The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-09
A WORD OF WARNING.

President Cleveland Addresses a Letter to
 MIssissipprs Governor on the Silver
 Issue.
 JACKSON, Miss, May 4.-Gov. Stone last evening gave to the Associated press letter addressed to him by Pres ident Cleveland under date of April 26. The following is the full text of the letter:
 Hon. J. M. Stone, Governor. etc.:
 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON April e6-My Dear Sir: Your letter of the Fist in- stant is at hand. do not feel inclined to ma fault with your criticism, but ' think the mat ters referred to should be judged in the light of the circumstances existing at the time the things were done. never had an dea of bNf ing up or fostering personal following, put far politics should properly infuenc" making appointments, have tried to b
 ocratic and not proscriptive. I am gl are frank enough to admit your particip, in bringing about condition in office hol, which may not be all that could now be, sired. Whether those appointments to pla shall in speech and action behave decently to ward the administration under which they hold office must remain, to large extent, matter of taste and good breeding.
 There are however, some officials who de- vote themselves so inGustriously to villifca- LlON anu dDuSC Ul bilOoc uHucE NuOhi bucg hOiu office as to indicate that their fidelity cannot be trusted for the performance of their duties in manner creditable to the administration and who apparently assume they may spend the time they owe the public service in doing political mischief In the interest Of good government such ofice-holders must not be surprised if they are summarily dealt with
 When I received your letter, had just ftn- ished reading a letter of yours, in which you explain to the citizens Of Mississippi your views on the currency question. It 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 in favor Of sound money.
 Ihave never ceased to wonder why the peo- pie of the south, furnishing so largely as they do, products which are exported for gold, should be willing to submit to the disadvan- tage and loss of silver monometallism and to content themselves with a depreciated and fuctuating currency while permitting others to reap profit from the transmutation 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-citizens, and that they will be permitted to see the pitfall which is direct ly before them who madly rush toward the phantom light of free, unlimited and inde- pendent, silver coinage.
 If we who profess fealty to the democratic parIy are SluCert III our uSEOLlOu JO lIS pElu- ciples, and if we are right in believing that the ascendency of those principles is a guar antee of present liberty, universal care 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 effects upon our party, and consequently upon our country, of a committal of the national de- mocracy to this silver arbitration
 If there are democrats who suppose that our party can stand on a platform embodying such doctrine, either through Its affirmative strength or through the perplexity of our op- ponents on the same proposition, or If there nre democrats who are willing to turn their backs upon their party associations in the hope thatfree and unlimited and independent coinage of silver can win Q victory without the aid of either party organization they should deceive themselves no longer, nor longer re- fuse to look in the face of the results that will follow the defeat, if not the disintegration, of the democratic party upon the issue which | tempts them from their allegiance
 If we should be forced away from our tradi- tional doctrine of sound and 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 republicans This is as plain as anything can possibly be. It therefore becomes the duty of every demo- l crat wherever he may be, to consider what | such Q victory would mean, and In the light of | a proper conception of its results he should deliberately shape his course. Yours very | truly, GROVER CLEVELAND.