Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-09
Mr.. CLEVELAND2FW WARNING
A Letter on the Dangers of
the Silver Folly.
DEMOCRACY FOR SOUND MONEY
Defeat Will Follow Allegiance
to Free Silver.
President Cleveland's Warning Letter to
Gov. Stone of Accomplishment
Principles of the democratic Party
How the south Would Suffer From
Free Silver Coinage.

JACKSON, MISS, May 3.-Gov. Stone
this evening gave to the Associated Press
letter addressed 10 him by President
Cleveland under date of April 26th. The
following is the full text Of the letter.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, d. c.
April Goth, 1S95.-HoR. j. N. Stone, Coo.
er5ior, etc.-MY DEAR SIR: Your letter OF
the 2lst instant is at hand. l 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 things were done.
never had an idea Of building up or fos-
tering personal following, but so far as
politics should properly influence me in
making appointments | have tried to be
democratic and not proscriptive. am glad
you are frank enough to admit your par
ticipation in bringing about condition in
oifice-holding which may not be all that
could now be 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 breed
| ing. There are, however soma. officials
| who devote themselves so industriously to
viification and abuse of those under whom
| they hold office as to indicate that their
| fidelity cannot be trusted for tine perform
ance of their duties in manner credita-
| Bile to the administration, and who appa-
rently assume they may spend the time
they owe the public service in doing
political mischief. In the interest of good
government such office-holders must not
be surprised if they are summarily dealt
with.
When 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 con-
triputed in the best possible style and in
most valuable way to the fund of argu-
ment in favor of sound money. have
never ceased to wonder wlNthe people of I
the South, furnishing so largely as they
do products which are exported for gold,
should be willing to submit to the disad-
vantages and loss of silver monometallism
and to content themselves with depre-
ciated and tuctuating currency, while per-
hitting others to reap profit from the
transmution of the prices of their produc-
tions from silver to gold. hope this let
ter of yours will be given the widest possi-
BILE circulation, especially among our
Southern fellow-citiZens. and that they
, will be permitted to see the pitfall which
is directly before those who madly rush
toward the phantom light of free, I'M
limited and independent silver coinage.
If we, who profess fealty to the Demo-
: cratic party, are sincere in our devotion to
It's principles, and If we are right beliey-
ing that the ascendency of those principles
] is guarantee of personal liberty, uni
versal care for the rights of all, non-sec-
tional, American brotherhood and manly
trust in American citizenship in any part
J of our land. we should study the effects
upon our party and consequently upon
our country of committal of the national
Democracy to the silver arbitration.
If there are Democrats who suppose that
our party can stand on platform mbody-
!, ing such doctrine, either through its af-
tirmative strength or through the per-
Q plexity of our opponents on the same
E proposition, or if there are Democrats who
are willing to turn their backs upon their
party association in the hopu That free and
unlimited and independent coinage OF
5 silver can win victory without the aid OF
either party organization, they should de-
} ceive themselves no longer, nor longer re-
, fuse to look in the face the results that
!, would follow the defeat, if not the disin-
;, tegration, of the Democratic party upon
= the issue which tempts them from theiI
allegiance. If we should be forced away
from our traditional doctrine of sound and
v safe money our old antagonist will take
the field on the platform which we aban.
don, and neither the votes of reckless
\ Democrats nor reckless Republicans will
i avail to stay their easy march to power
0 This is as plain as anything can possibly be
9 1t, therefore, becomes the duty of every
t Democrat, wherever he may be, TO con
slider what such a victory would mean
and in the light of proper conception oil
: its results he should deliberately shape hi
course. Yours. very truly,
b GROVER CLEVELAND.