
the results that will follow the defeat IL not |
the disintegration, Of the Democratic party |
upon the issue which tempts them from their |
allegiance.
If we should be forced away from all our ira
ditionals doctrine of sound, safe money, our
old antagonist will take the field on the plat
form which we abandon, and neither the /
votes Of reckless Democrats nor reckless Re-
publicans will avail to stay their easy march
to power. This Is Is plain anything can
possibly be.
1t, therefore, becomes the duty of every
Democrat, wherever he may be, to consider
what such a victory would mean, and, in the
light Of proper conception Of its results, he
should deliberately shape his course.
Very truly yours,
GROVER CIEyEIAND