Evening star., 1895-05-27
His and Cleveland's Methods on the
Silver Question Contrasted.
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER CRITICISED
More Conservative Plan of the New
York Senator.
TO ENCOURAGE TOLERATION

| mote and to see effected an adjustment of
| their party's differences on the money ques-
| ton, note with regret that phrase in the
Presidents letter to the Democratic Edi-
| torial Association of New York applying
] the words private selfshness and cupid
| ity' to those appeals to the people which
| he thinks the democracy ought to resist
The silver question is not specifically men
toned, but the silver men will apply the
| phrase in their own way, and the result, it
is feared, will be still further to widen the
existing breach in the party. The Presi-
dent, in this, shows that the good talk
| ing to- he received the other day from
| a good democrat, whom he esteems, with
| reference to this very matter, did not, for
| all he listened so attentively, influence him
| in the slightest.
| Cleveland Not Influenced by Advice.
The Star Friday referred to this point at
| some length. The President has been ad-
| vised by prominent democrat, and one
of his best friends, that the cause. of sound
money cannot be assisted by the employ
ment of strong language. of ridicule or
| denunciation directed at the other side.
He has been tcld in the plainest terms
| that it is a sore affront to many men of
| great eminence and the highest character
| for him or for anybody to assume that
| the free coinage issue has had its rise in
| owners. He has been reminded that the
| greatest lights of the democracy, both
south and weSt-men not only without min
ing stock, but without stock of any kind
| men who not only have not amaSSed money,
| but are not seeking to amass it-men who
| all their lives have been students of public
| questions and honorable participants in the
settlement OF many-are the advocates OF
| free coinage. He earnestly requested
| to consider this, and to help raise the dis
cussion Oh his side to a key which would
| not appear to impeach both the character
| and the intelligence of many respected
| party leaders and the masses of the peo-
pie in over half of the country's area. The
! campaign orators and the newspapers ad-
vccating sound money would, 1t sug
| gesteG, take their cue FROM a conservative
example set by Kim, and he was told that
| such IN example would prove to be in the
enc very vice and profitable investment.
| But. right on the top of this, and it is
feared ar answer to it, has come this
| phrase from the President. which weighs
| like so much lead on the hearts of many
| OF his friends now maneuvering for COM
| mon ground of democratic action.
Mr.. Hilrs Contrasting Position.
| letter in this regard is thought by the
| conservatives to be the speech of Senator
| Hill before the association. He proceeded
| upon exactly the opposite course. He
| adopted the very plan that had been pre-
| scribed to the President. He employed al
most the same language that had been
| used to the President He spoke in terms
| the most respectful of the free coinage
men and of the people who supporting
them. He had come to respect them, he
| said. by comforting with them in the Sem
| ate, and he characterized them as patriot
| ic, straightforward and candid" He de-
| clared in substance that the issue must be
| met in a spirit of good feeling. and he
| expressed the belief that if so met it could
be ard would be satisfactorily settled.
He made his own position as to the issue
itself entirely clear. He is opposed to free
coinage unless it can be brought about by
| international agreement. But that what
| ever might be attempted nothing could be
accomplished by the democracy except
| through agencies of mutual respect and
| forbearance, Mr.. Hill expressed the most
| positive conviction.
And here again is instituted the COM
| parison between Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
| Hill, and most especially regards demo-
| cratic leadership at the present time. The
| conservative democrats are distrustful of
| the Presidents judgment at this juncture
They do not believe he has any aspirations
! for another term in the White House, but
| that his sole aim is to bring his public life
| to consistent close. He started in as an
uncompromisng advocate of the gold
policy. He even tried by public letter TO
| influence the action of Congress on the
subject before he was inaugurated the first
| time. He has held to the one course ever
since. He has never done anything for
| silver. He has always insisted that to en-
large the coinage of the white metal was
| bad finance. He is going out of office hold
| ing to that opinion.
His Plan Different.
| But Mr.. Hill is far differently situated.
He is practically just beginning his ma
| tional life. He wants to be President, but
whether he realizes that ambition or not
| he is certain to remain an active and in
fuential quantity in democratic councils
| for years to come
He is young man. Two years remain of
his present term in the Senate, and if de-
teated for the democratic nomination for
the next presidency he will make can
vasj to succeed himself Senator. He Is
thought to have long head in politics and
pretty stout heart He is as earnestly in
favor of sound money as is Mr.. Cleveland
but he is not defending any executive pol-
Icy or extreme line of aggressive deliver
ances. He has had opportun to discover
how much in earnest the free coinage men
in the democratic party are, and how well
led. He confesses that they are honest and
candid men, and he recognizes the neces-
s!ty of approaching them in a spirit of fair
compromise He does not believe that they
are actuated by sordid or improper motives
He thinks they in judgment. But he
wants them to remain in the democratic
party, and he wants to cooperate with
them toward holding on to executive ma
tional control.
Looking to Mr.. Hill.
IL is u I'LL, therefore, ana not 10
| the President. that some of the conserva-
tive democrats are already talking of turn
ing in the present dilemma. They are
afraid of the President. He strikes them
as being an extremist on the money ques-
ton. They corcede his strength of pur-
pose, the consistency of his course, and all
that but the time has come they think
when the peacemaker should take the
field. Nobody can hope to have his own
way the whole way through. And most
especially is this true, they say, in case
where nearly the whole following is against
| the leader. Nine-tenths of the democratic
party are committed against the policy
which the President lays down. But the
President insists on his policy, and that
those who are opposing him are not only
unwise, but controlled by selfish considera-
tons The conservatives assert that bet
ter-tempered counsels must prevail. The
issue is too great to be risked in the Presi-
dents way. A fair allowance must be
made for differences of opinion, and
spirit of brotherhood and federation must
be encouraged.
Judge Tuley of Chicago released a pris-
oner from the Chicago Jail on the ground