The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-29
"YOU WESTERN Fellows

A New York gold-bug friend writes
us a wailing epistie. Without doubt
he reflects the convictions of the aver
age substantial citizen of the metrOpo-
lis. 1t is but fair to say that the writer
is rich and financial statesman and
writer Of Dlany years standing, having
been a conferee of Horace Greedy and
Peter Cooper in their day. The letter,
as will be seen from its tone. is marked
private, but leaving Off the name of the
author we give il 10 the readers of the
Eagle that they may appreciate how
thoroughly the west has stirred up the
east over the silver question. We
would only add that so far as Mr.. Car
isles speech is concerned, or any other
speech Of moment our friend is inform
ed that the readers of the Eagle sees
them as soon as he or anybody else, and
reads them, too:
New York City, May 18th, 1895.
Colonel NJ. NJ. Murdoch, Wichita, Kan.
My Dear Sir:-I have taken the liberty of
mailing you copies of the New York World
containing Secretary Carlisle's speeches
in regard to the coinage of silver. delivered
at Covington, KY, and the one delivered
at the conventions in Memphis. 1 trust
that you will take the time to read these
speeches through very carefully. If you
will DO so you will find that Secretary
Carlisle has taken precisely the ground
that my pamphlet on solid facts about
money, cook, printed two years ago,
copy of which l mailed to you at the
time, and you must see the grave mis-
take that you and other Republicans
who are favoring the free and unlimited
coinage of silver are making. There is
not one shadow of doubt, Murdock but
that the free and unlimited coinage of
silver Will entail greater distress and
losses upon the country than any other
measure the government could adopt, I'M
less it would be 10 establish absolute free
trade. The position held by you and
Plumb and a lot of other leading Repub-
licans on these questions has been wrong
from the very first, and 1 have tried my
best to make you see it, but somehow
or other the Populists have got possession
OF you and your paper and they are
bound to land you into the ground before
they get through with you.
You will find that the next Republican
convention is going to put itself emphat-
ically on record in favor of maintaining
Inc SOlu SldECHTu aS the only pOilcN IN
which we can keep our gold in this coun-
try, and prevent us from getting to a
silver standard, as the only policy that
will prevent us from having a gigantic
contraction of the volume of money that
will shake the business of this country
like an earthquake, from its very foun-
dation.
Your paper is breeding antagonism and
the editorials you write on this silver
question are a little off in the position
taken on this coinage question. You
had better take a little good advice while
you have the chance Stop publishing
any more editorials in your paper in re-
gard to the free coinage of silver. Pub
fish that speech of Carlisle's, just what
he says. Let your readers see where he
stands. Get the Minneapolis platform
that the Republicans adopted in 1892, at
the time they nominated Harrison. Re
publish that. Carlisle's speeches are the
very best kind of Republican doctrine on
the money question. You Western fell
lows do not understand this question as
well as you think you do, and you will
find II out before this contest is over.
Carlisle has learned by valid experience
the errors that he was laboring under
when he was making speeches in favor of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The Republican party has seen the facts
about this matter from the very start.
Very truly yours,