The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-05-14
STEWART LETTER.
Again He Congratulates
President Cleveland,
Admitting" His Treatment
of Office Holders,
And His "Wise" Views on the
Money Question.
Another Paper Prom the Nevada
Senator That is Calculat-
ed to Draw Blood.

Senator Stewart, whose recent opel
9 letter to the President caused SO mucl
comment, comes out in another, tina
: is equally caustic. The following
the full text of the document:
WASHINGTON, d. G. MAY Z, 1895.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: Your letter tC
Governor Stone, Of Mississippi, is ad.
admirable. 1t wholly exonerates you
from all supicion of Sinking from
your plain constitutional duty of per-
sonal participation in the political
controversies which agitate the poo
pie. Your statement of contumacious
Office holders illustrates the benz fits of
Civil Service reform when you tell
that Gin the interest of good govern
ment such Office holders must not be
surprised if they are summarily dealt
with" g. You say 81 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 this disadvantages and loss of silver
monometallism and to content them
selves with deprecated and fuctua-
ting currency.while permitting others
TO reap the profit from the trarsmuta-
ton of the prices of their productions
from silver to gold" The originality |
ofyour discovery that the South favors
silver monometallism when they ONLY
contend for the coinage of silver upon
the terms and conditions applicable to
the coinage of gold, can never be
questioned. You will undoubtedly
explain in your next letter why free
coinage of gold and the refusal to coin
silver is bimetallism, and the unre-
5tricted coinage of both gold and sill
yer monometalism. Your "Wonder"
why the South does not appreciate the
advantages of selling their exports for
gold prices is in harmony with
THE PROFOUND THOUGHT $
And great wisdom of your Chicago
etter, wherein, referring to the farmer S
'Ou said: "Let us remind him that
le must buy as well as sell; that his i
reams of plenty are shaded by the L
ertainty that if the price of things he l
as to sell is nominally enhanced, the j
ost Of the things he must buy will not
emain stationary" t.
From your selfish point of view Il
here is no answer to this argument. n
he discovery you have made that the Il
ales and purchases of the farmers a
nd planters in cheap gold market o
Xactly balance each other, and that h
hat is lost by the low price of pur. Ell
bases, solves the question and shows
our full comprehension of the prin- ST
piles of economic science. ca
The fact that less than 100000 d,
ounds of cotton, or 33 900 bushels of OF
heat would pay the $4,000 annual D
IlarY which President Grant receiv- Ell
|, whilei it now requires 100000 is
)unds of cotton or $4,000 bushels of al
heat to pay your salary, which is oil
lie same number of dollars as that of TO
our predecessor, shows the superiori- of
of the "sound money" which you pl
I'VE established and maintained. al
he benefits you confer upon the ye
anter by relieving him of 100000 by
FUNDS of his surplus cotton, or upon of
e farmer in saving him the storage
$4,000 bushels of wheat, naturally n
spires the universal care for the 80
gifts of all, nen-sectional American "a
'otherhood, and mainly trust in a.,
merican citizenship in every part of an
II land" to which you SO touchingly ~
ude. -,
THE COMFORT AND SATISFACTION wi
hich you must derive from the re- M
ction that You are confering such eG
st benefits upon the people of all If
,tions of our beloved country with We
t the slightest injury to the long Re
fering class of bondholders and nj
Ice holders, to which you belong an
lst be your reward for your devo- 'ly
n to the public good. You will not rh
DIV the indignation and contemptl 10