San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-14
SCORES CLEVELAND AND HIS
CROWD.
PROTESTING AGAINST THE ATTEMPT
OF THE MUGWUMPS TO RUN
THE PARTY.
Reviews the Silver Legislation of
Congress and Calls Upon the
Democratic Party to Recover
Their Ground and Stand
by the Principles of
Jackson.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June l4.-At
the session of the silver convention
last night a letter from Senator
John T. Morgan, of Alamama, was
presented but was not read on &C
| count of the press Of business be.
fore the convention. In 1t the Sem
ator says: "This convention at
Memphis is the natural II not the
necessary result Of the peculiar
meeting recently held there under
the patronage and approval OF our
Democratic administration, and
your meeting will be a protest
against the platform adopted I'M
der that auspices, in hostility to
the established creed OF the Demo-
cratic party"
"They have appealed against the
Judgment OF the party, 80 often
pronounced in support Of the equal
right Of gold and silver at the
mints, and they demand that this
appeal shall be heard and decided
outside the councils Of the Demo-
cratic party by general muster Of
all the enemies of silver money to
be found in every political organic.
alton.
eve invite all the friends of
money that was sound until silver
was struck below the fifth rib, by
| its Jealous brother and, having sur
vived the assassin, Is still sound,
to come into the Democratic camp
and to aid us in healing the
wounds Of this faithful servant of
the people and the government.
It should be considered a just re-
proaeh to an old fashioned Jackson
Democrat, or 60 outside the party
to find a new creed for gold and
silver, or to defend our time-hon-
ored and time.proven doctrine as
to these metals; but, when the
President passes the threshold and
oversteps the line, with our colors
| In his hands, it Is our duty to fol-
low him and rescue them from the
dishonored position Of sheltering a
smugwump' demonstration.
More than 80 per cent tofl the
Democratic senators in that body
when Senator Harris and 1 entered
it were In favor of the immediate
and full restoration Of the law OF
1887, signed by Jackson. There
was not then a "single gold stand
ard" Democrat In that body. There
are some now, onlya few, and they
are wearing silver masks to dis
guise themselves, but the great
body OF Democrats in the Senate
from that day to this have upheld
the old Democratic creed Of 1886,
that "gold and silver is the only
safe and constitutional currency"
Under the Bland act, the Sherman
act of 1890 before it was amended) !,
we paid all the bonds in reach Of
the government; and now we are
issuing bonds at the rate OF $780,
100000 a year, at under-valued
rates, and are sending our assistant
secretary Of the treasury to Lon
don to sign them and to deliver to
the Rothschilds, in support Of our
national credit, their quota Of our
stamped sovereigns of our Ameri-
can Indebtedness. Under the
Bland-Allison act, we had a sur
plus of Sl00,000,000 at the end OF
Mr.. Cleveland's first term and
under the amended Sherman act Of
1890 we have a deficit of near $780,
000, 900 In the middle of Mr.. Cleve-
lands second term, with q
heavy loss OF gold to the
treasury and the country. We are
running the treasury and the
finances as the water is lifted by
the wheel of a country lanyard by
lifting it from the bottom and
pouring into the watts at the top.
The people are growing weary of
this grind, and they feel 1t and see
it, at home and in all their inter-
ests. They have already learned,
by experience, the true situation,
and they will not unlearn these
sad lessons in any news school that
is set up to conduct this campaign
of education
Our duty as Democrats is a very
simple one. 1t is to follow the old
land market and adhere the more